The Siskiyou County Arts Council is launching our Art DROP program, creating a series of free art supply share stations in the most remote communities in Siskiyou County.
Based on the ‘little free library’ model, Art DROP supply stations will provide a fun, free, and accessible space to share and discover art supplies and projects in communities that have significantly lower regular access to the tools of creative practice.
Carrying through organizational values in our programming, the DROP in Art DROP is an acronym for discover, re-source, offer, and practice and will help rebuild the deeply rural but waning practice of repurposing and resourcefulness (i.e. making what you need from what you have on hand).
SCRAPS video content will provide facilitated art programming to complement Art DROP supply caches. Retired newspaper vending machines will be transformed into Art DROP stations after being decorated by local artists transforming the vending machines into both public works of art and designated stations in communities to retrieve, deposit, and share art supplies.
“Change is Truth”
FEATURED ARTIST: Brenda Montaño
Location: Klamath Siskiyou Art Center, 63709 CA-96, Happy Camp, CA 96039.
“Yellow Brick Road”
FEATURED ARTIST: YHS Art Club
Location: Avery Memorial Theatre, 430 Main St, Etna, CA 96027.
“Community Creativity”
FEATURED ARTIST: Trinity Holsworth
Location: Hornbrook Community Center, 15439 Hornbrook Rd, Hornbrook, CA 96044.
“Art Bot” mini
FEATURED ARTIST: Baruch Inbar
Location: Ray’s Food Place, 160 Morgan Way, Mount Shasta, CA 96067.
"Robert Motherwell’s Tomb. aka The One-eyed Cow"
FEATURED ARTIST: Mark Oliver
Location: IndigoMoon, 211 Main St, Weed, CA 96094.
"The Salmon Will Return"
FEATURED ARTIST: Michael Sanchez
Location: The Great Exchange, 301 Main St, McCloud, CA 96057.
"Barn Quilt Trail"
FEATURED ARTIST: Maureen Woodley, Bella Hernandez, & Sabrina Taylor
Location: Tulelake Public Library, 451 Main St, Tulelake, CA 96134
“Bling”
FEATURED ARTIST: Monica Zinda
Location: Open Sky Gallery, 125 S 11th St, Montague, CA 96064.
"Nature Prevails"
FEATURED ARTIST: Jacob Kirkby
Location: Cedar Grove Center, 4303 Oak St, Dunsmuir, CA 96025.
"Art Bot"
FEATURED ARTIST: Baruch Inbar
Location: Gazelle Grange #380, 25328 Gazelle Callahan Rd, Gazelle, CA 96034.