Archive for the 'Art + Culture' Category
moonshine ink august edition
If you haven’t checked out the new Moonshine Ink that’s on stands around Tahoe/Truckee, do it! My latest DiStill Life column is on the new grant-funded Arts For the Schools programming, and it is quite exciting stuff. Project Bandaloop is the first performer on the playbill, and I can’t wait for the show next weekend… [...]
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Tags: Moonshine Ink, linkedin, Project Bandaloop
Well, I’m back from my trip to Boulder. Such a different world there: street performers, crowded restaurants, jam-packed yoga classes, flat residential neighborhoods with blocks and blocks of houses, bike-friendly everything, and flowers! While it was fun, I’m happy to be home to my simple, quiet life in Tahoe Pines and thus finished this simple [...]
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Tags: block printing, Lake Tahoe, postcard, stamp
save the drop cap
ippe! I’ve been following typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische’s Daily Drop Cap blog for some time now, just waiting for the perfect specimen to scream “blog me!” That day has finally come. I’m a big drop cap fan… not surprising since I work in the print world. I love their functionality, yet the seemingly endless [...]
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fine art quilts
I think I’m in love with quilts. Like big modern canvases, they are geometric, and not afraid of color. But better than a painting or sculpture, they have a function. Thus, I am thrilled to see some highly renowned examples of the craft at the Nevada Museum of Art this month. Opening tomorrow (and showing [...]
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Tags: Nevada Museum of Art, art opening, quilt
tahoe etsy finds: holiday
I love gift shopping on Etsy, and the holiday season just begs for more browsing. Using their GeoLocator, you can find artists close to home. Here are a few of my Tahoe favorites at the moment, clockwise from top left. *custom initial necklace $30 from Lala Design Studio *felted wool bird ornaments $12 for two [...]
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Tags: cookies, Etsy, jewelry, linkedin
time to get festive
While you’re dusting those lights off (we just put ours up this weekend), getting the advent calendars filled and shopping shopping shopping, don’t forget to stop by Brickelltown Christmas, a weekly celebration through December 18 at Truckee’s most artsy hood. Vendors with unique handmade goods, carolers and even Santa will be there for photo ops at [...]
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homemade holiday card class
Get ready, the holidays are approaching fast! And to help you get your cards out in good, crafty fashion—and on time—Brickelltown Crafternoons is hosting a Holiday Card Making Class tomorrow, Monday November 23, 4:30–7:30 pm, at the Brickelltown compound in downtown Truckee. Linocut stamps, fabric and recycled paper are just a few of the items [...]
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Tags: art class, Brickelltown, holiday cards
screenprint @ crafternoon
Next week’s Brickelltown Crafternoon brings the basics of screen printing with Bryan Hassemer of Green Bikes North Tahoe. I’ve admired his work for some time now (see his designs at Truckee’s Riverside Studios), and plus he’s just an all-around amazingly nice person. In fact, he was instrumental in helping my old roommate screenprint the save-the-dates for [...]
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Tags: art class, Brickelltown, linkedin, screen printing
one night, lotsa art
Everything happens at once, they say, and for me, ’tis true this coming Thursday (November 12) when I’ve already RSVPed to the Artists Unite event sponsored by the Arts and Culture Council of Truckee Tahoe, and then this gem comes up at Sierra Nevada College’s Prim Library: A College Collective: Cyborgs and Dandelions. A non-themed [...]
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Tags: ACCTT, art opening, linkedin, Sierra Nevada College
fresh pressed
Just catching up after a long weekend with family in town… very relaxing to not touch my keyboard in a few days. ahhh! But with all this time off, loads of publication-related news piled up in my inbox and Twitter feed that I must pass along. It seems that fresh voices on paper are popping [...]
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Tags: books, linkedin
