Capital City Arts Initiative—Jackie Pias Carlin: Art with Aloha

Exhibition Dates: October 23, 2023 – February 22, 2024
Exhibition Reception: Tuesday, November 7, 5 – 6:30 pm, artist introduction 5:30 pm
Exhibition Venue: Community Center’s Crowell Board Room, 
851 E William St, Carson City, Nevada

Jackie Pias Carlin’s art brings fresh air with tropical flora beauty to our wintery season. Pias Carlin said, “This Art with Aloha exhibit represents years of my pursuance in art. I began my art career in the 1970s with candles, life drawing in charcoal and watercolors, plein air and still life in oils, pastels, residential and commercial fabric designing, weaving, and printing. 

Pias Carlin was born on the island of Maui, Hawaii. The combined influences from Asia, continental U.S., Europe, and the native-Hawaiian culture shaped her perspectives in traditions, ethnic foods, and a world-view of art. She spent two years (2003 – 2004) at Oxford University in England for her master’s degree in English. This graduate program was part of the Bread Loaf School of English in Middlebury College, Ripton, VT. Her book, Spirit of the Village: A Maui Memoir was published in 2005; the book is still in print and available. She left Maui and moved to Carson City in 2015 to be closer to family. 

This program is supported in part by Nevada Humanities.

Learn more at: https://www.ccainv.org/carlin-art-with-aloha

Three Birds of Paradise, water soluble oils on canvas, 24″x18″ 2023.