Capital City Arts Initiative

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Reception, 6:15pm
Talk, 7pm
at the BRIC
108 E Proctor Street, Carson City

Land Art & Land Use in Contemporary Art:
Nevada & Beyond
CCAI Nevada Neighbors Talk by Dr. Paul Paret

The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] is pleased to present a public event with visiting curator Dr. Paul Paret. His illustrated talk, “Land Art & Land Use in Contemporary Art: Nevada and Beyond” is the next event in CCAI’s Nevada Neighbors series. The talk will take place on Wednesday, November 13 at 7pm at the BRIC, 108 E Proctor St, Carson City. CCAI will have an informal reception for Dr. Paret preceding the event at 6:15pm. The presentation and reception are free, and the public is cordially invited.

Environmental justice, economic opportunity, urbanization, water resources. These are among the issues addressed by contemporary artists who in recent years have been jumping over disciplinary boundaries with novel approaches to questions about landscape and land use in the American west. Growing out of the Earthworks movement of the late 1960s and 70s, a new generation of artists are creating installations, videos, and performances that address pressing issues of land use, development, and sustainability across the American west. Dr. Paret will survey the history of land art and discuss some recent projects that consider the land and landscapes of Nevada in a global context.

As part of his CCAI visit, Dr. Paret will give his talk to art students and faculty at Douglas High School in Minden and at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village.

Monty Paret is Associate Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah, where he writes and teaches on modern and contemporary art and visual culture. His research concerns the Bauhaus, the relationship of sculpture to the visual and material culture of modernity, and issues of land use in contemporary art.

The Capital City Arts Initiative is an artist-centered organization committed to the encouragement and support of artists and the arts and culture of Carson City and the surrounding region. The Initiative is committed to community building for the area’s diverse adult and youth populations through art projects and exhibitions, live events, arts education programs, artist residencies, and online projects.

The Carson City Library co-sponsors the Nevada Neighbors series with CCAI. The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, Nevada Arts Council, City of Carson City, Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Bank Foundation, and the John and Grace Naumann Foundation.