Print Project
Exhibition Dates: July 12 – August 29, 2016
Exhibition Venue: Community Development Building – the Brick, 108 E Proctor Street, Carson City, Nevada
Print Project Exhibition at the Brick
The Capital City Arts Initiative announces its exhibition, Print Project, 
at the Community Development Building [the Brick], 108 E Proctor Street, Carson City. Ten University of Nevada, Reno [UNR] student artists created the art posters in class earlier this summer. The building is open to the public daily, 8am – noon, 1-4pm. The free exhibition will remain in the building’s lobby from July 12 through August 29.
Print Project includes posters made by ten students working in a “Wall Works” summer class at UNR’s Black Rock Press. They worked with faculty member and artist Amy Thompson to investigate poster design as a means of communication and artistic practice. Students used text printed on Vandercook proofing presses to explore propaganda and persuasion as a contemporary art form. The course focused on typography and image-making techniques in the production of a series of letterpress-printed posters.
The participating student artists include: Rachel Dickson, Michelle Duggan, Marie Sophia Sevier Dyer, Sean Evans, Connor Goicoechea, Maurice Gregory, Alexa Jones, Richard Lin, Timothy Robb, and Ashlyn Robinson.
Enjoy photos of the student gallery shows at www.arts-initiative.org/photo-gallery/ccai-student-gallery-2016-2017/
The Black Rock Press preserves the history and traditions of the art of the book while simultaneously turning a creative and critical eye toward its relevance in contemporary art and culture. More info at www.unr.edu/art/black-rock-press
UNR faculty member, Amy Thompson, taught this summer class, teaches Book Arts courses, and manages the Black Rock Press, home to the University’s emerging book and graphic arts programs. A printmaker and graphic designer, Amy uses printmaking and letterpress printing in her own work. She earned her MFA degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 2007.
The Print Project show launches CCAI’s 2016 – 2017 series of student exhibitions in the Brick. The following group exhibitions will present art by students from Carson, Dayton, and Douglas high schools; Sierra Nevada College; and Western Nevada College – Carson City.
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 projects.
CCAI is funded in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Nevada Arts Council, Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, City of Carson City, NV Energy Foundation, U.S. Bank Foundation, and John and Grace Nauman Foundation.
top image: [l-r] student Michelle Duggan with Amy Thompson at Black Rock Press
center image: student Marie Sophia Sevier Dyer working on a Vandercook proofing press
bottom image: Black Rock Press logo
