Moapa Valley Progress
Submitted June 25, 2008
The Lost City Museum features the work of self taught artist Janet Trobough as the art exhibit during July.
Trobough is in sync with the west, the beauty, the people and the history. She was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She had a long career in the beauty industry in Portland, Oregon, later moving to Seattle, Washington. Her career highlight was “Artistic Director” in charge of education for a chain of salons in Portland which later lead to joining a European design team based in Seattle.
But her true love was painting. She filled the walls of her own salon in the downtown Seattle with, not only her work, but the work of many clients. She pursued her dream to be a full time artist in 1998. Her work reflects her interest in Native American women’s culture, stemming from family roots that go back to the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma.
Trobough will offer a new venue of expressionistic figures of the Native American Women. Her focus is working with water colors. However, she is a master at burning and staining gourds using turquoise, silver and malachite to add the special touch and soapstone sculpture.
The Lost City Museum is open daily, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Regular admission charge is $3.00 for adults age 18 and over, $2.00 for anyone over 65. Children and members enter free. For more information, call the museum at (702)397-2193.
