About Silver City: Silver City is located within one of the nation's largest federally designated historic landmarks, within easy driving distance of Virginia City, Reno, Lake Tahoe, and Carson City. The town's irreplaceable historic buildings and sites, and its crystal clear views of the Sierras and the Comstock, attract visiting plein air painters and photographers from around the West.
Summer Residencies: Through the Resident Artist Program, two artists, a dancer, a musician, and a photographer will visit Silver City this summer, offering free public lessons, workshops, exhibits, and/or performances in the Comstock region. Summer Residents will include:
Stewart Easton, an illustrator and embroiderer who hails from Coventry in the United Kingdom, will be at the Resident Program in the summer of 2016. Working in thread, ink, paint and digital, Stewart is a master of visual storytelling whose work "straddles the lines between Craft, Illustration and Fine Art. Using folk song and story as a starting point, Stewart weaves story-based narratives, utilizing the space of a single panel to explore time, movement and transition within his tapestry based works." During his residency, Stewart will offer workshops in narrative stitching, teaching participants how to design and stitch their own folkloric family stories. He will also be Sierra Arts featured artist during the entire month of July when Reno is Artown, and there will be a reception with Stewart on Thursday, July 21 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. for Sierra Arts members and from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. for the public. More about Stewart's work here: http://www.stewarteaston.net/
Mylo McCormick, a 16 year old high school junior, comes to the residency as part of the Program's support for young emerging artists, as well as for established artists. Now living in Carson City, Mylo was born in Silver City, Nevada. His first performances were with the High Street Band in the 4 towns of the historic Comstock region – Silver City, Virginia City, Gold Hill and Dayton. He learned to play guitar with Will Rose, a Vegas-born singer/songwriter who was the guitarist for the TV shows Taxi and Cheers and worked with the Four Tops, Lon Bronson’s Big Band, The Platters, and many Broadway musicals and Vegas production shows in addition to his own bands such as Red Rose. Today Mylo is lead guitarist with Mo'z Motley Blues, a Tahoe/ Carson Valley/Reno area "rockin' bluesy funky dance band" that performs everything from originals to covers of Jimi Hendrix, Patsy Cline, Elle King, Dwight Yoakam, James Brown, Meghan Trainor, Prince, Van Morrison, etc. This summer the band will play at Sierra Vista Winery in Placerville; Glenbrook Golf Club at Tahoe; Kirkwood Ski Resort; Taste of Downtown in Carson City; the historic Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City; Street Vibrations in Reno (they'll bring a full horn section), and many other venues. As part of his residency, Mylo will perform during St. Mary's Art Center's opening reception for their summer exhibitions, and at Silver City Arts group events. He'll also offer free slide guitar lessons during Silver City's annual arts and science summer program. More about Mylo here: https://www.facebook.com/Mylo-McCormick-Music-1052592938115029/
Jessica Sanford, who is also the Resident Artist Program's adviser on Dance, will offer dance lessons during her residency. She studied dance and social work at Indiana State University and teaches dance at Earlham College Wellness Center in Richmond, Indiana. With a Masters in Social Work from Indiana University, Jessica is also Director of Earlham College Counseling Services. She recently returned from St. Kitts where she learned about Kittitian dance, a fascinating combination of historic African and European dances, such as the 17th Century French "Quadrille" and African dances with ancient roots.
New Zealand -born photographer and illustrator Frances Melhop, voted “One of the World's 200 Best Advertising Photographers 2009/2010″ by Luerzers Archive, will bring her skills and talents to the Resident Artist Program in Silver City in August 2016. She'll set up a temporary studio in Silver City, photographing some of the town's longtime residents for a future exhibition at the Haldan Art Gallery in Tahoe. Based in Australia for a decade, then in Milan, Italy for the next decade, Frances is well known in Europe and the South Pacific as a creator of extraordinary and unique imagery in the fashion and advertising arena. Her photographs have appeared in European magazines such as Vogue Italia, Vogue France, British Vogue, Glamour, Marie Clarie Italia, Elle, Vogue Pelle, etc. Photographs from her fairytale inspired series- which she describes as "an imaginary world of tall-tales, dreams, games of scale, surreality and story-telling" - have been exhibited in Paris, Cannes, Rome, Albuquerque, Virginia City, Reno, etc. Now living in Nevada, Frances has continued to produce outstanding work on the Comstock and beyond, including portraits of Virginia City residents, and panoramic portraits of the Burning Man arts and music festival. More about Frances here: http://www.frances-melhop.com/
For more information about the program contact director Quest Lakes at 847-0742, or see https://www.facebook.com/silvercitynevadaresidentartistprogram/
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