Capital
City Arts Initiative
Carson City Nevada
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Capital
City Arts Initiative
PRESS RELEASE
August
22, 2003
contact: Sharon Rosse
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Capital City Arts Initiative receives Nevada Arts Council grant for Artists in Education Program
The Capital City Arts Initiative [AI], formerly the Visual Arts Initiative hosted by the Brewery Arts Center, has been awarded a grant of $2,375. from the Nevada Arts Council. The grant will support the inaugural project of its Artists in Education Program—AIE.
This new program of the Arts Initiative brings professional artists to the area to create new work, present workshops and displays while working with a broad cross section of the Carson community.
The program's first artist, Allen Spore, is a photographer and faculty member at the prestigious San Francisco Art Institute. During a fall residency, he'll produce a series of community portrait projects. As part of his residency, he will be working with art students through Carson High School and Nevada Hispanic Services Carson City.
Highlights of his residency will include Carson High School-sponsored field trips in September and a project centered at J.T.'s restaurant focussing on the Basque community of Gardnerville.
"We're delighted to be collaborating with the Capital City Arts Initiative. Having our students work with visiting artists is an invaluable educational experience," comments Carson High School Art Department Head Paul Ford.
Photographer Spore received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute where he now teaches. His 2001 exhibition "Real People, Real Places" presented large scale compelling portraits of his Moraga home community's residents. In 2002, he produced a series of photographs in Sedgwick, Colorado where Spore attended grammar school in the 1950's.
Exhibitions of work created by Allen Spore and residency participants will be scheduled in the fall in Carson City.
CCAI AIE
is funded in part by the Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment
for the Arts, the
Carson City Redevelopment Authority, the Calhoun Foundation,
and by BrAG, the Arts Intitiative's 'Brilliant Advisory
Group.'
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Photo
Editors
Please note: high resolution photographs by [AI]
Artist in Residence Allen Spore
suitable for print reproduction, are on line below.
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caption:
"Father Son" from "Real People, Real Places"
by Allen Spore
60" x 60" 2001