Aha Nevada Urban Kernel Series: Aureate Dust Collective

-->A few months agone I re-blogged the domicile of Tiger Lillie together with Aimee from The Gold Dust Collective. Since together with so I conduct hold larn a piffling obsessed alongside the magic that is Nevada City. The vibe is that of my favourite mass "Handmade house" together with it is dandy to see these awesome wooden homed communities are nonetheless real much live together with kicking ...... such a dream of mine to live similar this........So i conduct hold decided to brand March a Nevada City Month on together with volition live featuring a few artists, store keepers together with other creatives lucky plenty to telephone phone Nevada City their home....

So to boot off the Nevada City Series hither is an interview alongside Nikiya from the source of my obsession...... the fabulous Gold Dust Collective

Jessica Agnew's wooden cabin together with Ceramics inward an artists community inward Nevada City

Jessica Agnew

 Who are the Gold Dust collective?

 We are Kat Alves, who is an architectural lensman together with mama together with myself, a designer together with mama. We were born here, left to give-up the ghost to college together with see the globe some, together with returned to brand lives for ourselves here. 

The domicile of Fat together with The Moon's

 

How did the 2 of y'all meet?

 We were both born here, though didn’t know each other growing up, together with were working on a styled photograph shoot i 24-hour interval together with realized nosotros had a usual love of quirky hand-made homes together with homesteads that were built during the back-to-the-land menstruum inward our watershed. 

What inspired y'all to initiative off the Gold Dust Collective?

 It’s a funny little town story. Gold Dust was originally a grouping of 3 of my honey friends who started it to make trial together with marriage planning. I was a purpose of a piffling retail establishment called Kitkitdizzi. The Gold Dust women had been working equally employees at Kitkitdizzi together with rented the dorsum out to utilisation for meetings. Not long afterward starting Gold Dust,  they bought Kitkitdizzi together with realized they couldn’t make retail together with trial planning so the Gold Dust entity lay dormant until I begged for the scream together with light-green low-cal to larn inward into something else. I wanted it to live a container of sorts to correspond all of the local artists together with creatives that brand upward our community. I was going to make pattern run together with see what else came through collaborations alongside other creatives. Then I met Kat. We started talking nearly how nosotros love people together with spaces together with letting the procedure dictate the direction our publish energy goes.

How make y'all see your subjects for your Folktales? 

 We’ve known all of them so far. This is a small, tight-knit community. If y'all don’t know someone personally, chances are someone y'all know does, or your folks know their folks, or you’ve seen them a hundred times at the grocery store, or y'all give-up the ghost to their Yoga class, or they ready your car, or your kids give-up the ghost to schoolhouse together.  You larn the idea. There are many ways nosotros all overlap, which is both wonderful together with challenging. There are a few folks on the horizon nosotros don’t know well, but are humbled to live able to meet. This whole projection is having the side trial of growing us closer to the identify nosotros come upward from together with the people inward it.  

 

Can y'all tell us a piffling chip nearly the history of Nevada City? 

 Prior to the Gold Rush these lands were inhabited past times Nisenan together with Maidu Indians. The regain of gilded nearby inward 1849 changed that dramatically alongside the abrupt influx of miners together with immigrants. These hopefuls blasted the hillsides alongside water, dug elaborate tunnels underground, together with excavated the river beds together with  in search of gold. It was curt lived, successful for some, together with devastating. There are huge swaths of province called the diggins where the soil has been all but washed away until Central Valley farmers set an halt to it when the flooding became intolerable. But piece it was happening a town was built, the architecture of which defines the downtown historical district. Ironically, the same river that was sought afterward equally a source for gilded past times the miners, the Yuba,  became a source of magnetism for a novel moving ridge of preservationists together with back-to-the-land enthusiasts inward the 60’s together with 70’s. They came hither for the slowly pace, the solitude, to live a purpose of approximately burgeoning spiritual communities, the mountains, together with equally so many say, for the river. We, myself together with Kat, are the children of these folks. We are each raising kids inward the town nosotros were born in. We conduct hold our kiddos to the same holes nosotros swam inward equally children. Nevada City is non i thing. It’s hippies together with rednecks together with artists together with tradespeople, liberals together with conservatives. It’s dynamic together with it’s boring, Its history is informing its future. And its simply actually beautiful. 

You are working on a mass , tin y'all tell us a piffling to a greater extent than nearly this?

 A little. We laid out to make a visual even of the community together with the various grouping of folks that brand upward this place, but it’s evolving all of the time. Presently nosotros are excavation to a greater extent than deeply into what even nosotros desire to tell. We ever inquire people why they are hither together with why they rest together with what nosotros listen is ofttimes approximately aspect of a love of place. It’s difficult to set words to. In a broader civilization where people tend to migrate for work, nosotros appear to live a community of the opposite, of folks who rest set despite the lack of it. And it’s non easy, specially for our generation. We appear to be, mostly speaking, folks who favor character of life over criterion of living. 

You lift on your website that Dick Hotchkiss took a piece to convince, make y'all conduct hold whatever other homes that y'all would love to capture?

 He’s simply private. It’s i of the things nosotros conduct hold to debate alongside beingness drawn to the real people who prefer to live reclusive or conduct hold homes that are illegal. We exclusively desire to capture the homes of people who please inward sharing them. So far nosotros conduct hold been blessed. Being welcomed into someone’s individual globe inward telephone substitution for images together with data is real intimate. I almost ever larn teary together with absolutely, every time, am filled alongside gratitude. These places reverberate the hearts of souls of the people who built together with occupy them. We don’t conduct hold it lightly together with are careful non to conduct hold it live an expose. There are many homes nosotros would honored to live allow into, that nosotros haven’t fifty-fifty reached out to yet, together with approximately we’ll never see. 

Thank y'all so much to Nikiya. Please live certain to depository fiscal establishment tally out their awesome website, specially their Folktales department for to a greater extent than nearly the Nevada City Residents

All photos past times Kat Alves together with tin live found on The Gold Dust Collectives Instagram here