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An Evening with Temple Grandin

Nightingale Concert Hall
Church Fine Arts Building
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia Street

Reno

Monday, November 28, 7 - 8pm
Book Signing & Reception will follow the talk.

The University of Nevada, Reno and The Autism Coalition of Nevada are honored to present an evening with Temple Grandin. As an adult with Asperger's Syndrome, Temple has lectured around the world regarding autism and early intervention. She is the inventor of a hug machine (based on her own experiences) designed to produce a calming effect on persons with hypersensitivity to sensory information.

She is also a renowned designer of humane livestock handling equipment in use in approximately half of the cattle facilities in North America. She is currently a professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University.

A best-selling author, Temple has been recognized as a leader in both the animal welfare and autism advocacy movements. She is listed in the 2010 Time 100 list as one of the most influential people in the world in the "Heroes" category.

Additional seating will be available in the Wells Fargo Auditorium, located on the first floor of the Knowledge Center, where a live feed of Temple Grandin will be streamed.

For more information contact the Disability Resource Center at 775-784-6000 or maryac@unr.edu.

Parking is available on the top two levels of the Brian Whalen Parking Garage. Road access to this parking garage is located off of Virginia Street, just south of the Lawlor Events Center.

[image and text from UNR press release]

Reno Wild Fire

The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] sends its best wishes to everyone impacted by the wind-driven wild fire that began early Friday and raged across southwest Reno forcing over 10,000 people to evacuate from their homes. The fire storm burned nearly 2000 acres and destroyed 29 homes.

Extensive lists of opportunities for help to the families impacted by the fire may be found online by searching for "reno fire donations".

[image shared with CCAI by Cathleen Allison/NevadaPhotoSource.com]

Jennifer Lauck: Found: A Memoir

Carson City Library
at the
Business Resource Innovation Center
108 E Proctor Street
Carson City

postponed to 2012

Due to the Reno fire, Jennifer Lauck's reading with the Carson City Library has been postponed to 2012. Watch the Library's website and the CCAI blog for the rescheduled date.

In recognition of National Adoption Month, Carson City Library will host author Jennifer Lauck on Friday, November 18, 6pm, at the Business Resource Innovation Center [BRIC], 108 East Proctor Street, Carson City.

Jennifer Lauck is the New York Times bestselling author of Blackbird, now translated into 22 languages and published in 29 countries. Lauck has also written Still Waters, Show Me the Way, and Found, released earlier this year and considered the true sequel to Blackbird. Her personal journey began in Carson City and is about perseverance, courage, and the remarkable capacity of humans to transcend the worst of losses with grace. In Found, Lauck reunites with her birthmother, who lived in Reno. Lauck writes of the complex journey home to her original family and the impact her adoption has had on her life.

Lauck is an award winning investigative reporter and earned her MFA in creative writing from Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Portland, Oregon, is the mother of two children, and runs a writing program for burgeoning memoir writers. For more information, visit www.jenniferlauck.com

The Carson City Library, “Your Knowledge and Discovery Place,” is open Monday - Thursday from 10am - 8pm, Friday and Saturday from 10am - 6pm. The Library is located at the corner of Roop and Washington Streets. For additional information, call 775.887.2244 or visit the Library online at www.carsoncitylibrary.org.

[image and text from the Library's press release]

UNR 7th Annual Ceramics Silent Auction

UNR Art Department
Front Door Lobby
Church Fine Arts Building
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia St

Reno

Thursday, November 17, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Ceramic Society of the University of Nevada, Reno
7th ANNUAL SILENT AUCTION
Handmade art & pottery by UNR art students
Bidding closes promptly at 7:30 pm

All proceeds fund UNR students to attend the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference held in Seattle, Washington.

For additional information, please contact Rebekah in the UNR Department of Art: 775.784.6731 or Rebekahb@unr.edu

[image and information from UNR Art Dept]

Geographical Divides: Finding Common Ground

Nevada Arts Council
OXS [Office Exhibition Series]
716 N. Carson Street, Suite A
Carson City

Thursday, November 17, 4:30 - 6:30pm.

The Nevada Arts Council presents the Geographical Divides: Finding Common Ground exhibition in its OXS Gallery thorough December 2. A reception for the artists and talk by printmaker, Sharon Tetly, will take place November 17, 4:30 - 6:30pm. OXS is open to the public 8am - 5pm, M - F.

The exhibition features sixteen artists who were asked to explore the geographical and cultural differences in Nevada. The assembly of printmakers, eight from the north and eight from the south, produced collaborative prints that visually explored connections and disconnections between southern and northern Nevada cultural attitudes, aesthetics, and geographical distinctions.

Nevada’s art communities are not separated by distance of travel alone. There are notable differences among artists throughout the state in what is important in their work, most of which connects with where they live. This traversal of Nevada has also led to improved communication between artists in Reno, Las Vegas, and artists living Nevada's remote outback.

The collaborating artist teams include: Maria Arango, Las Vegas and Lynn Schmidt, Reno; Erik Beehn, Las Vegas and Nolan Preece, Reno; Bobbie Ann Howell, Las Vegas and Galen Brown, Carson City; Daryl DePry, Las Vegas and Sharon Tetly, Carson City; Keith Conley, LasVegas and Sidne Teske, Tuscarora; Anne M. Hoff, Las Vegas and Vicki LoSasso, Reno; Jeanne Voltura, Las Vegas and Candace Nicol, Reno; and Juan D.Varela, Las Vegas and Ashlea Clark, Reno.

For additional information, please call 775.687.6680.

[image by Sharon Tetly, text from NAC press release]

Trish Reynolds, Marti Bein: Bold Blossoms at GBC

Great Basin College
Leonard Center for Student Life
1500 College Parkway
Elko, Nevada

Thursday, November 17, 5-7pm

Great Basin College presents an exhibition of photography by Trish Reynolds from Eureka, Nevada and paintings by Marti Bein from Reno Nevada. This second show at the new gallery space in the Leonard Center on the Great Basin College Elko Campus takes a look at blossoms, both literal and figurative. Join the artists for the exhibition's closing reception November 17, 5 - 7pm.

For more information contact Gail Rappa, Gallery Curator at: gailr@gwmail.gbcnv.edu

[image and text from the gallery's press info]

Kevin Canty at Oats Park Arts Center

Churchill Arts Council
Oats Park Art Center
151 E. Park Street
Fallon, Nevada

Saturday, November 12
meet the author reception 5 - 6pm; reading begins at 6pm




Author Kevin Canty will give a reading from his recent works at the Oats Park Art Center. Canty's seventh book, Everything, a novel, was published in 2010. He is also the author of three previous collections of short stories (Where the Money Went, Honeymoon, and A Stranger In This World) and three novels (Nine Below Zero, Into the Great Wide Open, and Winslow in Love). His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Story, the New England Review and elsewhere; essays and articles in Vogue, Details, Playboy, the New York Times and the Oxford American, among many others. He lives and writes in Missoula, Montana, where he teaches in the University of Montana's MFA program.

The reception and reading are free and open to the public.
For additional information, please call 775.423.1440.

[information and images provided by the Churchill Arts Council]

The Music Man, Jr. at Brewery Arts Center

Brewery Arts Center
Maizie Harris Jesse Theater
449 W King Street
Carson City

November 11 - 20:
Fridays 7pm; Saturdays and Sundays 2pm and 7pm

Join the Brewery Arts Center’s, BAC Stage Kids, for a heartwarming presentation of Music Man Jr. With some of our community’s established and up and coming young talent, this production is sure to offer an entertaining and energetic experience for audiences of all ages, in just the right length.

Tickets: $4.50/$6.50/$8.50

[image and information from BAC press information]

Mick Sheldon: Still Lifes for Cowpokes

Capital City Arts Initiative
Still Lifes for Cowpokes
at the
CCAI Courthouse Gallery [map]
885 East Musser Street
Carson City


Mick Sheldon’s exhibition, Still Lifes for Cowpokes, continues at the Capital City Arts Initiative's [CCAI] Courthouse Gallery through Friday, January 6. The gallery is open to the public M-F, 9am - 5pm.

The exhibition features still life paintings by artist Mick Sheldon, a Reno native and UNR alum. Still life paintings with commonplace objects as subjects are an art tradition that goes back millennia. This exhibition’s paintings grew out of an assignment the artist gave to his students and to himself as well: paint a still life. “The gourds, the skulls, the thick rope, the student-made lopsided pots and bottles, the cactus, the bullet-riddled cans, the broken glass, and especially the cloth kept tumbling around and over each other” revealed themselves to be players in the rodeos and cowboy western movies he remembered from his youth: skulls as the cowboys, cacti as the pine trees, desk lamps as the light source.

Sheldon earned a MFA degree in painting from the University of California at Davis in 1992. In 2004, he began teaching at American River College where he is now tenured and serves as Director of the James Kaneko Gallery. Sheldon lives with his wife in Yolo, California.

CCAI commissioned Phoebe Finch to write the exhibition essay, A Hybrid of the Brash and the Curious, for Still Lifes for Cowpokes. Ms. Finch is a senior at UNR studying both art history and Spanish.

[image is a gallery installation photo of Still Lifes for Cowpokes]

The Phantom of the Opera

Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company
at the
Carson City Community Center
851 E. William Street
Carson City

The Phantom of the Opera
November 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19 - 7:30pm
November 6, 12, 13, 19, 20 - 2pm

The Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company is delighted to produce The Phantom of the Opera. The northern Nevada premiere of Broadway's longest running show and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterpiece features the haunting, rapturous music that has delighted audiences for more than a decade including Music of the Night, Prima Donna, Angel of Music, All I Ask of You, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, The Point of No Return.

Mark Williams performs as the Phantom and Maria Arrigotti as Christine. Other leads include Emzy Burroughs as Raoul, Jen Coogan as Carlotta, Teddy Medlyn as Piangi, Nick Favero as Andre, Jim DeZerga as Firmin, Christina Bourne as Madame Giry, and Danita Bayer as Meg.

"It will be, by far, the most vocally and technically demanding show WNMTC has ever produced," said Stephanie Arrigotti, who has produced 86 shows for the company. "I've been working with technicians and set builders - it has taken us a whole year to build this production."

WNMTC audience surveys have put The Phantom of the Opera as the all time most requested production. For tickets, call 775.445.4249. Tickets individually cost $22/$20/$18. Great discounts and priority seating with season tickets from $45-$60.

The Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company is a regional theater company that operates in Carson City through Western Nevada College's performing arts program. WNMTC presents its productions at the Carson City Community Center.

[image and text from WNMTC's press information]

Tracy McQuay at the Carson City Library

Capital City Arts Initiative
Books & Writers
at the
Carson City Library
900 N. Roop Street
Carson City

Tracy McQuay:
reading Friday, November 4, 7 - 8pm
writing workshop, Saturday, November 5, noon - 1pm


As part of its Books & Writers series, CCAI will present a literary reading by writer Tracy McQuay on Friday, November 4, 7pm at the Carson City Library. Tracy will also conduct a writing workshop at the Library on Saturday, November 5 from 11am – noon. Both events are free and open to the public.

Tracy McQuay teaches first grade at Mark Twain Elementary School in Carson City where, for the past seven years, she developed and facilitated an after-school poetry program for the school's students. Her current work received a 2011 Artists Fellowship Honorable Mention from the Nevada Arts Council. She is a recent graduate of Lesley University where she earned a MA in Integrating Arts into Education. Her writing has appeared in several literary journals and she published a story in "Chicken Soup for the Christmas Soul" in 2008. She is a member of Ash Canyon Poets, GCW (a women's critique group), and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

The Carson City Library co-sponsors the Books & Writers series with CCAI.

Art in the BRIC II

Capital City Arts Initiative
Art in the BRIC II
at the
Business Resource Innovation Center
108 E Proctor Street
Carson City

Wednesday, November 2, 4:30 - 6pm

The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] and the Carson City Library are delighted to present Art in the BRIC II, a group exhibition of art work by northern Nevada artists and architects. A reception for the artists will be held at the Carson City’s Business Resource Innovation Center [BRIC] Wednesday, November 2, 4:30 - 6pm, 108 E Proctor Street, Carson City. The reception is free and the public is cordially invited.

Gallery visitors will find the artworks throughout the BRIC's first floor offices and conference rooms. To enable to public ample opportunity to view the artists' work, the exhibition will run through August 2012.

The artists and architects in this group show include photography by Mike Bates, ceramics by Jill Brugler, prints by Susan Kotler, all from Carson City; sculpture by Bryan Christiansen from Reno; drawings by H+K Architects of Reno; painting by Jean LeGassick and Jeff Nicholson, both from Silver City; and a printmaking/photography installation by Nancy Raven from Minden.

As part of Art in the BRIC II, the Carson City Library presents the architectural renderings for the new Carson City Knowledge + Discovery Center created by H+K Architects of Reno. Among its recent major accomplishments, the firm has created the designs for UNR's Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center and WNC's Joe Dini, Jr. Library and Student Center.

Artworks above: on left - Lost Soles by Nancy Raven; on right - Alexis by Mike Bates

Artisan Show and Sale

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
780 Del Monte Lane
Reno

Artisan Show & Sale
Friday, November 4, 3 - 7pm; opening reception 5 - 7pm
Saturday, November 5, 10am - 5pm

Over 30 artists will have work for exhibition and sale at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship's annual Artisan event. Event visitors will find work by artists Jill Altmann, Dayna Galletti, Rima Kent, Jim McCormick, Dale Pappas, and Ann Weiss among others.

[image and text from the Artisan show flier]

Wild Women Artists 2011: Regeneration

Wilbur D. May Center
Rancho San Rafael Regional Park
1595 North Sierra Street, Reno

Artists' Reception: Friday, November 4, 5 - 8pm 
(please use Sierra Street entrance)

Wild Women Reno 2011: REGENERATION
The annual group exhibition and sale by the vibrant Wild Women Artists group takes place this weekend at Rancho San Rafael. Participating artists include Jimmie Benedict, Sidne Teske, Claudia Knous, Kathleen Durham, Gretchen Ericson, Barbara Glynn Prodaniuk, Pat Wallis, Kristen Frantzen Orr, Gail Rappa, Barbara Uriu, Karel Hendee, Susan Church plus guest artists Ron Arthaud and Lara Alberti.

Exhibition and Sale Hours:
Friday, November 4, noon - 8pm

Saturday, November 5, 10am - 5pm
Sunday, November 6, 11am - 4pm
Artists' Demos + Tea and Scones: Friday - Sunday, November 4 - 6, 1 - 3pm.

The annual raffle will benefit the Wilbur May Museum and The Wild Women Emerging Artist Award through the Nevada Museum of Arts Scholastic Arts Awards Program. For information on additional Wild Women Artists events, please visit http://www.wildwomenartists.com/

[image and text from the Wild Women's website]

WNC Craft Fair

Western Nevada College
2201 W College Parkway
Carson City

Joe Winter, a ceramic artist who has shown his work at both WNC Carson and Fallon campus galleries, will have a booth in this year's Craft Fair.


[poster image and text from WNC press info]

Giacomo Fiore: Brewery Arts Center

Brewery Arts Center
449 West King Street
Carson City

Saturday, October 29, 2pm

Giacomo Fiore brings his exciting guitar skills to the Brewery Arts Center on Saturday, October 29 at 2pm. The performance is part of the Brewery Art Center’s Classical Performance Series and is presented in collaboration with the Sierra Nevada Guitar Society.

The Italian born musician will perform both traditional and modern works to create a magical musical experience. Fiore is an imaginative and accomplished guitar player who is comfortable in a wide variety of styles. His music making has both flair and depth.

A graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory and Belmont University, Fiore has performed across the U.S. and around the world. Today Giacomo is continuing his musical explorations as a Ph.D. student in Musicology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he focuses on the development of alternative guitar repertoires in just and microtonal tunings.

Pre-concert lecture and brief classical guitar open mic at 1:00pm

Tickets: General admission $13.50, student/senior $11.50, BAC member $8.50.

[images from artist and from BAC websites, text from BAC website]

El Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead

University of Nevada, Reno
Latino Research Center
1664 N. Virginia Street
Reno

Day of the Dead | El Dia de los Muertos Exhibition|Celebration
Sponsored by UNR's Latino Research Center at the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

Saturday, October 29th from 2 – 5pm

Come celebrate the Latino Research Center’s 3rd Annual Celebration of Dia de los Muertos on campus in the Knowledge Center's Rotunda. In celebration of this holiday, the Latino Research Center will be providing an exhibition area for altars to be put on display. Prizes will be awarded to winners for best altars.* Attendees are welcome to submit their own altars or just come and enjoy the altar displays. Food, beverages, music and many fun activities for children, including mask-making and sugar skull decoration will also be provided at the event. This event is free and open to the public.

*The deadline for requesting a space for an altar entry is Friday, October 28. 3’x3’ tables will be provided to those who have requested space. Please call the Latino Research Center 775.682.9043 or email iwest@unr.edu to request space for altar entry.

For more information visit: http://www.unr.edu/latinocenter Diadelosmuertos.html

[image and text from Latino Research Center]

Wafaa Bilal: Sheppard Gallery Visiting Artist Lecture

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery

Art Department
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia St

Reno

Thursday, October 27, 5:30pm: visiting artist lecture by Wafaa Bilal in the University's Knowledge Center, Wells Fargo Auditorium, room 124.

[poster from Sheppard Gallery]

Mick Sheldon: Gone 30 Years But Still a Nevadan

Capital City Arts Initiative
Nevada Neighbors
at the
Carson City Library
900 N. Roop Street
Carson City

Wednesday, October 26: reception 6:15pm, talk 7pm

Mick Sheldon's talk, Gone 30 Years But Still a Nevadan, is another in the Nevada Neighbors series of public talks presented by the Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] on contemporary art practice. Mick will speak at the Carson City Library Wednesday, October 26 at 7 pm; an informal reception for the artist will begin at 6:15pm. The reception and talk are free and the public is cordially invited.

Mick's talk is a companion piece to his exhibition, Still Lifes for Cowpokes, at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery, 885 E Musser St, Carson City. The exhibition closes Friday, January 6, 2012.

Mick Sheldon, a tenured professor at American River College in Sacramento and a working artist for most of his adult life, will discuss his unique approach to creating and composing artworks of various mediums and styles: sculpture, oil painting and woodblocks. His talk, with a generous dose of his idiosyncratic humor, will center on how he vigorously approaches his art on a daily basis, driven by his appreciation of contemporary life in the West. Mick’s work embodies a synthesis of formal and expressive styles that assemble figures, light, color and space qualities that celebrate the heroic energy of our region.

Mick is a Reno native and UNR alumnus. He earned a MFA degree in painting from the University of California at Davis in 1992. After working a series of “dead end jobs,” he started teaching at two schools and a prison back in the late eighties. In 2004, he began teaching as a full-time professor at American River College where he is now tenured and serves as Director of the James Kaneko Gallery. Sheldon lives with his wife in Yolo, California.

[Mick Sheldon painting: Last Out of the Rodeo, oil on linen, 2009]

Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks: Piper's Opera House

Piper's Opera House
12 North B Street
Virginia City

Saturday, October 22, doors open at 7pm

The Comstock Residents Association will present Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks! The uniquely talented musical maestro was a member of the Charlatans, who pioneered the music of the 1960's in Virginia City on the stage at the Red Dog Saloon. For one night only, on Saturday, October 22 at 7 pm, Dan Hicks will headline a show at the grandest venue on the Comstock Lode, Piper's Opera House.

Dan took a special interest when he heard of the threat from open pit mining that looms over the Comstock Historic District. The fundraising concert will help benefit the Comstock Residents Association and create awareness of the Comstock's plight.

Seating is limited. Tickets are $35 in advance, $40 at the door. Advance tickets are available online at www.comstockresidents.org/hicksville.html. Tickets may be purchased in Reno at Sundance Books and or at Recycled Records, in Carson City at the Bead Store, in Silver City at Doodads, and in Virginia City at the Red Dog Saloon. For an additional $7.50, guests may purchase a ticket for the after-party at the Red Dog Saloon, limited to 100 guests.

This unique musical event will enrich your life, provide a golden memory or two, and help protect the Comstock from open pit mining. Do come!

[image and text from the Comstock Residents Association press information]

iraqimemorial.org: On the Efficacy of Creative Remembrance

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
EFA Project Space
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor (b/w aves 8 and 9)
New York

Thursday, October 20 · 6:30pm - 8:30pm

iraqimemorial.org: On the Efficacy of Creative Remembrance

In conjunction with the current exhibition, iraqimemorial.org, project director and exhibition curator Joseph DeLappe* will lead a panel discussion with jurors Yaelle Amir and Raul Zamudio, and artists Wafaa Bilal, Matt Kenyon and Sayoko Yoshida. A wide-ranging discussion will ensue regarding the efficacy of the conceptualization and realization of contemporary memorials, monuments, and counter-monuments to the victims of war. How do we critically assess the effect of a project such as iraqimemorial.org? What are the pitfalls and possibilities of developing DIY memorial projects?

For more information about the current exhibition, iraqimemorial.org, and the panelists please visit http://www.efanyc.org/upcoming-events/2011/9/14/iraqimemorialorg-on-the-efficacy-of-creative-remembrance.html

* Joseph DeLappe is a CCAI Nevada Neighbors alumnus
[image and text from Joseph DeLappe's FaceBook event page]

Phyllis Shafer: Stremmel Gallery

Stremmel Gallery
1400 South Virginia Street
Reno

Artist Reception: Thursday, October 20, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Cerulean Days, an exhibition of recent paintings by Phyllis Shafer, will open at Stremmel Gallery in Reno on Thursday, October 20th and run through Saturday, November 19th. The gallery will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, October 20, 5:30 - 7:30pm.

For the past two years, Phyllis Shafer has explored, through plein air painting, the landscape of northern Nevada. From the expansive, sagebrush-filled tablelands of the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge and the Smoke Creek desert to the lush, alpine beauty of the Ruby Mountains and the Snake Range, Phyllis Shafer's paintings celebrate the color, forms, and innate rhythms unique to the Great Basin. This series of paintings continues to explore the relationship between the intimate details of foreground flora and the calming allure of deep space.

For more information, please go to the artist's website at: www.phyllisshafer.com

[image of Lamoille Canyon Beaver Pond oil painting from the artist's website, text from the artist and gallery's press information]

Roy Purcell: Nevada State Museum

Nevada State Museum
600 N Carson Street
Carson City

Thursday, October 27, 6-8 pm

The Nevada State Museum is bringing wildlife artist Roy Purcell from Tucson, Arizona to celebrate Nevada’s Great Outdoors, the theme of this year's Nevada Day parade. Mr. Purcell will give a talk on Thursday, October 27, 6-8 pm as part of the Museum's monthly Frances Humphrey lecture series which is held the 4th Thursday of each month.

Doors open at 6 pm for the book signing. Admission is free for museum members and children 17 and under; tickets for non-member adults are $8 each. The admission fee covers the lecture and current exhibitions in the main building: Slot machines: The Fey Collection; Nevada: The Photography of Cliff Segerblom; and My Nevada II.

[image from Mr. Purcell's website, text from the museum's press info]

Rhett Bender: Carson City Symphony

Carson City Symphony
at the
Carson City Community Center
851 E. William Street
Carson City

Sunday, October 16, 4pm

The Carson City Symphony opens its 28th season with an American Journey concert featuring guest soloist saxophonist Rhett Bender and compositions by American composers Paul Creston, Robert Russell Bennett, and Robert W. Smith.

Mr. Bender is a Professor of Music at Southern Oregon University, Director of the Siskiyou Saxophone Workshop and the Ashland Chamber Music Workshop, and Region 1 Director of the North American Saxophone Alliance. He performs throughout the U.S. and China, and teaches each year at the Sichuan Conservatory in Chengdu. He directs the Siskiyou Saxophone Orchestra, and plays soprano saxophone in the Globe Saxophone Quartet. Bender's live performances have been broadcast over several radio stations and he is featured saxophonist on the CD set "America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax" and on solo saxophone CDs "Transformations" and "Meldings."

Tickets: $15 general admission; $12 - seniors, students, and Symphony Association members; free for youth age 16 and under. Tickets may be purchased at Play Your Own Music in the Carson Mall, online at ActivityTickets.com, or at the door. Season tickets at discounted prices are available from the Symphony at 775-883-4154.

Concert preview in the Community Center's Sierra Room 3:15pm
Post-concert reception $17; for location, reservations, and directions, call the Symphony at 775.883.4154

[image from Mr. Bender's SOU webpage; text from the Symphony's press release]

Susan Werner: Oats Park Art Center

Churchill Arts Council
Oats Park Art Center
151 E. Park Street
Fallon, Nevada

Saturday, October 15:
conversation with the artist 3pm
concert 8pm

Susan Werner is a daring, innovative performer with a killer live show. She weaves old & new together to create fresh genres when existing ones don’t suit her muse—infusing traditional styles with a decidedly modernist world view on both popular genre classics as well as a beehive of contemporary concerns. “a clever songwriter and engaging performer, she brings literacy and wit back to popular song”—The New Yorker Named Best Contemporary Folk Artist. For more info: www.susanwerner.com

The conversation with the artist is free and open to the public.
Concert tickets: $17 CAC Members; $20 Non-Members. Tickets may be purchased at Jeff’s Copy Express, Postage Plus, ITT @ NAS Fallon or by calling 775.423.1440

[image and text from Churchill Arts Council press info]

Gailmarie Pahmeier at Carson City Library

Capital City Arts Initiative
Books & Writers
at the
Carson City Library
900 N. Roop Street
Carson City

Thursday, October 13:
workshop 4pm
reading 7pm


CCAI will present a poetry workshop and a reading by poet Gailmarie Pahmeier on Thursday, October 13 at the Carson City Library The writing workshop takes place from 4 - 5pm; the poetry reading begins at 7pm. Both events are free and open to the public.

Gailmarie Pahmeier, a Nevadan for 30 years, teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at the University of Nevada, Reno where she has been honored with the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award and the University Distinguished Teacher Award.

Ms Pahmeier’s work has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, including Booth, Passager, Interim, Mudfish, New Poets of the AmericanWest (for which she won the Editor’s Choice Award), Literary Nevada, and the Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. Her poetry collection includes The House on Breakaheart Road, and two chapbooks from Black Rock Press. Her recent chapbook, Shake It and It Snows, won the 2009 Coal Hill Chapbook Award; poems from this collection were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Her literary awards include a Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship and two Artists Fellowships from the Nevada Arts Council. In 2007, she received the Nevada Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

She said, “I’ve read my work locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. I’m particularly interested in conducting workshops and giving readings in “under-served” communities, wherever they might be or think they are. I love Nevada, love getting out and into our various communities. My material comes from interactions and observations I make while out on the road, and I learn as much or more from community workshop participants as they might learn from me.”

[image from a Goggle search for Ms. Pahmeier]

Space Art Talk at WNC Davis Observatory

Western Nevada College
Jack C. Davis Observatory
2201 W College Parkway
Carson City

Saturday, October 8: Space Art


Mike Thomas will give a slideshow lecture about the impact of art on both science and science fiction. Visitors will be taken from the days of the first drawings of space objects to the beautiful illustrations of space seen today. The program includes many wonderful slides of space-related works of art.



Saturday evening stargazing and slide lectures at the Western Nevada College Jack C. Davis Observatory are free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and lectures begin at 7pm.

For additional information, please contact Mike Thomas at 775-857-3033 or mnethomas@sbcglobal.net

[image from Goggle search for super nova; text from WNC press release]

Cindie Geddes: Making Money As Writers

Unnamed Writers' Group
at the
Evelyn Mount Community Center
1301 North Valley Road
Reno

Saturday, October 8, doors open 9am, meeting 10am

There are ways writers can make money in the new tech age. Be sure to attend Cindie Geddes' workshop: Making Money as Writers. There's never been a better time to be a writer.

Geddes will focus on a very important need for any book: 'The Hook.' Whether you plan to sell or just publish paper or ebook formats, you still need a hook, a blurb, that little diddy that gets someone to WANT your book. She will explain the workings of, many secrets about, and how the get the best bang for your buck in ebook world, even with rapid changes.

Geddes is co-owner of Lucky Bat Books (along with Judith Harlan) -- a royalty-free press designed to revolutionize the publishing biz. A Renoite, she lives with her husband & son and a passel of disobedient pets. She's an avid Balloon Race fan and local Burner. Please plan for a riveting meeting...Cindie is a crowd pleaser!

UWG is Nevada’s only all genre writers’ group, open to all ages. Our monthly meetings (on the 2nd Saturday) offer educational speakers, networking opportunities and member mingling. Guests and visitors are welcome to attend our monthly meetings at no charge. Annual dues and workshop costs are minimal. Speakers and dates may change without notice, so check our website www.unnamedwriters.org.

For more information, please contact Peggy Rew at rewcrew@charter.net or 626.0982.

[image from Ms. Geddes' website, text from UWG flier]

Steve Jobs: an American Icon

Steve Jobs, February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011

"Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday, was a singular figure in American business history. He will go in the pantheon of great American entrepreneurs, inventors, and innovators, alongside John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and Sam Walton.
Jobs didn't invent computer technology, or the cell phone, or the notion of digitizing music. But he invented methods, business models, and devices that turned each into significantly larger cultural and economic phenomena."

[text from a Contrary Indicator article by Daniel Gross, economics editor at Yahoo! Finance; image from a Goggle search for Apple logos]

October FWAC at the BRIC

Capital City Arts Initiative
Wednesday, October 5, 4:30-6pm
First Wednesday Arts Coffee
at the BRIC
108 E. Proctor Street * [map]
Carson City

CCAI invites you to attend its monthly gathering of artists and arts & culture enthusiasts. Join us for conversation, coffee, cookies, and an ongoing exhibition of art by northern Nevada artists at the BRIC.

Everyone is welcome. CCAI encourages you to bring some of your new artworks to share.

* located at the corner of E. Proctor and Plaza Streets in historic Carson City just north of City Hall.

[image from Wikimedia Commons search for 'afternoon coffee']

Ron Arthaud: Tuscarora Plein Air

Great Basin College
Leonard Center for Student Life
1500 College Parkway
Elko, Nevada

Ron Arthaud has an exhibition of his new work at the Great Basin College's student center gallery through October 17.

[image from the artist]

NAC Jackpot and Professional Development Grants

Nevada Arts Council
716 N. Carson Street, Suite A
Carson City

The Nevada Arts Council invites individuals to apply online for Jackpot Grants and Professional Development Grants.

Jackpot Grants
Quarterly grants available through the Grants Program, Jackpot Grants support new or exemplary art projects by nonprofit arts and non-arts organizations, public institutions and artists. Artists must have attained a certain level of proficiency as represented in the quality of work samples submitted with the applications. Examples of eligible Jackpot projects for individuals include: costs associated with preparing of portfolios and work samples; and presentation of work (performances, exhibitions, publications, etc).

Online Submission Deadlines:
November 15, 2011 (for projects Jan 1-March 31, 2012)
February 15, 2012 (for projects April 1-June 30, 2012)

Postmark Deadlines for Supplemental Materials:
November 22, 2011 (for projects Jan 1-March 31, 2012)
February 22, 2012 (for projects April 1-June 30, 2012)

Professional Development Grant (PDG)
PDG are noncompetitive grants available throughout the year to eligible applicants on a first-come, first-served basis while funding is available. PDG grants support constituent attendance at professional development activities and are up to $650 for out-of-state activities, up to $500 for in-state activities not sponsored by NAC, and up to $350 for NAC sponsored activities. Postmark Deadline: Available on a first-come first-served and reimbursement basis throughout the year. Eligible Applicants: All applicants are required to be a Nevada resident for 12 months prior to application deadline, be at least 21 years old and not seeking an academic degree. Must demonstrate travel of at least 100 miles roundtrip to qualify.

Apply for these grants at Culture Grants Online.
Have questions? Call or email Ann Cosens, Interim Grants Program Coordinator, 775.687.7102, acosens@nevadaculture.org

[text from the Nevada Arts Council's press info; image by AndreasPraefcke from Wikimedia Commons]

Mark Chavez: Emerging Animation

Capital City Arts Initiative
Nevada Neighbors
at the
Carson City Library
900 N. Roop Street
Carson City

Wednesday, September 28, 7pm

Emerging Animation is another in CCAI's Nevada Neighbors series of stimulating public talks on contemporary art practice. Mark Chavez, an early adopter in computer animation and a leading animation industry expert, will present an overview of emerging animation technology and its artistic and cultural impact. The talk will take place at the Carson City Library Wednesday, September 28 at 7pm; a reception for the artist will precede the talk at 6:15pm. Nevada Neighbors events are free and the public is cordially invited.

Mark Chavez, a MFA graduate from UCLA in the 1980’s, has worked for more than 25 years creating cutting-edge animation techniques and live-action visual effects for many major feature films, console games, television commercials, experimental digital film making and interactive media. He is a leader in the digital animation industry, both as an artist animator and a modeler, creating photo-realistic props, sets, characters for live-action feature films and character animation fantasies for major film production studios such as DreamWorks Feature Animation and Rhythm, Hues Studios Los Angeles, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Brothers Pictures. He has contributed to the development of large-scale projected laser animation for concert venues and pioneered emergent interactive media, motion picture graphics and motion capture for the Tokyo Broadcast System and Acclaim, Inc. In 2004, Mark was recruited to be a founding faculty member in the newly established Nanyang Technology University’s (NTU) School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) in Singapore.

For additional information, please call CCAI at 775.720.0331 or the Library at 775.887.2244.

Friends of the Library: Harvest Book Sale

Carson City Library
900 N Roop Street
Carson City

Support your Library and community: Visit the book sale!
Friday, September 23, 10am - 5pm
Saturday, September 24, 10am - 4pm

The Harvest Book Sale, one of six sales annually by Friends of the Library, provides funds for Library purchase of books, periodicals, art reproductions, technological equipment, furnishings and other equipment requested by the Library when the purchases would not be available through the budgeting process. The Friends also provide seed money for Library programs and services. The Friends services benefit all Library users and members of the community.

The Library is open to the public Monday - Thursday 10am - 8pm, Friday and Saturday 10am - 6pm. For additional information about the book sale or the Library, please call 775.887-2244.

[poster and information from the Carson City Library's website]

Kuen Young Park: Sheppard Gallery Lecture

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery

Art Department
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia St

Reno

Reiterate the Repeat: Keun Young Park and Sky Kim
August 29 - September 23
Catalogue designed by Clint Sleeper

Thursday, September 22, 5:30pm: exhibition closing lecture by Keun Young Park in Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, Wells Fargo Auditorium, room 124. The closing reception will be in Sheppard Gallery, Church Fine Arts, 6:30 - 8pm.

Both living in Jersey City, New Jersey but previously unknown to each other, Sky Kim and Keun Young Park create their artwork through very time-consuming and repetitive manners. This exhibition considers images created from this approach to artmaking. Park constructs “micro-collages” made from tiny pieces of torn up photographs punctured by a pin, while Kim creates large-scale scrolls by making thousands of marks, rendering voluptuous drawings in a variety of media.

Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday, 11am - 5pm, Friday, 11am - 2pm
For additional information, please call Sheppard Gallery at 775.785.6658 or email mvecchio@unr.edu

[image from Keun Young Park's website; text from Sheppard Gallery's press info]

Spire of Fire

Black Rock Arts Foundation
Tuesday, September 20 at dark
corner of Sierra Street and Island Ave
Reno

The Black Rock Arts Foundation is proud to announce that Spire of Fire, by Reno artists Steve Atkins and Eric Smith, is BRAF’s fourth installation in Reno, Nevada. The performance takes place Tuesday, September 20 at dark. See Spire of Fire June 15 – Nov. 15, 2011, on the corner of Sierra Street and Island Avenue, on the bank of the Truckee River in downtown Reno.

[image from Black Rock Arts Foundation]

Manuel Alfaro, Amerique Powell at U of Phoenix Gallery

University of Phoenix
10345 Professional Circle
Reno

An exhibition of current work by University of Nevada Reno MFA candidates Amerique Powell and Manuel Alfaro is at the University of Phoenix Gallery through November 16. Sierra Arts in Reno manages the gallery.

Manuel Alfaro said that "The inspiration for my work comes from Aztec culture and the current drug war in Mexico. Researching Aztec culture has led me into a complex world of religion and mythology, a world of deity lords and gods."

Amerique Powell said that "This body of work is the result of an exploration of the emotional connection I have with my pets, and my fascination with and attraction to decorative pattern. By merging the animals and patterns, my goal is to give them equal weight, both formally and conceptually, so that neither one is the obvious 'subject.'" Ms. Powell is on the CCAI Artists In Education Roster and teaching CCAI art workshops this fall for students at Carson Middle School, Carson City.

The gallery is open Monday-Thursday 9:00am-10:00pm, Friday 8:00am-9:30pm, Saturday 8:00am-6:00pm, Sunday 1:00pm-8:00pm.
For additional information, please call Sierra Arts at 775.329.2782.

[image and text from Sierra Arts' press release]

Kadam Studio Grand Opening

Kadam Studio of Glass
47 Glen Carran Circle*
Sparks

Grand Opening: September 17, 11am - 4pm

Interested in learning more about working with glass? Here's an opportunity. Kadam Studio is a fully equipped glass facility for teaching fused and stained glass.

* Directions: from S McCarren Blvd going north, turn left on E Glendate Ave, turn right on to Stanford Way, take the 2nd right on to Glen Carran Circle.

For additional information, call 775.358.6632

[studio image and text from Kadam Studio; glaziers' tool image from Wikipedia search for stained glass]

Mick Sheldon: Still Lifes for Cowpokes

CCAI Courthouse Gallery [map]
885 East Musser Street
Carson City

Opening Reception: Friday, September 16, 5 - 7pm

The Capital City Arts Initiative opens Mick Sheldon’s exhibition, Still Lifes for Cowpokes at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery on Friday, September 16 with a reception for the artist from 5 - 7pm. The exhibition and reception are free and the public is cordially invited.

The exhibition features still life paintings by artist Mick Sheldon, a Reno native and UNR alum. Still life paintings with commonplace objects as subjects are an art tradition that goes back millennia. This exhibition’s paintings grew out of an assignment the artist gave to his students and to himself as well: paint a still life. “The gourds, the skulls, the thick rope, the student-made lopsided pots and bottles, the cactus, the bullet-riddled cans, the broken glass, and especially the cloth kept tumbling around and over each other” revealed themselves to be players in the rodeos and cowboy western movies he remembered from his youth: skulls as the cowboys, cacti as the pine trees, desk lamps as the light source.

Sheldon earned a MFA degree in painting from the University of California at Davis in 1992. After working a series of “dead end jobs,” he started teaching at two schools and a prison back in the late eighties. In 2004, he began teaching as a full-time professor at American River College where he is now tenured and serves as Director of the James Kaneko Gallery. Sheldon lives with his wife in Yolo, California.

CCAI has commissioned Phoebe Finch to write the exhibition essay for Still Lifes for Cowpokes. Ms. Finch is a senior at UNR studying both art history and Spanish.

[Mick Sheldon painting: Last Out of the Rodeo, oil on linen, 2009]

The Culture of Burning Man Exhibition at WNC

Western Nevada College
2201 W College Parkway
Carson City

Reception for the artists: Thursday, September 15, 5-6:30pm.

Each Labor Day holiday, northern Nevada plays host to one of the largest and most innovative art and cultural events in the nation. Western Nevada College offers a fascinating glimpse into the Burning Man culture of self-expression and self-reliance through a photography exhibit that portrays the art, costumes and ambience of the event. The Culture of Burning Man, in the gallery through October 15, was curated by local artist Maria Partridge. The Black Rock Arts Foundation provided exhibition support.

The thirty-nine poster size photographs depict the innovative sculptures that soar above the playa and depict "burners" in costumes that range from the clever to the weird. The show also features a fascinating array of playa vehicles built or retrofitted to navigate the dusty streets of Black Rock City – from unicycles and roller skates to giant balloons and boats.

The College Gallery is in the Bristlecone Building, at WNC Carson City. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 8am - 9pm, and Saturday, 8am - 5pm, excluding holidays. Admission is free.

[image and text from the gallery press release]

In Memory

In memory of those who lost their lives in the September 11 tragedies.

[image from Wikimedia Commons]

Christiansen and Nelson at Stremmel Gallery

Stremmel Gallery
1400 South Virginia Street
Reno

Reception for the Artists: Thursday, September 8, 5:30-7:30pm

Stremmel Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent painting and sculpture by John Randall Nelson and Bryan Christiansen. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artists on Thursday, September 8 from 5:30 - 7:30pm and will remain in the gallery through October 8, 2011.

John Randall Nelson emerged in the mid-’90s as a painter and sculptor known for taking simple, bold, instantly recognizable images of everyday symbols and imbuing them with a sense of theatre. Embracing the concept of artist as storyteller, Nelson is a chronicler of contemporary culture, his symbolic amalgamations forming an intuitive sense of the besieged, “over communicated, how-to” society in which we live. His paintings often consist of a central image superimposed over a collage of symbols and text (anything from art criticism to nursery rhymes). Daily life is represented through select bits and pieces carefully plucked, placed, layered, painted, sanded and repainted. Nelson’s persistent, almost obsessive editing and rearrangement of these pieces allow viewers to uncover the grammar of his private language. Through the constant reworking of the surface and the rearranging of form, the process of discovery and creation comes to the forefront of Nelson’s canvases. His paintings are narrative in two ways: They encourage viewers to invent their own stories based on the images and messages used, but they also present the “story” of their own creation, inviting the experience of a restless and somewhat anxious journey of the art-making process.

Bryan Christiansen creates life-sized contemporary sculpture that challenges conventional notions of rural life, home, the rituals of the hunting tradition, and the innocence of childhood. Discarded household furniture found in neglected urban areas becomes assemblage that stands in for the trophies, antler mounts, and pelts often prized by hunters. Christiansen's work recalls the gritty, discarded object sculpture of 1950s assemblage artists Bruce Conner and Ed Kienholz. However, unlike these artists interested in probing the passage of time, death, and decay,
Christiansen reconstructs exquisitely crafted works that feature exposed hand-stitchery and floral fabrics. This process of assembling has more to do with making sense of life than decoding death. Christiansen's sculptures take the form of trophies, physical triumphs of the present over the past and the strength to confront some of life's most challenging contradictions. Raised in a small log cabin in the Black Hills of South Dakota, his childhood was influenced by activities associated with rustic, agrarian living: absorbing nature, communing with wildlife, and learning to hunt. These activities, alongside the turbulent and complex development of his family's domestic life, are what led Christiansen to art as a way of wrestling with the conflicting realities of his past.

To set up a private tour of the gallery and works by the artists, please call Stremmel Gallery 775.786.0558 or visit www.stremmelgallery.com. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9am - 5:30pm, and Saturday, 10am - 3pm.

[text, images from the gallery's press release]

September FWAC at the BRIC

Wednesday, September 7, 4:30-6pm
First Wednesday Arts Chat
BRIC
Carson City's Business Resource and Innovation Center
108 E. Proctor Street * [map]
Carson City

CCAI invites you to attend its monthly gathering of artists and arts & culture enthusiasts. Join us for conversation, lemonade, and an ongoing exhibition of art by northern Nevada artists at the BRIC.
CCAI encourages you to bring some of your new artworks to share. Everyone is welcome.

* located at the corner of E. Proctor and Plaza Streets in historic Carson City just north of City Hall.

[image from Wikimedia Commons search for lemonade]

Nevada Expressions

Sierra Arts Gallery
17 S Virginia Street
Reno

The proceeds benefit preservation of the Virginia City National Historic Landmark.

Saturday, September 10, 4 - 8pm
Sunday, September 11, noon to 8pm
Reception for the Artists, both days 5 – 8pm

[image and text from Nevada Expressions press release]