Capital
City Arts Initiative
Carson City Nevada
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Capital
City Arts Initiative
PRESS RELEASE
January
7, 2004
contact: Sharon Rosse or Jon Winet
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Capital City Arts Initiative launches exhibition program with Allen Spore Photography at the Court House
The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI], Carson City's new arts organization will launch its exhibitions program with an exhibition by San Francisco Bay Area photographer Allen Spore.
The exhibition, "Carson City-Carson Valley Portrait Project" opens at the Carson City Court House with a with a public reception for the artist on Thursday, February 26 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. There is no admission fee and the public is cordially invited. The court house is located in
Allen Spore inaugurated CCAI's Artists In Residence program which brings professional artists to the area to create new work, present workshops and exhibitions while working with a broad cross section of the Carson community.
During a fall residency Spore, a photographer and faculty member at the prestigious San Francisco Art Institute produced a series of community portraits.
He also worked with art students at Carson High School, Virginia City Middle School and Nevada Hispanic Services Carson City.
Setting up temporary on-site makeshift portrait studios at Comma Coffee in Carson's historic downtown and J.T.'s Basque restaurant in Gardnerville, Spore photographed over a hundred and twenty residents. A selection of his portraits will be presented in his exhibition. An on-line exhibition on CCAI's web site http://www.breweryarts.org/vai features additional photographs and information on the project.
"Allen's project celebrated our community-from our Thursday Mahjong group to high school students and young parents," comments June Joplin, local arts activist and proprietor of Comma Coffee. "Through his eyes, we are able to see our rich diversity and individuality."
Photographer Spore received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute where he now teaches. 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 participants in Spore's CCAI residency projects will
also be on display at Nevada Hispanic Services,
and Carson High School's Main Street Gallery,
in the Stewart Title Building. A satellite exhibit of Spore's work will
also be at Carson City Hall.
Arts writer Marcia Tanner will produce an essay in conjunction with the
essay which will be accessible on line on CCAI's website, http://www.breweryarts.org/vai.
CCAI's programs
include contemporary visual arts exhibitions, arts education projects,
public programs and artists’ residencies. CCAI
and its programs are funded in part 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; St. Mary's Art Center, Virginia
City; Carson City Library; Nevada Hispanic Services Carson City; and by
BrAG, its 'Brilliant Advisory Group'.
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Photo
Editors
Please note: high resolution photographs by CCAI
Artist in Residence Allen Spore
suitable for print reproduction, are on line below.
Click on the thumbnail images below for a high resolution (1200 x 1500 pixels - approx.), suitable for print media reproduction color or black & white photograph of photographer Allen Spore. Once the full scale image is on screen, mouse down (Mac) or mouse click right (Windows) on the image to save it to your desk-top. Please contact us if you have questions via email or phone at.
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caption:
From the series "Carson City-Carson Valley Portrait Project"
by Allen Spore
[scale: 36" x 36"] 2003