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We sat down with Nettie Oliverio to talk about her involvement with the Reno Arts Community and some of the current art projects she is involved in. This was a fascinating conversation that you will want to listen to.
Here is Nettie's bio.
"Nettie Oliverio has been working to balance right and left brains all her life. She moved to Reno in 1975 fresh out of the University of Kansas with a degree in chemistry and two previous summers of touring Italy with Alabama State Ballet.
Fascinated by computer technology, she acquired another degree in IT and began teaching at the local university and community college while developing a computer curriculum for the local Montessori schools. Parents of students sought her help with computers in their professions and her IT consulting business was born in 1994.
To continue to balance her brain, Nettie has volunteered for a variety of Arts & Culture organizations over the last 40 years, assisting in successfully raising the funds to build a new home for Reno’s 85-year-old Reno Little Theater, serving on the City of Reno’s Arts & Culture Commission for 10 years, chairing the City’s Public Art and Arts & Culture Grants Committees, co-chairing the regional Reno Arts Consortium and serving on the board of the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, Reno’s Broadway house.
Those experiences over the decades of change and growth for Reno allowed Nettie a birds-eye view of how culture builds community, and in 2013 the Reno City Council appointed her to the Reno Redevelopment Agency Advisory Board to help guide the rebuilding of downtown Reno after a devastating economic downturn.
Recognizing the historic strength of the integration of arts and culture with commerce, in 2017 the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN) awarded Nettie their Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the growth of arts and culture in Nevada.
In early 2019 Nettie joined Doug Wiele and Rick Casazza in the creation of the Reno Public Market in the position of Arts and Culture Director for the project, which led to an offer to join Foothill Partners Urban Development as a Development Partner.
She continues the collaboration of culture and commerce with Foothill Partners in the creation of the Oddie District, home to the Generator maker space, and has her eye set on a few fun projects to come."
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By Dana Nöllsch with Reno Arts News.We sat down with Nettie Oliverio to talk about her involvement with the Reno Arts Community and some of the current art projects she is involved in. This was a fascinating conversation that you will want to listen to.
Here is Nettie's bio.
"Nettie Oliverio has been working to balance right and left brains all her life. She moved to Reno in 1975 fresh out of the University of Kansas with a degree in chemistry and two previous summers of touring Italy with Alabama State Ballet.
Fascinated by computer technology, she acquired another degree in IT and began teaching at the local university and community college while developing a computer curriculum for the local Montessori schools. Parents of students sought her help with computers in their professions and her IT consulting business was born in 1994.
To continue to balance her brain, Nettie has volunteered for a variety of Arts & Culture organizations over the last 40 years, assisting in successfully raising the funds to build a new home for Reno’s 85-year-old Reno Little Theater, serving on the City of Reno’s Arts & Culture Commission for 10 years, chairing the City’s Public Art and Arts & Culture Grants Committees, co-chairing the regional Reno Arts Consortium and serving on the board of the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, Reno’s Broadway house.
Those experiences over the decades of change and growth for Reno allowed Nettie a birds-eye view of how culture builds community, and in 2013 the Reno City Council appointed her to the Reno Redevelopment Agency Advisory Board to help guide the rebuilding of downtown Reno after a devastating economic downturn.
Recognizing the historic strength of the integration of arts and culture with commerce, in 2017 the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN) awarded Nettie their Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the growth of arts and culture in Nevada.
In early 2019 Nettie joined Doug Wiele and Rick Casazza in the creation of the Reno Public Market in the position of Arts and Culture Director for the project, which led to an offer to join Foothill Partners Urban Development as a Development Partner.
She continues the collaboration of culture and commerce with Foothill Partners in the creation of the Oddie District, home to the Generator maker space, and has her eye set on a few fun projects to come."