Capital City Arts Initiative

Click HERE to read Chérie Louise Turner’s essay, Plain Ole Dirt?

CCAI commissioned Chérie Louise Turner to write the essay, Plain Ole Dirt? for Martin’s exhibitions. She is a Bay Area–based freelance writer, art critic, and copy editor. Her writing has appeared online at Art in America, The Huffington Post, Visual Art Source, art ltd, ArtNewsletter, ArtNews, and Tahoe Quarterly, among other publications. She has written exhibition catalog essays locally for Stremmel Gallery, Churchill Arts Council, and CCAI. She also produces an art-focused blog: artbeatbayarea.com. She has written four teen nonfiction books including: Extreme Careers: Life as an Adventure Travel Guide (Rosen Publishing Group, 2003); Everything You Need to Know About the Riot Grrrl Movement (Rosen Publishing Group, 2001). Turner earned a Copyediting Certification from the University of California, San Diego, in 2013 and a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1992.

Thank you to Nevada Humanities for supporting the production of this essay.