Artown at the Library

Visionaries: Women Artists of the Great Basin
Saturday, July 6, Northwest Reno Library

This is your chance to meet several artists featured in the book Women Artists of the Great Basin by Mary Lee Fulkerson and Susan Mantle. Presenters Fulkerson and Mantle will describe their long journey searching 200,000 square miles of the Great Basin for visionary artists.

Lena Tseabbe Wright Artist Reception and Community Mural Event
Sunday, July 7, Spanish Springs Library

Spanish Springs Library will host a reception for the Lena Tseabbe Wright exhibit, which will be on display until July 28. Following the reception, there will be a public discussion of art as a form of narrative storytelling, and participants will brainstorm ideas for a community mural that will be painted on The Hive at Lazy 5 Regional Park on July 13-14 and 20-21, 9 am-noon.

Val Lewton Classic Film Series

Val Lewton is best known as the father of the low-budget horror film, who created dark masterpieces of psychological terror. The North Valleys Library will screen a different film of his every Saturday in July at 1:30 pm.

• July  6: The Seventh Victim (1943)
• July 13: The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
• July 20: The Leopard Man (1943)
• July 27: I Walked with a Zombie (1943)