Fine art show’s 25th anniversary highlights Carson City, Carson Valley artists
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Mon, 10/28/2019 - 5:38pm
Event Date:
Repeats every day until Sat Nov 02 2019 .
November 1, 2019 (All day)
Event Date:
November 2, 2019 (All day) Artists from Carson City, Minden and Gardnerville will be featured at the 25th annual Northern Nevada Artisan Show and Sale this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2 in Reno.
The event’s 25th anniversary will be dedicated to the memory of Jim McCormick, UNR Art Department chair, artist, curator and one of the founders of the show. Admission is free.
Media ranging from acrylic painting to pottery to photography and much more will be on display at this year’s show at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. A special feature of the show this year will be free watercolor lessons for children. In addition, of 20 pieces of original art will be given away.
Christine Shively-Benjamin of Carson City returns to the show with her beautiful, intricate art dolls that have earned her a national following. She uses paint, Pigma pens and colored pencils to create faces on her cloth figures. She is past president of the Original Doll Artists Council of America.
Watercolor and acrylic paintings will be featured by Minden painter, Don Fotine. The award-winning artist’s paintings have been selected for the annual Genoa Candy Dance poster.
Gardnerville resident Louise Noel creates imaginative, bright, colorful paintings on silk. Birds, flowers, trees and inventive landscapes are some of her subjects. She has exhibited at more than 400 at shows throughout the western US.
“It’s hard to believe we have been offering this event to the community for 25 years,” says show co-chair Shelly Peinado. “In that time we have remained steadfast in presenting a variety of artistic media as well as price points to include most everyone’s interest and budget.”
According to Peinado, the show will feature pottery, outdoor photography, jewelry, wood and stone vessels, watercolor, acrylic and oil paintings, printmaking, fused glass and mosaics, basketry, decorative gourds, stained glass, art dolls, felted stuffed animals, textiles, candles, hand dyed silk scarves, knit hats and scarves and much more.
“We are very proud to be offering so much unique variety of art in this juried show,” says Peinado.
The show’s wine and hors d’oeuvre reception will be Friday, Nov. 1 from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
On Saturday, Nov. 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. a free drop-in watercolor workshop for children will be held at the show. Julie Sulahria, a local watercolorist who has been in the show for many years, will offer her expertise with fun, take-home projects for kids of all ages.
McCormick, a UNR professor of art for 32 years, helped start the art show in 1994 to provide local artists a place to showcase and sell their work.
Working in mixed media, drawings and print making, McCormick exhibited at shows throughout the country from San Francisco, to Dallas to New York City. Later in his career McCormick curated numerous shows throughout Nevada, wrote books about local artists and illustrated books of poetry.
He was a recipient of the UNR distinguished faculty award and received the Nevada Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.
The 25th annual Artisan Show and Sale will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 780 Del Monte Lane in Reno, just off the Neil Road or Meadowood Mall exits from I-580. For more information, call 851-7100. MasterCard and Visa will be accepted for all purchases.
- Carson City
- all ages
- America
- animals
- Anniversary
- art
- Art Show
- artisan
- artist
- artists
- arts
- Arts and Entertainment
- basketry
- Beautiful
- birds
- Books
- candles
- candy
- Career
- carson
- children
- City
- community
- Community,
- country
- dance
- Display
- drawings
- event
- faculty
- Fellowship
- fine art
- Fine art show’s 25th anniversary highlights local artists
- flowers
- Free
- FRIDAY
- fun
- Genoa
- Gourds
- information
- jewelry
- kids
- Kids!
- lessons
- local
- local artists
- Meadowood Mall
- media
- Minden
- Nevada
- nevada artists
- new
- New York City
- Northern Nevada
- oil
- outdoor
- Painting
- paintings
- photography
- poetry
- pottery
- President
- Print Making
- printmaking
- sale
- saturday
- sell
- Show
- Showcase
- stained glass
- Textiles
- the Arts
- Trees
- UNR
- watercolor
- western
- wine
- workshop
- Carson Valley
- Gardnerville
- reno
- san francisco
