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The Capital City Arts Initiative is an artist-centered nonprofit organization committed to community engagement in contemporary visual arts through exhibitions, essays, arts education programs, artist residencies, and online activities.

This archive brings together CCAI’s exhibitions, artists, essays, events and news. Browse the historical pages by year, topic or title.

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From 2003 – 2025, CCAI presented art exhibitions in four Carson City Galleries, commissioned exhibition essays, hosted an online speaker series, shared the exhibit videos on YouTube, and worked with our high school and college partners to present their students’ art to the public.
We believe the arts build community. Videos listed here: https://www.youtube.com/@capitalcityartsinitiative2747/videos

Online Exhibition Interviews & Talks

Gene Hattori: Nevada State Museum Collections

Dr. Gene Hattori provides an intimate look at the Nevada State Museum’s collections including Dat So La Lee’s famous baskets in this CCAI Nevada Neighbors talk. Dr. Hattori gives with a behind the scenes tour of a portion of the Museum’s collections. Viewers are invited to watch the presentation online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=GboafnwINKM

Artist Interview: Reid with Arrizabalaga

CCAI's Nevada Neighbors series of public talks includes interviews with artists in their studios or in a gallery setting. Stephen Reid talks with artist Joan Arrizabalaga about her work in the Bristlecone Gallery exhibition, "Big Deal". The show continues at WNC's Bristlecone Gallery through September 12, M-F, 8am - 7pm.

Bob & Friends: Remembrances

CCAI's Nevada Neighbors series of public talks includes interviews with artists in their studios or in a gallery setting. For this talk, the Initiative presents remembrances by fourteen former students, friends, colleagues, and family members about the late Robert Morrison’s long career as a teacher and as an artist. The video includes a tour of the exhibition, "A Glimpse Back".

Artist Interview: Reid with Parks & Cotter

CCAI's Nevada Neighbors series of public talks includes interviews with artists in their studios or in a gallery setting. For this talk, Stephen Reid interviewed artists, Sue Cotter and Elaine Parks, about their work in CCAI’s exhibition, "Fables & Myths". The show is in Western Nevada College’s Bristlecone Gallery, Carson City, from May 14 – September 10, 2025. Viewers are invited to watch the video presentation online at https://youtu.be/ekKbvMwJafI

Mary Lee Fulkerson: Great Basin Women Artists

CCAI's Nevada Neighbors series of public talks includes interviews with artists in their studios or in a gallery setting. In her "Women Artists of the Great Basin" talk, Fulkerson discusses how artists find connections despite living in a dramatically vast 200,000 square mile area, and how artists achieve success and fulfillment despite great odds as well as statistics that tell a different story.