Grandpa & Mike - University of Nevada, Las Vegas & Mike Art, Labor, ... Michael Heizer and her...
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Grandpa & Mike Art, Labor, and Friendship in Rural Nevada UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art November 29 2017 . 7pm Meleah Smith draws on the relationship between Michael Heizer and her family to describe the role of the laborer and the local community in the realization of the land artist’s vision. Highlighting some unlikely personal connections, she demonstrates the use of oral histories in the preservation of Nevada’s past, and presents a new view of City from the perspective of the hands that are helping to build it. www.unlv.edu/barrickmuseum Images courtesy the Davis family
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Grandpa & MikeArt, Labor, and Friendship in Rural Nevada
UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art November 29 2017 . 7pm
Meleah Smith draws on the relationship between Michael Heizer and her family to describe the role of the laborer and the local community in the realization of the land artist’s vision. Highlighting some unlikely personal connections, she demonstrates the use of oral histories in the preservation of Nevada’s past, and presents a new view of City from the perspective of the hands that are helping to build it.
www.unlv.edu/barrickmuseumImages courtesy the Davis family
