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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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....
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...
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....
When you venture into the wild with nothing but a few simple art supplies and observe what’s around you, the world opens in illuminating ways. Make it a regular practice, and you might even become a budding naturalist....
Before Robert Erickson’s handmade furniture caught the eye of national collectors, before his three-legged Van Muyden chair joined the Yale University Art Gallery collection, before his fiddleback maple rocking chair was added to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Nevada City-area craftsman tried his hand...