About Us
The Siskiyou County Arts Council is a 501(c)3 non-profit, with a mission of cultivating strong and creative communities in Siskiyou County.
Our vision is the whole ecosystem of Siskiyou County working in harmony to support thriving creative communities that are diverse, prosperous, and inclusive.
Our values are to encourage and facilitate imagination, diversity, strong inclusive communities, environmental protection and awareness, and social justice through the arts.
Donate
You can also mail a check to: Siskiyou County Arts Council, PO Box 1365, Mt. Shasta, CA 96067
An Investment in the Arts is an Investment in Our Community.
Why make an investment in the creative spirit of Siskiyou County? Because creativity is essential to each individual and every community! We invite you to partner with the Arts Council and our commitment to promote the arts, provide services and assistance to artists and arts organizations and to enhance the impact of arts, culture, and heritage on the vitality and livability of our communities.
Contributions are tax-deductible.
Volunteer
We currently are growing our volunteer base and looking for volunteers to help in the following roles:
- SCRAPS Art Cart Facilitators willing to provide all-ages art activities
Please contact via email us to discuss your volunteering interest at contact@siskiyouarts.org
Become a Board Member
The Siskiyou County Arts Council relies on its volunteers to fulfill its mission. As we move forward as a new council, we are looking to add board members from all supervisorial districts in Siskiyou County. This is an honored position that requires knowledge of our rural county and the arts scene within it. The arts council board must represent the diversity of our county’s rural communities.
Our Team
Bridgétt Rangel-Rexford
Board President
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Bridgétt received her B.A. in Art History, Theory and Criticism with departmental honors from the University of California, San Diego. She later supplemented her education at Sacramento City College by earning an A.A. in Graphic Communication. At the Siskiyou County Arts Council, she hopes to help aid the community to cultivate their passions and inspire future generations of artists. She plans to promote diversity in the arts culturally, racially, religiously and in any other way she can.
Bridgétt is a Jane of all trades. She loves to make everything from sculptural animal shaped bread for her greatest critic (her toddler son) to more traditional forms of art such as paper mache and line drawings. Her work has most recently shown at the Latino Center of Arts in Culture where she explored ideas of identity as a Mexican-American woman. While reveling in the beauty Mount Shasta has to offer, she looks forward to supporting Siskiyou County as a council member. Bridgétt feels most aligned with her purpose when she is meeting new people and helping them express themselves through art.
Marilyne Shamansky
Board Vice President/Secretary
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Marilyne has spent her entire adult life in the North State in the shadow of The Mountain. She built a career in higher education in middle management and teaching (children’s art and learning), raised two boys, has a Master’s degree in Education Administration and is currently working at the Visitor’s Bureau with Mount Shasta Chamber of Commerce.
With a career and parenting behind her, Marilyne is now asking, “What matters?” As a gifted teacher, lifelong learning matters. As an artist, expression, creativity and art matter. Bringing people together in harmony and peace and shared direction matters. The environment and its protection matters a great deal. Marilyne is often out on the trails with the Mt. Shasta Trail Association helping to build, maintain and protect the natural wonder of Siskiyou County. She has taken a number of drawing and painting classes at Shasta College and CSU Chico and kept busy with hiking, traveling, painting, fiber arts and yoga (certificate in 2015).
Kate Yorke
Board Treasurer
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Kate Yorke has lived in Siskiyou County since 1970. She has been an artist since she was 4 or 5. Art is her most comfortable form of communication. She has been a member of multiple arts organizations over the years, including being a board member of the original Siskiyou Arts Council. Her desire is to see a healthy and strong arts community in our area.
Kate studied art for most of her life and ultimately received her master’s degree in painting from California State University, Chico. She has taught art on various levels from specialized arts programs for elementary students in Santa Cruz, CA to teaching various classes for College of the Siskiyous and the Mt. Shasta Recreation Department. She loves gardening and considers her yards to be one of her greatest canvases (both locally and in her second home in Costa Rica). She continues to show her oils and watercolors throughout the county. You may find her art locally at the JEDI office and on the first floor of the Planet Earth Building in Mt. Shasta. And don’t forget to check her hand painted tables at the Berryvale Deli.
Jericha Senyak
Board of Directors Member
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Jericha is a third-generation bookkeeper and practicing artist whose work focuses on financial empowerment and ease for artists and creative workers across the country. As a financial consultant with a BA in interdisciplinary arts, Jericha has worked with dozens of Northern California arts organizations, including the Exploratorium, Kronos Quartet, AXIS Dance Company, Young Audiences of Northern California, and many more. She is now honored to provide consulting, coaching and workshops to arts workers across the country.
Jericha believes strongly in art as a profound form of connection among people and communities. Dance brought her to Siskiyou County, where she and her husband fell in love with the mountain after attending the yearly Burning Tango festival in McCloud. She is thrilled to join the Siskiyou County Arts Council in working to support a vibrant and inclusive community with its own unique way of life, needs, and resources. Outside working hours, you can find her in the forest, cooking wild game, dancing tango, making odd paper art, and trying not to kill her ever-increasing horde of houseplants.
Patricia Lord
Executive Director
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After working in museums for over a decade, Patricia is using her MBA to focus on nonprofit administration. She brings enthusiasm and creativity to her role as executive director. Patricia believes in the arts as an economic driver and is working to diversify and strengthen our local economy through the development of local arts and culture.
Working with community partners, she has harnessed the power of creative placemaking, arts, culture, and history to catalyze change in Northern California. Patricia works to instill proactive, professional operations and alignment with contemporary professional standards. Experience at places big and small has taught her effective organizations are defined by what they do with the resources they have, not their access to significant resources. When she is not working, Patricia enjoys exploring surrounding communities, feasting on flavorful and spicy foods, and stumbling upon the off-beat.
