Reno-Sparks, NV (1888PressRelease)
March 11, 2009 - Reno's NadaDada Motel, where over 100 artists are expected to display and create work in motel rooms, is scheduled for June 18th to the 21st, 2009 at Hotel El Cortez, 239 W 2nd St and the Town House Motor Lodge, 303 W 2nd St in downtown Reno, NV. The event is free and open to the public. Each artist’s room will have lists of which rooms contain other artists at this festival. The hours will generally be 11 am to 6 pm, with performances scheduled at the Hotel El Cortez’s Tropicana Ballroom later in the evenings.
The work shown at this free Festival will run the gamut from drawing and painting to digital work to sculpture to installations. Although most of the artists are from the Reno area, many more Sacramento artists are expected to show this year at the event.
This DIY artists' movement began in 2007 when six artists joined forces in Reno, not so much to be radical, as the artists from their Dada namesake would have had, but simply to create an opportunity to exhibit their work and to offer the same to others. The artist/organizers worked with the management of historic Hotel El Cortez in downtown Reno and artists flocked to the event to rent their own rooms and open their doors to the public. There were over 1200 people that came to see the work at that first year's event! The number of artists involved during the course of the first 3 years has risen from 6 to 150. NadaDada adherents are from the disciplines of visual art, music, poetry, performance.
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