Discs documented on July 26

 

NV AWE GATHERINGS AT THE LILLEY photos taken by Kaitlin Young.

 Kaitlin Young (electrikkdigital.com) captured our last gathering at the Lilley Museum. Take a look.

Jill Ashenbach collaborating with Jutta Gietl.

Our RTIA Dolan Family having a LOT of fun!

High Desert

 

We were born and raised in northern Nevada and have a strong connection to this place as home. Although generations apart, we grew up in Nevada’s high desert elevations. This place is ingrained in us. It’s easy to imagine that our tough-girl attitudes about working hard and being resilient have been passed down to both of us through the generations of our families that came before us, enduring to make Nevada their home.

We first met and developed a connection over ten years ago at the University of Nevada, Reno, in the sculpture studio. Though we have stayed in touch over the years, we hadn’t collaborated until now. The resulting piece emerged from a mutual appreciation for each other’s visual sensibilities and resonates with our shared origins.

Without a doubt, the high desert has influenced our reductive visual aesthetic, our deliberate use of color, our attraction to raw natural materials, and our fascination with found things that possess history. There is a certain poetics to all of it. Blanketing bare surfaces with felt, sewing the sky to the land, and casting rugged thistle into delicate porcelain are all gestures full of meaning.

Kara Savant and Tamara Scronce

July 18

 

NV AWE: Love by Carol Neel and Penny Pemberton

 “We have experienced Awe as an overwhelming feeling of profound amazement and wonder which  resulted in a deep spiritual reverence and appreciation. 

We have been deeply touched by Awe in the presence of nature, listening to music, spiritual contemplation , moments of  deep understanding and learning, exploring the mysteries & intricacies of the human body and the universe.  

The most cherished Awe experience that we have is the everlasting deep love that we have shared for 39 years.  

Penny and Carol “

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

Aristotle

July is Artown in Reno

 

Fluffy Love!

 

July 15 Cardiac Awe by Carol Neel and Penny Pemberton

 

July 14

 

July 13 documentation

 

Chickadee Ridge by Penny Pemberton

 Inspired by an art journalling day on July 7, 2012

Chickadee ridge, Mount Rose, with Carol Neel, Penny Pemberton & Candace Garlock. Feeding the Chickadees &  sketching.

“I hear you call

Your call comes to me

From a distant tree

Chickadee dee dee

I love the birds I hear & see

But my favorite is the Chickadee.”

Tich Nhat Hanh, Grand Shambala 

“When we see that the Earth is not just the environment, that the Earth is in us, at that moment you can have real communion with the Earth.  The Earth is a living, sentient being.  The Earth gave birth to us, and the Earth will receive us again.  Nothing is lost.  Nothing is born.  Nothing dies.  We don’t need to wait until after our body has disintegrated to go back to Mother Earth.  We are going back to Mother Earth at every moment.  The Earth is a Bodhisattva, a great and compassionate being.  A Bodhisattva is a being who has awakening, understanding and love .  A Bodhisattva doesn’t have to be human being. Touching the earth, you touch the nature of no birth and no death.”

We were touched by a Bodhisattva, a Chickadee.

“ I heard her song, and I replied

‘Will you come to me?’

She heard my song, and came to see

‘Who is calling me?’

Gently she perched on my hand,

 & accepted my sunflower seed.

Unafraid, nonjudgmental & free.

Today I was touched by a Bodhisattva,

A Chickadee”. 

Penny Pemberton

More on July 12

 

July 12th

 

Desert Life by Tina Drakulich

This piece was made by Auriel King and Tina Drakulich.  In thinking of Nevada, it is our fabric; our lives are woven in as we are both native Nevadans.  Our desert life is awe-inspiring.  The sunsets, the mountains, the wetlands, the playa; these comfort and inspire.  We make paper because the environmental impact is minimal, and perhaps positive. The medium is simple, versatile, and expressive.  Tina folds cranes of handmade paper as an outward expression of prayer. In this case, prayer is for Nevada Earth. Materials: wood, handmade rag paper, sharpies and mod podge.

This piece, “Area 51” is made by Auriel King and Luana Ritch (deceased, July 2, 2024).  Luana, a Nevadan, was awe-inspiring as an artist, friend and community member.  She was a creative, expressive, and inventive paper maker with vast experience in public health and military service. Auriel King is an imaginative young artist who loves Nevada treks, hikes and waters. It is with awe that these two artists formed this piece in a collaboration.  Materials: Abaca, beads, wire, sharpie, ribbon.

At the Lilley - NV Awe Gelli Printing

We had a lot of fun gelli printing on the discs for the first layer of NV Awe creations from the Lilley. Here are some images! Thank-you Fabio Cristallini, Stephanie Gibson, Daniel Dineda-Luna, Matthew Gaurilles, Candace Garlock, Brisa Guzman, Jose E. Medina, Salvador Parras, Joanna Drakos, Ashley Frost, Sidne Teske, Joselynn Figueloa, Jill Ashenbach, Lilia Todorova, Jim Graham, Joseph Graham, and Rossitza Todorova for coming and creating the first layer of these "Lilley" experience workshops.

Fabio Cristallini, Stephanie Gibson, Daniel Dineda-Luna, Matthew Gaurilles, Candace Garlock

Daniel Dineda-Luna

Matthew Gaurilles

Joselynn Figueloa

Stephanie Gibson

Lilia Todorova, Fabio Cristallini, Joseph Graham, Rossitza Todorova and baby Catherine

Joseph Graham and Rossitza Todorova work on a disc together.

Joanna Drakos

First Layers...waiting for next week's project.

Joseph Graham