Capital
City Arts Initiative [CCAI]
Carson City, Nevada
contact: Sharon Rosse
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 20, 2008
CCAI Announces Second Biennial “CAP” Awards Recipients Pat Calhoun Ariaz and Steele & Associates
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Capital
City Arts Initiative [CCAI]
Carson City, Nevada
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 20, 2008
CCAI Announces Second Biennial “CAP” Awards Recipients Pat Calhoun Ariaz and Steele & Associates
The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] is delighted to announce its second CAP Awards recipients, Steele & Associates and Pat Calhoun Ariaz. The awards, given out every two years, were established in 2007 to acknowledge long-term supporters of CCAI and the arts in northern Nevada.
The awardees will be presented with a limited edition cap, embroidered with the initials “CAP,” at a luncheon hosted at Carson City's classic American diner, The Cracker Box, on Friday January 23rd.
The luncheon will begin at 1:30pm. Consistent with CCAI's inclusive approach to the arts, tickets are available on a sliding scale from seventeen dollars and fifty cents to seventeen hundred and fifty dollars. Proceeds from the event will support CCAI’s Artists In Education programs. The Cracker Box is located in Carson City.
CAP honoree Pat Calhoun Ariaz is recognized for her long standing philanthropic work with the James W. Calhoun Foundation. The foundation started in February 1953. Prior to its closing in 2007, the foundation provided significant support to various arts and culture organizations agencies including CCAI, the Brewery Arts Center, and the Nevada State Museum.
"Pat's vision and leadership have been key to the foundation's mission," comments CCAI Executive Director Sharon Rosse. "Northern Nevada's non-profits are very fortunate to have her support."
Pat, a Carson High School graduate, is the daughter of Thelma Calhoun, a pioneering area arts activist, and James W. Calhoun, in whose honor the foundation was named.
Steele & Associates is Certified Public Accounting firm in Carson City. It offers a wide range of services to individual and business clients. The firm is committed to the area, and has generously provided pro bono accounting services to CCAI since 2005.
Founding partner Benjamin Steele has practiced in Carson City since receiving his CPA certificate in 1979. His son Jon, a native Carsonian, is a managing partner of the firm.
Sharon Rosse adds: "Our awardees, a private firm and an individual arts supporter represent the sustaining encouragement needed to help nurture the area's burgeoning arts scene. In these tough economic times, it's important to acknowledge everyone's contributions to the health and vitality of the culture of northern Nevada. We are honored by our association with Pat and Steele & Associates."
The two new awardees join the 2007 inaugural CAP honorees Joe McCarthy, [City of Carson City Redevelopment]; Andrea Moore [Carson City Library Outreach Programs]; and Jim McCormick [UNR Art Department Professor Emeritus and founding CCAI Board President].
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 web site.
CCAI is funded by the Carson City Redevelopment Authority; the Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts; 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; Mark Twain Elementary School; McQueen High School; Sierra Nevada College; Carson City Library; Nevada Hispanic Services-Carson City; St. Mary's Art Center, Virginia City; CCAI Business Leaders: Builders Wholesale, Carson Valley Veterinary Hospital, Coldwell Banker Best Sellers, Data Graphics, Greater Nevada Credit Union Sponsorship Fund, and Resource Concepts, Inc.; and CCAI's Board of Directors, BrAG [CCAI's 'Brilliant Advisory Group'], and CCAI's growing membership.
CCAI extends special thanks to Joe McCarthy; Steele & Associates, CPAs; Classy Seconds & Advocates to End Domestic Violence; Carson City Courthouse; Dr. Kim Bean, Dr. Jeffrey Bean; Carson Shopping Center; Cyndy and Steve Brenneman; Carole and William Hutchison; Brenda Locke-Knight; the Rehm Family; Jenny Lopiccolo; the Dan Leck Family; Rick Sikes, Nevada Green; and Simpson Creative.
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CCAI Honors “CAP” Awards Recipients Pat Calhoun Ariaz and Steele & Associates
Date: Friday January 23rd 1:30 p.m.
Location: The Cracker Box is located in Carson City, NV
Tickets: $17.50 to $1,750.00.
Proceeds to benefit CCAI Artists In Education programs.
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daughter Linda Spencer and grand-
daughter Jenna Spencer,
photographed at CCAI's 2nd annual
Holiday party at the Bliss Mansion in
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Caption: Steele & Associates partners
Ben and Jon Steele.