BAC VAI Nevada Neighbors

Welcome to the front page of Nevada Neighbors Brewery Arts Center Visual Arts Initiative's inaugural public program.

Nevada Neighbors features presentations by prominent writers, curators and artists focusing on contemporary art in the west.

Nevada Neighbors' second event, Topographies: a look at contemporary visual art in California was a slide presentation by talk by Karen Moss Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the San Francisco Art Institute.

The event was on Tuesday, April 22 at 7 pm at the Brewery Arts Center at in Carson City's historic downtown.

Curator Moss' talk focused on California artists whose work expands conventional notions of landscape and map.

Working in painting, sculpture, photography, installation and digital media, the artists create a range of 'topographies' from specific landscapes to imagined and invented locations. Karen Moss comments, "The artists share a common interest in both mapping and creating a sense of place. They have an obsession with the aesthetics of surface or space, often rendered in abstract, constructed, or even virtual forms."

Karen Moss also presented a talk at the University of Nevada, Reno Art Department as part of our Artists in Education (BAC VAI AIE) program.

A companion essay, Topographies is on-line. Click below to read the essay.

For more information contact BAC VAI Director Sharon Rosse at

Nevada Neighbors' first event, Playa Works featured a talk by Great Basin author William L. "Bill" Fox. Click below to read his companion essay.

"Telephone Polls" by William L. Fox

Nevada Neighbors is funded in part by a grant from the Nevada Humanities Committee and by BrAG the Brewery Arts Center Visual Arts Intitiative Advisory Group.