Reno Tahoe International Art Show 2024

 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

Installing Crew: Lucinda Lundin, Tamara Scronce, Tina Drakulich, Brandon Lacow

Front L-R: Sogand Tabatabaei, Kris Vagner, Sarah Russell, Auriel King, Elliot Medina, Emsley Lewis, Jessi Sprocket

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

 

Kyle Karrasch, Elaine Parks and Kris Vagner

Emsley Lewis signing her name

Elliot Medina's Creation

Poem by Emily Whittlesey

Truckee Meadows Community College Workshop Participants Wrap up NV AWE: Tiny Treasures Project

 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?

The Lilley NV AWE workshops this summer

 

August Love!

 

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!