Tag Archives: Peter Goin

Take a look inside Nevada Rock Art at photo-eye.com

Nevada Rock Art contains rarely seen images that are themselves artifacts of fieldwork conducted throughout the back roads, valleys, summits, drainages, and mountain ridges of Nevada. From the northernmost wildlife refuge to the sun-blasted southern tip of creosote-bush country, the process … Continue reading

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Black Rock (paperback)

The Black Rock is a desert realm the size of Delaware about one hundred miles north of Reno, Nevada. Shaped by water, wind, geothermal activity, and human interaction since ancient times, the desolate, haunting landscape nonetheless teems with life in … Continue reading

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Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert

This book is for those interested in how and why manipulated language and imagery doled out by the atomic industry become parts of our lives. Continue reading

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Death After Life: Tales of Nevada

The Black Rock Institute Press is pleased to introduce our latest publication by William A. Douglass – Death After Life: Tales of Nevada (2015).   Now available at local book and gift stores in Reno, Nevada, visit a retailer or order your book … Continue reading

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Order Online!

Order your copy of Death After Life: Tales of Nevada online from the Center for Basque Studies Bookstore   This project is funded, in part, by a grant from the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, … Continue reading

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The Black Rock (Desert), lecture and book signing by Peter Goin

November 21, 2013: 6:30 – 8:00 pm at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City, NV.  Frances Humphrey Lecture Series: The Black Rock (Desert), lecture and book signing by Peter Goin, Foundation Professor of Art in Photography and Videography at … Continue reading

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December 7, 2012 Mackedon to present at the Carson Valley Sertoma Club in Gardnerville, Nevada

On Friday, December 7th at the Carson Valley Sertoma Club meeting Michon Mackedon will speak about her book Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert.  The weekly meetings are held on Friday morning at 7:00 a.m. at Sharkey’s Casino in the Rib Room. … Continue reading

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December 20, 2012 Mackedon at Red Hawk Events Center in Sparks, Nevada

On Thursday, December 20th at the Sparks Centennial Sunrise Rotary Club meeting Michon Mackedon will speak about her book Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert.  Meetings are weekly, Thursday morning, 7:00 a.m. at the Red Hawk Events Center in Wingfield … Continue reading

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Sagebrush Conversations

Where the Sage Meets the Sky: Great Basin Landscapes Wednesday, March 7, 3 – 5 p.m. Nevada Today, Events @ Nevada. In conjunction with the current Special Collections exhibit Where the Sage Meets the Sky: Great Basin Landscapes, join us for a series … Continue reading

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Amazon.com review of Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert

Amazon.com review of Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert  – By Judy Winzeler  This review is from: Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert (paperback).  Mackedon is one of a growing number of Nevada poets, novelists, artists and scholars who are recording the … Continue reading

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