Capital City Arts Initiative

The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] is delighted to announce receipt of its first grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts [NEA]. CCAI was awarded the NEA Challenge American Fast Track grant for $10,000. to support Elapsed in Time, an exhibition of prints by artist Jenny Robinson. The exhibition, curated by artist Galen Brown, will take place at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery in the Carson City Courthouse and will open in early February 2012. The project includes an exhibition essay by Catherine Sullivan, curator at the Janet Turner Print Museum, and artists talks to engage the audience.

In this grant cycle, of the 375 eligible applications, the NEA awarded 162 grants for a total of  $1,620,000. Forty seven of the grants awarded, or about 30 percent, went to first-time NEA grantees, including CCAI.