SILVER CITY SHARING WORLD VIEW THROUGH CAMERA -Carol Godwin's press release on an upcoming photo show by Silver City photographers ran in the Nevada Appeal in November 2017. Read it at this link:
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/entertainment/silver-city-artists-sharing-world-view-through-camera-lens/
COMSTOCK RESIDENTS ARGUE FOR ACCESS TO RECORDS - Barry Smith, executive director of the Nevada Press Association, writes in this November 2017 article that "Comstock residents made a strong argument to the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday for access to public records contained on officials’ private cell phones." Read more here: https://nevadapress.com/wabuskamangler/comstock-residents-argue-access-records/
OLD TOWN PORTRAITS- In September, Kris Vagner of Reno News and Review wrote about internationally acclaimed photographer Frances Melhop's exhibition of life-sized photographs of Comstock residents. Melhop's Comstock Portrait Project is on view through December 1, 2017 at Lake Tahoe Community College’s Haldan Gallery at One College Drive, South Lake Tahoe. The show includes more than 40 large scale portraits of Silver City and other Comstock locals. Gallery hours are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., closed on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. Private Saturday viewings can be arranged by contacting Amanda Bircher at (530) 305-4214. Read Vagner's article here:
https://www.newsreview.com/reno/old-town-10-portraits/content?oid=25071551
SHOW FEATURES PORTRAITS OF LYON AND STOREY RESIDENTS- Reno Gazette Journal also ran a feature on Melhop's Tahoe exhibition. Read it here:
http://www.rgj.com/story/news/local/leader-courier/2017/09/21/show-features-portraits-lyon-and-storey-residents/691824001/
SILVER CITY'S MUSIC SCENE SURGED IN THE MID-1960s- Mason Valley News ran a feature on Silver City's music scene circa 1965 to present in Oct 2017. An expanded version of the article can be found online here:
http://silvercityreads.blogspot.com/2017/10/silver-citys-music-scene-1965-2017.html
CULTIVATING INSPIRATION AT MCCORMICK DOMES- This feature about McCormick House, the housing for visiting artists with the Resident Artist Program in Silver City, was written by Lisa Gavon for the Douglas Record Courier in Fall 2017, and will also run in the Nevada Appeal during Winter 2017. Follow this link to read the article:
http://www.recordcourier.com/news/local/cultivating-inspiration-at-the-mccormick-domes/
OAKLAND ARTISTS WORK WITH LOCALS TO CRAFT PODIUM AND POSTCARDS- Mason Valley News ran a feature on visiting artists Sue Mark and Bruce Douglas of marksearch.org in September 2017. An expanded version of the article can be found online here:
http://silvercityreads.blogspot.com/2017/09/oakland-artists-work-with-locals-to.html
NEW ZEALAND ARTIST SOPHIE SCOTT'S EXHIBITION AT ST. MARY'S ART CENTER- The Mason Valley News ran this feature on Fall 2017 visiting artist Sophie Scott. A longer version of the press release appeared here:
http://silvercityreads.blogspot.com/2017/10/silver-city-welcomes-new-zealand-artist.html
SILVER CITY: MORE ARTISTS THAN TREES- This was a Mason Valley News feature in September 2017. A longer version of the essay appeared on the Silver City Reads blog in Sept 2017. Read it here:
http://silvercityreads.blogspot.com/2017/09/silver-city-nevada-more-artists-than.html
HAPPY TO BE QUEEN OF HER WORLD: OUTSIDER ARTIST MOLLY BRUNHILD- This article by artist Karen Kreyeski appeared in Carson NOW in summer 2017. Link:
http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/07/15/2017/paintings-molly-brunhild-display-saturday-july-22
PULITZER PRIZE-NOMINATED POET DAVID LEE VISITS SILVER CITY-This article appeared in the Nevada Appeal in spring 2017. Link:
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/announcements/pulitzer-prize-nominated-poet-david-lee-visits-silver-city/
FAREWELL JIM MCCORMICK- This feature about artist Jim McCormick, a former denizen of Silver City, was in the Arts and Culture section of Reno News and Review. It was written by Kris Vagner in spring of 2017. Link:
https://www.newsreview.com/reno/farewell/content?oid=24132854
BRIAN SCHORN:RESIDENT ARTIST IN SILVER CITY NEVADA- Stamp School of Arts and Design included an article about Brian Schorn's residency in its spring 2016 publication. Reflections magazine also included a feature spread on Brian and his residency. Link:
https://stamps.umich.edu/alumni/news/brian_schorn_resident_artist_in_silver_city_nevada
THE ACCIDENTAL ACTIVIST:A MINING FIGHT IN SILVER CITY- 2016 Feature on Nevada Public Radio by Andrew Kiraly. Link:
https://knpr.org/dc-blog/accidental-activist-mining-fight-silver-city
NEW STAGE IN SILVER CITY- This feature about the first big event at Silver City's new outdoor performance stage appeared in the Nevada Appeal in 2016. Link:
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/announcements/new-stage-in-silver-city-adds-to-comstocks-live-music-and-theater-venues/
SILVER CITY KIDS PROGRAM FILLED WITH HANDS-ON FUN-This was one of many articles in the Nevada Appeal and other newspapers about Silver City's annual STEAM program. Link:
https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/silver-citys-kids-program-filled-with-hands-on-fun/
MYLO MCCORMICK BLUES CONCERT IN SILVER CITY- This feature appeared in the Nevada Appeal in summer 2017. Link:
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/local/mylo-mccormick-to-play-free-blues-concert-tuesday-in-silver-city/
ELSTON RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD- A feature on Dr. Elston's Silver Trowel award was in the Nevada Appeal in 2014. Elston continues to achieve in his field, receiving a National Science Foundation grant in 2016. Robert Elston (University of Nevada, Reno), Dave Zeanah (Sacramento State University), Brian Codding (University of Utah), and Craig Young (Far Western Anthropological Group) received a National Science Foundation grant for a multi-year archaeological project in Grass Valley, Nevada. They'll accomplish the field work by running a field school in 2017 and 2018 through Sacramento State, which will also administer the grant. Their research is focused on the Late Pleistocene between about 14,000 and 9,000 years ago after people first began to enter interior North America, and began to live in the Great Basin. Link to the Silver Trowel award article:
http://www.rgj.com/story/news/local/mason-valley/2014/05/21/elston-receives-lifetime-achievement-award/2331696/
SCOTT MACLEOD'S RESIDENCY IN SILVER CITY NEVADA- A number of articles on Oakland-based artist/writer Scott MacLeod's Residency with the Resident Artist Program in Silver City appeared in the Comstock Chronicle, Nevada Appeal and elsewhere in 2016. Link:
http://silvercityreads.blogspot.com/2016/08/following-is-scott-macleods-beautifully_77.html
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