Double Scoop Podcast

The City of Sparks got a $50,000 public art grant last year. Now, they're working on making the most of it. City events planner Francine Burge and artist Jen Charbonneau talk about some of the creative ways they've come up with to find out what kind of art Sparks residents want to see in their city.

Downtown Reno is changing quickly, and four new Burning Man sculptures in the neighborhood symbolize different things to different people. August podcast host Holly Hutchings talked with a tourist, a bus rider, Elko artist Barry Crawford, and Ben Castro from the Reno Initiative for Shelter and Equality.

This week, we're taking you behind the scenes of Double Scoop. Learn about what we do, where we're coming from, and what's coming up.

Lena Tseabbe Wright from Nixon is a grad student at the San Francisco Art Institute who's leading a community mural project in Sparks. In the studio, she was thoughtful and upfront about the pros and cons of art school, the challenges of starting an art career, and how much thought goes into responsibly represent a community, Native American or otherwise.

Artspot's mural tours stared when Geralda Miller noticed her collaborator Eric Brooks showing his friends from Scotland around to Reno's outdoor artworks. Now, their org offers weekly tours downtown and in Midtown. The remaining tours this month are on July 13, 20 and 27. For details, visit Artspot Reno's Facebook page.

DJ and podcaster Prince Nesta interviews artist/author/trailblazer Mary Lee Fulkerson, who remembers how challenging it was to chart an art career as a woman in the 1950s . Mary Lee and several others will talk about their work during the Artown event Visioaries: Women Artists of the Great Basin at the Northwest Reno Library on July 6 from 1-3 p.m.