Quest's Winter Reading Picks

The goal of reading is not always pleasure. Sometimes we need to be reminded of history, and what might yet come to be if we ignore those lessons. Yale Professor of History Timothy Snyder, author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, writes, "A final plurality has to do with time. The state endures to create a sense of durability. When we lack a sense of past and future, the present feels like a shaky platform, an uncertain basis for action. The defence of states and rights is impossible to undertake if no one learns from the past or believes in the future. Awareness of history permits recognition of ideological traps and generates scepticism about demands for immediate action because everything has suddenly changed. Confidence in the future can make the world seem like something more than, in Hitler’s words, “the surface area of a precisely measured space”. Time, the fourth dimension, can make the three dimensions of space seem less claustrophobic. Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy. A sense of the future has to be created in the present from what we know of the past, the fourth dimension built out from the three of daily life." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/16/hitlers-world-may-not-be-so-far-away

Fiction Picks

1984 by George Orwell

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Always Coming Home by Ursula LeGuin

The Windup Girl (2009) by Paolo Bacigalupi

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

Alone in Berlin (1947) by Hans Fallada

Nonfiction Picks

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder

The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior

The Rebel by Albert Camus

Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel

The Captive Mind by Czesław Milosz

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev

A Love Letter to Trump Supporters

In her latest essay, Sarah Kendzior, an anthropologist who has been studying authoritarian states for more than a decade, explains, "I wrote this for the Trump supporters who are my neighbors. I wrote this for the USA."

She tells Trump supporters, "I am writing this not for those who oppose him, but for those who support him, because Trump and his backers are going to hurt you too. I live in Missouri, now a bright red state, alongside you. I have faced the same economic misery as you, struggling to stay afloat since the recession, which never ended though many falsely claimed it did. I have the same anxiety over crime and racial tension and corrupt leadership as you. I am an independent, not a Democrat or a Republican, because I am as disappointed in political parties as you.

I am writing down my own good memories, and some of them are with you...You do not deserve what is going to happen to you, and I do not deserve what is going to happen to me, because there is absolutely no one in the world who deserves what may be coming...You can look to the president-elect himself for a vision of what is to come. He has told you his plans all along, though most chose to downplay or deny them...

Authoritarianism is not merely a matter of state control, it is something that eats away at who you are. It makes you afraid, and fear can make you cruel. It compels you to conform and to comply and accept things that you would never accept, to do things you never thought you would do.

You do it because everyone else is doing it, because the institutions you trust are doing it and telling you to do it, because you are afraid of what will happen if you do not do it, and because the voice in your head crying out that something is wrong grows fainter and fainter until it dies. That voice is your conscience, your morals, your individuality. No one can take that from you unless you let them. They can take everything from you in material terms – your house, your job, your ability to speak and move freely. They cannot take away who you truly are. They can never truly know you, and that is your power.

My heart breaks for the United States of America. It breaks for those who think they are my enemies as much as it does for my friends...We are heading into dark times, and you need to be your own light. Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned...If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave – and it is often hard to be brave – be kind."

Read the entire essay here: https://thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-heading-into-dark-times-this-is-how-to-be-your-own-light-in-the-age-of-trump/1611114266432-e23ea1a6

Terrorealismus, Kendell Geers (2003, Switzerland)

Silver City, Nevada Featured in Western Rural Development Magazine

Silver City, Nevada, a community located in the historic Comstock region near Virginia City, was highlighted in the Fall 2016 issue of Rural Connections, a publication of the Western Rural Development Center. The magazine is published to inform the nation on timely research and activities by the West’s land-grant institutions and regional/national agencies as it relates to rural development issues in the West. Contributors include researchers, faculty, Extension researchers, specialists and agents, practitioners, and professionals from throughout the West. To read the rest of the articles in the magazine, follow the link below, or scroll down and click on the images to enlarge the images and read the two page feature on Silver City:

http://wrdc.usu.edu/files/publications/publication/pub__606284.pdf

PHOTO FROM WESTERN RURAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER

Silver City Newsletter, Summer and Fall 2016

This Silver City newsletter includes a list of upcoming Silver City events, news about the recent Nevada Supreme Court hearing, a link to the results of a recent Silver City town survey, summaries of the annual summer program in Silver City, links to articles about the first big concert at Silver City’s new outdoor stage, and articles about the Resident Artist Program in Silver City.

Fall Events:

Mary MacDonald Memorial Sept 24th: There will be a memorial service for Mary MacDonald, a long time Silver City resident who loved flowers, music, art and beautiful food, at the Silver City School House on Saturday, Sept. 24 at 1pm. Please bring a potluck dish, memories and any photos you'd like to share. Obituary: http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/obituaries/24012344-113/mary-cerstvik-macdonald

Acoustic Music Jam Saturday, September 24 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. If the weather is good, it will be held in the park on the new Silver Pavilion outdoor stage, but if not, it will be in the School House. Bring your instruments and jam. This Silver City Arts event is held on the 4th Saturday of each month. Follow Silver City Arts here: https://www.facebook.com/Silver-City-Arts-618872294885649/

Silver City Advisory Board Applications: Anyone interested in serving on the Advisory Board for the town can go to the Lyon County website to find an application. The next Advisory Board meeting is on Tuesday, October 4 at 7:00 pm at the School House. More about the Advisory Board here: http://www.lyon-county.org/221/Silver-City-Town-Advisory-Board

Oct Silver City Arts group meeting: Thursday, October 13 at 7 p.m. under the trees in the park if the weather holds, otherwise, meet in the School House. Agenda: discussion of possible winter exhibition of paintings by local artist Larry Kotik. FAQ about Silver City Arts here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/silver-city-arts/what-does-silver-city-arts-do/915220355250840

Concert at the School House with Rick Shea and also The Good Intentions on Sunday, October 16, 2016. Doors open at 4 pm, Show at 5 pm. Details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/516376968532976/

News:

Silver City Town Survey Report Now on Lyon County Website: Silver City Town Advisory Board Chair Erich Obermayr writes, "I am very happy to announce that the Silver City Town Survey is now available on the Lyon County website. On behalf of the Advisory Board, and the Silver City community, I want to express our special thanks and appreciation to County staff and the Commissioners for helping to make our survey a success." The Silver City Citizen Advisory Board undertook a town survey for the purpose of providing the Advisory Board with information about the community, and the issues and concerns important to residents. The survey can be found here: http://www.lyon-county.org/DocumentCenter/View/7129

Comstock Residents’ Association vs. Lyon County Board of Commissioners: Joe McCarthy of the Comstock Resident’s Association said of the Sept 14th hearing with the Nevada Supreme Court that the “Supreme Court oral arguments were an inspiring display of judicial excellence. A significant number of Silver City folks showed up, filling up the room. Daan Eggenberger, Kate Marshall, Bob Fulkerson, John Hadder and others were all in the house, plus numerous UNR students, and several Reno attorneys serving as observers. The justices were gracious, funny and engaging. It was a first class event. Incredibly transparent, open, educational and uplifting. Lawyers from both sides were professional and well prepared. Our attorney, John Marshall, was exceptional. He was flat out outstanding and we're grateful to have him arguing for our side. Even if the outcome of the court ruling is not in our favor, the Comstock Residents Association will continue to explore every legal avenue to head off further desecration of the beautiful Virginia City National Historic Landmark and the vibrant communities of Gold Hill and Silver City with industrial scale mining where it doesn't work or belong.” A decision is expected in one to two months. More about the case in this RGJ article: http://www.rgj.com/story/news/local/mason-valley/2016/09/21/court-panel-hears-oral-arguments-comstock-residents-case-county/90797206/

Silver City Has a New Outdoor Performance Stage: The “Silver Pavilion” Inaugura- Palooza concert on August 20th was a big success with at least 150 folks from near and far in attendance during the 6 hour event. The festival style public event was held to celebrate the much anticipated addition of a new outdoor stage to the region’s arts and music scene. Continuing the long tradition of live music on the Comstock, the new “Silver Pavilion” in the Park will serve as a center for live music and performing arts in a beautiful high desert setting. The event was reviewed in the RGJ, the Mason Valley News, the Nevada Appeal, the Comstock Chronicle, Carson NOW, and This is Reno, as well as Nevada Travel Network News. More about the stage and the concert: http://nevadaweb.com/travelnetnews/new-stage-in-silver-city-adds-to-comstocks-live-music-and-theater-venues/

Comstock Photographs and Stories in Oct 2017 Haldan Art Gallery Exhibition at Tahoe: Internationally acclaimed photographer Frances Melhop writes, "thanks to the Resident Artist Program in Silver City I was awarded a residency in August in order to complete a project that has been in progress for 3 years. The Comstock Portrait Project. The Resident Artist Program in Silver City is a privately funded arts and community project run and supported by Quest Lakes and Theo McCormick. McCormick’s father, the well known Nevadan print maker and installation artist Jim McCormick, built the series of geodesic domes to live and work in in the early 1970s. It is a hobbit house in the desert! For a week I photographed locals in the historic school house studio with the help of Quest, who is a programming and scheduling magician, Mary Works Covington, film maker, who recorded stories from the portrait subjects, and 3 amazing interns, (Ava Covington, Marielle Toll, and Cora Jeffreys). I can’t thank all of you enough! Deep into the night I was editing and listening to the hours of recordings. Amazing stories and recollections of the Comstock in the 60s and 70s to present day." To view some of the photogaphs by Frances and the interns, go to Frances’ website:
http://www.frances-melhop.com/news/

PHOTO BY MARY WORKS COVINGTON

Silver City Summer Program 2016: With collaboration among many groups, the annual free summer program included free events for children, teens and adults. Events included a United Way fun fair for preschoolers and their parents with a theme of literacy; hands-on engineering activities with the Society of Women Engineers and science experiments with University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s Jim Barcellos; and a children’s bicycle safety rodeo with Western Safe Routes to Schools. For teens and adults, the summer included a reading by poet Shaun Griffin from his new memoir and a pop-up exhibit and reception for local artist Karen Kreyeski's "Women's Project: The Gift" (both sponsored by Silver City Arts), a music seminar with guitarist Mylo McCormick, dance lessons with Jessica Sanford of Earlham College, an illustration workshop with London-based artist Claire Scully and an embroidery workshop artist Stewart Easton of the United Kingdom (sponsored through the Resident Artist Program). Also, the ship art piece made by Oakland artist Scott MacLeod in collaboration with Silver City residents was on display all summer at St. Mary’s Art Center in Virginia City. More here: http://nevadatravel.net/travelgram/wp/index.php/silver-city-correspondence-june-2016/

Poet Dave Lee, his wife Jan and their dog Jax are staying at McCormick House in Silver City from Aug-Dec 2016 while Dr. Lee teaches a graduate level poetry class at UNR. He'll also be offering a free poetry workshop and reading in Silver City in the Fall or Winter (dates TBD - those events are sponsored through the Resident Artist Program in Silver City with additional support through Healthy Communities Coalition). Utah's first poet laureate, Lee has been a boxer, pig farmer, seminary student, cotton mill worker, and a baseball player. He’s received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts and the Entrada Institute’s Ward Roylance Award, and was also considered as a candidate for Poet Laureate of the U.S. His book Last Call was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The Utah Endowment for the Humanities declared him to be one of the 12 greatest writers to ever emerge from the state. Dr. Lee is enjoying his time in Silver City, and had these remarks about hiking above Silver City and hearing music from the town's new outdoor stage (during CRA's rummage sale): "I hiked a long way yesterday. Way up. Almost to the point where I could look over and be looking down at VC. Way way up there I heard the music... One of the best concerts I've ever heard in my life....It was a moment of epiphany for me. I sang along with Tumbling Tumbleweeds, deliriously, off key and viva voce and when we finished, all together, in fact, I stayed still for a while, seconds, maybe minutes, time was suspended, and when I came back there were 3 jackrabbits almost within spitting distance of me, staring at me, all, and I could hear them wondering Who and what in the world is this? and 2 hawks directly overhead screeing, and I came back and then walked away, down, and the jackrabbits did not move, and the hawks, for a short way, lead the way, singing. Glory."

Comstock Residents Association’s Rummage Sale and BBQ: The annual Labor Day weekend event to raise funds to preserve the historic landmark was very successful, with music on the new outdoor stage adding spice. CRA kindly donated left over items to the Dayton Food Pantry, the Silver Stage Little Free Library, the Silver City Volunteer Library, the annual Walk in Memory, Walk for Hope suicide prevention event, and other nonprofits. More here: http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/08/29/2016/big-comstock-rummage-sale-and-bbq-live-music-benefits-historic-preservatio

Articles

Silver City has been in the news quite a bit lately. Below are links to a few of the articles:

The Resident Artist Program was featured in the Arts Section of the Reno News and Review! “Rural Retreat” was written by Kris Vagner: https://www.newsreview.com/reno/rural-retreat/content?oid=21873439

The Silver Pavilion: >A review of the first big concert at the Silver Pavilion was included in print and online news in Reno, Carson City, Virginia City, etc. Below are links:

http://thisisreno.com/calendar/silver-citys-new-stage-adds-comstocks-live-music-performing-arts-venues/

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/23674524-113/story.html

http://www.rgj.com/story/news/local/leader-courier/2016/08/16/silver-city-celebrates-pavilion-inaugura-palooza/88872420/

http://nevadaweb.com/travelnetnews/new-stage-in-silver-city-adds-to-comstocks-live-music-and-theater-venues/

Articles about the Comstock Resident’s Associations annual Rummage Sale and concert:

http://www.rgj.com/story/news/local/leader-courier/2016/08/29/labor-day-rummage-sale-benefits-comstock-preservation/89554318/

http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/08/29/2016/big-comstock-rummage-sale-and-bbq-live-music-benefits-historic-preservatio

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/23674890-113/story.html

Articles about the Summer Program

http://nevadatravel.net/travelgram/wp/index.php/silver-city-correspondence-june-2016/

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/sports/22201904-113/story.html

http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/08/02/2016/bike-safety-rodeo-kids-tuesday-august-9th

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/22940991-113/silver-city-hosting-free-engineering-activities-for-children

http://www.rgj.com/story/news/local/leader-courier/2016/06/17/science-fun-kids-june-21-silver-city/86052398/

http://www.rgj.com/story/news/local/leader-courier/2016/06/17/science-fun-kids-june-21-silver-city/86052398/

http://arts4nevada.org/opportunities/15/07/2016/narrative-stitching-workshop-london-based-artist-stewart-easton

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/sports/22836520-113/story.html

New Titles at Silver City's Volunteer Library

Silver City, Nevada- There are lots of new titles at the Silver City Volunteer Library. We've rotated the collection, bringing many from the downstairs collection, and adding completely new titles donated by the Comstock Residents Association from their delightful annual rummage sale. Below are a few of the new titles:

Nonfiction

Enoteca: Simple, Delicious Recipes in the Italian Wine Bar Tradition by Joyce Goldstein

The Glass Pantry: Preserving Seasonal Flavors

The Art Lovers Cookbook: A Feast for the Eye

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff

My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Getting into the ACT: Official Guide to the ACT

Fiction

Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner

El viejo y el mar by Ernest Hemingway

Red Dust by Gillian Slovo- Review: "This remarkable exposition of a Truth Commission amnesty hearing in a backwater South African town underscores that "the full truth" is more complex than court transcript or verdict can ever reveal. South African police brutally tortured and murdered at will in their unfettered efforts to crush the "terrorist" acts of black rebels against apartheid. Now those rebels occupy the higher branches of government while the offending policemen are imprisoned... Amnesty hearings are meant to bring closure to the violent period that ended apartheid by forgiving crimes by former officials, where possible. But this powerful novel — full of legal and emotional twists and turns—strips bare the torment forever ingrained in victim and jailer alike, a torment that runs through all segments of post-apartheid society."

Mysteries

The Dante Club by Matt Pearl: " Set amidst a series of murders in the American Civil War era, it also concerns a club of poets, including such historical figures as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and James Russell Lowell, who are translating Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy from Italian into English and who notice parallels between the murders and the punishments detailed in Dante's Inferno."

Poetry

Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Blood Sister, I am to These Fields by Linda Hussa

Young Readers

City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (Sci-fi)

Valley of Secrets by Charmain Hussey- Review: "Stephen Lansbury, an English orphan who has never known his relatives, receives an amazing inheritance from his great-uncle. Now he owns an estate called Lansbury Hall in Cornwall. He must meet the conditions of the will in order to inherit the property: leave the grounds and house as they are, never invite anyone to visit, and never share the results of his Great-Uncle Theodore's research...Stephen discovers and shares Great-Uncle Theodore's long-ago adventures on the Amazon River by reading his travel journals. In fact, Stephen is soon convinced that reading his uncle's journals will unlock the mystery of his new home. But will it also somehow give him the money he'll need to keep Lansbury Hall?"

Children's Titles

Diez Deditos: Play Rhymes of Latin America

Ready to Read by Rosemary Wells

And dozens and dozens more...

Scott MacLeod's "Spectacularly Unsuccessful Writer's Residency" in Silver City, Nevada

Following is Scott MacLeod's beautifully written summary of his time at the Resident Artist Program in Silver City in the Spring of 2016. Photo credits: Scott MacLeod and Quest Lakes:

"Well, this has been a spectacularly unsuccessful writer's residency. I came to Silver City to isolate myself and write about some of the more exciting moments of my past, but I ended up just creating yet more exciting moments in the present.

Instead of being able to hole up in McCormick House and ignore a bleak, wintery locale populated by aloof eccentrics, I found myself in the middle of an emerging springtime, drawn into lively interactions with fascinating, generous residents who were eager to talk with me, show me around, and help me accomplish what became my overriding obsession: to build as many found-object sailing ship sculptures/models as I could in the six weeks I was here.

Together with about a dozen local full-time, part-time and occasional collaborators, I built the USS Silver Clipper, a three-masted schooner that is a gift from its makers to the City of Silver. I hope that it brings pleasure when you view it here and pride when it's exhibited in other locations next year.

Alone, I built another three-masted schooner that I eventually decided to name the USS Bob McKinney, because that's what these kinds of namings are supposed to do: help us remember people and events that, for one reason or another, should not be forgotten. One week before I left, with the generous help of a neighbor, I "sailed" that ship up into the hills and set it free to wander (metaphorically) the landscape that sheltered Bob McKinney for years. That neighbor shall remain nameless, to protect against curious inquiries about that ship's location.

I also half-built a third ship, the USS Peter W. Blethen, named after my good friend from college days in Colorado. Pete made a good life for himself in Minnesota, with lots of kids and grandkids, but died too young, ie. 60, ie. my age, of brain cancer. Again, the making and naming are essentially acts of loving and remembering. I will bring this ship back home to Oakland CA and finish it there this summer.

I'd built a couple of these sailing ship things before but hadn't realized how apt and adaptable this type of project would be in this type of situation. I'm now looking forward to trying to build ships together with other people in other places. Though it will be hard to find other places with as much readily-available crap - I mean: raw materials - as Silver City, and probably harder to find other places with people as interesting and generous as those who worked with me here these past six weeks.

PHOTO OF FRED SWANSON

I also got inspired to start a new but related project: I started making ghost towns and putting them up in the hills. The shacks and cabins and forts that make up these ghost towns are land-locked cousins of the sailing ships; they are not accurate or exactly to scale, but are somewhat abstract, ramshackle sculptures that hopefully evoke the forlorn mystique of a bygone world of people not entirely unlike us: eccentric, generous, tragic, joyful, alive and, eventually, dead and forgotten.

Our own pasts and presents overlap and intertwine with those of everyone we meet, sometimes creating confusion as contradictory desires and fears and points of view clash. The current state of live, streaming technology is allowing all of us, world-wide, to clash and fear and be confused all day long over the internet, without giving us many resources for resolving those anxieties and antagonisms. I treasure my time spent in Silver City partly because it will always remind me how valuable and satisfying it is to work together with others, strangers in the morning and comrades by evening, face to face and shoulder to shoulder in common cause. Just for the sheer pleasure of it really. I thank all of you, even those of you I didn't meet, for making Silver City a special place and I wish you all the best in the future and in the everlasting present.

Scott MacLeod

Thank you:

Quest Lakes, Fred Swanson, Theo McCormick, Molly Allander, Las Swanson, Susie Crowley, Cyndy Etchegoin, Sheree Rose, Theo McCormick, Johne Behner, Mylo McCormick, Renate Victor, Karen Kreyeski, Bob Elston, Henry Park, Matt Elms, Greg Melton, Will Rose, Cashion Callaway, Lila Lindsay, Brittanie Mullings, Sharon Rosse, Glenn Clemmer, Chad Sorg, Bill Burnaugh/Capitol City Loans, Tony/Nifty Thrifty, Healthy Communities Coalition & the Resident Artist Program in Silver City, St. Mary's Art Center, and Marielle Toll.

Acclaimed Photographer Frances Melhop at the Resident Artist Program in Silver City in August 2016

Silver City, Nevada - Narrative, story-telling visual artist 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 this summer. She'll set up a temporary studio at the Silver City School House during August 2016, photographing some of the Comstock’s longtime residents for a 2017 exhibition at the Haldan Art Gallery at Tahoe. As part of the project, portrait subjects are also able to record personal or Comstock stories to accompany their photos. Silver City native Mary Works Covington, known for her film Rockin’ at the Red Dog and for her work as assistant sound and/or dialog editor for films such as Titanic, Saving Private Ryan and The English Patient, will provide technical assistance with the recordings.

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, and Glamour, to Face, ID, Purple, Marie Clarie Italia, Elle, Vogue Pelle, Vogue Gioello, and D della Repubblica.

Photographs from Frances' 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. She explains that as a resident of Nevada for the last 5 years, her attention has turned to "portraiture and its geographical and biographical content."

Born in New Zealand, Frances attended the University of Canterbury where she studied Psychology, German language, Philosophy and Political Science, then the Sydney Institute of Technology, Australia where she studied technical photography for three years. With courses soon to be completed at the University Nevada Reno School of Fine Art, she plans to teach at the university level in the U.S.

"Frances has also been the inspiration for the design of the visiting artist program here in Silver City," said Quest Lakes, director of the resident artist program in Silver City. "While director at St. Mary's Art Center in Virginia City, Northern Nevada Development Authority named Frances "Innovator of the Year" within a 5 county region. The well-deserved award stemmed from her extraordinary work through the Art Center. She introduced new talent to the region, showcased Nevada artists, and found grants and donations for programming, artists and restoration of the historic building. During her time at St. Mary's, she revitalized the Art Center with a new website, a high quality Resident Artist program, and curation of more than 30 exhibitions each year. She's a role model for some of the things my husband [Theo McCormick] and I would like to develop at the Program in Silver City."

What is the Resident Artist Program? A multi-faceted visiting artist program is developing in the small but vibrant community of Silver City, providing a venue for those from other parts of the U.S. and the world to engage with the community and the region through the arts. Silver City is located on the Comstock, within one of the nation's largest federally designated historic landmarks. Recently declared an "Arts and Culture Resources Production Center," Silver City is already home to a surprising number of Nevada's highly productive artists, musicians, photographers, writers, actors, artisans, historians, and archaeologists. Those creating in the performing, visual, media, or literary arts are being invited to reside for up to 4 months at McCormick House, a geodesic dome designed in the 1970s by Nevada artist Jim McCormick. As part of the residency, visiting artists offer free public performances, exhibitions, readings, workshops, etc. for the Northern Nevada community.

Acknowledgments: The project is sponsored through the Resident Artist Program of Silver City, with added assistance from photography interns Marielle Toll, Cora Jeffreys, and Ava Covington, and additional support from Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey.