Winnemucca, Nev. - Maggie Remington and Elizabeth Cadigan have been selected by the Bureau of Land Management Winnemucca District (BLM) and Friends of Black Rock High Rock (FBR) for this year’s Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area (NCA) Artist in Residence (AiR) program. This program is sponsored by the BLM in partnership with FBR.
Remington is an abstract artist from Lovelock, Nevada, who digs her own pigments from the earth. Cadigan, a musical artist from Sparks, Nevada, will create a songbook of original songs about Great Basin wildlife. Both women will fulfill their residencies for two weeks in May or June. Their work inspired by the Black Rock Desert NCA will be featured in an exhibition in the fall of 2017.
"We had a diverse range of applicants for this year's program, and we are excited to bring out two artists with unique skill sets and backgrounds. We're looking forward to hosting them for the 2017 program," says Michael Myers, Executive Director of FBR.
The AiR program promotes awareness through art of the exceptional places protected within the BLM’s National Conservation Lands. The program provides an opportunity for learning and dialogue about the value of preserving public lands. It will engage and inform an audience through public programs by participants, and will provide time for artists to pursue their work.
“The BLM is delighted to welcome two new artists to the AiR program for 2017. Their art forms are different from any we have hosted in the past and we look forward to meeting them," says Kathy Ataman, BLM Project Lead for the AiR program.
Further information about the AiR program is available at www.blackrockdesert.org/about-us/AiR.
Further information can be found at www.blackrockdesert.org or contact Michael Myers at m.myers@blackrockdesert.org. You may also contact Kathy Ataman, BLM AiR Project Lead, at 775-623-1500 or kataman@blm.gov.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
