Monday, February 28, 2011

Thanks Everyone for Such a Successful Movie Award Gala





                                                                    Pre - Gala Oscar
                                                                       
                                                                             Oscar
                                                             by Jesse Smigel


Sunday, February 27, 2011

83rd Movie Awards Gala Red Carpet 4pm Sunday, February 27, 2011

DJ Shoe will be performing at The CAC's 83rd Red-Carpet Gala!

Getting Ready at :
 Come join in the Red Carpet Party
Drinks, Hors d'oeuvres, Silent Art Auction, Gift Bags
 

Thursday, February 24, 2011

CAC 83rd Movie Awards Gala Silent Auction Artwork




 
                                           Mike Wardle Title: Broken Oscar 
                                           Size: 33 x 33" 
                                           Medium: Acrylic on canvas



             
                                           Steven Spann
                                           Title: Happy Train
                                           Size: 40 x 72"
                                           Medium: Mixed media






 
                                          Alexander P. Huerta
                                          Title: Mechanics of Mentality
                                          Size: 12.5 x 28"
                                          Medium: Mixed media on wood




 
                                                       Ryan Reason
                                                       Title: Moment of Peace
                                                       Size: 11 x 14"
                                                       Medium: Digital Print




 
                                          Jerry Misko
                                          Title: One Rant
                                          Size: 11 x 14"
                                          Medium: Emulsion aggregation print






 
                                          Dar Freeland
                                          Title: Plus Minus
                                          Size: 24 x 36"
                                          Medium: Giclée on canvas






                                          Niki J. Sands
                                          Title: The Key to Happiness
                                          Size: 30 x 30"
                                          Medium: Acrylic on Linen






 
                                               Domsky Glass Studio
                                               Larry and Barbara Domsky
                                               Title: Tide Basket
                                               Size: 12"
                                               Medium: Glass, blown glass and metal sculpture






                            
                                          Laura Zollar
                                          Title: When Vision and Site Unite
                                          Size: 5 x 5"
                                          Medium: Acrylic on canvas






Wednesday, February 23, 2011

CELEBRATE THE 31ST ANNUAL GOVERNOR’S ARTS AWARDS

Join us on March 2, 2011 at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City to recognize recipients of the 31st Annual Governor’s Arts Awards. Tickets are $30 for the reception and awards ceremony. For their contributions of artistic achievement and service to the arts and to their communities, the Nevada Arts Council congratulates:

  • Andrea Lenz, Reno - Excellence in the Arts
  • Mary Warner, Las Vegas - Excellence in the Arts
  • Tsurunokai Taiko, Reno - Excellence in Folk and Traditional Arts
  • Sue Kitts Jesch, Carson City - Leadership in Arts Education
  • Wally Cuchine, Eureka - Leadership in the Arts: Individuals
  • Nevada State Museum, Carson City - Leadership in the Arts: Organizations
  • The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, Las Vegas - Patronage in the Arts 
This year, NAC and Nevada Humanities will be presenting the Nevada Arts & Humanities Award for Public Service to Senator William J. Raggio and former Speaker of the Assembly Joseph E. Dini, Jr.

Please join us on March 2, 2011 at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City to recognize recipients of the 31st Annual Governor’s Arts Awards. Tickets are $30 for the reception and awards ceremony. Seating will be limited, so we suggest you make your reservations for the Governor's Arts Awards now.

If you have paid or will pay for the Governor’s Arts Awards as part of your OASIS 2011 registration, you do not need to fill out a separate Governor’s Arts Award RSVP card.
Questions? Please give us a call at 775.687.6680 or 702.486.3700.

OASIS 2011 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPEN!

OASIS 2011: Powering Nevada’s Prosperity is a one-day convening designed for artists, community teams, organizations, and educators—Thursday, March 3, 2011 at The Silver Legacy in downtown Reno. Featured speakers include:

  • Adam Natale, director of Partnerships and Business Development - Fractured Atlas (an artist-centric national service organization)
  • Deborah Obalil, marketing and organizational development specialist - Obalil & Associates
  • Lisa Carnevale, executive director - Rhode Island Citizens for the Arts
  • Ryan Keiffer, executive director & Beth Flowers, senior producer/project director - Beet Street, (the arts and culture organization serving Fort Collins, CO)
For those traveling more than 100 miles roundtrip to attend OASIS 2011, you may apply for a Professional Development Grant of up to $350 at nevada.cgweb.org. These grants are limited, so please submit your application now.

Download the OASIS 2011 speakers and agenda and register today. 

Mary Warner: CAC Member Honored


The CAC congratulates Mary Warner, this year's recipient of the Governor's Arts Award for the Excellence in the Arts Category. Mary Warner was one of the dedicated founders of the Contemporary Arts Center, formerly the Contemporary Arts Collective, and one of last year's GAA recipients. Celebrate all she has done for the Las Vegas arts community in Carson City at the Governor's Arts Awards on March 2nd and attend the OASIS Conference.

Mary Warner is a visual artist, educator and curator. Born and raised in Northern California, she has lived in Chicago and New York City as well as teaching at the University of Montana, Oklahoma State University an University of Texas San Antonio before finally settling in Las Vegas in 1989. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.  Over the years she has received an N.E..A. Individual Fellowship, a Mid America Arts Alliance Fellowship and two Nevada Arts Council Individual Fellowships, as well as numerous smaller grants and awards. She is the recipient of the 2011 Governors Art Award for Excellence in the Arts.  She has shown her work nationally and internationally. Mary Warners work has been featured in forty three solo exhibitions nationally and she has participated in fifty-five exhibitions across the state. Her work has been exhibited widely outside the state including  the Whitney Museum, The Drawing Center and the Louis K Meisel gallery in New York. In  California she has shown with Sherry Frumkin Gallery (Santa Monica) Wenger, Zara and Limn Gallery San Francisco and JAYJAY Gallery Sacramnento, Sandy Carson Gallery ,Denver as well as being included in a number of group exhibitions in Italy and the UK.

As an artist and curator , Mary Warner has been critical to the development of the local arts community. She was one of the founding members of CAC.  She alternated between president and vice president in its formative years. She served for many years on the exhibition committee. She remains active as a member, encouraging her students to become involved.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

GEOLOCATION at the CAC Until March 4th

The GEOLOCATION project focuses on the cultural understanding of distance as perceived in modern life and grounded in network culture.
Nate Larson is faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for Photographic Education. He received his MFA from The Ohio State University in 2002. www.natelarson.com

Marni Shindelman is associate professor of art and an associate of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Rochester. She received her MFA from the University of Florida in 2002. www.marnishindelman.com

Larson + Shindelman have lectured on their work at the Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Shawnee State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, the Alberta College of Art and Design, Nerd Nite NYC, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Johns Hopkins University.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Who Would You Vote For?

Actor in a Leading Role

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83rd Movie Awards Gala -  Mercedes-Benz of Henderson is proud to support the Contemporary Arts Center

CAC Movie Award Gala

Red Carpet Party, Drinks, Hors d'oeuvres, Silent Art Aution

Friday, February 18, 2011

83rd Award Night Gala - Red Carpet Party, Sunday February 27, 2011

Which will you vote for? Skip LA...Join CAC Las Vegas for the Award Night Gala

Best Picture

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Professional Development Workshop - Verbal Communicaitons


Creative Capital Professional Development workshop opportunity for Las Vegas artists

The Metro Arts Council of Southern Nevada is offering a Professional Development workshop on verbal communications on March 4, 2011 conducted by Creative Capital.  You, as a local artist, are invited to apply for participation in the workshop.  NV Energy is covering the cost of tuition for each artist thus there is no out-of-pocket cost to you.  The workshop can accommodate only 20 people so there will be a selection process employed should more than 20 artists apply, and there are still 12 places left.  It is our hope that this workshop will be the first of several offering different professional development opportunities to you.   Please e-mail or call Joan for the application form. its short and sweet. Should you have any questions please contact Joan :joan@metroartsnevada.com or 702-370-0321

In 2003, Creative Capital launched the Professional Development Program (PDP) to share with a broad community of artists some of the tools and strategies for improved self-sufficiency that were initially developed for grantees. Since then, PDP has refined these methodologies and developed new ones, which it has shared with more than 3,700 artists in more than 50 communities around the country. PDP presents a variety of weekend, one-day and evening length workshop offerings in self-management, strategic planning, fundraising, web strategies, verbal communication and promotion.

The artist-centered approach recognizes that an artist’s career plan must stem from his or her own goals and aspirations. Workshop structures and pedagogy are designed to deliver timely and accurate information while nurturing a community of artists who validate each other's work and provide a context to share resources through peer learning.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Call For Work

The CAC is accepting submissions of work for East Side Projects, a series of monthly two-week projects in the gallery’s front window space facing Charleston Blvd. This ongoing call is open to all contemporary artists working in any media. Artists must be current CAC members (defined as dues-paying members starting at the $25 level) in order to be eligible for consideration. To become a member go to http://cac.wildapricot.org/join. Site-specific work for the space is encouraged. We encourage artists to visit the gallery to see the space (window specs below.) Please note that the window receives a generous dose of Las Vegas sunshine.

Submissions must include a proposal, current CV/resume, artist bio/statement, disc with JPG images of original artwork (300 dpi at 2 MB or less please) and image reference sheet (including artist, title, media, dimensions, and filename). Send SASE for return. 



For more info

Monday, February 14, 2011

Twitter as art


We shoot texts into the ether every day, tweet meaningless gossip and confess transgressions in digital thought bubbles as we mill about the world. We’re skipping work, finishing at the gym, running late, losing jobs, buying shoes, having breakdowns and fighting with lovers. We hit “send,” then move on.

But if our words lingered, suspended against the backdrop from whence they appeared in an otherwise breezy moment, we’d have a deeply personal and revealing snapshot of a social climate. We’d have the work of Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman, whose exhibit, Geolocation, is showing at Contemporary Arts Center.

Larson (from Baltimore) and Shindelman (from Rochester, New York) use GPS coordinates embedded in Twitter to track public tweets. They photograph a tweet’s location of origin and overlay its text, creating poetic and sometimes haunting images on 30-by-22-inch C-Prints they refer to as “historical monuments to small-lived moments.”

The collection includes random tweets and tragic snapshots, compositionally compelling and devoid of humans.

From an urban sidewalk: “Will try my best to live life the right way, morally and ethically. I can’t keep living the way I am now …”

From a car wash: “While I was there a woman WELL into her 70s came in wearing a sweatshirt from ‘Bada Bing,’ the strip club from The Sopranos: Day made!”

The project emerged from the artists’ process of working together, collaborating over long distance and relying on the technology they see changing the world. Larson teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art; Shindelman at the University of Rochester. The process is ongoing and the two will continue documenting while in Las Vegas.

“We’re fascinated by the sense of lingering presence,” Larson says. “There’s something about these social tools that make people more willing to share. And something about being in that location and imagining what it felt to be like in that location … We think of it as man-on-the-street social documenting, a way to look into the world.”

Kristen Peterson
Art Reporter
Las Vegas Weekly