By Mike Donahue

Moapa Valley Progress

The public is invited to a photo and slide show presentation on Friday and Saturday by Calvin Meyers, FBI (full blooded Indian) Photos, in the Moapa River Indian Reservation administration building.

The show, scheduled from 3-8 p.m. on Friday and from 2-8 p.m. on Saturday, is being sponsored by the Tribal Police, Moapa Band of Paiutes, and the Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza.

The photo exhibit, entitled “My Visions of Nevada”, is representative of Meyers unique style of photography in which he attempts to demonstrate how “people can work together.”

“The photos were taken all over Southern Nevada,” Meyers said. “A lot of them are from the reservation and show the relationship between people and their environment. There are a variety of landscape photos as well as shots from the pow wow, Mint 400 and archeological sites in Southern Nevada.”

In addition to the photographic display, which will showcase 50 to 60 photos, Meyers plans to present a looped slide show that will run throughout the show.

“Health conditions pretty much restrict my activities and taking photographs helps me get out of the house,” he said. “I’m always asked a lot of questions about my art so they also become a teaching tool.”

Meyers, a 1974 graduate of the Stewart Indian Boarding School in Carson City, has lived on the Moapa Reservation since the early 1960s.