The Lost City Museum features the work of artists Jo Tame and Betty Halverson during the month of July. A stunning pairing of decorative gourds and mixed media, southwestern themed paintings by the two local artists will be available for purchase.

Scenes of the desert and mysterious symbols of the ancients form the background for the art of Jo Tame. Together they form an artistic balance which is pleasing to the eye. Tame’s burnt and etched gourds depict authentic petroglyph scenes seen in sites throughout Nevada and Arizona.

Tame and her husband retired to Nevada from Salt Lake City, Utah twelve years ago. Here she found a new love for the desert after studying the early Indian rock art left by the “Ancient Ones” some eleven hundred years ago.

Betty Halverson brings a talent for architectural landscapes born of many years studying the landscape of New Orleans and other places. Watercolor paintings form a splash of beautiful color. Impressionistic and imaginative are two words to describe the talented depictions of pictographs, petroglyphs, flowers and other figures which make up her work.

Halverson began working in watercolors when she retired with her husband to Moapa Valley. She immersed herself in the medium studying in a weekly class and attending watercolor workshops around the world.

The Lost City Museum is open Thursday through Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is $5.00; children and members enter free. For more information, please call the museum at (702) 397-2193.