Merry Christmas and Happy New Year friends of St Mary’s Art Center! 2014 has been a fantastic year for the Art Center, with many great leaps forward! We had 6 international Artists in Residence from Denmark, Holland and the UK, our Art Faire was a huge success, we won the NNDA Comstock Innovator of the…
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ART FAIRE
The Art Faire was a huge success made possible by all of our wonderful sponsors, artist vendors, board members and volunteers! Thank you to all who participated in any way with our Art Faire! Thank you to all the artists who donated a piece for our silent auction, you have helped St Mary’s incredibly! Thank…
“a winter tonic”
so its only just started being wintery…but we all enjoyed “a winter tonic” very much! Thank you to all of our artists and visitors who came up the hill to see our new shows on the 15th November opening day!!!! Here is a sample of what you missed… The shows remain up until end of…
The Summer Shows open…
The opening reception of shows on Sunday the 29th was full of happy surprises, not least of which hundreds and hundreds of visitors… from the outside-in we were packed with friends, artists, locals, Virginia City characters and interested tourists! Artists Megan Berner and Jared Stanley installed a series of flagpoles on the green in front…
NOLAN PREECE Show opens at the Nevada Museum of Art – June 2014
On Thursday 5th of June our very own Nolan Preece opened yet another show, this time at the Nevada Museum of Art. His magnificent Chemigrams, at a scale not seen before, are on show in the second floor gallery at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Nolan has been a supporter and fundamental and…
Dusty Roads, picnics and painting on the Comstock…
Monika Piper-Johnson palette knife Plein Air painter …gets started on the caretakers cottage The Dusty Roads retreat at St Mary’s Art Center was as always a lovely success. Plein air painters, studio and abstract painters, photographers, installation artists, textile artists and writers from all over Nevada, gathered for the spring Dusty Roads retreat. We missed…
How the February shows opened….
With 50-80 mile an hour winds we had some couple of hundred brave folk who came to our opening in quite extreme conditions…. it was definitely worth it! French pastry chefs had whipped up treats, lovely Italian wines were sipped and 6 galleries packed with new artwork to look at, made for a great afternoon.…
EXHIBITIONS OPENING SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY 1-4PM
painting by Carol Aust We are excited to show our new artists for the season and invite all friends of St Mary’s Art Center to join us for our opening reception. Saturday February 15th 1-4 pm Come and make a day of it …up at Virginia City. We have 5 new shows opening, hors d’oeuvres,…
MERRY MERRY MERRY EVERYTHING to all our friends!
photograph above by Frances Melhop St Mary’s Art Center wishes you all a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a wonderously creative New Year!!!! We have a fantastic line up of new exhibiting Artists and Resident Artists starting from February 2014… Keep an eye on our events page here and dont forget our Open Studio…
St Mary’s Art Center new shows – Opening night
Coinciding with the Nevada Art group retreat, our new shows for November opened on Friday evening 14 November… Photographer Nolan Preece’s solo show titled “Glass Prints” is a series of works that he made by burning soot onto glass plates and treating them with varying chemicals, which were then printed like negatives. The results are…