Valedictorian of the 2018 graduating class at Argent Preparatory Academy, Rasmussen studied art at Western Nevada College through their early college entry program and completed her Associate of Arts degree at 18.
Her artwork has been in shows including the 2018 "True Grit" themed exhibition at Western Nevada College that included work by emerging Nevada artists, as well as by established Nevada artists such as Zoe Bray, Deon Reynolds, Carol Brown and Joan Arrizabalaga.
This is Rasmussen’s second time as a visiting artist with the Program in Silver City. Theo McCormick, co-founder of the Program, notes that in 2018 Rasmussen “made a gorgeous sign for the Resident Artist Program, based on a Nevada logo my father designed.” This Fall, she’s working on a mural inspired by David Lee’s poem “Silver City Dawn Psalm.”
Some of the Program’s alumni resident artists include Utah Poet Laureate David Lee, internationally acclaimed photographer Frances Melhop, opera librettist David Cote of New York, and London-based artist Stewart Easton, whose work has been on view around the U.S. and in England at the Tate Modern, the V & A Museum, and the University of Oxford’s Ashmolean museum of art and archaeology.
What Is the Resident Artist Program?
The Resident Artist Program in Silver City provides a venue for those from other parts of the U.S. and the world to engage with the people of northern Nevada through the arts. Those creating in the performing, visual, or literary arts reside for up to 3 months in the historic Comstock region at McCormick House, a geodesic dome designed in the 1970s by artist and University Nevada, Reno professor Jim McCormick. In exchange, visiting artists offer exhibitions, readings, concerts, workshops, etc. in Silver City and other Nevada communities. The Program is privately funded and directed. For more information, contact director Quest Lakes at quest@theodata.com.
