Mary Lee Fulkerson: Great Basin Women Artists
online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuRdRRj0H-E
Women Artists of the Great Basin
Nevada Neighbors Talk
Due to public health concerns, this in-person Nevada Neighbors event previously scheduled for March 2020 was 
canceled but it is now available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuRdRRj0H-E
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. During her interview with each artist, she asked, “What transformational experience(s) led you to where you are today, and what experiences have made you strong?” Fulkerson emphasizes that the artists’ stories are the essence of the book. She states that these women are pioneers; they kept their dreams alive.
Contemporary artist, Fulkerson represented Nevada in the book Craft in America: Celebrating the Work of the Hand. Her sculptures are in private and corporate collections, including The White House in Washington, D.C., and are featured in numerous books and publications. She authored Women Artists of the Great Basin [2017] and Weavers of Tradition and Beauty: Basketmakers of the Great Basin [1995], both published by the University of Nevada Press. https://www.unpress.nevada.edu/books/?isbn=9781943859375 She also wrote A Basket of Blessings and was a contributing author to Weaving Naturally in the Great Basin, both which were published by Great Basin Basketmakers. In 2018, Women Artists received the Willa Award for Creative Non-Fiction from Women Writing the West. She earned a BA degree as an Art major with a Journalism minor from University of Nevada, Reno.
The interview presentation link has been shared with all CCAI’s partner schools’ students and faculty.
The Capital City Arts Initiative is an artist-centered not-for-profit organization committed to community engagement in contemporary visual arts through exhibitions, arts education programs, artist residencies, and online activities.
The Capital City Arts Initiative (CCAI) is funded the National Endowment for the Arts, John and Grace Nauman Foundation, Carson City Cultural Commission, Nevada Arts Council, Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Bank Foundation, NV Energy Corporation, Southwest Gas Corporation Foundation, RISE, MarBil Group, and its sponsors and members.
top right image: Women Artists of the Great Basin book cover, University of Nevada Press, 2017
center left image: Mary Lee Fulkerson
bottom image: Nevada Neighbors flier for spring 2020