29 Apr The Immersive Revolution
Touch it. Touch the art. Feel the texture of the paint. Is it soft? Is it crunchy? Does it make you feel uneasy? Good. Now take a step forward. Let the art touch you....
01 Mar Brushstrokes of Brilliance
On a chilly December evening in downtown Truckee, a respectable crowd braved the cold to attend LeeAnn Brook’s art reception at Piper J Gallery. Her new exhibition, titled “River Run,” featuring modern abstract landscape paintings, captures the emotion of the Sierra Nevada through Brook’s wide...
29 Nov Approved by Nature
While chatting one day with an artist friend who moonlights as a librarian, I mentioned a studio in Taiwan that sells badger and wolf hair paintbrushes. She flinched, subtly and not judgmentally, but noticeably. Based on her reaction, the conversation shifted to eco- and animal-friendly...
02 Jul Where There’s Smoke, There’s Art
If you have a dead weeping willow on your property, please tell Debbie Johnson. The 64-year-old part-time Tahoe resident is always on the lookout for tree limbs and trunks she can cut into slabs to use in her art. Why willow? It’s easy to sand, she...
02 May A Bold New Canvas
Sixty middle school children shuffle through a white concrete museum gallery flanked by paintings of Indigenous life, woven baskets and beaded bottles—some old, some new. Indigenous art, depicting a life separate from today’s urban culture, connects them to a larger, more magnificent world than they...
27 Sep An Ancient Art in Modern Times
Artist JoAnne Barbiaux Pohler is modest for someone with her pedigree. Although Pohler stepped away from her longtime Truckee business, JoAnne’s Stained Glass, in 2022, her work continues to illuminate people’s lives and living spaces across the United States—from Hawaii to Florida to Lake Tahoe. ...
01 Jul The Little Sculpture That Could
When Mike Crabb and his buddy Josh Gutierrez rode off into the swirling dust storm in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, they thought it would be a straightforward journey to find Promise of the Decade. How could they miss an 11-foot-tall wooden pod with whimsical animal...
01 Jul A Celebration of Artwork and Agriculture
It’s not every day that family-owned ranches and historic sites open their doors to the public. Consider the Sierra Valley Art + Ag Trail a rare treat....
27 Nov Words for Winter
Every fall, usually in late October, after the aspen leaves have floated to the forest floor, I ache for winter. Days become shorter, the hue of Lake Tahoe takes on a paler, subdued personality, and I often gaze west in an attempt to remember impending...
26 Nov A Master Tahoe Historian Pens His Most Ambitious Effort Yet
There are those who dabble in Tahoe history, and then there is David Antonucci, whose vast knowledge of the region’s storied past could only be accumulated through decades of ardent research and experience....