Capital City Arts Initiative

Exhibition Dates: October 28, 2019 – February 28, 2020
Artists’ Reception: Friday, February 28, 5 – 6:30pm
Exhibition Venue: Community Center’s Sierra Room
851 E William Street, Carson City, Nevada

Faces and Places: Wedge Outside the Box
Exhibition in the Sierra Room

The Capital City Arts Initiative (CCAI) presents an exhibition, Faces and Places, by nine northern Nevada artists in the Community Center’s Sierra Room, 851 E William Street, Carson City. The exhibition runs from October 28, 2019 — February 28, 2020. CCAI will host a closing reception for the artists on Friday, February 28, 5 – 6:30pm in the Sierra Room; the artists will give brief talks about their work at 5:30pm.

Faces and Places is a group collaboration by nine local painters and sculptors who are members of the quirky group, Wedge-Outside-the-Box, associated with Reno’s Wedge Ceramic Studio. The artist group includes Joan Arrizabalaga, Teri Barnes, Marti Bein, Zoe Bray, Jon Carpenter, Ahren Hertel, Katrina Lasko, Edw Martinez, and Sidne Teske. Their individual travels throughout the Silver State have given each a unique perspective of its people and its landscape. Faces and Places presents samples of Nevada’s influence on these artists.

The art works, in a variety of media, range from serious to whimsical. The artists, from emerging in their career to well-established, include a grad student, those who work full-time in their studios, those who portion their studio time around day jobs, and a university professor emeritus. Leaving us with one question: how does Joanie Arrizabalaga sew like that?!

The Sierra Room is open to the public during Carson City official meetings including the first/third Thursdays, 8am – 5pm, and many afternoons, Monday – Thursday, 5pm – 8pm. For Sierra Room access, call 775.283.7421 or check meeting schedules online at www.carson.org/government/meetings-and-events

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 by 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, NV Energy Foundation, Southwest Gas Corporation Foundation, U.S. Bank Foundation, MarBil Group, and its members.

left image: Zoe Bray, Self-portrait with Baby in Jerusalem, oil on canvas, 47″x31″, 2016; Jon Carpenter,  Riverbed; metal, found objects, driftwood, ceramic; 72″x20″; 2019
right image: Marti Bein; Red Truck; acrylic on canvas; 24″x29″, 2014
bottom image: Faces and Places exhibition flier