Hello everyone! The NV Awe: Tiny Treasures book has been published!
It's available on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, etc.
Here is the direct link to purchase it.
NV AWE: Tiny Treasures: A Collaboration of Nevada Artists October 2023 - July 2024
Hello everyone! The NV Awe: Tiny Treasures book has been published!
It's available on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, etc.
Here is the direct link to purchase it.
The Discs are completed and installed at the RTIA show. Haley Deiro wrote this:
The Nevada Awe Project gave us an opportunity to meditate on the beautiful natural landscape of our amazing state and to creatively express our appreciation through this collaborative effort. Who was my counterpart for the project? Why, my very own Patrick Deiro @patrickdeiro!!! That's right, my husband is officially an artist! Together, we witnessed the transformative power of collaboration and opened a dialogue within the artistic community. Special thanks to @candacegarlock for making this happen and supporting your art kids in many ways.
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Stop by Booth A51 in the Heart of Reno and buy a NV Awe disc. Help support @doublescoopnevada #nvawe #nvawetinytreasures #nvartscouncil #nvartists #nevadaartists #rtia2024
Middle L-R: Elaine Parks, Beck Baumann, Grace Nichols, Haley Deiro, Tina Drakulich, Becca Lewis
Back L-R: April Gratrix, Ryan Korson, Emily Whittlesey, Baylee Spear, Madison (Maddy) Caperton, Brandon Lacow
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Kyle Karrasch, Elaine Parks and Kris Vagner |
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Emsley Lewis signing her name |
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Elliot Medina's Creation |
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Poem by Emily Whittlesey |
For a year, we have been creating these little NV AWE discs for a fundraiser for DoubleScoop at RTIA 2024. TMCC folks finished up the remaining discs and we are now officially finished. I can't wait to see them all displayed in September! - Candace
Here is what Micaela Rubalcava wrote about the discs she finished up: I love the playdough texture of the first layer on two of the discs made by children and the geometric shapes on the first layer of the other two discs. Those first layers made me think about interactions, harmonious and strained, between cultures, people, and animals in our high desert environment. I added high desert animals I've seen in Reno: brown rabbits, a frog, a tortoise. One rabbit leaps over a fence, posing a fairy tale question inspired by the child artist who made the fence and my own adult musings as I develop children's literature curriculum for this academic year: Is the rabbit going from the wilderness into someone's yard, or escaping a yard for freedom in the wilderness? Why? Is this rabbit trying to partake in someone's vegetable garden or escaping a trap? I imagine a happy little frog jumping for joy atop a mountain. I imagine a rabbit wanting to talk to the tortoise as both negotiate an urban skyscape. Another rabbit sprints between mountains purposefully, fleeing a foe or meeting a friend?
Kaitlin Young (electrikkdigital.com) captured our last gathering at the Lilley Museum. Take a look.
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Jill Ashenbach collaborating with Jutta Gietl. |