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]