Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI]
Nevada Neighbors Lecture Series at the Carson City Library
P.O. Box 1333
Carson City, Nevada 89702

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 1, 2010

CCAI Nevada Neighbors Lecture Series at Carson City Library
"Everything Is Land Use: Humans and the Common Ground in America" Illustrated Talk by Matthew Coolidge

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 1, 2010

CCAI Nevada Neighbors Lecture Series at Carson City Library
"Everything Is Land Use: Humans and the Common Ground in America" Illustrated Talk by Matthew Coolidge

Nevada Neighbors, the Capital City Arts Initiative's ongoing series of illustrated public talks, will host Matthew Coolidge, director of CLUI – The Center for Land Use Interpretation. His talk, "Everything Is Land Use: Humans and the Common Ground in America," will take place on Wednesday, March 31 at 7 p.m. at the Carson City Library, 900 North Roop Street, Carson City. There will be an informal reception for Mr. Coolidge at 6:15 p.m. preceding his talk. The presentation and reception are free, and the public is cordially invited.

From Nevada’s location on the western edge of the Intermountain West and in the center of the Great Basin, environmental issues speak to the heart of the state. A look at these issues through work created by scholars, environmental activists, and artists will provide new information and perspective on our delicate high desert environment.

Southern California-based CLUI has an experimental field station near Wendover in northeastern Nevada. Founded in 1994, CLUI takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of land use, drawing on the natural sciences, sociology, art, architecture, and history.

Mr. Coolidge is the author and editor of several books, including Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with CLUI, and The Nevada Test Site: A Guide to the Nation's Nuclear Proving Ground. He also works with the Nevada Museum of Art’s Art + Environment program.

During his stay in northern Nevada, Mr. Coolidge will visit local schools to give presentations. As with all Nevada Neighbors visitors, he will also meet informally with artists and art students to discuss their work.

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 presence.

CCAI is funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Nevada Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recovery Act; the James W. Calhoun Foundation; the John and Grace Nauman Foundation; U.S. Bancorp Foundation; the Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation; Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities; Carson City School District; Douglas High School; McQueen High School; Sierra Nevada College; Carson City Library; United Latino Community; St. Mary's Art Center, Virginia City; CCAI Business Leaders: Allison, MacKenzie, Pavlakis, Wright, & Fagan, LTD., Dr. Bob Gorrindo, Coldwell Banker Best Sellers, Data Graphics, Pro-Form Labs, Sierra Nevada Association of Realtors, and Vineburg Machining Inc.; and CCAI's Board of Directors, BrAG [CCAI's 'Brilliant Advisory Group'], and CCAI's growing membership.

For additional information visit CCAI’s website at www.arts-initiative.org.

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Capital City Arts Initiative

CCAI Nevada Neighbors Public Talk
"Everything Is Land Use: Humans and the Common Ground in America"
Talk by Matthew Coolidge

Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 – 7 pm

Informal Reception at 6:15 pm

Location: Carson City Library
900 N Roop Street
Carson City
775.887-2244

Free. Open to the Public

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caption: Center for Land Use Interpretation Field Session
at the Desert Research Station
Credit: CLUI Archive. 2001

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