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New Programs in development - Check back often for updates!
About
The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI]: Our
programs include contemporary visual arts exhibitions, arts education
projects, public programs and artists’ residencies.
Upcoming!:
Nevada Neighbors!
In February, we resume our Nevada Neighbors lecture series
with LA curator and Wide World Exhibitions director Julie
Deamer on Wednesday February
4.
We'll present a slide lecture by Portland Institute of the Arts curator
Stuart Horodner on Wednesday
March 3.
Both lectures are at the Carson City Library
at 7 pm and both are free and open to the public. Click here
for details!
Exhibition Program Launch!
CCAI presents its inaugural
exhibitions with "The Carson City-Carson
Valley Portrait Project" by photographer
Allen Spore. The
exhibition, hosted at the Carson City Court
House opens on Thursday,
February 26 with a reception for the artist from 5 to
6:30 p.m. The courthouse is located in The exhibition
and reception are free and the public is cordially invited.
A companion
essay by arts writer Marcia Tanner
will be featured in February on the CCAI web site.
Work in the exhibition was created during the photographer's fall 2003
CCAI residency and features large scale portraits of local area residents.
A satellite
exhibit of Mr. Spore's work will be on view at Carson
City Hall.
Exhibitions of work created by student participants in Mr. Spore's CCAI
residency will also be on display at Nevada
Hispanic Services and Carson
High School's Main Street Gallery
in the Stewart Title Building.
Caffeine!
In collaboration with Comma Coffee CCAI
also launches a series of monthly exhibitions highlighting
the creative work of local artists in the billiards room of the cafe.
Comma Coffee is located
across from the Legislature. The first exhibition
is slated for February. Check back for details on the debut!
Comma Coffee is also the site of our monthly "FWAC"
[First Wednesdays Artists
Coffee], an informal, no-host gathering of the area's
artists the first Wednesday of every month from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. One
and all are welcome to drop by!
Cheers! Sharon + Jon CCAI.
Capital City Arts Initiative and its programs are funded in part 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, Milliard Realty and Construction, Phil & Kathie Bartlett, the Brewery Arts Center and Whispering Vines Wine Company.
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