Capital
City Arts Initiative Overview of Programs
Launched in 2003, CCAI has a diverse and broad range of arts programs
for the Carson City-Carson Valley communities:
Artist In Residence Project
Prominent artists visit the area to create new work, present workshops
and exhibitions while working with a broad cross section of the community including
Western Nevada Community College, Carson City Library, Carson High School and
Nevada
Hispanic
Services
Carson City.
Courthouse Exhibitions
In February 2004, CCAI inaugurated an exhibition program at the Carson
City Courthouse with The
Carson City/Carson Valley Portrait Project, photographs by visiting artist
Allen Spore. The project continued this fall with the first Capital
City Arts
Initiative University of Reno BFA
Awards
exhibition featuring work by recent graduates.
In February 2005, CCAI is proud to present a survey of works on paper by Las
Vegas artist Merilee Hortt.
Caffeine!
In collaboration with Comma Coffee, CCAI presents monthly exhibitions
highlighting
the work of local artists in the cafÈ's billiards room. Exhibitions include work
in all media by high school and college art students and faculty,
and
a diverse range of local artists.
Nevada Neighbors Lectures [NVN]
NVN is a lecture series on contemporary art practice in the West featuring
artists and curators discussing contemporary arts and culture. Lectures are free
and
open to the public at the Carson City Library. Receptions proceed each event.
On the spring 2005 schedule:
"Desert
Survival: Arizona Artsts" slide talk
by Arizona State University Museum Curator John Spiak [Wednesday, February 2
at
7
p.m.]
"The
Mountain is Out: Art & Curatorial Practice in the Pacific Northwest" slide
talk by Seattle Art Museum Lisa
Corin [Wednesday, March 2 at 7 p.m.]
CCAI
News Flash! & Web
Site
Monthly electronic newsletter, now with over 165 subscribers: www.arts-initiative.org/flash
Web site: www.arts-initiative.org
FWAC!
First Wednedays Artists Coffee, an informal monthly artists gathering
at Comma Coffee, begun in January 2004 to encourage conversation and connections
within the artistic community.