Biggest Little City in the World

Nevada Historical Society
1650 N. Virginia Street
Reno

Reno: Biggest Little City in the World

"... exhibit featuring artifacts, photos, manuscripts, gaming memorabilia and art specific to the history and development of Reno. Incorporated in the exhibit will be four custom “Pickles” drawings created specifically for the exhibit by Sparks cartoonist Brian Crane.

The modern Pickles family will appear as oversize figures at the beginning of the exhibit to introduce visitors to the display. The other images feature the characters at the end of the 19th century, the 1920s and the 1960s."

The exhibit is open Wednesday through Saturday | 10am-5pm

[text from Reno News & Review calendar listing. Graphic from Google image search for "Biggest Little City in the World."]

Call for Visual Arts

[graphic from Holland Project. Click on image to enlarge.]

Nada Motel

Nada Motel
June 26-29, 2008
El Cortez Hotel, Reno Nevada

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John Yoyogi Fortes at Grayspace

Grayspace
26 Cheney Street
Reno
John Yoyogi Fortes
through April 18

"John Yoyogi Fortes is in a period of transition with his art, questioning both his painting and thought process. In his past work, subject matter drove the content in turn affecting his process.

With this exhibit at Grayspace, Fortes decided to reevaluate the process that has led him further away from his intuitive side. Fortes is now working towards reconnecting with his inner sensibilities as a painter, how he lays images down, how he responds intuitively to the process and where it takes him. Acting on impulse will no longer be diluted or redefined by questioning or making reference to old work."


[image from Grayspace Web site.]

Do You Hear My Accent When I Write?

Sundance Bookstore
1155 W 4th St # 106
Reno
(775) 786-1188

Feb 16 - 3 p.m.
Booksigning


Latino Research Center director Emma Sepulveda, for her new book, “Do you Hear my Accent When I Write?: The Voice of a Latina Immigrant,” a collection of her opinion columns in the Reno Gazette Journal from the past 10 years.

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[image from UNR Nevada News Web site.]

Artown Meeting

Friday, January 25, 2008 - 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM
TMCC Redfield Theater
505 Keystone Ave.
Reno, Nevada 89502

Artown Presents the 2008 ARTOWN FORUM: "Strengthening the Arts Community"

The Artown organization is built on collaboration. We showcase local arts organizations and introduce artists from around the globe to our community. We strive to build the best festival possible while serving our mission, which is "to strengthen Reno ’s arts industry, foster its civic identity and enhance its national image, creating a climate for the cultural and economic rebirth of the region."

The primary focus of this forum is to encourage questions and suggestions. Artown organizers will respond and clarify Artown’s role and responsibilities.

o What are your concerns about Artown?
o What is Artown's responsibility to Reno 's arts community?
o How can Artown better facilitate collaborations?
o How effective are Artown's marketing efforts?
o And, of course, any other questions you may have.

Brown bag lunch provided for those who RSVP.
Please RSVP no later than 4pm, Friday January 18
(a count is needed to order lunches):

Prudence Wildman – 775-322-1538
or prudence at renoisartown.com

[Photo caption: MiniMan vrs. Mantis. 2006. Photo by Bill Kositzky. Notes: "Three rounds of combat between Mini-Man and Mantis in Reno. This event was part of Reno's Artown celebration in July.]

Depth of Field

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery
Church Fine Arts Building
University of Nevada, Reno

The Depth of Fields Closing Reception
Wed. Jan. 23rd, 5:30-7:30


Recent UNR fine art graduate Casey Diskin was invited to use the Sheppard and McNamara Galleries as experimental curatorial spaces over Wintermester. Come in from the snow and relax with great art and great company!

Artists include: Michael Sarich, Jane Kenoyer, Christopher Bauder, Jeff Erickson, Caedron Burchfield, Leah Giorlando, Fred Reid, Brian Sweeney, Lauren Randolph, Kathy Wood, Jen Klein, Christine Karkow, Ashley Westwood, John Farber and Peter Goin.

[graphic: image from Google search for 'depth of field.']

Silent Thunder at Stremmel Gallery

Stremmel Gallery
1400 S. Virginia Street
Reno, Nevada

Gallery hours: Monday through Friday | 9:00 am — 5:30 pm,
Saturday | 10 am — 3 pm.

tel: (775) 786-0558



"SILENT THUNDER"
WORKS BY DANAË ANDERSON, KENZI SHIOKAVA & TOM UTTECH AT STREMMEL GALLERY

Exhibition Dates: January 31, 2008 - February 29, 2008
Reception: Thursday, January 31, 2008, 5:30 - 7:30pm. Open to the public.

On Thursday, January 31, from 5:30 - 7:30pm, Stremmel Gallery will host an opening reception for an exhibition of new works by three artists, Danaë Anderson, Kenzi Shiokava, and Tom Uttech. The show of paintings and sculpture will continue through February 29.

Danaë Anderson's work is a visual journal, an improvisational choreography that reflects her engagement of the conscious and unconscious to "document and honor daily life, loved ones, the self, the ordinary, memory, objects, language, ritual and play." She draws upon images from her own life, narrating in an iconographic style that is playful, dreamlike, and intuitive. She received her BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1978 and her MFA from San Jose State in 1988. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant and a WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Arts.

A graduate of Chouinard Art School Los Angeles in 1972, with an MFA from Otis Art Institute Los Ang eles in 1974, Kenzi Shiokava creates sculpture from discarded wood, railroad ties, telephone poles, beams and other woods. Shiokava strives to work these materials, which have already been shaped by the elements in their original environment, without losing their natural qualities and vitality. He creates forms “not by imposing a preconceived configuration but by interacting within the structure so that the medium’s own life history becomes the determinant of the final form.” He says he strives “to keep each work as natural as the medium itself yet to exist in another realm, exuding emotion and spirituality.”

Tom Uttech has been described as merging nineteenth-century notions of the ideal landscape with aspects of surrealism and realism to create his unique vision of Wisconcin’s North Woods. The primeval qualities of that untamed area have inspired him to produce a great body of work whose elaborate iconic images range from the region’s wildlife, both real and from local native legend, to the Aurora Borealis of Wisconsin’s northern sky. Uttech’s work may be found in the collections of numerous museums across the country, winning various awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Award in 1998.

The show will continue through February 29. Stremmel Gallery is located at 1400 S. Virginia Street . Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, from 9:00am to 5:30pm, and Saturday from 10am to 3pm. For more information, contact Stremmel Gallery at 786-0558.

[image from Stremmel Gallery Web site. Caption: Tom Uttech. "Mindomandan" 73 x 79 inches]

DIY: Zine Workshop

Holland Headquarters
30 Cheney Street

January 19
1:30 - 3:30pm
"$0 - 5 donation

'Zine Making Workshop with Joe Ferguson

Learn the history of this DIY art form and then make your own.

Bring in images, essays, poems, recipes, or anything really that you want to include in your 'zine."

[graphic from google image search for 'zine']

Biggest Little City Call for Artists

For Immediate Release

1/16/2008

Sierra Arts seeks small, but wide-open, art from Nevada artists The biggest little art show in nevada VI deadline extended to January 31

Sierra Arts invites artists living within the borders of the state of Nevada to submit entries for the latest installment of a juried art show unique to the Silver State . The ‘biggest little’ art shows comprise original artworks that measure precisely 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches.

This year’s theme for the biggest little art show in nevada is “Nevada Wide Open.” Artists may submit works that follow this theme, such as images related to the state’s natural resources, the thriving arts communities, the bright lights and neon of the gaming industry, or other topics as the individual artists see fit.

All entries will go through a juried process to limit the number of pieces in the exhibition to 50. The selected pieces will compete for ten $100 awards. The juror for the biggest little art show in nevada VI: Nevada Wide Open will be MaLynda Poulsen-Jones. Poulsen-Jones was born and raised in Idaho and now lives and works in Walla Walla , Wash. She received her M.F.A. from Boise State University in 2004, and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in permanent collections worldwide.

The biggest little art show in nevada began 14 years ago and was conceived by local artist and UNR Professor Emeritus Jim McCormick. [editor notes: Jim was also an inaugural CCAI "CAP" award winner in 2007!]

A pdf of the biggest little call to artists, information and entry form is available for download at www.sierra-arts.org. More information is available at the Web site or by calling 775-329-ARTS.

Bassoon Recital

January 23, 7:30 p.m.

Bassoon Recital featuring Christin Schillinger

Nightingale Concert Hall
Church Fine Arts Building
University of Nevada Reno

Faculty bassoonist Christin Schillinger joins Chris Money, clarinet, and Rachael Ing, piano, as they perform works by Steinmetz, Dutilleux, Schumann, Mendelssohn and the “Variations on the 24th caprice” of Paganini by Marcel Farago.

Free.

[graphic from google image search for 'bassoon.']

The Pursuit of Happiness

January 3, 2008 - 7 p.m.
Nevada Museum of Art

"NMA presents a dance performance inspired by Peter Goin’s photogram The Pursuit of Happiness (Mengejar Kebehagiaan). Join us as dancers Tara Rynder, Trannon Mosher, Cari Cunningham, and other local dancers bring Goin’s art to life through a performance of movement and contact improvisation. Prepare to be intrigued as dancing bodies intertwine to translate the photographer’s theatre in The Pursuit of Happiness.

Preceding the performance, an informal sampling of improvisational movement and dance will occur during First Thursday from 5 to 7 pm."

[image from NMA press mailing. Caption: " Peter Goin, Mengejar Kebehagiaan (The Pursuit of Happiness), detail, 2007, photogram panels. Collection of the artist."]

Seventy Selected Sorg Paintings Since 1996

Chad Sorg
"Sorg Sale"
A Retrospective Exhibition: Seventy Selected Paintings Since '96

December 17 – December 21
9am to 6pm

Bank of America Building
50 W. Liberty St.
Reno
775-287-9559

Garage parking is free.

[image from press release. Caption: "Blue Vs. Cupidheads." Detail. Mixed Media Collage and Pencil on Wood, 2007]

Anthony Alston: Inertia Displaced

November 12- December 21, 2007
Grayspace
26 Cheney Street
Reno

"Focusing on disrupted patterns and sporadic actions, the exhibition itself functions as an interruption—or acceleration—of a gallery's typical cycle; every two weeks of the exhibition, different work replaces the previous pieces. While visitors can expect to see works in video, sculpture, and sound, their experience will undoubtedly be different depending upon which phase is currently on display."

[image courtesy of Grayspace]

Courtenaye | Livezey | Shiroma

STREMMEL GALLERY
1400 South Virginia Street
Reno, Nevada 89502

Tel: (775) 786-0558

Catherine Courtenaye + Dale Livezey + Randall Shiroma

October 25 -November 17, 2007
reception: Thursday, October 25
5:30 - 7:30 pm

Catherine Courtenaye's work is based on her exploration of 19th century penmanship. She states that "vestiges of elementary mark-making (alphabets, animals, equations) serve as counterpoints to my looser treatment of line, edge and space. These paintings navigate between the rigors of perfect lines from the past and my own
imperfect brushes, loaded with sensuous color."

Dale Livezey's paintings convey the colors and phenomenon of early morning or late afternoon light on the seemingly endless landscape in his native Montana.

Randall Shiroma is a sculptor who works in stone and terrazzo, creating sculpture that evokes the elements and forms of nature. His polished and patinated concrete sculptures seem to reflect the mountains, sky and water, creating their own sense of presence, revealing his search for the nature of being.

[image: Butte Over Willow Creek by Dale Livezey]

Sleepy Time Collective

Grayspace
26 Cheney Street
Reno
Sleepy Time Collective.

Using the elephant as a symbolic touchstone and source of inspiration, the five-person Sleepy Time Collective presents a new series of works, each designed to engage the audience through one of the five senses. As a collective, the members of Sleepy Time found a connection between the tight-knit herds common in elephant culture and the community they strive to build. The works in this show draw from--and subtly refer to--this connection without making literal or overt references. Memory and nostalgia, individual identity within a group, inside jokes,
division of labor, and community allegiance are recurrent themes permeating the exhibition.

The Sleepy Time Collective is comprised of Antoinette Ortega, Anthony Alston, Rob Brown, Nick Larsen and Caedron Burchfield, all recent or
soon-to-be graduates of the University of Nevada, Reno.

September 27- October 26, 2007
Reception: Thursday, September 27, 5:30-8:30 pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday: 12-3pm; Saturday: 11-2pm

[image from Grayspace press release]

DW NMA ED|CEO

David Walker Named New NMA Executive Director

"The Nevada Museum of Art (NMA) is pleased to announce the appointment of David B. Walker as Executive Director/CEO. Walker will assume the position on October 15, 2007. In his new role at the NMA, Walker will be responsible for overseeing the advancement of the NMA’s collections, exhibitions and educational programs. He will work with the Board of Trustees and staff to achieve the museum’s mission and to generate significant financial support for the NMA’s short and long-term strategic and development goals, as well as promote a culture of excellence and teamwork in all NMA activities."

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[photo from NMA Web site.]

Erik Lauritzen

Erik M. Lauritzen 1953 - 2007

Truckee Meadows Community College Professor Emeritus Erik M. Lauritzen passed away Aug. 9, 2007.

Erik established the photography department and taught photography and fine art at TMCC from 1991 to 2004. He also managed the galleries at the college from 1991 to 1998.

Erik was a workshop assistant for Ansel Adams, Al Weber, Morley Baer, Oliver Gagliani and Pirkle Jones. He also printed "Portfolio One" for Ruth Bernard.

He exhibited in numerous regional, national and international exhibitions, received many grants and honors, and taught workshops nationwide.

Erik's photographs and writings are archived at UC Santa Cruz.

A ceremony is being planned to commemorate his life and work during the opening reception of an exhibition of his photographs in spring 2008 at the Nevada Museum of Art.

biographical notes

[photograph from UCSC Web site]

This is What I See (near, yet far away)

Sierra Arts
Northwest Reno Library Gallery
Carol Brown: This is What I See (near, yet far away)

"... a collection of prints from sketches made aboard an airplane during a flight over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The exhibition also features a collection of collagraphs, monotypes and Japanese woodblock prints celebrating the orchid, inspired by a show at the New York City Botanical Gardens. "Creating delicate orchid prints from images carved in wood is a challenge," says Brown. "Japanese woodblock printing, for me, is to capture the 'essence' of an image."

Carol Brown is a member of Printmakers' Conspiracy of Northern Nevada, a group of local printmakers seeking to expand the audience for fine art printmaking by increasing public awareness of the historical traditions and contemporary techniques of the art. The prints being exhibited result from funding provided by a pair of Jackpot art grants from the Nevada Arts Council."

[image from Sierra Arts Web site]