Classical Guitarist Arina Burceva

Brewery Arts Center
449 West King Street
Carson City

Friday, July 15, 8pm

The Brewery Arts Center [BAC] launches its Classical Performance Series with a performance by Arina Burceva. The Ukrainian born musician is a popular performer at musical events around the world. Ms. Burceva is actively involved in composing her own repertoire for the guitar. Inspired by nature, art, literature, poetry and mythology, her musical style reflects elements of Jazz, Classical, Baroque, and Impressionism. BAC's beautifully restored ballroom is the perfect setting for her music.

Ms. Burceva began playing guitar at 8 years old. By the time she was a young teen she was already an accomplished musician and went on to study music as well as English and Art History in college.

Call 775.883.1976 for information.
Tickets: $15. General Admission, $13. Students and Seniors, $10. BAC Members.

Before the concert, stop in at BAC's Artisan Store from 5 - 9pm for the opening reception for the group exhibition, Here Comes the Sun. The artists' work celebrates the arrival of summer and features the work of its resident artists, Brewery instructors, and advanced students. The show is in the Artisan Store through August 15. BAC's Artisans Store features work by artists from northern Nevada and the Eastern Slope.
Rise and Shine painting on silk by Louise Noel.

[images and text from BAC website]

Joseph DeLappe: Screen Shot

[CCAI Nevada Neighbors Alumni Joseph DeLappe opens Beijing exhibition]

Where Where Exhibition Space
Opening: Saturday, July 9, 4:00 pm
Exhibition: July 9 - 31, 2011
Curated by: Gordon Laurin

No. 319-1, East End Art Zone A, Caochangdi Village
Chaoyang District, Beijing
(in the Platform China courtyard)

Screen Shot represents Joseph DeLappe’s ongoing work to engage “First Person Shooter” (FPS) computer games as arenas for creative, political, and hacktivistic performative interventions. The artist’s fallen avatar, as recorded during his interventionist project “dead-in-iraq”, taking place within the U.S. Defense Department funded America’s Army recruiting game, is realized here as finely rendered graphite drawings. The hands of a Taliban fighter, as depicted in the controversial Medal of Honor shooter game, lay on the gallery floor - made real via a complex process of 3D data extraction and physical construction. Through these works the 24/7 global phenomena of virtually simulated contemporary warfare as “play” has been reified as images and objects of conscience.

Joseph DeLappe is a Professor of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada where he directs the Digital Media program. He is considered a pioneer of online gaming performance art. Working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and abroad - including exhibitions and performances in Australia, the United Kingdom, China, Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada. He also directs the iraqimemorial.org project, an ongoing web based exhibition and open call for proposed memorials to the many thousand of civilian casualties from the war in Iraq. He has lectured throughout the world regarding his work, including most recently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. His works have been featured in the New York Times, The Australian Morning Herald, Artweek, Art in American and in the 2010 book from Routledge entitled Joystick Soldiers The Politics of Play in Military Video Game.

http://www.delappe.net

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

Darren Johnson at Nevada Arts Council's OXS Gallery

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

The Nevada Arts Council presents The Skeletons in Our Closets Are Planning a Parade in Honor of the 2010 Census, a series of mixed media artwork by Darren Johnson through August 5 as part of the Office eXhibition Series (OXS). The gallery is open from M - F, 8 – 5 pm.

Johnson employs traditional realist techniques in unorthodox presentations to examine human interaction. While working for the US Census, Johnson witnessed a similarity between the Census process and community parades - both are communal activities involving public participation and the art of communication. Issues of trust, privacy and secrecy can develop when a person is communicating within and for the sake of a diverse civil society. The artworks in The Skeletons in Our Closets Are Planning a Parade in Honor of the 2010 Census reflect the challenges and complexities associated with these interpersonal efforts while celebrating the joy of communal activities.

Johnson received an Artist Fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council in 2010. A graduate of Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he earned his MFA from Bowling Green State University, Ohio in 2008. Now living in Las Vegas, Johnson exhibits his artwork nationally.

Call 775.687.6680 for more information.

[image and text from NAC's press release]

Altmann, Lowden, Patrick, Gartrell at Bartley Ranch

[image from the artists]

Ginny Ruffner: a not so still life

Nevada Museum of Art
160 West Liberty Street
Reno

Saturday July 9 / 2 – 4 pm

In anticipation of her trip to northern Nevada, Ginny Ruffner said "I'm really looking forward to being in Reno and especially to meeting the local creative community. That landscape is particularly inspiring." Following the film, Ms. Ruffner will visit with the audience and answer questions.

The documentary film, a not so still life, peers into the kaleidoscopic mind of Ginny Ruffner, an artist as beloved for her magnanimous spirit as for her evolving "visual thought experiments." Director Karen Stanton explores the full span of Ginny's fascinating journey, from her childhood in South Carolina to her emergence as a world-­renowned artist. Meet the luminaries in her orbit, including Dale Chihuly, Graham Nash, and Tom Robbins. Witness Ginny's determination to recover from the accident that nearly claimed her life, but barely even slowed her constant re-­invention of the world around her.

Tickets for the film may be purchased at the Museum's website: $10/$8 members. For additional information, contact Colin Robertson at NMA: colin.robertson@nevadaart.org

[image from a Goggle search for the artist; text from the Museum and the film's producers]

July FWAC on Holiday

First Wednesday Arts Coffee
July 6 gathering postponed to August 3

To extend the 4th of July celebration by a couple of days, CCAI's monthly artist gathering, FWAC [First Wednesday Arts Coffee], is on holiday and will not meet Wednesday, July 6.

FWAC [First Wednesday Arts Coffee] will return on Wednesday, August 3, 4:30 - 6pm. Location to be announced on this blog. Please stay tuned.

[image from Wikimedia Commons by Pharaoh Hound]

Happy 4th of July!

Dear CCAI friends, members, supporters, artists, and colleagues,

The CCAI board and staff sends their most sincere thank yous to each of you for your enthusiasm, support, and participation that made CCAI's eighth season a great success. We also send our best wishes for a happy 4th of July. Thank you all for helping make CCAI programs possible.


[image from a Goggle search for Liberty]

Justin Favel: COUNTYCENTER

Rotunda Gallery
Clark County Government Center
500 S. Grand Center Parkway
Las Vegas

An alumni of CCAI's recent spring exhibition, The Radiant City, Justin Favela incorporates humor and art history into this site-specific sculpture installation in the Rotunda Gallery. Borrowing from works in the public art collection at CityCenter, the artist re-imagines these objects for the employees and visitors of the Clark County Government Center. CityCenter’s permanent collection of 20th and 21st century art features works by internationally acclaimed artists. Justin Favela’s COUNTYCENTER features mixed media cardboard works that cover Maya Lin’s Silver River, Frank Stella’s Damascus Gate I, Jenny Holzer’s Las Vegas, and more; all have been appropriated and modified for the Government Center site.

The Las Vegas Weekly's review of COUNTYCENTER is online at:
http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/jun/01/riffing-citycenter/

COUNTYCENTER will be in the in the Rotunda Gallery through July 22. For more information contact Wendy Kveck at 869-9002 or wendyccnv@gmail.com or Patrick Gaffey at the Winchester Center 455-7340. The gallery is free and open to the public. The Government Center Hours are M-F 8am - 5pm.

[image by Wendy Kveck, text from the Clark County Parks and Recreation press release]

Capital City Arts Initiative at Douglas High School

CCAI at Douglas High School
1670 Hwy 88
Minden

This spring, Douglas High School photography students participated in a six-week CCAI artist residency with Howard Goldbaum, artist and Associate Professor at UNR’s Reynolds School of Journalism.

As an artist/historian/journalist, Mr. Goldbaum specializes in creating virtual reality websites focused on areas of historical interest in both Nevada and abroad. The websites integrate panoramic photography with historical documentation, and allow the viewer to interact with the location through 360° views, detailed close-ups, background information, and on-site interviews.

Students photographed and researched the antique store and bar on main street along with other historic Genoa sites including the Genoa cemetery. Ron Bommarito, owner of the antique store and long-time Genoa resident, welcomed the students to look at his impressive antique collection, and provided interesting insights during an the interview. The students’ photographs and interviews are online at:
http://allaroundreno.com/?cat=14

CCAI support for the residency project came, in part, from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Carson City Office of Business Development; Community Foundation of Western Nevada; Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts; U.S. Bancorp Foundation; and Douglas High School.

[image and text from DHS faculty and CCAI staff]

Save the Date: Saturday, July 9 to meet Ginny Ruffner

Nevada Museum of Art
160 West Liberty Street
Reno

Save the Date to meet the artist and to see the documentary film, a not so still life, about artist Ginny Ruffner, Saturday July 9 / 2 – 4 pm

Presented by the artist herself, this film explores the mind of Ginny Ruffner who is hailed for her magnanimous spirit and determination to recover from a near-fatal accident. Ruffner will answer questions following the film’s screening.

Ginny Ruffner, can't be summed up in one word, but the most commonly used term is "inspiring." A world-renown artist at the age of 39, she was involved in a near-fatal car accident, which left her in a coma for five weeks and confined to a hospital for five months. Doctors were convinced that she would never walk or talk again, but true to her indomitable spirit, Ginny Ruffner transformed a potentially tragic accident into a career of even more imaginative creations. From pop-up books, to room-sized installation pieces, to public works, Ruffner's art has blossomed and continues to expand.

Tickets may be purchased at the Museum's website: $10/$8 members
For additional information, contact Colin Robertson at NMA: colin.robertson@nevadaart.org

[image and text from the Museum's website and from the film's producers]