2012

Carson City Library [map]
900 N. Roop Street
Carson City
ph. 775-887-2244

""Join us as we view Roland Emmerich's disaster film 2012 on Monday, September 20th, at 6:00 p.m. Then join the discussion a week later as Mike Thomas debunks the legend on Monday, September 27th, at 6:00 p.m."

[Text and graphic from Library Facebook page.]

"True North: Canadian Artists and the Environment”

Save the date!
Wednesday, September 29 | 7 pm

Carson City Library [map]
900 N. Roop Street
Carson City
ph. 775-887-2244

CCAI Nevada Neighbors Lecture Series:
"True North: Canadian Artists and the Environment

Nevada Neighbors, the Capital City Arts Initiative's ongoing series of illustrated public talks, returns this fall with Lorraine Gilbert

In her talk, Ms. Gilbert will highlight the work of contemporary Canadian artists focusing on environmental concerns. As a veteran of many summers working as a tree planter, she has a first hand connection to her native Canada, and to the complexity of the interplay of humans and nature

“True North” is presented in conjunction with “Once (Upon) a Forest,” Lorraine's exhibition at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery.

MORE | press release

[Graphic courtesy of Lorraine Gilbert. Caption: "'La Macaza, Laurentians, Quebec,' from 'Once (Upon) a Forrest' featured CCAI Courthouse exhibition by Canadian Nevada Neighors artist Lorraine Gilbert. Laminated photograph: ink on paper (48" X 160”) detail."]

UNLV Artist Lecture Series

Fall 2010 UNLV Artist Lecture Series

7 pm | UNLV campus | BPB Physics Building Room 102

September 21
SUZANNE HUDSON

"Suzanne P. Hudson is Assistant Professor of Art History and a specialist in Modern and Contemporary Art, teaching currently at the Center for the Study of Modern Art at the Phillips Collection (illinoisatthephillips.org). She is co-founder of the Contemporary Art Think Tank  and co-founder and President of the Society of Contemporary Art Historians, an affiliate society of the College Art Association. In addition to her work as an art historian, she is an active critic whose work has appeared in such publications as Parkett, Flash Art, and Art Journal; she is a regular contributor to Artforum. She published 'Robert Ryman: Used Paint' in early 2009 (MIT Press) and is currently at work on a second book length manuscript, 'Our Uncommon Faith: Abstraction and Spirituality in 1960s America', a study of artists who engaged ideas of mysticism and Gnosticism (often secular) by means of abstraction."

Further information: Pasha Rafat
pasha dot rafat at unlv dot edu
(702) 895-3110

[Text from City of Las Vegas website. Graphic from UNLV Art Department website. Click on image to enlarge.]

Scatter and Heap

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery
Church Fine Arts Building
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia Street
Reno

Scatter and Heap: Lauren DiCioccio and Paho Mann






These two artists incorporate mass produced objects into their artwork. Ms. Diciocco's hand embroidery and Mr. Mann's photographic categorization prompt viewers to ponder waste and cultural identity in an era concerned with both the environment and the individual.

Through September 24

[Graphic from Gallery. Left image by Lauren Dicioccio; right image by Paho Mann. Click on image to enlarge.]

Welcome Diane!

The CCAI Blog! is delighted to announce the addition of Diane Henderson as a staff writer.

Diane is an English major at the University of Nevada, Reno and part of the department's fall 2010 internship program. In addition to her contributions to the blog, Diane will be helping in the development of CCAI's public information and social media efforts.

Welcome Diane!

[Graphic, "'Natural Inspiration.' Lake Tahoe" photograph by Diane, who notes: "It is one of my favorites, as it displays a bit of northern Nevada's beauty and resiliency." Click on image to enlarge.]

Straight Shooter

Silverland Gallery
St. Mary's Art Center
55 N. R Street
Virginia City

Evan Dent
Straight Shooter



Mr. Dent's exhibition transforms the attic space of the Silverland Gallery into a montage of cartoon history.

In his Reno News & Review article, local arts writer Brad Bynum explains: "Artist Evan Dent picked stills from old, public domain 1910s and ’20s cartoons and projected them onto the walls of the gallery. Using charcoal, he filled in the drawings directly onto the walls of the gallery, adding or subtracting images as he saw fit, and obsessively worked and reworked the surfaces."

Through September 17

Lego Club

Carson City Library
900 N Roop
Carson City, NV 89701
775.887-2244

Saturday, September 18 - 10 a.m. – 12 noon
Lego Club

Sign-Up at the Youth Desk.

[Graphic to inspire the club: video by Rymdreglage celebrating the creative possibilities of Legos _and_ the wonders of 8-bit video games of days gone by. Thanks to CDN in Napa, CA for the tip on FB!]

2010 Kennedy Center Honorees Announced

"Receiving this year's Kennedy Center Honors are television host Oprah Winfrey, musicians Paul McCartney and Merle Haggard, dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones and lyricist Jerry Herman. The honorees will be saluted during a Dec. 5 all-star gala and sold-out performance at the Kennedy Center (which will be broadcast Dec. 28 on CBS)."

more

[Graphic and text from the Washington Post. Caption: "Bill T. Jones performs his work "As I Was Saying...". Jones, 58, won a Tony this year for his choreography in the musical "Fela!" based on the life of Nigerian composer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. "It's almost like being told you have 11 Tony nominations," he said of his selection. "I don't take good news well. I have a psychic freeze."]

Binh Danh: Ancestral Altars

Nevada Museum of Art
160 West Liberty Street
Reno

Binh Danh
Ancestral Altars

"Vietnamese-American artist Binh Danh uses an innovative photographic process that employs organic matter and sunlight to make haunting images that memorialize victims of the Khmer Rouge."


Through November 28.

[Text and graphic from museum website. Caption: "Ancestral Altar #21, 2006." Click on image to enlarge.]

Natural Conflict

Nevada Museum of Art
160 West Liberty Street
Reno

Natural Conflict
Video and Photography from Israel

"Natural Conflict showcases work by seven established Israeli artists who explore issues that have been ongoing in Israeli society for years. Through the media of video and photography, the artists Shelly Federman, Avi Holtzman, Elyasaf Kowner, Ori Gersht, Roi Kuper, Shai Kremer, and Sharon Glazberg reveal the way that Israeli military presence, booming real estate development, and other environmental issues have both physically and metaphorically impacted the Israeli landscape.

While environmental conflicts such as these are universal and enduring, in Israel the relative impact is greater due to its diminutive size and limited open space. Although environmental awareness exists, clear policies for protecting natural resources have evolved slowly and are sometimes challenged by powerful private interests and the needs of the military. This exhibition endeavors to survey the varied visual and environmental realities in Israel through the eyes of the seven artists. Comprised of loaded symbols of the Israeli landscape and culture, common sights, and hidden or unfamiliar places, the works grapple with the real, potential, and endangered beauty of the Israeli landscape with a blend of criticism and subtle sorrow."

Through December 5

[Text and graphic from museum website. Click on image to enlarge.]