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arts in the capital!
About
The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI]: Our
programs include contemporary visual arts exhibitions, arts education
projects, public programs and artists’ residencies.
Inaugural Exhibition Program Extended!
CCAI's inaugural
exhibition "The Carson City-Carson
Valley Portrait Project" by photographer Allen
Spore has been extended through midday Wednesday, June
2. The
exhibition, hosted at the Carson
City Court House opened in February. The courthouse
is located in Admission to the exhibition
is free and the public is cordially invited.
Work in the exhibition was created during the photographer's fall 2003 CCAI residency and features large scale portraits of local area residents.
The Carson City-Carson Valley Portrait Project: Exploring Community an essay by arts writer Marcia Tanner is now featured on the web site. Click here to read it.
Satellite
exhibits of Mr. Spore's work are on view at Carson
City Hall and at
the J
T Basque Bar & Dining Room in Gardnerville,
located in
Exhibitions of work created by student participants in Mr. Spore's
CCAI residency were also be on display at Nevada
Hispanic Services and Carson High School's
Main Street Gallery in the Stewart
Title Building.
More
Caffeine!
In collaboration with Comma
Coffee
CCAI continues its series of monthly exhibitions highlighting
the creative work of local artists in the billiards room of the cafe.
The fifth exhibition, scheduled for June is "Day
Williams."
The exhibition runs through the month and is ccordinated by CCAI Associate
Program Director Melanie
Berner.
Comma
Coffee is located across
from the Legislature.
Comma Coffee is also the site of our monthly "FWAC"
[First Wednesdays Artists
Coffee], an informal, no-host gathering of the local
arts community the first Wednesday of every month from 4:30 to 6:00
p.m. One
and all are welcome to drop by!
Looking
back|Looking ahead!: Nevada Neighbors!
In February, we resumed our Nevada Neighbors lecture series with "Portland
Possibilities" a slide talk by curator Stuart
Horodner; and "Los Angeles
Arts on the Global Stage with Wide World Exhibitions
Director and Curator Julie Deamer.
The program returns in the fall. Stay tuned for details!
Nevada Neighbors are at the Carson City Library at
7 pm and are free and open to the public. Click here for
details!
Cheers!
Sharon
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Jon + Melanie
Capital City Arts Initiative is funded by the Carson City Redevelopment Authority the Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts; the James W. Calhoun Foundation; Carson High School; Carson City Library; Nevada Hispanic Services Carson City; and by BrAG its 'Brilliant Advisory Group'. We extend special thanks to Joe McCarthy, Carson City Public Safety Complex/Carson City Courthouse, Comma Coffee, Capital City Entertainment, Millard Realty and Construction, and John Walker.
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