The Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Rural County Photo Contest, with this year's first place prize going to Arlene Winfrey for her spectacular photo of a flowing river among green hills and a snow-peaked mountain range in Tulare County. Photographers, amateur and…

Making its annual visit to Turlock, the Yosemite Renaissance 38 exhibition will be on view in the Lobby Galleries of the Carnegie Arts Center from…

Merced teens brought Sondheim’s legendary work to life last weekend for the final installation of Playhouse Merced’s Summer Stage Camp series, with the…

While artist Tonia Hemme has not held a youth painting event since the pandemic, the children were more than ready to get back to it with her latest offering. Last weekend’s Paint & Create class, titled “Sweet Time,” was a hit. The studio was filled with over a dozen children who were eager to paint, as well as eat ice cream.…

For this summer’s College for Kids community program at Merced College, local children worked incredibly hard on a production of Seussical Jr.,…

Rather than the usual downtown locations, the Super Mrkt Vendor fair made its return to Applegate Park this past Sunday, and for the first time,…

Lisa Gilliland-Viney was happy to be teaching art inside an air-conditioned Merced Multicultural Arts Center (MAC) last Sunday when it registered 106 degrees outside. And it’s a little funny to her because that was the exact temperature Merced was experiencing when she first came to town with her husband nearly two decades ago.…

Nicole Moradzadeh, an El Capitan High School student, won this year’s Congressional Art Competition. Her artwork titled “Give Thanks”…

Sierra Repertory Theatre will present Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing at the Fallon House Theatre in…