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April 2025
Family Art Saturdays April 26 • Post Impressionism Rodin
Arts Engagement Program in partnership with Carson City Arts & Culture Family Art Saturdays • April 26th (10:00am-12:00pm) Art Activity Topic: Post Impressionism & Rodin Post Impressionism was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour. Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He…
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Sierra Arts Literary Community Meeting • Sunday, May 4th
Community of Writers, Poets, Illustrators, Readers, and Literary Enthusiasts. Join us on Sunday, May 4th for the Sierra Arts Literary Community Holiday Gathering. Sierra Arts Literary Community (SALC) is a group dedicated to local writers, aspiring writers, poets, illustrators, readers, and literary enthusiasts. Sierra Arts Foundation has created a dedicated space in the Depot Gallery for literary artists and literary groups within the region to meet, perform readings, offer writing workshops, and sell their published books. The SALC meeting is Sunday,…
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Family Art Saturdays May 10 • Impressionism Monet
Arts Engagement Program in partnership with Carson City Arts & Culture Family Art Saturdays • May 10th (10:00am-12:00pm) Art Activity Topic: Impressionism & Monet Impressionism was developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously 'on the spot' rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life. Claude Monet was a French painter and a leader of the Impressionist movement, which…
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Family Art Saturdays May 24 • Impressionism Cassatt
Arts Engagement Program in partnership with Carson City Arts & Culture Family Art Saturdays • May 24th (10:00am-12:00pm) Art Activity Topic: Impressionism & Cassatt Impressionism was developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously 'on the spot' rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life. Mary Cassatt was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker who focused on the intimate lives…
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Sierra Arts Literary Community Meeting • Sunday, June 1st
Community of Writers, Poets, Illustrators, Readers, and Literary Enthusiasts. Join us on Sunday, June 1st for the Sierra Arts Literary Community Holiday Gathering. Sierra Arts Literary Community (SALC) is a group dedicated to local writers, aspiring writers, poets, illustrators, readers, and literary enthusiasts. Sierra Arts Foundation has created a dedicated space in the Depot Gallery for literary artists and literary groups within the region to meet, perform readings, offer writing workshops, and sell their published books. The SALC meeting is Sunday,…
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Family Art Saturdays June 14 • Realism O’Keeffe
Arts Engagement Program in partnership with Carson City Arts & Culture Family Art Saturdays • June 14th (10:00am-12:00pm) Art Activity Topic: Realism & O'Keeffe Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements. The term is often used interchangeably with naturalism, although these terms are not synonymous. Georgia O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major…
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Family Art Saturdays June 28 • Abstract Pollock
Arts Engagement Program in partnership with Carson City Arts & Culture Family Art Saturdays • June 28th (10:00am-12:00pm) Art Activity Topic: Abstract & Pollock Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related terms. Jackson Pollock is an American painter and a key figure in abstract expressionism.…
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