Capital City Arts Initiative—It Started with Willows

Exhibition Dates: September 20 – December 21, 2023
Artist’s Reception: Tuesday, October 24, 5 – 6:30pm; artist’s introduction at 5:30pm
Exhibition Venue: Bristlecone Gallery, Western Nevada College, 2201 W College Parkway, Carson City

As a salute to the creativity of the Great Basin Native Artists, the Capital City Arts Initiative is excited to present It Started with Willows, an assemblage of working baskets and contemporary art. CCAI’s exhibition presents contemporary paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures from the Great Basin Native Artists collective and historic working Native baskets from the Lloyd Chichester Collection.

The exhibition includes work by Ben Aleck (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe), Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva), Phil Buckheart (Absentee Shawnee/Choctaw), Loretta Burden (Fallon Paiute), Karma Henry (Fort Independence Paiute), David Ipina (Yurok), Micqaela Jones (Western Shoshone), Topaz Jones (Western Shoshone/Lummi/Kalapuya/Molalla), Kim Avanna Lawson (Northern Pauite/Tlinget), Jack Malotte (Western Shoshone/Washoe), Melissa Melero-Moose (Northern Paiute), Steve Nighthawk (Western Shoshone/Washoe/Paiute), Lyn Risling (Hupa/Karuk/Yurok), Roger Salas, (Northern Paiute), Maureen Self (Mountain Maidu), Paul Stone (Pauite/Washoe). Also included are works by teen participants from the Gathering of Native American Youth Summit.

This program is supported in part by Nevada Humanities.

Learn more: https://www.ccainv.org/started-with-willows

Phil Buckheart, Sacred Arrow Bustle, mixed media assemblage, 2016, 36″x36″