WINNEMUCCA - The Humboldt County Library presents "Geographical Divides: Finding Common Ground" featuring 16 artists who were asked to explore the geographical and cultural differences in Nevada, if such differences truly exist. The assembly of printmakers - eight from the north, eight from the south - produced two prints from each collaboration. The exhibit will open Jan. 14 and continue until March 8. Visually exploring connection s and disconnections between southern Nevada and northern Nevada cultural attitudes, aesthetics and geographical distinctions - these 16 artists communicated and visually responded to each other's unique economic, environmental, political and social settings - further dissecting this notion of a splitting geography and/or communion of Nevada's polarities. "Geographical Divides: Finding Common Ground" examines Nevada unique visual culture. It is a state labeled with cultural myths like "Area 51," "The Biggest Little City in the World" and "Sin City" and one that commands the imagination of Postmodernism from the architecture of Las Vegas to the proliferation of Burning Man. Collaborating artists include: Maria Arango, Lynn Schmidt, Erik Beehn, Nolan Preece, Bobbie Ann Howell, Galen Brown, Daryl DePry, Sharon Tetly, Keith Conley, Sidne Teske, Anne M. Hoff, Vicki LoSasso, Jeanne Voltura, Candace Nicol, Juan D.Varela and Ashlea Clark. The exhibit is open during library hours, which are Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., and Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. This exhibit was organized by the Nevada Arts Council, is part of the Nevada Touring Initiative - Traveling Exhibition Program and is funded 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.[[In-content Ad]]
