“I just finished a 4×8 ft mural for the RTIA that’s been rejected by all involved,” artist Mallory Kate wrote to us today about the Biggest Little Housing Crisis Mural photographed here.
Kate was hoping that after spending time painting the mural during a live artist event at the recently concluded Reno Tahoe International Art Show at the Reno Sparks Convention Center, and spending personal money on the materials, the art work would be displayed at the airport, or elsewhere with a partner organization with high visibility, as part of the deal. Instead, it was unceremoniously dropped off at Kate’s garage this week.
“This piece is about Reno’s housing crisis and more importantly, its invisible homeless population. Confrontation of Reno’s preferred image and the dialogue of what is ‘appropriate’ are also involved. The unhoused and overlooked, the ones who don’t make it into the tourist brochures but live under the arch’s shadow every day deserve much more and this is an opportunity,” Kate wrote…