Virginia City art exhibit showcases folklife for Nevada Sesquicentennial
The Comstock History Center presents “One Is Silver, the Other Is Gold: Celebrating 25 Years of Nevada Folklife Apprenticeships” featuring 22 visual artists who have received grant support from the Nevada Arts Council as master or apprentice artists in a variety of folk traditions.
Each recognized master is encouraged to work with one or more dedicated apprentices so that their traditional art forms and personal contributions endure.
The exhibit is free to the public and runs from Aug. 1 to Sept. 28, 2014 at the Comstock History Center, 20 N. E Street, Virginia City. The center is open Thursdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The artists come from a range of tribal, ethnic, cultural, and occupational groups found throughout Nevada in both rural and urban communities.
They include artists from among the indigenous Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe peoples and the skilled ranchers, miners, loggers, and railroad workers long a part of the state’s history. They also include more recent immigrants from all parts of North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
The exhibit highlights the work of 20th and 21st century Nevada folk artists involved in passing on their skills in traditional arts dating back many generations or even centuries, but which are still vital and dynamic today. In celebration of the Silver Anniversary of Nevada’s Folklife Apprenticeship Program, the Nevada Arts Council salutes all 160 master artists and 243 apprentices who have participated in the program and maintain the heritage of their communities.
Organized by the Nevada Arts Council, “One Is Silver, the Other Is Gold,” is part of the Nevada Touring Initiative –Traveling Exhibition Program. It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nevada State Legislature. The Nevada Arts Council is a division of the Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs. The exhibit has also been selected to be a Nevada Sesquicentennial (Nevada 150) Program and Exhibit. For more information about Nevada 150, please visit www.nevada150.org.
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