Let Freedom Ring!

[Wishing all a brilliant Martin Luther King holiday, below, a recording of Dr. King's most famous speech. From the Wikipedia entry for Martin Luther King: ""I Have A Dream" is the popular name given to the public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., when he spoke of his desire for a future where blacks and whites among others would coexist harmoniously as equals. King's delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement."]

CCAI CAP Awards in the News!

READ all about it! And we hope to see you at the Cracker Box this Friday for the awards luncheon!

[With thanks to the Reno Gazette Journal and Deana Hoover for their coverage of the arts!]

TRG Invitational

Truckee River Gallery
"TRG Invitational"
Through February 1

Artist Reception January 17, 4-7 pm

[Image from exhibition. "Highway and Bridge Stand Unfinished." Rossitza Todorova ink on watercolor paper, 2007"]

CCAI 2009 CAP Awards Announced!

[text below from the press release]
CCAI Announces Second Biennial “CAP” Awards Recipients Pat Calhoun Ariaz and Steele & Associates

The Capital City Arts Initiative is delighted to announce its second CAP Awards recipients, Steele & Associates, and Pat Calhoun Ariaz. The awards, given out every two years, were established in 2007 to acknowledge long-term supporters of CCAI and the arts in northern Nevada.

The 2009 awardees will be presented with a limited edition cap, embroidered with the initials “CAP,” at a luncheon hosted at Carson City's classic American diner, The Cracker Box, on Friday January 23rd.

The luncheon will begin at 1:30pm. Consistent with CCAI's inclusive approach to the arts, tickets are available on a sliding scale from seventeen dollars and fifty cents to seventeen hundred and fifty dollars. Proceeds from the event will support CCAI’s Artists In Education programs. The Cracker Box is located at 402 E. William Street, Carson City.

CAP honoree Pat Calhoun Ariaz is recognized for her long standing philanthropic work with the James W. Calhoun Foundation. The foundation started in February 1953. Prior to its closing in 2007, the foundation provided significant support to various arts and culture organizations agencies including CCAI, the Brewery Arts Center, and the Nevada State Museum.

"Pat's vision and leadership have been key to the foundation's mission," comments CCAI Executive Director Sharon Rosse. "Northern Nevada's non-profits are very fortunate to have her support."

Pat, a Carson High School graduate, is the daughter of Thelma Calhoun, a pioneering area arts activist, and James W. Calhoun, in whose honor the foundation was named.

Steele & Associates is Certified Public Accounting firm in Carson City. It offers a wide range of services to individual and business clients. The firm is committed to the area, and has generously provided pro bono accounting services to CCAI since 2005.

Founding partner Benjamin Steele has practiced in Carson City since receiving his CPA certificate in 1979. His son Jon, a native Carsonian, is a managing partner of the firm.

read the full press release

[Photographs - Pat Calhoun Ariaz with daughter and grand-daughter; Ben and Jon Steele]

Impressions of the Earth

Western Nevada College
Bristlecone Building
Main Gallery
Carson, City

January 20 - February 20
Gil Martin
Impressions of the Earth

reception Wednesday, February 4, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Gallery hours: M-F 8 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Sat-Sun 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

"To say that the artist has an organic approach may be an understatement. In his words: “The colors I use come directly from the earth. I gather the pigments myself, generally from road-cuts, on my travels throughout the United States. To make paint, I mix the natural pigments with a starch paste made from wheat or corn flour.”

Martin will exhibit paintings, sculptures and photographs, including a 7’x 25’ untitled mural. In creating his work, he sometimes labors outside on the ground, using an aqueous paint. “I eschew complete control over the medium, letting the paint pool and run across the uneven surfaces of the ground," he said.

“My work is intended to be non-objective. The shapes, surfaces, and linear elements are meant to communicate balance, tension, and resolve, through the visual language of painting. I attempt to put colors in arrangements that accentuate the beauty of the material. Natural processes - the flow of a river, the decomposition of a leaf, the shape and movement of a tumbleweed rolling across the road – inspire me to paint.”"

[text and photograph from WNC press release. Photo Caption: "Artist Gil Martin paints on an untitled mural for his show at the WNC College Gallery. At right is his "studio assistant," Ebenezer."]

Sport and Selfhood

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery
University of Nevada, Reno
Church Fine Arts Building, Main Floor
Art Dept. MS 224
Reno, NV 89557

775-784-6658 phone

January 20 - February 13
I Like Winners: Sport and Selfhood
Curated by Marjorie Vecchio
Catalogue available, essay by Jesse Aron Green
Designed by Ellen Drewes

""I Like Winners: Sport and Selfhood" will survey how sports are used as subject matter, thematic material and form in contemporary art. The contention is that ideals around what it means to be a winner in all forms of physical competition expose the psychology of an individual as part of a larger cultural organization, whether as participant, spectator, or even hater of sports. While most exhibitions about sports center around masculinity, this exhibition will provide a much-needed broader look at how and where sports are utilized in the arts. Each of the twenty-four artists includes one to six pieces of artwork in the exhibition. The artists live all over the United States, including Reno, and are of very different careers levels and media, including video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. Some artists will make new work for the exhibition, and others have backgrounds as professional athletes."

Artists include: Adam Taye, Arthur Gibbons, Ben Coonley, Caitlin Parker, Carlin Wing, Charles Fairbanks, Chris Carnel, David King, James Jaxxa, Jeffrey James Mohr, Jennifer Locke, Jim Finn, Jonathan VanDyke, Judy Linn, Lisa Young, Lucas Michael, Mara Bodis-Wollner, Marie Watt, Matthew Slaats, Project Moonshine, Rob Carter, Tad Beck, William Lamson, and Young Jang

Exhibition: Jan. 20 - Feb. 13, 2009
Events: Jan. 22, 2009
5:30 - 6:30 lecture and panel
6:30 - 8:30pm reception
Both events in gallery
Reception night performance by Matthew Slaats includes 11 runners from Reno

[text from Sheppard Gallery press release. Image from google search for 'sport winners']

Flash! 2009 vol. 7 no. 1

Now online! The first 2009 edition of the CCAI News Flash!

Click here to read the latest on CCAI programs + [northern] Nevada arts and culture!

2009 FWAC!

FWAC!, CCAI's monthly First Wednesday Arts Coffee
Wednesday, January 7
4:30 to 6 p.m.
[and the first Wednesday of every month!]

... at the Bliss Mansion located at the corner of Robinson and Elizabeth Streets in Carson City's Historic District across the street from the Governor's Mansion.

We hope you can join fellow artists, and arts & culture enthusiasts for our informal monthly arts gathering.

Our thanks as always to Cyndy and Steve Brenneman for their hospitality!

[image from a google image search for 'coffee chemistry']

Beebe & Clegg on the Comstock

Comstock History Center
20 North “E” Street
Virginia City

Beebe & Clegg on the Comstock

In cooperation with the Center of Railroad Photography and Art of Madison, WI, presents photographs and ephemera by two of the best known names in the field of railroad photography and history: Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg.

The Center is open to the public Thursday through Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free.

through April 2009

[photograph from the Owens Valley History Web site. Caption: "Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg aboard the Virginia & Truckee car "The Virginia City" being served by steward Clarence Watkins."]

Blues at Buckaroos

Tuesday, January 6
7-10 pm
[and the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month]

Blues Open Mic Night
at Buckaroos
1435 Hwy 395
Gardnerville.
ph. 775 782-9693

[image from google search for 'Open Mic' on AlgoRhythms Blog.