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Grass Valley-Nevada City Cultural District's newsletter,
featuring the events, stories, and people of our community

Culture Forward is Nevada County’s first ever Arts & Culture Action Plan, designed to ensure the long-term vibrancy of our creative ecosystem. Nevada County Arts Council invites you to take part in upcoming Listening Sessions—free and open to the public—happening in the Grass Valley-Nevada City Cultural District! Join us in sharing your voice, ideas, priorities, and vision for the future of arts and culture in our region.

Check out the schedule below and register NOW—your voice matters!

Always On Call - Words by Judie Rae

For almost three years, Michaelyn Logue has served as Social Media and Communications Manager for the Nevada County Arts Council. She has done so with grace and style and competence. She also acts as Chair of the Nevada City Farmers Market Board, ensuring that in summer and winter, visitors can hear musicians and poets at the Saturday Market, while getting fresh produce, locally sourced goods, and a needed dose of community. Michaelyn remarked about her job with the Arts Council: “It’s great to feel like I’m making a difference through facilitating artists.” 

Judy Crowe, a long-time member of the Nevada County Literary Arts Committee, shared her love of Michaelyn: “She is always there—prompt, helpful, and organized.  She’s a good listener and manages to juggle many tasks at once, giving each the attention it requires.  Her own artistic work in various mediums is thoughtful, creative, unique.”

Aside from working to make Nevada County a pleasurable place for writers and artists to share their efforts, Michaelyn is also a gifted musician and poet. “Language,” she says, “is born out of trying to understand the indefinable; poetry gets back to that.” She loves playing with words, with language itself. “I try to be available for poetry when it comes.” To that end, many of her poems are ‘found’ poems, honoring the existential moment. She shares that she loves the sound of words. When asked what inspires her work, she responded, “I am inspired by everything and anything. I try to remain open and curious, even to the associations I am making. Often we can be our own worst enemy when it comes to creative projects, by stifling that impulse because we’re afraid it will be too weird, or people won’t connect, when in reality, creating the things that explore our questions, edges and shadows, creates a space for healing and community.”

As mentioned, she is not only a talented poet, but also a gifted musician. She dabbles on piano and guitar, played saxophone in high school jazz and marching bands, plus she sings and now considers the voice her primary instrument. Her father is also a musician and Michaelyn grew up “playing under the piano” while her father improvised for the congregation at Unity Temple in Santa Cruz.

Growing up in Santa Cruz, Michaelyn attended Cabrillo College in nearby Aptos; it was at Cabrillo that Michaelyn earned an Associates in Music before transferring to San Francisco State where she earned a degree in creative writing. In 2017 she returned to Cabrillo and earned her Site Supervisor Early Childhood Credential, with a focus on developing arts and science based curriculum for the infant, toddler, and pre-school children.

New adventures are on the horizon for Michaelyn; her husband has a business opportunity in the East Bay, so a move is in their near future. She promises to return to Nevada County to visit. Those who know this talented, sensitive woman are saddened at the thought of her leaving. 

            She will be missed.

Aerial Poetry: A Showing of Works
in Progress

By Artists, For Artists

This showing of work is the culmination of a 14-week intensive performance workshop led by Embodiment Dance Collective. Embodiment is a fiscally sponsored project of the Nevada County Arts Council, and they have donated their time to teach this community-building workshop.

Workshop participants were invited to explore different aspects of movement quality both on and off the ground, push into the vulnerable space of conveying emotion through movement, and work with each other to create meaningful works of art. 

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