Richard Peterson is a printmaker and professor of art at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. Before participating in a panel on the role the arts play in building communities, Peterson sat down in the Zócalo green room to talk about his massive porch, why he watches Law and Order at 2 a.m., and his love of house music.
Rosalinda Verde is the founder of Visalia Opera. Before participating in a panel on the role the arts play in building communities, Verde talked about mariachi, rock, and opera–as well …
Caroline Koontz is director of Tulare County’s Arts Consortium. Before participating in a panel about the role arts play in building communities, Koontz sat down in the Zócalo green room …
Depending on the person you ask, Bakersfield, California became a musical mecca thanks to the Gold Rush, Dust Bowl migration, or World War II, when young men flocked to California …
I have been singing ever since I can remember. Growing up in Bakersfield, I sang three times a week in church, and, at home, my dad would play the guitar …
Sure, California has everything. But where would you find a murderous, Farsi-speaking, chador-wearing vampire riding her skateboard around an oil city with the slow swagger of Clint Eastwood?
Kern County, of …
