Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI]
Carson City, Nevada
PRESS RELEASE
January 23 , 2006
"Carson City Arts Organization Receives Major Grant"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Carson City Arts Organization Receives Major Grant
The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] is proud to announce
that it has been awarded a two-year grant from the
prestigious Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts. The Carson City-based non-profit
organization, launched in 2003, will receive forty
thousand dollars over the life of the award.
As stated in its mission, the Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] 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 exhibitions, live events, arts education programs, artist residencies, and its web site.
Glenn Clemmer, CCAI Board President, commented: "We are honored to receive such a significant grant at this early point in the life of our organization. We are equally thrilled to receive support from such an important national foundation."
Joe McCarthy, Carson City Redevelopment Authority Director, added: "This award is a major milestone for the Arts Initiative _and_ Carson City. This grant signals the promise of even greater things to come for the area's arts and culture." Susan Boskoff, Executive Director of the Nevada Arts Council further commented: "Well deserved. This is fantastic news. The Arts Initiative and the Warhol Foundation are a perfect match."
CCAI's continues its exhibition program at the Carson City Courthouse with a gala reception on February 16 for "The Great Basin Gallery 20th Anniversary Exhibition" featuring work by Jeff Nicholson, Jean LeGassick and Ron Arthaud.
"Nevada Neighbors," CCAI's lecture series at the Carson City Library resumes March 1 at 7 pm with "At the Edge: Art & Culture at the US-Mexico Border" featuring a presentation by Co-directors Carmen Cuenca and Michael Krichman of inSite_05, an international arts project based in Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California.
CCAI events are free and open to the public.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, based in New York City, was established in 1987 to foster innovative artistic expression and the creative process by encouraging and supporting cultural organizations that in turn, directly or indirectly, support artists and their work. Their web site states: "The Foundation values the contribution these organizations make to artists and audiences and to society as a whole by supporting, exhibiting and interpreting a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practice."
Andy Warhol was born in 1928. In 1952, the artist had his first individual show. The 1960s was an extremely prolific decade for Warhol. Appropriating images from popular culture, Warhol created many paintings that remain icons of 20th-century art, such as the Campbell's Soup Cans, Disasters and Marilyns. In addition to painting, Warhol made several 16mm films which have become underground classics such as Chelsea Girls and Empire.
In the 1970's Warhol published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again). Firmly established as a major 20th-century artist and international celebrity, Warhol work has been exhibited extensively in museums and galleries around the world. The artist died February 22, 1987. The Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May 1994.
In its three years of operation, CCAI has been awarded grants locally from the Carson City Redevelopment Authority,the Nevada Arts Council, and the James W. Calhoun Foundation.
A complete list of the fall 2005 Any Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts grantees is on line at www.warholfoundation.org/grants/FY2006F.htm.
For additional information visit CCAI’s website at www.arts-initiative.org.
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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 exhibitions, live events, arts education programs, artist residencies, and its web site.
CCAI is funded in part by the Carson City Redevelopment Authority; the Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the James W. Calhoun Foundation; Gayle Crowell; Western Nevada Community College Foundation; Carson High School; Carson Valley Veterinary Hospital; Carson City Library; Nevada Hispanic Services-Carson City; CCAI's Board of Directors; BrAG, CCAI's 'Brilliant Advisory Group' and CCAI's growing membership. CCAI extends special thanks to Joe McCarthy, Carson City Public Safety Complex/Carson City Courthouse, Gail Ford, Capital City Entertainment and Simpson Creative.