Petra is bringing fresh, local modern Mediterranean food to Nevada City. We took a moment with owner and head chef Jade Benetatos to discuss her vision for Petra and what she’s excited to offer Nevada City.

Collaborators and fellow artists Azriel LaMarca and Trina Spiller, met 7 years ago, shortly after Spiller moved to Nevada City, at a dance class led by LaMarca. Through this connection and mutual inspiration the collaboration leading to the one and only dance based festival in Nevada County—Dance Because was born.

Formed in 2016, Park Street Riot continues to push their own sonic edge, and have established themselves as a dynamic, powerful, and energetic force in the greater-Sacramento area music scene.

Curator, designer, and principal artist behind our Art in Public Spaces exhibition Breathe in Sky - Project Wild Edges, Hale is an artist of many talents. Working in multiple mediums, she combines materials and collaborates with others to achieve her vision.

Having spent her life surrounded by the world of art, local poet Maxima Kahn finds that music, dance, writing, visual art, and theater have remained her preferred mediums of art since childhood.

Figurative sculpture and mixed media artist Juliette Morris Williams received a 2024 Fellowship from the First Peoples Fund to create a new body of work. Williams works mainly with handmade paint and pigment, naturally dyed cloth, and clay.

Carlisle creates a vast array of work, collages consisting of her own printed photographs and found images, along with exploring a variety of other mediums.

An all around creative, Maskal works in relationship with the materials of her environment, her inspiration comes from “investigating aliveness, creating belonging and studying love and pleasure. That’s how relationships have come into focus. I am because you are.”

 Davis explores alternative photographic processes and print making techniques “My favorite alternative process is cyanotype for its beautiful Prussian Blue tones and versatility. I work with paper, fabric, wood, or whatever materials or tools help me to create my work.”

Maybe it’s the vibes we feel unconsciously from the granite and gold quartz reverberating all around, or the sounds of the whispering pines, or the sheer number of people making art professionally and for fun–but art doesn’t just grow here, it thrives and flourishes.

It all begins with an idea.

Residents and visitors are inspired by our beautiful environment and in Nevada County we orient our lives around four distinct seasons, each one bringing a new way to see, explore, and appreciate our Sierra Foothills home.

It all begins with an idea.

It all begins with an idea.

It all begins with an idea.

With a background and formal training in theatre along with some published poetry, Hinojosa is versed in a number of different mediums. He has worked in wood, sculptural ceramics and acrylic painting, to name a few.