BAC VAI Press Relase 1: Brewery Arts Center Launches Visual Arts Initiative

Brewery Arts Center

Carson City NV

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PRESS RELEASE
February 7, 2003
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Brewery Arts Center Launches Visual Arts Initiative with Nevada Neighbors lecture by Great Basin author William L. Fox

Award-winning author William L. Fox will present a slide/lecture “Playa Works” at the Brewery Arts Center on Wednesday, March 12 at 7:00 p.m. Brewery Arts is located in Carson City's historic downtown at. The lecture is free and open to the public.

This event launches Brewery Arts' "Visual Arts Initiative" [BAC VAI] which focuses on contemporary visual arts exhibitions, public programs and artists’ residencies. Steven High, Nevada Museum of Arts' Executive Director, comments“The Brewery Arts Center's Visual Arts Initiative is a significant addition to the arts and culture of northern Nevada. I applaud this effort.'"

This event is part of "Nevada Neighbors: contemporary art practice in the West," a four-part lecture series. A companion essay by Fox is on line at www.breweryarts.org/vai/live/essays/bill_fox.html.

"We're delighted to be launching this ambitious, sophisticated program," adds Mary Works, BAC's Executive Director. "As we expand our facilities, we are excited to present new artists and programs to the region."

In his lecture, William L. Fox, writer and former Executive Director of the Nevada Arts Council, will explore the history of life in the Great Basin, one of America's most beautiful yet challenging landscapes, through both historical and contemporary artworks.

His recent book, Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty received the Wilbur S. Shepperson Humanities Book Award from the Nevada Humanities Committee and University of Nevada Press. Books by the author will be available for purchase at the lecture.

Fox received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and spent a season in the Antarctic as a participant in theNational Science Foundation's Antarctic Visiting Artists and Writers program.

Nevada Neighbors is funded in part by a grant from the Nevada Humanities Committe and by BrAG, The Brewery Arts Center Visual Arts Intitiative Advisory Group.

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