Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI]
Exhibition + Special Event
Carson City, Nevada
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 1, 2007
Capital
City Arts Initiative PRESS RELEASE
"Carson 5 + CCAI Holiday Party!"
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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"Carson 5 + CCAI Holiday Party!"
Capital City Arts Initiative (CCAI) invites everyone for a holiday party, art and book sale on Saturday, December 1, 1:00- 5:00pm, in conjunction with "Carson 5" an exhibition featuring work by Carol Brown Michael Gilbert Nanette Oleson Ralph Phillips and James Simpson.
The exhibition, holiday party, and sale will take place at "CCAI Downtown!" CCAI's temporary gallery space at the northeast corner of Curry and Third Streets, Carson City. The event will also feature books from Box Sled Press.
About the Carson 5:
Carol Brown's hand-pulled editions of Japanese woodblock prints show exotic orchid's fragile qualities, patterns, and vibrant colors.
Michael Gilbert's photographs, from the series "Double Vision," portray hidden spirit forms in nature.
Nanette Oleson's vibrant floral paintings have been selected for the Best and Brightest exhibition at Scottsdale Arts in Arizona.
Ralph Phillips' digital photography has signaled a shift in his work from traditional black and white processing, producing "extreme" and "resting structures," images of American Flats, Virginia City.
James Simpson's bases his photographic work on the underlying repeated designs in nature that are the foundations of all existence.
The Carson 5 exhibition runs through January 18, 2008. The gallery is open Saturdays from 1:00 to 5:00 and closed November 24, December 22 and December 29.
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 web site.
CCAI is funded by the Carson City Redevelopment Authority; the Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the James W. Calhoun Foundation; U.S. Bancorp Foundation; Gayle Crowell; Coldwell Banker Best Sellers; Carson High School; Carson City Library; Nevada Hispanic Services-Carson City; CCAI's Board of Directors; BrAG, CCAI's 'Brilliant Advisory Group'; CCAI's Business Leaders; and CCAI's growing membership.
CCAI extends special thanks to Joe McCarthy; Steele & Associates, CPAs; the Dan Leck Family; Jenny Lopiccolo; Classy Seconds & Advocates to End Domestic Violence; the Rehm Family; Westside Ink Bookstore; Carson City Courthouse; Dr. Kim Bean, Dr. Jeffrey Bean; Vital Signs; Carson Shopping Center; Capital City Entertainment; Genoa Lakes Golf Club & Resort; Rick Sikes, Nevada Green; Carson Harley-Davidson Buell Dealership; David Ruf, Greenhouse Garden Center; Western Nevada College; and Simpson Creative.
For additional information visit CCAI's website at www.arts-initiative.org.
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Capital
City Arts Initiative
CCAI Downtown! Exhibition
"Carson 5 + CCAI Holiday Party! "
Exhibition Featuring:
Carol Brown | Michael Gilbert | Nanette Oleson | Ralph Phillips | James Simpson
Holiday party/ art and book sale: Saturday, December 1, 2007
Exhibition dates: November 16, 2007 –January 18, 2008
Location: CCAI Downtown!
Corner 3rd St. and Curry St.
Carson City
Gallery hours:
Saturdays 1:00 am to 5:00 pm
Note: gallery closed: November 24, December 22, December 29
Free. Open to the Public
Photo Editors
caption: "Extremes" by CCAI Carson 5
artist Ralph Phillips. Digital photograph
featured in CCAI Downtown! exhibition.
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