Capital City Arts Initiative

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Reception, 6:15pm
Talk, 7pm
at the Carson City Library
900 N Roop Street
Carson City, Nevada

Handspun Revolution: Blurring the Line Between Art and Craft
CCAI Nevada Neighbors Talk by Lexi Boeger

Nevada Neighbors, the Capital City Arts Initiative’s ongoing series of illustrated public talks, will present artist Lexi Boeger. Her talk, Handspun Revolution: Blurring the Line Between Art and Craft, will take place on Wednesday, February 29 at 7pm at the Carson City Library, 900 N Roop Street, Carson City. There will be an informal reception for Ms. Boeger at 6:15 p.m. preceding her talk. The presentation and reception are free, and the public is cordially invited.

Lexi Boeger learned how to crochet in 2000 but she found that she was much more interested in the yarn itself than the object that she was crocheting. In fact, she noticed that as soon as she began to stitch the yarn, something in it was lost. She bought traditional handspun yarn from the local shop and discovered there was something about it that was just more alive than in commercial yarns. She immediately began learning to spin and to produce hand-spun yarns for her own art production.

Ms. Boeger has written several books about spinning including Handspun Revolution and Intertwined. Ms. Boeger studied at American River College and earned her degree in Fine Art at UC Davis. She gives workshops and lectures in New York, Tokyo, New Zealand, Vancouver, LA, Bristol, and many other cities here and abroad. She has shown her work in the western United States and in Norway and is an originator of the hand-spinning genre often referred to as Art Yarn. She lives with her family in Placerville, California.

Alexander Biscuits, left, and Lexi Boeger, right, spin yarn in the workshop at Boeger Winery in Placerville.
photo credit: Mountain Democrat newspaper by Pat Dollins

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 its online projects.

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, Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, City of Carson City, and John and Grace Nauman Foundation.