Welcome to the RN&R’s new Art Notes column! I’ll be here to get you up to speed on the latest art news in Reno, Sparks, Carson City and the environs every other week. On the weeks in between, get ready for Mark Earnest’s new Music Notes column.
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New art coming to the airport
The Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority announced in a December press release that it has selected San Francisco Bay Area artist Sean Orlando as the artist for the next major art piece at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport.
His installation, “Reno-Tahoe Textures,” will consist of five illuminated sculptural panels with maps and/or images of local landscapes—Truckee Meadows roadways, Mount Rose, Lake Tahoe, Black Rock City and the airport’s runways. Orlando is the founder of Engineered Artworks fabrication studio in Richmond, Calif., a board member of The Crucible industrial arts facility in Oakland, Calif., and a co-founder of Five Ton Crane, the ambitious Oakland arts collective.
Artist invites people to submit Truckee River reflections
Seattle-area artist John Fleming and the city of Reno are asking members of the community to share stories, memories and poems about the Truckee River for a new art installation at the Public Safety Center (the new Reno Police Department headquarters that opened in August in the former Reno Gazette-Journal building at 911 Kuenzli St.)…