Cover Artist Joseph Bellacera
Inside Land Park/Grid May 2024
Nature and luminosity inspire the work of Joseph Bellacera. His primary subject matter is the perception of space, light and patterning.
Cover Artist Russell Reich
Inside East Sac May 2024
Russell Reich has been creating visual images for more than 30 years.
Museum Quality
Thirty-eight years and four remodeling projects later, Jim and Ann Tracy still live in the home they purchased in 1988.
Back then, with one child and another on the way, the P Street vintage home in East Sacramento seemed like a good choice. The corner location had two bedrooms, one bath and a generous attic with a steep pitched roof.
It also had a separate garage. “Although the garage wasn’t built to code and was literally falling down,” says Jim, retired chief financial officer for SMUD.
“We started progressively going through and eventually we remodeled everything in the house. It totaled four major projects over the years.”
Career Leap
Hard work and months of rehearsal come together when Sacramento Ballet’s Second Company performs its spring showcase May 11–12 at Hiram Johnson High School Auditorium.
Second Company was started two years ago by Jill Krutzkamp as a way to give dancers ages 18–21 intensive training before leaping into the professional dance world.
The company encompasses the Trainee Project for promising students who pay tuition, and SB2 for dancers who receive scholarships and stipends.
“Our mission is to get them jobs, help them get to know themselves more and have time to figure out if this is really what they want to do,” Jill says. “Second Company gives them that pre-professional leg up. We want to create the best dancer we can so they’re more marketable.”
