It’s a great day for music in Carson City. The Annual Concert Under the Stars at Adele’s is already sold out, but there are still options if you didn t get a ticket. Tonight, check out the Jazz Jam at Sassafras with Rick Metz’ First Take, or bring an instrument to the Jam with Josh and Janera at the Firkin and Fox.
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“The Protectress” by Jennifer Henry
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Wade Vandervort
Geoff Carter Thu, Mar 11, 2021 (2 a.m.)
What I know about abstraction in art is not much. Sure, I get the bare-bones idea of it the freedom to create something that’s not representative, to allow the creative mind to wander where it will but the why of abstraction sometimes eludes me. (I blame the editor in me; if something doesn’t make sense to me, it needs to be rewritten and revised until it does.) But in curating
Two or 3 Things I Know About Abstraction a 12-artist group show now at the Summerlin Library gallery UNLV fine arts professor Pasha Rafat has anchored abstraction to a value I can get my head around: connection.