The Lost City Museum presents “One Is Silver, the Other Is Gold: Celebrating 25 Years of Nevada Folklife Apprenticeships” now through Jan. 30. The exhibit features 22 visual artists who received grant support as master or apprentice artists in a variety of folk traditions.
A Reception will be held Saturday, January 10, 2015 from 1-4 p.m. at The Lost City Museum. Refreshments will be served.
Each recognized master is encouraged to work with one or more dedicated apprentices so that their traditional art forms and personal contributions endure. The artists come from a range of tribal, ethnic, cultural, and occupational groups found throughout Nevada in both rural and urban communities.
They include artists from among the indigenous Paiute, Shoshone and Washoe peoples and the skilled ranchers, miners, loggers and railroad workers long a part of the state’s history. Also represented are more recent immigrants from all parts of North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia–some who sought new lives and economic opportunities in the early part of the 20th Century, and others who arrived much more recently. All contribute to the vibrant face and culture of Nevada today.
The exhibit highlights the work of 20th and 21st century Nevada folk artists involved in passing on their skills in traditional arts dating back many generations or even centuries which are still vital and dynamic today. In celebration of the Silver Anniversary of
Nevada’s Folklife Apprenticeship Program, the Nevada Arts Council salutes all 160 master artists and 243 apprentices who have participated in the program.
“One Is Silver, the Other Is Gold,” is part of the Nevada Touring Initiative–Traveling Exhibition Program. It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nevada State Legislature.
The museum is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is $5, children and members enter free. For more information, call the museum at (702) 397-2193.
