Renowned ecological artists, Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, have teamed with the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art to create new work for their ongoing endeavor the Force Majeure, a series of land-based artworks responding to the challenges of global change – including "Greenhouse Britain" and the Tibetan Plateau.
On February 10, during the College Art Association’s Centennial Conference in New York, the Nevada Museum of Art and the Harrisons will be announcing the launch of the 2011 Art + Environment Conference which is set to take place September 29 – October 1, 2011. Still enjoying the success of its first Conference held in 2008, the Museum will announce the line-up of 2011 Conference speakers, panelists and topics.
The Harrisons will be featured as the keynote speakers for Convocation at CAA Conference held February 9 – 12, 2011.
For more about the Harrisons exhibition at the Museum please see: http://www.nevadaart.org/
Art + Environment seeks lively original writing that explores contemporary art, architecture, and design and its intersections with environment, nature, landscape and place in support of the practice, study and awareness of creative interactions between people and their natural, built, virtual environments. These areas are broadly defined, and the breadth of potential content expansive, extending to fields including geography, ecology, environmental studies, history, media and technology, and literature, to name a few.
Art + Environment publishes blog entries, essays, and observations that blend interesting critical and research-based rigor with personal experience and journalistic edge, and reviews of books, exhibitions, programs, and projects going on in the fields inhabiting the intersections of art and environment.
Art + Environment values clear, thoughtful, and articulate prose, accessible to sophisticated lay readers, as well as professional and academic readers. Send manuscripts, proposals, or queries electronically to socialnetwork@nevadaart.org. Put “Art + Environment Submission” in the subject line. Submit texts as copy in the body of the email message and as attachments, preferably Microsoft Word. Include detailed contact information. Including a best phone number may expedite the submission and publication process. Art + Environment is interested in illustrative audio-visual material: images, video, and sound files related to the submitted text(s) are welcome with appropriate citations. Supplemental audio-visual work should be accompanied with brief explanatory texts and captions. In general, text submissions should be 300-1000 words, though longer pieces may be considered for publication.
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In 2010, the Nevada Museum of Art’s internationally recognized Center for Art +Environment (CA+E) announces the launch of a grant program for visual artists and writers working together in the field: The Artists | Writers | Environments: A Grant Program (A | W | E)
Funding for the program is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
The program is designed to:
· encourage the creation of new art + environment projects addressing environmental challenges rather than simply comment on them
· to foster deeper and more immediate public awareness of art + environment projects
· to encourage unique field reports of lasting value to scholars and other artists.
Teams of visual artists and writers working on art + environment projects anywhere in the world from July 2010 through August 2011 will be eligible to apply for the first A | W | E Grant. Letters of interest must be received via e-mail on or before Friday, April 16, 2010 with invited applications due on or before June 22, 2010. The grant recipients will be announced on or before July 6, 2010.
During this first year, one grant of $10,000 will be awarded to a team of artist(s) and writer(s) - of particular interest will be those proposals addressing communities stressed by global change. Publication venues by writers can include articles in magazines, journals, or online, and chapters or essays in books, but significant public outreach will be favored.
The Nevada Museum of Art
Nevada’s only art museum was founded in Reno in 1931 and is a general art museum with a strong and longstanding focus on Art + Environment.
Visit the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art website for more information at www.NevadaArt.org/ae/center
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ART BITE at the Nevada Museum of Art:
Meet the Artist: Lordy Rodriguez on Surface Depth
Friday, October 23 / noon
Lordy Rodriguez, Lake Land (Geological Series), May 2005.
Ink on paper, 32 x 46 in. Courtesy of the artist and Hosfelt
Gallery, San Francisco.
Lordy Rodriguez shares his exploration of topographies both real and imagined through hand-drawn maps that he designs using age-old mapmaking tools and a kaleidoscopic range of colors. His unique approach encourages viewers to reconsider the history of mapmaking, as well as our tendency to accept maps as wholly truthful and accurate representations of the land we all share.
Rodriguez, who was born in the Philippines and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, carefully crafts his drawings of desert lakes, drifting silt dunes, volcanic island chains, and underwater trenches in the tradition of early cartographers, using ordinary tools such as rulers and felt-tip marking pens. Unlike his predecessors, Rodriguez emphasizes repetitive stylized patterns and intense high-keyed colors rather than specific sites, territories, or boundary lines.
This exhibition is presented as part of the Art + Environment series, an initiative of the Nevada Museum of Art that brings together community, artists and scholars to explore the interaction between people and their environments.
Art Bites give attendees the opportunity to experience an informal and intimate introduction to works in the galleries over a short half-hour dialogue. Cost: $5 / $4 Museum members. The Art Bite series is supported in part by the Gabelli Foundation. http://nevadaart.
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