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About
The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI]: Our
programs include contemporary visual arts exhibitions, arts education
projects, public programs and artists’ residencies.
Exhibition Program Launch!
CCAI presents its inaugural
exhibition with "The Carson City-Carson
Valley Portrait Project" by photographer Allen
Spore. The exhibition, hosted at the Carson
City Court House opened in February and continues through
May 26. The courthouse is located in Admission
to the exhibition
is free and the public is cordially invited.
Work in the exhibition was created during the photographer's fall 2003 CCAI residency and features large scale portraits of local area residents.
The Carson City-Carson Valley Portrait Project: Exploring Community an essay by arts writer Marcia Tanner is now featured on the web site. Click here to read it.
Satellite
exhibits of Mr. Spore's work is on view at Carson
City Hall and at
the J
T Basque Bar & Dining Room in Gardnerville,
located in
Exhibitions of work created by student participants in Mr. Spore's
CCAI residency is also be on display at Nevada
Hispanic Services
and Carson High School's
Main Street Gallery in the Stewart
Title Building.
Nevada Neighbors!
In February, we resumed our Nevada Neighbors lecture series with "Portland Possibilities" a slide talk by curator Stuart Horodner; and "Los Angeles Arts on the Global Stage with Wide World Exhibitions Director and Curator Julie Deamer.
Nevada Neighbors are at the Carson City Library at 7 pm and are free and open to the public. Click here for details!
Caffeine!
In collaboration with Comma Coffee
CCAI continues its series of monthly exhibitions highlighting
the creative work of local artists in the billiards room of the cafe.
The second exhibition, "Margery Hall Marshall/The Youth of
Thiu Ranchol." The show
features work from an agricultural and educational center in the rural
village of Paycollo,Bolivia, and is guest curated
by Ms. Marshall.
The exhibition dates are March 1-31 and is ccordinated by CCAI Intern Melanie
Berner.
Comma
Coffee is located across
from the Legislature.
Comma Coffee is also the site of our monthly "FWAC"
[First Wednesdays Artists
Coffee], an informal, no-host gathering of the local
arts community the first Wednesday of every month from 4:30 to 6:00
p.m. One
and all are welcome to drop by!
Cheers!
Sharon
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Jon CCAI.
Capital City Arts Initiative and its programs are funded 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'. We extend special thanks to Joe McCarthy, Carson City Public Safety Complex/Carson City Courthouse, Comma Coffee, Capital City Entertainment, Millard Realty and Construction, Phil & Kathie Bartlett, John Walker-BAC and Whispering Vines Wine Company.
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