Winter and Spring 2018 News With the Silver City Citizen in Mind

Silver City has many of its own arts and culture events, and our community is also located near the many arts and culture events of our sister city, Carson City, as well as Tahoe, Reno, Virginia City, etc. Following are a few winter/spring 2018 events and programs in Silver City and our surrounding region that may be of interest:

Mementi Mori Exhibition: A free reception and artist talk by UNR’s Paul Baker Prindle will be held Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018 at the Nevada Arts Council’s OXS Gallery in Carson City. The reception starts at 5:30 p.m. and the artist talk at 6:15 p.m. For nearly a decade, Baker Prindle has documented sites from California to New York that look extraordinarily ordinary, downright banal. Yet each of these places and their everyday landscapes has an important story to tell. His Mementi Mori series documents locations across the country where hate crimes against gay and lesbian individuals occurred. His images build on the traditions of portraiture, but quickly confound those traditions by using index, vernacular conventions, and the landscape to evoke impressions of the body that go beyond what is visually represented. The OXS Gallery is located at 716 N. Carson St., Suite A, in Carson City. The photographs will be on view until March 9th, 2018. More details: http://artscarsoncity.com/event/mementi-mori-paul-baker-prindle-nac-osx-gallery/

UNR Exhibition Reflexions: Artist Jim McCormick, who designed the unique home now used to house visiting artists with the Resident Artist Program in Silver City, has artwork in Joan Arrizabalaga’s new University Nevada, Reno exhibition. UNR galleries curator Paul Baker-Prindle asked Joan to choose pieces from the university’s permanent collection and create responses to them. She selected a few pieces from about 5,000 pieces owned by UNR, “including...a couple of lithographs of architectural interiors by the late Jim McCormick, who was a long-time UNR professor and a friend. ..She contemplated her selections for a while, then made a fresh body of work. Now, the pieces from the gallery’s collection and Arrizabalaga’s new works hang together in UNR’s Sheppard Gallery. Interior drawings of her own living room hang next to McCormick’s lithos..." Her exhibition, Reflexions, is on view at the Sheppard Contemporary Gallery in UNR’s Church Fine Arts building through February 23, 2018.

Abstractions is a new exhibition in Reno at the Sierra Arts Foundation gallery featuring the work of internationally exhibited artists Susan Watson and Nes Lerpa. Stop by Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Feb 24 2018. Danish artist Nes Lerpa brought a pop-up show of his large scale abstract paintings to the Silver City School House in 2014, and donated copies of his book Nes Nevada to the local volunteer library, and donated a number of his smaller paintings to help fight the encroachment of open pit mining on Silver City.

Silver City Historic Cemetery Advisory Committee Meets Saturday, February 24, 2018 - 11:00 am at the School House. On the agenda: discuss preservation of the historic section of the cemetery and construction of a new section.

Monthly Acoustic Jam at the Silver City School House, Saturday, February 24, 2018 from 3pm-5pm and Saturday March 24 from 3pm-5pm. Bring your instruments and play along with everyone. All are welcome.

Symphony: Diane Kotik of Silver City will perform with the Carson City Symphony Concert on Sunday, February 25 at 4:00 pm at the Carson City Community Center. Cellist Stephen Framil will be performing American composer Victor Herbert’s Cello Concerto No. 2.

Culinary Arts: The public is warmly invited to join dietitian Kim Mason and chef Cynthia Kroon for a free healthy cooking demonstration, followed by dinner, on Monday Feb 26th at 5:30pm at the Dayton Valley Community Center at 170 Pike Street. Bring a friend or meet news ones at the free class. There’s no need to register, and everyone is welcome. On the menu this month: Asian noodles with peanut sauce, Crunchy Pea and Turkey Salad, and Warm Blueberry Crisp. Questions? Call Healthy Communities at 246-7550 or see healthycomm.org

Artist Reception at McCormick House: There will be a reception on Saturday, March 3 from 2:30pm -5:30pm for the Resident Artist Program in Silver City’s winter visiting artist, Allison Rasmussen.Stop by for light refreshments, plus live music by Mylo McCormick, and see what she's created during her Residency this winter. (McCormick House is the housing for visiting artists with the Resident Artist Program). Allison is an honors student at Argent Preparatory Academy studying art at Western Nevada College through their early college entry program which will allow her to complete an Associate degree by age 18. Each year, the Resident Artist Program in Silver City hosts at least one young emerging artist.

Meet and Greet with Sarah [McCormick] Peters at McCormick House: There will be a meet and greet with Assembly District 24 candidate Sarah Peters on Saturday, March 10th at 2:30pm at McCormick House. The event includes appetizers, an opportunity to see some of the artwork in the permanent collection of the Resident Artist Program, and time to discuss issues with Sarah. At heart, Sarah is a problem-solver who has dedicated her career to strengthening Nevada. With over a decade of experience in Environmental Engineering, she has been part of a team that provides technical support for complex site cleanups such as the Yerington Anaconda Mine CERCLA Site in Northern Nevada and the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin. She understands federal and state regulations and how those affect Nevada families’ quality of life. Sarah will spend her time in the Assembly advocating for everyday Nevadans, prioritizing clean air, safe water, good schools, and jobs with living wages. As a homegrown candidate who was born and raised in Nevada and attended its public schools, Sarah has a deep understanding of the region, and she’s equipped to fight for Nevadans. Sarah is the granddaughter of artist Jim McCormick and businesswoman Sandy McCormick, who built McCormick House in Silver City in 1972.
Photo: SARAH PETERS

New Book of Poetry and More: This winter emerging artist Allison Rasmussen is creating a permanent artwork for the Resident Artist Program in Silver City using Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet David Lee's poem "Silver City Dawn Psalm" as its focus. His poem about a sunrise in Silver City, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, will be published in a new collection of poetry next year, along with other poems he wrote during Residencies in Silver City in 2016 and 2017. In more good news, he’s visiting Silver City again this February 2018 and is being interviewed by KNVC (where Silver City’s Joe McCarthy is General Manager). David Lee is Utah’s first and longest serving poet laureate. He was named one of the 12 greatest writers to ever emerge from the state by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities. He was previously considered as a candidate for Poet Laureate of the United States, and his books Last Call and Bluebonnets, Firewheels, and Brown-Eyed Susans were both nominated for a Pulitizer Prize.

DAVID LEE AT THE SILVER CITY SCHOOL HOUSE

The exhibition Mountain Picassos:Basque Arborglyphs of the Great Basin will be at St. Mary's Art Center in Virginia City from March 12—May 4, 2018. http://nvculture.org/nevadaartscouncil/exhibitions/nti-traveling-exhibition/nti-schedule/

Silver City Arts group meets at the Silver City School House on Wed March 14th at 7pm. Contact Dr. Carol Godwin for more details: godwinsilvercity@aol.com

Spring Visiting Artist in Silver City: The Resident Artist Program’s Spring 2018 Resident will be Megan Berner of Reno, who has also experienced an art residency in the Arctic Circle. Megan explains , "One thing I was struck by while in the Arctic was how similar the geology is to Nevada...In some ways, they are both extreme environments...[Both Nevada and the Arctic are] dramatic, awesome, stark, vast, I would even use sublime in the true sense of the word for both, stunningly beautiful and maybe a bit harsh." Megan creates site-specific installations that incorporate video and sound and constructs performative scenes that ultimately exist as photographs. She has a Masters in Fine Arts in Intermedia with a minor in drawing, and is the public art program coordinator with the City of Reno's Arts, Culture and Events department where she works to further the City's public art goals and maintain its public art collection.

MEGAN BERNER

International Collaboration: Two of the Resident Artist Program in Silver City’s previous Residents, Danish writer Peter Krogh Andersen and emerging Nevada artist Marielle Toll, are collaborating. When Peter met Marielle in 2017, he asked her if she'd be interested in illustrating his short story, "The Beast". Now the two are collaborating to publish the illustrated allegory. Peter writes, "It was actually written with Europe in mind but the presidential campaign suddenly made it fit the US. The kinds of animals have been changed after my stay in the dome [McCormick House] - and now with Marielle’s drawings the cross-continent circle is complete."

PETER KROGH ANDERSEN, MARIELLE TOLL, SAM TOLL, CHRISTINA BALSVARDE, THEO MCCORMICK AT MCCORMICK HOUSE 2017

True Grit: In May and June, Carson City will host a series of events funded by the National Endowment of the Arts. The Big Read is centered around True Grit, the Charles Portis novel that tells the story of a young girl, Mattie Ross, who seeks to avenge her father's murder with the help of Rooster Cogburn, a man she thinks has true grit. There will be about 30 separate events, according to Mark Salinas, director of Carson City Arts and Culture. Silver City native Mylo McCormick will perform during a reception for an art show and the NEA True Grit kickoff event at the Western Nevada College gallery on May 3 at 5pm. Photo: MYLO MCCORMICK

At the Nevada State Museum, Carson City in February:

Frances Humphrey Lecture Series: Victorian Fashions and Dress Reform by Jan Loverin.Thursday, February 22, 2018 – 6:30 to 8:00 pm at the Nevada State Museum, Carson City. This lecture is an engaging look at women’s 19th century fashions. Reservations needed. Contact Mary Works Covington at 689-4810 ex. 224 or mcovington@nevadaculture.org

Plants and animals of Nevada by George Baumgardner, Ph.D. Friday, February 23, 2018, 10:00 am and 1:30 pm. Contact Holly Payson 687-4810 ext. 222 for reservations.

Basketry Collection by Gene Hattori, Ph.D. 10:00 am and 1:00 pm – Basketry Collection by Gene Hattori, Ph.D. Contact Holly Payson 687-4810 ext. 222 for reservations.
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For purpose of brevity: School House = Silver City School House/community center at 385 High Street, Silver City, Nevada 89428.