GBC Art Gallery

The GBC Art Galleries showcase the work of regional, state, and national artists to promote dialogue between artists and GBC students, employees, and the entire GBC community. The exhibitions also serve to highlight the work of GBC students, faculty,
and work from Argentum, the GBC arts and literary magazine.

GBC Art Galleries are free & open to the public when campus is open. They are in the Leonard Center for Student Life (LCSL) and the Greenhaw Technical Arts Center (GTA) on the Elko Campus. Videos of exhibits and artist talks are available to view on the HC@gbc YouTube channel.

For more info call (775) 327-2146 or email hc@gbcnv.edu.

The GBC Art Gallery Talks and Exhibits are funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Humanities Center at GBC, and Great Basin College.

Featuring

We are excited to have two wonderful art exhibits on display on the Elko campus!

Current Exhibits

Western Shoshone Arts: living traditions, living culture

What: Western Shoshone Arts: living traditions, living culture
When: Now - February 16, 2024
Where: Greenhaw Technical Arts Center Lobby Gallery (GTA)

Western Shoshone Arts: living traditions, living culture is an extensive collection of contemporary and traditional art and craft, including meticulously crafted baskets, cradleboards, beadwork and much more. The exhibit is on loan from the Elko Band Council and Western Shoshone artist and teacher, Leah Brady. On display through February 16, 2024 in the Greenhaw Technical Arts Center Lobby Gallery (GTA).

Photo Credit:

Western Shoshone Arts: Beaded Hair Piece by Roger Ike, Western Shoshone. From the Leah Brady Collection.

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Honest Horses: a portrait of the mustang in the Great Basin

What: Honest Horses: a portrait of the mustang in the Great Basin
When: Now - February 16, 2024
Where: GBC Art Gallery in the Leonard Center for Student Life (LCSL)

Honest Horses: a portrait of the mustang in the Great Basin is a portrait of the Mustang in the Great Basin and features giclee prints of 21 hand-painted photographs and presents an uncommon view that demonstrates the significance of the wild horse in the American West. On display through February 16, 2024 in the GBC Art Gallery in the Leonard Center for Student Life (LCSL). Honest Horses was Curated by Paula Morin for the Nevada Arts Council’s Nevada Touring Initiative (NTI), funded by the National Endowment for the Arts & the State of Nevada.

Photo Credit:

Honest Horses: Paula Morin, © The Phantom and the Broomtail, 2000, giclee print made from hand painted, black & white photograph, Nevada Arts Council Collection.

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Recent Exhibits

Words + Images: Broadsides from the Black Rock Press

What: Words + Images: Broadsides from the Black Rock Press
When: March 27 - June 13, 2023
Where: GBC Art Gallery, Elko Campus, Leonard Center for Student Life

Great Basin College Galleries and Humanities Center presents Words + Images: Broadsides from the Black Rock Press, featuring 34 broadsides produced at the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada, Reno using the letterpress process with handset type and relief plates. The printing was done on a Vandercook cylinder proofing press.

Curated by Bob Blesse with Gallery Notes essay by Harry Reese and organized by the Nevada Arts Council, Words + Images: Broadsides from the Black Rock Press, is part of the Nevada Touring Initiative–Traveling Exhibition Program. It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Nevada Humanities, and the Nevada State Legislature and an anonymous donor.

The Nevada Arts Council is a division of the Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs.

See the digital version of the Gallery Notes.

Last Gate by John Dofflemyer,
Artwork by Leslie Fry, Letterpress printed, 2005

The Breaker in the Pen
by Joel Nelson,
Artwork by Gary Morton, Letterpress printed, 2002