Art at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival
Art Inspiring Environmental Activism
Each year Nevada County Arts Council partners with the Wild & Scenic Film Festival to mount a multi-venue exhibit of visual art presented in local galleries and businesses across the downtown areas of the Grass Valley-Nevada City Cultural District (a state-designated California Cultural District). Together, we offer a fresh dimension for more than 8,000 festival attendees to enjoy the work of our artists, and meet with filmmakers, social activists, and environmental leaders. The 2025 Wild & Scenic Film Festival takes place from February 13-17th.
The Invaluable Role of Visual Artists
Wild & Scenic Film Festival, produced by South Yuba River Citizens League, inspires environmental activism and a love for nature. It shares an urgent call to action, encouraging festival-goers to learn more about what they can do to save our threatened planet.
At Nevada County Arts Council, we support the role of local and regional visual artists as they, too, are recognized for the invaluable role that they perform in delivering a meaningful message about environmental activism and relationships between society and the natural world.
Chelo Montoya, Assistant Vice President of Education and Public Programs at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and Chair, California Arts Council.
Nashormeh Lindo, Former Chair, California Arts Council
“Never before has the mission of Wild & Scenic Film Festival been more critical. Globally we stand at a crossroads in terms of our relationship to nature and the future of our planet.
The festival engages us as active participants in a giant adventure through film and discourse, and it offers filmmakers, naturalists, scientists, artists and ordinary people the opportunity to lend our voice to this critical conversation.
Through the festival’s accompanying art exhibit each year we challenge visual artists to share personal perceptions of the wild, whether intimate habitats close to home or wild tracts of nature untouched...”