The Tahoe: A Visual Experience at the Nevada Museums of Art, celebrates and showcases two centuries of cultural and creative production of art and art history of Lake Tahoe, Donner Pass and surrounding Sierras. This exhibition is for the first time focusing on our local region instead of in conjunction with other national areas like Yosemite’s, Yellow Stone or the Grand Canyon. The goal of the exhibition is to allow future generations to celebrate and examine these areas, and their contribution to the broader culture. A surprising number of over 400 artists contributed to the Visual experience of Tahoe, in a span of over 200 years.
The collection of the Tahoe exhibition ranged from form a variety of art mediums and styles. There was everything …show more content…
Both of these pieces make you learn something you might have not though of before. The impact of humans on our region and the sacrifice of immigrants to our area are sometimes and probably often overlooked and there they are brought to the forefront demanding a conversation of their topics. I personally never knew about the contributions from the Chinese in building the railroads. So i actually learned some history of Donner Pass.
After visiting the museum, I decided to do some research on the artist and I found out that Shi Guorui focus on camera obscurea photography, as he travels with a portable photo tent he takes a lot of his photo of. His expansive photographic projects include the Great Wall of China, the Shanghai riverfront, and K2, the second-highest mountain in the world. His work emphasizes the iconic status of each location and commemorate the human endeavor associated with it.
Michael Light is a photographer and bookmaker focused on the environment and how contemporary American culture relates to it. Interestingly Light is also a private pilot, who is currently working on an extended aerial survey of the arid Western states, and in 2007 won a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in
The collection of the Tahoe exhibition ranged from form a variety of art mediums and styles. There was everything …show more content…
Both of these pieces make you learn something you might have not though of before. The impact of humans on our region and the sacrifice of immigrants to our area are sometimes and probably often overlooked and there they are brought to the forefront demanding a conversation of their topics. I personally never knew about the contributions from the Chinese in building the railroads. So i actually learned some history of Donner Pass.
After visiting the museum, I decided to do some research on the artist and I found out that Shi Guorui focus on camera obscurea photography, as he travels with a portable photo tent he takes a lot of his photo of. His expansive photographic projects include the Great Wall of China, the Shanghai riverfront, and K2, the second-highest mountain in the world. His work emphasizes the iconic status of each location and commemorate the human endeavor associated with it.
Michael Light is a photographer and bookmaker focused on the environment and how contemporary American culture relates to it. Interestingly Light is also a private pilot, who is currently working on an extended aerial survey of the arid Western states, and in 2007 won a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in