Nevada County Arts collaborates with SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival

From Nevada County Arts:

Nevada County Arts is delighted to be a sponsor of SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic® Film Festival. An extraordinary arts asset in our community, the festival is considered to be the largest film festival of its kind with films that combine stellar filmmaking, beautiful cinematography and first-rate storytelling. This will be the first year of this collaboration as well
as the largest coordinated art show of its kind in Nevada County.

Nevada County Arts has selected more than 56 artists whose work will be displayed in several venues throughout downtown Nevada City, at The Center for the Arts in Grass Valley and at BriarPatch during the 10th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival®, January 13-15, 2012. Twenty artists’ work will be on display in the ‘Jury Selection Exhibit’ at the Alpha Building (the festival headquarters).

The featured art to be displayed during the festival includes many mediums (sculpture, woodcuts, charcoal etchings, silkscreen prints, cartoons, painting, basket weaving, cartoons and photography) and acts as another means to draw attention to environmental issues and inspire activism.

The selected art includes:

An installation focused on watershed restoration by ecological artists Helen and Newton Harrison; Beach Plastic, a demonstration of the ubiquity of plastic waste in our oceans created by Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang who configured their collection of plastic detritus from various beaches into artworks;

The Last Apothecary, a large-scale installation by Jillian Van Ness, that consists of an antique canvas wardrobe, antique glass bottles, wire, sand, and paper, which embody the Van Ness’s deep love and appreciation for the various forms and uses of water;

Solomon Bassoff’s painted cement and mosaic embellished sea turtles and flowers; Jason Houston’s series of 14 portraits of individuals living in the areas around a critical wildlife reserve in Indonesian Borneo, titled People of the Forest;  Geolyn Carvin’s delightful cartoon series, with the main character, Boots McFarland, who is an adventurous hiker finding humor in nature;

Peggy Wrights’ sculptures constructed with natural and found objects; Joseph Daniel Fiedler’s whimsical images of birds, fish and animals; Richard Downs’ monoprints, “BP Pelican,” named for the BP deepwater horizon oil spill;  as well as the Nevada County Plein Air Painters, several photographers and artists whose work focuses on the Yuba River and environs, baskets created by the Nisenan Indian people from the Nevada City Rancheria, and much more.