Yerington Event: YTA Artist Reception for Karen Kreyeski, May 14, 2016

Yerington Event: YTA Artist Reception for Karen Kreyeski

May 14, 2016

Artist Karen Kreyeski

Attended an artist reception for Karen Kreyeski at the YTA on Saturday, May 14.  I got a chance to chat with the artist and view some of her work, which I really enjoyed.  She does lots of portraits and hopes to publish a book of her art some time in the future.  Below is a summary of her life in her own words taken from her website:  http://karenkreyeski.com/

Karen Kreyeski Self-Portrait

Originally from Montana where I worked in fiber, I designed my own fabric through batik and tie dye, designing clothing and large tapestries on silk and linen. However when I moved to Nevada, I was drawn to paint the stark landscape and the mountain ranges using watercolors, oils, and mixed media. I love their naked human-like forms in this high desert of the Great Basin.  I was not inclined to paint what is but to reorganize the natural reality into my idea of a dreamscape. I like to play with the elements of time and space while giving a sense of the place that has so moved me.

My most treasured art adventure was a summer working and living in Yellowstone Park at the Caldera Art Center via a Thomas Moran Fellowship. Those artists with whom I have worked post grad that have most influenced my ideology and technique are Bailey Doogan and Francheskaa in Arizona, Joellyn Duesberry in Colorado, Jean LaGassick in Nevada, and Sant Sabaugh Khalsa, Phyllis Schafer, and Gregory Kondos in California

. (I think this was one of my favorites. I love the expressions on this lady's face - so much personality)

My professional training was acquired at Eastern Montana University and the Memphis Art Academy. I worked for 30 plus years in art education, simultaneously following my passion for painting. In the mid 80’s I initiated the Northern Nevada Art Educators, was an active officer regionally and statewide for 5 years, received an Outstanding Nevada Art Educator Award and represented Nevada in a national invitational Master Art Teacher Seminar in Johnson, Vermont.  Active in town art councils, I coordinated artist-in-residence programs through the Nevada State Council on the Arts throughout my teaching career, which also enriched and broadened my artistic outlook.

I’ve exhibited my work in the University of Nevada, Reno, and other collegian, art agency, and professional galleries in Nevada, California and Colorado. My most recent juried one person exhibit at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts contained over 50 pieces of work about the journey from Western Nevada to Western Colorado over a 30 year period of time.

 

  

Retired from teaching but still painting, I live with my husband and near my family on top of a mountain in Northern Nevada where nature’s bounty of mountainscapes is an ever-changing vista.

    

Yerington People: National Poetry Month: Yerington & Nevada Poetry

Yerington People: National Poetry Month: Yerington & Nevada Poetry

SHAUN T. GRIFFIN is one of the Nevada's finest poets. He has published seven books of poetry, three poetry anthologies, and one translation. For many years he has taught a poetry workshop at Northern Nevada Correctional Center and published an annual journal of their work, Razor Wire. In 1995 he received the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and in 2006 was awarded the Rosemary McMillan Lifetime Achievement in Art Award from Sierra Arts Foundation. Humanist, activist, and educator, Shaun Griffin has spent a lifetime building bridges where there were none for all members of the human com-munity. He is the co-founder and director of Community Chest, a non-profit agency serving children and families in northwestern Nevada since 1991, and the former founding director of the state's homeless education office.

Shaun T. Griffin reads at City Art

https://youtu.be/aw0jmUMh_3U

Yerington Monday: Ten Mile Sack Race

Yerington Monday: Ten Mile Sack Race

Do you remember when Mike Lommori, one of our teachers, won the 12-mile sack race from Wabuska to Yerington in 1964?

Posted on Facebook Sep 22, 2014

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• Meredith Mayeroff He was one of my very favorite teachers, I wouldn't know how to balance a checkbook or park a car if were not for him!
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• Sylvia Banta Totally remember that. He is a great man and touched so many of us. Love him.
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• Donna Johnson That was such a fun day. I remember it so well and when we were all together in Yerington we went to the museum. The museum had the whole story about the sack race and I was lucky enough to be standing next to Jim Sanford who added some extra details. You tell new friends about this and they are totally in awe of Mr. Lommori. What a story!
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• Dawnette Kelley I remember Mr. Lommori. He was a really awesome teacher:-) I had a crush on him. I moved to Reno in January of 1964:-( sad I wasn't there for this event.
• Thank you for sharing
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• John Crawford Like many people from Yerington, I "remember" seeing the finish of that unique race. Or maybe I saw the 8mm home movie my dad shot that day. Maybe it wasn't my dad who made the movie. But it was Mr. Lommori running with that famous sack. That's what makes it a memory.
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• Chere Brown John, I see you are like so many of us our age. We have the memory, but how it all occurred seems to blend. The bottom line is "we know what we know."
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• Mary Burns I was there for the entire deal. There were 5 or so others running for Nevada Chub Quilici RIchard Burnett, Bill JOnes, Fred Andresen, SteveERb I think and I know I have missed someone) .... And Mike Lommori told me they made $$ by all the side bets I remember Mike running with that sack on his back the last many miles They could stop to rest, but couldn't put the sack down
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• Liz Merrill Mason Mr. Lommori was one of my favorite teachers. I remember his wife did my hair for senior ball. Seems like I had him for something in 8th grade too but don't. Recall what. State history? I think Meredith was in my bookkeeping class. It was because of that class being so much fun I majored in accounting.
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Linda Howard Yes I sure do! Way to go Mike!