Support Tahoe Arts within Nature Programming

Trails & Vistas is the Truckee/North Tahoe region's premiere art within nature non-profit. We facilitate performance and visual art events in natural settings for people of all ages, including dance, poetry, music and storytelling. We are asking for your help today to support:

1. YOUTH. Our Dreaming Tree Field Trips take over 400 Truckee/North Lake Tahoe 3rd grade students on an interactive art walk where they are exposed to music, storytelling and environmental lessons. They learn from elders of the Washoe Tribe of California and Nevada. They write poetry and they create a class visual art project. 

2. VETERANS, SENIORS and INDIVIDUALS with sensory, cognitive and physical disabilities. In partnership with Achieve Tahoe, participates are invited to quiet their minds and connect with nature through visual art, poetry and music. 

3. Family friendly ART HIKES - Trails and Vistas' signature Art Hikes takes participates on a three mile guided hike with dance, poetry, music, storytelling and environmental art. To keep our events affordable for people in all income brackets, our ticket prices only represent 50% of our total event cost. We fundraise to cover the remaining 50%.

4. LATINX COMMUNITY AND TEENS. We offer a free art hike in Spanish for members of our region's Latinx community. We also hold community art and dance workshops for the Latinx population, including workshops for parenting teens in partnership with TTUSD's STEPP Program (Sierra Teen Education Parenting Program).

5. Community WORLD CONCERT - Trails & Vistas collaborates with the Truckee Donner Recreation and Parks District to sponsor one of their outdoor summer concerts. We introduce our mountain region to music and dance from a variety of world cultures.

6. COMMUNITY ART WORKSHOPS. Trails & Vistas' offers free community art and dance workshops. This year participants were invited to create clay poppies, which were displayed during our 2024 Art Hike.

7. Artistic Director and Executive Director Endowment - To make sure that Trails & Vistas' programs continue long into the future, we are starting an endowment to cover the cost of our AD and ED's extremely modest salaries.