Trinity County Arts Council & Main Street Gallery 
206 Main Street   P.O. Box 1887
Weaverville, CA 96093
530-623-2760
Updated Oct 13, 2008

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Trinity County Arts Council meetings are held at Main Street Gallery and are open to the public. Call for meeting day and time. Main Street Gallery is kept open completely by volunteer art docents! They are looking for docents. Volunteers receive 3 "Art Bucks" for each 4-6 hour shift they work. Art Bucks may be used toward purchases in Gallery or at participating businesses. Responsibilities are primarily to greet visitors, answer phones, and make sales. Docents usually work 1-5 shifts per month, or may be on call as a substitute. Docents do not need prior knowledge or interest in art, but should have a willingness to learn about the art featured in the gallery. They are also looking for folks who would to be on their Board of Directors. For more info: call Gallery at 530-623-2760.

Main Street Gallery is open during the Art Cruise, which is held on the first Saturday each month 5-8pm. Monthly artist's receptions and show openings with food and beverages 5-8pm at Highland Art Center, Joy Wiltsee Studio, Jake Jackson Museum, Lee Fong Ranch House, Umpqua Bank, 5 Windows Gallery, Meredith Vineyards, Textile Traditions Quilt Shop & Sewing Lounge, Gold Rush Jewelers, Trinity County Chamber of Commerce, Olson Stoneware, TCAC Main Street Gallery, Mamma Llama Coffeehouse, Wild Things Bead Store, Weaverville Realty, Red House Coffee, Mountain Valley Pacific Floors, and more! FREE 

Trinity County Arts Council hired Marie Gold as the new manager for Main Street Gallery. Gold's experience includes ownership of a gallery in Manitou Springs, Colorado, and membership in art leagues of Tahoe, CA and Corvalis, Oregon. She has worked with the Red Brick Players Theatre in Colorado. She has been active as an artist,  student, and Main Street Gallery volunteer during past 4 years and looks forward to working with Arts Council "as we continue to support the creativity of our Trinity County artists and bring our communities together through art." Other changes are afoot with the Trinity County Arts Council. With the resignation of Executive Director Susan Holthaus, the decision has been made to divide up the duties, said Arts Council President, Gay Butler. Gay is currently the acting Executive Director for TCAC.

The Arts Council has an online interactive Arts Calendar! You can find all the latest info on arts related events happening in and around Trinity County. They are excited about this new opportunity to connect all of the arts in Trinity County at one simple location. You can place it on your computer desktop (right click on the body of the calendar and then click on "Create shortcut."), for arts information at your fingertips. You can print calendar page for a handy reminder of events that you don't want to miss. You can add your class, workshop, meeting, musical or theatrical event, art show, school's art events, special sale or fund-raiser by going to site and entering your event and related information. Once screened for accuracy, your event will appear on date of event. Screening can take a few days, so send info as early as possible. You can store events up to a year ahead. 

Guidelines for listing your event: Listing must include the following info: Name & type of event, location & time of event, duration of event, charge for event (if donations are accepted, mention that too), sponsor of event (if any), as well as contact person's name & telephone #. You may add additional details (subject to editing). Although Susan Holthaus is no longer Director of the Arts Council, she will be volunteer administrator of calendar for awhile. Please give feedback on how the calendar is working for you. If you have entered events that haven't appeared in calendar after a few days, please contact Susan. A couple of things to remember: once you enter date, time etc., you should click once over in gray area, or it may accidentally scroll and change that information. If event does not have an ending time, you can click on 0 (hours) as duration. If event repeats each week or month, enter it on next date that it will occur, and then go to "this event repeats" and enter the day(s) of the week, etc. You can highlight title of event by choosing a color. Remember to hit "save", or the event will never appear. 

TRINITY COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES:
PURPOSES of the council are to: 
1. Promote and encourage arts, artists, and artistic groups in Trinity County.
2. Provide educational, cultural, entertainment, and recreational benefits to citizens of Trinity County.
OBJECTIVES of the council are to:
1. Promote awareness, participation, and expression of our county’s artistic potential by encouraging artistic excellence and vision in showing, teaching, learning, and making of art;
2. Assist needs of county artists, artisans, arts organizations, and agencies in obtaining financial or human resources;
3. Provide an ongoing mechanism for effective countywide arts communications, planning, and programming, exploring the boundaries of art and culture;
4. Assist local economy by promoting employment of local artists and those skilled in crafts in both public and private sectors;
5. Provide a venue for marketing of Trinity County arts and artisans to broadest audience possible.
"Arts" is defined as: visual, literary, and performing.

TRINITY COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL (TCAC) HISTORY: How TCAC transitioned from a county entity to a volunteer-based non profit organization:
~ April/May 2004: During TCAC budget negotiations, Jim Cudziol, TCAC director, opted to eliminate his paid position at TCAC, in order to help alleviate budget problems and maintain TCAC services.
~ May/June 2004: Trinity County decided to release TCAC as a county entity at end of fiscal year, on June 30, 2004. TCAC board members began work to keep the Arts Council’s doors open. RC&D Council became an umbrella for TCAC. Board created a business entity to take over the fiscal aspects of running the Arts Council.
~ June 30, 2004: TCAC is no longer a county entity. 
~ July 1: Trinity County Arts Council Association (TCACA) officially took over the running of TCAC. Volunteers worked to keep the Arts Council’s doors open and made plans to reform into a non-profit corporation. 
~ July 19, 2004: Meeting and discussion with Rural Arts Guild & Gallery concerning a possible merger with TCACA, to create one non-profit Arts Council serving all of Trinity county. Emphasis to be placed on continuing previous services, especially working with children and youth, and on making it a truly countywide arts council.
~ August 2, 2004: RAGG passed a resolution to amend bylaws and do paperwork involved in merging with TCACA. Subsequent non-profit corporation would adopt the name of Trinity County Arts Council. RAGG name would be used to refer to former RAGG board, which would become a Hayfork Regional Committee of TCAC, as a model for future regional committees.
~ February 2005: Due to various reasons, RAGG board of directors decided NOT to merge with TCACA. TCACA board was informed at their next meeting. Rachel continued to attend TCACA meetings for several more months.
~ TCACA has since achieved it's non-profit status and is now known as Trinity County Arts Council (TCAC). Donations are most welcome and are tax-deductible. They continue to hold monthly art openings and receptions.