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Elko High School senior Soledad “Chilz” Negrete will compete at the 15th annual Nevada Poetry Out Loud state finals March 14 at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts in Reno.
<p>On Feb. 6, Negrete, along with EHS students Ava Nielsen and Kinyon Moore, were among the top three district finalists, with Negrete taking first place.</p>
For the first time in its history, the event will be live-streamed on YouTube at:<br />
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/YBjHNsIXa6A" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="2020 nevada Poetry Out Loud Finals">https://youtu.be/YBjHNsIXa6A</a></p>
For more information see:<br />
<p><a href="https://nvculture.org/nevadaartscouncil/programs/arts-learning-program/nevada-poetry-out-loud-finals-programs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="NVCulture.Org">https://nvculture.org/nevadaartscouncil/programs/arts-learning-program/nevada-poetry-out-loud-finals-programs/</a></p>
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Transcript of Oral History by Delaine Spilsbury [GBIA 036]
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Oral history interview with Delaine Spilsbury, Western Shoshone from Ely, NV
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Delaine Spilsbury of Ely, NV discusses family hunting stories and experiences, as well as her work in engineering for Nevada Power.
Interviewed by Norm Cavanaugh, 28 May 2014, in Duck Creek, NV
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Delaine
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2014
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Creek,
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Basin
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Basin
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Elko,
Nevada
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775.738.8493
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Barrick
Gold
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America
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Interviewee: Delaine Stark Spilsbury
Interviewer: Norm Cavanaugh
Date: May 28, 2014
S:
Hi. I’m Delaine Spilsbury. I’m Western Shoshone, Great Basin Shoshone as I choose to
call it, and I’m from Ely, Nevada. I was born in Ely during the Depression, and it was a
different type of life for the native people here in Ely than it was most anywhere else in
the West or in Nevada. We had no reservation, we had no place where all the families
lived. We had a tiny little colony that—I don’t know, what, it was federal, or state, or
even county—that some of the people lived, but not—just a very small. We still lived the
old ways with our families as we had when… We were hunting and gathering. We had,
our families lived separately in a different place, and it was just like we’d been out. Every
once in a while we would all get together, just like in the old days. And the primary place
that they migrated to for their ceremonies was now called the Shoshone Cedars in Spring
Valley. And there were, my mother was from Snake Valley, which is to the east. And my
dad, they’d go to Spring Valley, and—I think probably to marry off their people, and to,
there was a good place to harvest plants, and animals, and fish. It was a place of bounty,
with plenty of water. And then my dad wandered around and migrated. He was from two
valleys—three valleys west of where my mother was. And so, they eventually met
somewhere down the road, maybe even at Spring Valley at the Cedars, I don’t know. But
they compromised, and ended up living in Ely, Nevada, along with her sister and my
dad’s brother. And so they had quite a little family group, and all lived up on Seventh
Street Canyon, across the railroad tracks. When we were poor Indians. And I’d like to
interject that now that’s where all the rich people live! [Laughter] Not at that time. They
have four wheel drives and kick it up the hill. We had to walk in the wintertime. It was a
pretty hard life. I don’t remember a lot of being—I don’t remember being miserable or
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anything, because it seems like I was always kept warm, and I was pretty well fed. And
that’s lasted through my lifetime as you can see. [Laughter] We just… We had, dad
hunted. Dad and his brothers hunted all the time. And when, especially if they weren’t
working, during the summertime, the spring and the summer, they seemed to have plenty
of work. I went with them to the sheep, up at the sheep camps. And the men—my dad
and his brother, and—I’ll have to put a little more family information in here, now. My
mother’s two sisters, my mother and her sister were from Snake Valley. My dad and his
brother were from White River. And since my mother and her two sisters were from
Snake Valley, their brothers were also. Well, those two brothers married two other
sisters. [Laughter] So it was quite a small family there. I mean, a small few families for a
lot of kids. But—
C:
What was your father’s name? Of what family did he come from?
S:
My father was from, his mother was at Duckwater. And she had married a gentleman
who was half—he was from Salt Lake City, probably a white Mormon, I don’t know. But
I know he wasn’t a Mormon because I know he drank. [Laughter] But, and his name was
Stark. So we don’t have an Indian name. And my mother’s name, mother’s family name
was Joseph. And anyway, we, they always hunted as a group, and worked as a group.
And they went sheep-shearing when they could. They had, my dad was a very ambitious
and very intelligent man. And he soon became a private, I don’t know what you call it, a
contractor. Just a one-man kind of organization. And organized for all the brothers and
whatever to go to the north to work at logging during the summertimes. And they started
here, they started logging just around the corner from where I live now, on the Schell
Creek Range. And they expanded upon that for a few summers, and I guess they did quite
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well doing that. And my dad had only one eye, so he really didn’t work any jobs that
were where he could hire on in town. So he also got into prospecting, and mining, and
whatever kind of thing that he could make some money at it. He did very well doing that.
We, so we had a childhood that wasn’t hungry and it wasn’t cold. I mentioned that
before, but that was quite an accomplishment when we were in abject poverty and really
had no place to live. He and his brothers, finally, he and his brother eventually built
homes for the families, adjacent to each other so the two sisters could be together.
Sometimes that was really good, but after they had kids, they did argue a lot. [Laughter]
C:
So were those homes built on the Ely Colony?
S:
No, they were not. They purchased some property up that canyon that I mentioned up
Seventh Street, and they built on their own property. And that property is now owned by
one of the rich people in town who’s building a beautiful home up there. We thought it
was a long way from town, and it was on the other side of the tracks, but I enjoyed the
train as a kid. Putting pennies on the rails, and just, kid things. And when we went sleigh
riding, we’re not supposed to go across the tracks. And so we’d sled just as fast as we
could so we’d think we couldn’t make the turn, and if we didn’t go over the turn, then we
could go over the tracks and down the hill even farther. [Laughter] But… with the wild
game they gathered, and harvested, anyway, they had my great-auntie, Lizzie—Lizzie
Lee—had a place in White River, which is where my dad was when, where he was born.
And she raised potatoes. So the boys would take her a leg from their venison, and she’d
give them a sack of potatoes. So we always had meat and potatoes, and even though it
was Depression, and it was in a very poverty area—poverty situation, we always
managed to have something to eat. And then, when the World War II started, the big
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thing for individuals to do, families, was to have a victory garden. So once we dug the
victory garden and found out how easy it was—for the kids, anyway! [Laughter] But, we
didn’t have any running water where my dad built. And eventually, the adults did dig a
water line down to the Ely water main, and brought water into the reserv—not the
reservation, into our homes. Reservation was not there. And so, we had a much easier life
once we had running water, because we had always hauled it prior to that. But the kids
got to help with that, too. Because they got to backfill the ditch. So, we worked pretty
hard. My dad and I had a—we were kind of a little bit separate from my mom and my
sister, because my sister’s four years younger than I am. And I used to go out into the
hills with him, to go prospecting, and mining. And I got a big thrill out of that when we’d
blast. [Laughter] It’s just one stick of dynamite, but to me it seemed really exciting. And
we’ve always, I gathered the, got the habit of carrying all the rocks home that I could.
And, because that’s what my dad did, take all his ore samples home. And at one time, we
mined turquoise over by Austin, Nevada. And we took a lot of samples home, but we had
investors and whatever that’d come in from LA and look at the rock, and say, “Well, I’m
going to take this home and have it analyzed.” But we never really sold much of it. But I
got in a real love for that turquoise from that period of time when we were mining. And
that extended into what I’m doing now, too. My dad and I were pretty much buddies. We
were hunting and fishing all the time, because that’s what fed us. And the rest of the
family fished, too, when it was summertime. But at that time, my younger, my sister was
too young to go with us, so they eventually became kind of two partnerships. My sister
stayed with my mother, and I went with my dad. And he hunted until, oh, until his death.
He took up bow hunting when Nevada determined they would have two hunting
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seasons—hunting with permits: one for bow, and one for rifle. And so, dad decided he’d
like to—and as did a lot of other guys—like to learn to shoot a bow, too, so we could get
more venison for our table. And I eventually took up bow hunting with him, too. That
was a lot of fun. And very, very tasty, I’d have to say. So I went to school in—
C:
So what kind of animals did you guys hunt—or your dad hunt, or you and your dad?
S:
Uh, primarily, we hunted venison. We hunted deer in season. However, there’s a little
story to tell about that, too. The, a lot of the locals convinced my dad and his cousin—
Bill McQueen, and my dad’s brother, Elmer Stark—convinced them that Indians could
hunt at any time of the year. So, they went out hunting, and ended up in jail. They had an
animal, and they went to jail for feeding their family. And found out that they, Indians
don’t have any special rights to hunt and fish. Not out here. They do on the reservations,
but not out here in the non-reservation world. And I guess I probably should say a little
bit more about my school life. I’ve been very fortunate all my life. My dad had a friend
who lived up in the canyon behind us—and he was very knowledgeable, very intelligent.
And he took to me, too. And I spent many, many hours with him. He taught me, he was
my—he taught me all the necessary things, like math and writing and, oh, just, spelling…
My alphabet, to begin with. But by the time that I went to public school, I wasn’t old
enough to actually go the year that I went. But, this friend of my dad’s took me in to
school to talk to the principal. And he said, “Okay now, Delaine. Write all this that I tell
you to write.” And—oh, first, the principal said, “Can she say her ABCs? Does she know
her ABCs?” Well, yeah! And he said, “Now write something for him.” And he said,
“Now, I’m going to ask you, I’m going to have some math questions.” And he said,
“How about reciting your times tables?” and things like that. So, I was able to get into
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school a year early. [Laughter] Which helped a lot later in life. But I just had mentors all
along the way. I don’t know if it’s luck, or what. But, it’s been a really good life because
of those mentors. Excuse me. [Crying] I forgot all about him until this! [Laughter] But,
let’s see, to go back to the school, I went to Ely Grade School, which was a really good
experience. I had a good friend that lived across the tracks from us, and we’d spend a lot
of time out in the hills together. And my cousins were near, and we’d go picnicking up in
the hills. And one time, there was a big fire in a bar downtown. And my cousins came
home with a lot of whiskey, we didn’t know what kind. And since we lived at the
railroad, I lived above the railroad cutoff, we went down in those cliffs and cut holes in
them and buried all our whiskey. And then we sold it to the drunks for about a year. That
was pretty good money! [Laughter] We were just little kids, so it meant a lot to us. The
school, Ely Grade School, was a very good school. I had a lot of really good teachers who
helped. And I had some who were, actually, probably I’d have to add them to my list of
mentors. I only had one school teacher that made life tough for me. I tried to be a grade-A
student all the way through grade school, and I was really proud of myself when I had
one year of spelling where I only missed one word in the entire year. And I still—now I
know how to spell “squirrel”: with two “l”s. [Laughter] But, I had some great help along
the way. And then, when we had our graduation, there were three of us students. They
couldn’t decide who was the valedictorian, and who could be the salutatorian. But since
these other two people were guys, one of them became the valedictorian, and we had a
dual salutatarian ceremony, which was pretty exciting for me. And I’d have to mention
that just about all my life, all of my friends except for that one girl that was my friend that
lived across the street, all my friends were boys. Because that was the kind of interest that
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I had. I went to a few birthday parties where I was the only girl there, and I usually had
fun with the mom. [Laughter] Along with the guys. So, it was a very special, very
different life for me, than the other kids. And I attended high school here in Ely part of
the time. By that time, my dad had moved to Vegas and become a building contractor.
And so, he would take contracts in Vegas in the wintertime, when the weather was nice,
and then when it got too hot he’d take contracts up north. And he built some, a few
buildings in Ely. The Armory that is no longer, now I think it’s the Jailhouse. There was a
grocery store in between, and a motel, and some other things around Ely. And then we
took contracts in Wyoming, and did some work for the mine people and their workers.
And that was an interesting life, too, because I made friends with the people who lived
there, and everything was provided for them. They had a swimming pool, and all sorts of
things that we didn’t have around here. But that’s because the mine did all that, and we
could go into the store and get whatever we wanted. All my friend had to do was sign.
Because the paychecks from the miners went directly to this company store, and nobody
ever had any money. And it was a pretty interesting thing to learn, and to experience.
And we did a lot of hunting in Wyoming. We went out every night after rabbits. And they
had rabbits and hares, and whatever. And because by that time, we had a really good taste
for that. Plus, we were always saving money. And that seemed to be a way of life for us.
We were very thrifty, because, when I went to Vegas, and went to high school there, my
mom always used to buy my clothes at—I guess they’d be called “flea markets” now, but
they would just have the, put their clothes out on Main Street, or whatever they had to
sell on the weekends, and we’d buy our clothes there. And they were always out of the
style. If it was a short skirt, mom sewed a strip of velvet—two inch or four inch,
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depending on what the styles were that year—velvet ribbon on the bottom, to make them
acceptable. I wouldn’t get slapped in school for having too much showing, I guess!
[Laughter]
C:
So where was your experience in going to school? Did you go to school here in Ely, or
was it a public school, or…?
S:
No, the—just, I went to Ely Grade School, and White Pine High School. Off and on. I
would start at White Pine, because we were—that’s what I was starting to tell you, and I
lost my train of thought there. That was when dad was moving back and forth with the
seasons. We would start in White Pine High School, and—wait a minute. I started doing
that when I was in third grade. And then we’d move to Vegas, and I’d spend the rest of
the year—or, part of the year, and then come back to Ely to finish the year. So, it was a, it
was—I think, I didn’t like it at the time, but I think I learned a lot more by doing that. So
I did that all the way through high school. I finally—I think it was the last two years in
high school, I did, stayed in Vegas. And I had an advantage there, also, by going to the
school later in the year. One year, I couldn’t have, they didn’t have any sophomore
classes. That was a required class. And so they put me in the junior class. And so it was a
little tougher, but I think that was good for me. And the other thing that helped, is when I
was in Vegas, and I tried to get a drafting class, they wouldn’t let me take drafting
because I was a girl, and they thought that I would be—I have to back up and say why I
wanted to take drafting. My dad by then was a building contractor. And he was having—
a lot of his expense was having drawings made for the building so he’d get a building
permit. And so he said, “Why don’t you learn to do this?” Because I kept working with
him in the building industry. And I no longer paint walls, because when I was such a little
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kid, and I was working with him, that was all I could do was paint the walls! [Laughter]
That and climb up on the roof and lay some sheathing. But I’d had enough painting for
the rest of my life. [Laughter] So, it was, I’m losing it again—I was, okay, so I went to,
tried to take my drafting classes, and they wouldn’t let me into the class because they felt
it would be too distracting to have a girl in the class. And so the next fall, when I came
back to Ely, I asked for drafting at White Pine High, and they said, “Sure.” So when I
went back, when I transferred back, and I need to transfer to a class, they, I guess they
felt they couldn’t refuse me. But they did put me in a back room where I had to work on
my own. The teacher had to come back, and then work—when he had everything else
done, if he had a little extra time, Mr. Portinier. He would come back, and see what, and
help me with what I was doing. But I took to it so well, and I did so well at it, that he
became a mentor also. And by the time I was a senior, which wasn’t—I’d only been in—
well, I’d gone to the Las Vegas all four years, but not full four years—I was hired. They
had a program that if you had a job, you could get credit for the job. And they gave us the
afternoon off. So I became a professional draftsman when I was a senior in high school.
[Laughter] And it paid well, too. So, that just kind of, all that kind of thing just carried
through, pretty much most of my life. And I attended Nevada Southern in Las Vegas for a
few years, but I was, always had such a good job and made so much money, and mentors
would take over and teach me all they could, I finally just felt that I was doing well
enough on my own—not my own, but the results were—that I did quit school. But it
didn’t seem to hinder anything that I did. They, at that time, they didn’t actually require a
degree just for an interview. I did get turned down on a lot of jobs because they said, “We
don’t hire women.” And that was it. You know, they wouldn’t even give me an interview.
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But so I started in, started off with government jobs. I worked for the county, and then I
was able to get a job with the city, and I found a really good mentor there. And from then
on, I had a reputation, so I didn’t need anything more. And that carried through. I
eventually—the one thing that did happen that I didn’t like so well is, somewhere along
that way I got married. And every time they had a layoff, because of a depression or a
recession or something, they would, everybody in the industry, I think—or even
everywhere else, but that’s the only, engineering is the only industry I know—they
would, if there were a couple working, the wife always got laid off, because they felt that
the man was the breadwinner and all that kind of thing. So I got laid off a couple times.
And the last time I got laid off, I said, “You know, I think I’ll do something I really want
to do.” Which, well—other than get laid off, I loved the work. So, I was kind of set back
a little bit, and that’s when I got my training in Indian arts and crafts. My mother tried to
teach me everything that she knew, and I eventually ended up with an Indian arts and
crafts business. And it just, everything has just been—I don’t know if kids have those
opportunities these days.
C:
So in those places you worked, you mentioned, where was it in part of the country?
S:
Oh, all my engineering life was around Las Vegas. I worked for the county, I worked for
the city, I worked for Nevada Power for a number of years, and long enough to get a few
promotions and a few raises and things like that. So each time I changed jobs, it was a
step up. And then, my final job was kind of by accident. I got laid off at Nevada Power—
or fired, or whatever in the heck it was. I think that time, I think that time was the time I
got dumped, and it was all, had a personal beef for—my chief engineer didn’t see things
the way I saw it, and so I got dumped there—and was collecting unemployment
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insurance. And at the time, my dad was alive and well, and very… I can’t think of a word
for it, he was, he was going fishing all the time, and he had a boat, and we’d go to all the
lakes around there—Lake Mead, Lake Mohave, and, depending on what kind of fish we
were fishing for. And I said to him, I said, “Dad, I think I’m just going to go fishing with
you.” And we did that for—it was spring—for quite a long time. And then, at that time, at
the end of unemployment, you had to go in and talk to the man, and they would ask you
if you had been looking for work. And of course, I always said I was, because I always
had applications in places that I didn’t think would hire me—right off anyway. And I go
in one day, and this employment guy says, “They need someone like you at the telephone
company.” And he said, “Will you go for an interview?” And I said, “Sure!” Because I
had to. [Laughter] And doggone, when I went for that interview, if the supervisor, the
minor supervisor, which I was to work for there, was a guy that had worked for me
someplace. And when he saw me, he said, “Oh my God, Delaine! We need you! I’m so
glad you’re available.” And that put an end to my fishing. [Laughter] So I stayed with
them for a very short time. It was a good company, they had a good company policy, but
our senior supervisor was just a picky-picky-picky, and I couldn’t handle that. And that’s
when I went to the Test Site. And I stayed there for quite a number of years. The Nevada
Test Site, out of town. So all my engineering career was in the Vegas area.
C:
So you were a pioneer, as a woman, in that field, when there wasn’t very many women in
it.
S:
There were very few women in that field. I did work with one other woman who was a
right-of-way engineer. And she was, she had been at Stanford, and she was quite a bit
older, but… She was a good friend of mine. But I think that’s, those are—I don’t ever
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remember having another woman on the job anywhere I worked. Not in that line. We had
secretaries, and that sort of thing, but… I don’t remember any other women. Once I got
into the Indian arts and crafts business, I became really enchanted by all kinds of
handmade stuff. And a lot of stuff in my house is handmade, and, this particular chair, the
gentleman is still alive. And for one reason I can’t remember his name, and he is in Ely.
And they had these chairs in an art gallery in Ely, oh, probably 10 or 12, 10—oh, some
years ago. I’ve lived in this house now for over 10 years. And during that time, a friend
of mine from Vegas was visiting, and we went to the art gallery. And this chair looked
small enough and nice enough that I said, “Gee, that’s nice. I’d better try it out.” And I
really loved that chair. But I walked away from it and went on with what I was doing.
And on my following visit to Vegas, when I walked in to my friend John’s house, there
was my chair. Waiting for me. So, but I guess I stopped visiting him enough, because he
said the chair was getting lonesome, and he brought it up to here. And it gets used every
day up here. [Laughter] The only horse I’ve ever ridden is, well, the one that my dad had
that wasn’t very sound, we found out. Because he decided to sell it. And it was
“Helldorado,” which was a big rodeo time, big Western days in Las Vegas. And he
bought all the black, I guess it’s called “surge.” He looked like Roy Rogers all decked
out in his black pants and shirt, and black hat. He was showing off his horse. He had
advertised it as sound and gentle and all that sort of thing, and the guy was—there where
we lived in Vegas, there was, out on the edge of town, as usual, and it was all alkali dust,
alkali dirt, which is totally white. And for some reason, that horse stumbled, and my dad
rolled in the white alkali. [Laughter] So, we were never permitted to ride that horse again.
I think he had a bad back, I think that’s what it was. He said it stumbled, but I think it had
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a bad back. And a few stable horses or whatever, when I’ve gone up into the mountains.
I’ve ridden some really wonderful horses when I’ve gone on some packing trips for when
I’m hunting big game with my bow. And I’ve loved some of those animals. But that’s the
extent of my horsemanship.
C:
But the saddle—
S:
The saddle. Back to the saddle! [Laughter] Would you…?
C:
It says, “25th Annual Treaty Days.” Was that a rodeo, or…?
S:
That’s in Oregon. It’s a big rodeo. It’s an all-Indian rodeo. And my cousin Mel Joseph,
who is, was my, one of the uncles that lived in Snake Valley, his son. And he was a real
tough little kid. So he really excelled in what he was doing. He got his first job when he
was 12 years old, and moved to California. He was a horseman on one of those greenhorn
trips that I was mentioning that I took when I went hunting. And so, he became a pretty
good rodeo hand. He’s been a clown and everything all the way up, and he and his
brother just last year won a national championships at the Indian National Finals in
Vegas. So he went the full gamut in rodeo, and that ended up at my place. I let him visit it
once in a while. [Laughter] I mentioned earlier that I eventually ended up in the Indian
arts and crafts industry. And I have a very nice wholesale business going on now. I’ll
probably work until I can’t work anymore. And those items are some of the items that I
carried when I was in Vegas, and had a bigger clientele. And I sold pottery rugs. The—I
had all kinds of artists that I had access to. And I really enjoyed that. It was nice to really
be able to get to know them, and to know them well, and that’s been another, really fun
part of my life, is… and the beauty of the Indian work, the Indian handcrafts is just, it’s
still hard for me to believe how they manage to do these things. I did a lot of traveling,
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and went to a lot of shows and whatever with these people, and I became, I was on the
board of directors for the Indian Arts and Crafts Association, which is a national
organization that guarantees quality and authenticity. And the artists were just
unbelievably talented. They weren’t “talented,” they were inspired. It has been a great,
great experience.
C:
And that necklace you have on? What’s that?
S:
Well, that’s actually Shoshone. And it’s, it’s kind of a, real special, this is made with the
old number 13 cuts, which are the ones that the artists, the beadworkers that really like to
work with beads, and they’re almost impossible to acquire. The supply house that
everybody got them from in New York was—they were imported from Italy, the beads
themselves—is no longer there, and so, I treasure it. It’s got bone, and crystal beads. As I
mentioned before, my dad took up bow hunting when he could hunt for two seasons. And
when I finally got big enough to shoot a bow, they didn’t have all the kinds that they have
now. Had to be pretty strong to pull a bow back in those days, they were pretty much
longbows. There’s one behind me that—this one’s a Mongolian bow—that’s pretty much
along that design. And the new ones have all kinds of wheels and whatever to make them
much easier to pull, so now they even have really efficient children’s bows. But I had to
wait until I was old enough, big enough to actually be able to handle a bow. And we, that
ended up being a great, a real fun part of our life, too, because we—when we moved to
Vegas, we got into the Archery Club, and competition, and that sort of thing. And my son
was, had won a state championship or two. And I won the women’s division, the bow
hunting division, for a number of years. Dad did, was real pretty good with his bow, too,
and we just had a lot of fun in archery. We even had a range, an archery range, on some
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of the land that my dad had invested in, in addition—well, when he had, could no longer
be a contractor, I guess it just was too much pressure, because his doctor told him to go
fishing. [Laughter] And he started investing in land, and he always felt that land was a
good thing to have. So he had quite a lot of acreage on the outskirts of Vegas, and we
built an archery range on one of his properties, and everybody that was involved had a
great time. We organized and built our own targets, and would have our own
tournaments, and whatever. So anyway, along the way, of course, you know, dad was
always hunting, and I was always hunting with him. But I finally discovered that when I
did become pretty good at shooting a bow and hunting, I had to forget everything that he
had taught me. [Laughter] And start again! So I’ve been pretty much hunting, oh, most of
my life. I’ve always, well—small game, of course, is the most available. And a lot of fun.
And I love to eat it. Rabbits and that sort of thing. I was able to harvest a couple of birds,
too, which isn’t that easy with a bow. Especially when you cut their head off, let’s not
ruin anything—but that was a missed arrow. [Laughter] But I’ve been hunting around in
Nevada for a number of years, and I ended up, one of the guys that—oh, it’s, I decided
that I wanted to go javelina hunting. And over the years, I became acquainted with,
because of my business, I would always work the trade shows that were connected to
archery. I met people that—movers and shakers in the archery industries, manufacturers
all over the country—and got into some, got invited to some great things. I got invited to
go javelina hunting with Doug Walker, who published the National Bowhunter
Magazine. And he eventually asked me to write for the magazine. And a part of that, we
didn’t get paid much, but he took us on hunts. And he took us, I think the one that I had
the most fun, and had the most game was at Chudwayo [42:09] Ranch in Texas. And
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they have a lot of exotic game. It seems like the grandfather, the one that started the
whole hunting thing, had an opportunity to buy some game from one of those countries
that had a new sultan or whatever. And when they come in and take over the country,
they always just kill all of the animals that the prior ruler had. And put in their own. And
they had some animals down there that were extinct other than on that ranch. And that
was—the only fence it had was on the very out—the perimeter fence, and it was, I don’t
know. I can’t tell you how many square miles it was. It’s just a huge, huge ranch. And the
only fenced part they had, was inside, he had some really special animals. But they
weren’t, you couldn’t hunt those. There were a couple of giraffes, and all kinds of exotic
game. But the ones that were free-roaming, we could hunt. And we did. And we went
there for a number of years. And one year, I had a big thrill when rock star Ted Nugent
came hunting with us. I think I’ve been hunting with him about three times now. So that
was a highlight. [Laughter] Not that I think he’s so—I don’t agree with his politics, but I
sure like to hunt with him! So, and then, some years ago, I was lucky enough to draw one
of the rare elk tags—it was probably about thirteen or fifteen years ago—here in Nevada.
It’s a tremendous—some people apply all their lives and never get a tag. And I was able
to get a tag and hunt it just around the corner from here, for the elk that I have here, that
at the time was the largest elk in the record book—for one year. It isn’t my bow that does
it, it’s me! [Laughter] Actually, I’ve been shooting with a bow that probably a lot of
people would say doesn’t work, because I shoot forty pounds. But a well-placed arrow is
a lethal arrow.
C:
So is that the bow up there, that you have mounted?
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S:
Those are some of them that I’ve shot over the years. Actually, one of those is my dad’s,
and one’s my son’s. They’re sentimental, so they kept theirs. I sold all mine. Except for
the one I’m using now. And eventually, after I got too many years on me, too many
miles, years and miles, I did have to go to the compound bow that I shoot now. But I still
shoot it the same style that I shot the recurve and the long bow. And that’s with no sights,
and no mechanical release. Just Indian fashion. Ind’n fashion. [Laughter] And it’s, some
of these animals here are the animals that I harvested in Texas. There’s different kind of
deer: fallow deer, sika deer. All very tasty.
C:
So can we begin with the white-collared deer above your head, and then just move
around the room?
S:
Okay, that’s a white fallow.
C:
And that was harvested in Texas?
S:
Yes, the next—all four of these.
C:
And the one next to it?
S:
That is a sika. I can’t really remember what kind of sika it is. But it’s different in breed
from the other one. And the chocolate is the brown deer that has the moose paddle and
has the Ted Nugent signature on the paddle. That doesn’t show from here—it shows from
here. [Laughter] And then, the other, the next one down is also a sika. And that one, I
shot with other people present, and it just dropped. But that’s because I missed. I hit it in
the backbone, instead of the sweet spot. I was shooting uphill, and at a longer range than I
normally do. And the next one is a nice mule deer from Black Rock Desert, that my son
and I worked on. And the two antelope are from around here, and Spring Valley. Both of
them are from Spring Valley. That’s out by the Shoshone Cedars. And the little piggy
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over there is a javelina. And Ted Nugent was on that hunt. I have a little photo of him in
my trophies over there, of Ted and I. And this, the one on the floor, the full-body mount,
is an axis deer. First time I saw one, I thought it was the biggest fawn I’d ever seen,
because of the spots. [Laughter] And this is probably the tastiest one of all.
C:
So where was this deer harvested, in Texas?
S:
That one’s from Texas also. And all the taxidermy on those was done in Texas.
C:
And then, can you tell us about the mountain lion?
S:
The mountain lion is from an old friend of mine who’s no longer with us. He’s passed on.
And he was the best gardener in Ely. Had a huge garden. And everybody was welcome to
come in and take what they wanted, but his son was jealous, because I’m the only one
that his dad would harvest the vegetables, and even wash them, before I got them.
[Laughter] Everybody else had to dig their own. And the bear, on the floor, is from
Alberta, Canada. There’s a good picture behind it if you can catch the picture. That was, I
had a picture of the group of us who all got bears, and that one was the biggest of all.
C:
And you shot it with the bow?
S:
Oh, it’s all bow, yes.
C:
Ah.
S:
When I got—Rick, my son, was with me when I got the invitation to go along. And I
said, “Yeah, I’ll go bear hunting!” And when he got me alone, he said, “Mom! What
were you thinking? You’re going bear hunting?” [Laughter] And that was an exciting
trip, too. I had another bear fall in love with me, but that’s another story. That was not
fun.
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I forgot to tell you that when I was out mining and prospecting with my dad, that I
actually worked in those mines with a real shovel. Not like today, with a huge scoop
shovel and a big truck, but we actually got in there and dug holes to plant the dynamite,
and then we dug the muck out by hand. When I was a kid. And I think dad did it on
purpose so I would get an education. [Laughter]
This is a picture taken at Mount Moriah, which is just east of us here. Over—that’s by
Spring Valley, too. That’s why Spring Valley was so sacred to the Shoshone people,
because it was so full of, just, game, and fish, and food, and shade. On the bottom, where
the Shoshone Cedars are, it’s the bottom of the valley. And these cedars had been—
they’re actually Rocky Mountain junipers, and they’d been pushed in there by an ice age,
and it was the only place around where there was really good shade and grass, and all the
people that wandered around these valleys here all ended up there for their ceremonies, a
number of times a year.
The drum is just a part of my collection, it had an elk, and it was a Shoshone artist. And
it’s signed, but I don’t remember who it is. I’ve had it for so long. And I don’t even know
if it drums anymore, but it’s just something I like, so, that was—and it’s something I
acquired.
C:
And the baskets up on top?
S:
The baskets, the ones on each end are Mono baskets that were made by Julia, Julia—boy,
I can’t remember her name! She’s still alive, and I met her somewhere on the powwow
trail, and she had baskets for sale, and since my aunties are Mono, I thought that was a
great idea. I do have miniatures that my aunties gave me when I was a kid.
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Well, there came a time when we lived in Vegas when there were drive-by shootings and
that sort of thing, and the only time I could go anywhere was from 10 o’clock in the
morning until 2 in the afternoon, because the traffic was so bad that if you did go to the
freeway to get across town—which you’d almost have to because it’s so huge—there was
so much free parking out there in the middle of the summer. Free parking on that
freeway, in the 120 degree heat, that I decided it was time to go back home to die,
because that’s kind of what our people do. We, we’re so tied to the land that we want to
be back home when it’s time. And so I shopped around up here to get some property.
And in the interim, I was a partner at the Idaho Heritage Museum on Highway 93
between Hollis—no, it’s at Hollister, between Jackpot and Twin Falls. And my partner
there gave me a call, and he said, “These logs are available.” This mill—I guess they’re
called millers, the guy who owned the log mill, the saw mill, had some logs that he
wanted to get rid of. And it was a good price. And probably less than I’d have to pay for
material to build a house. But I didn’t realize there were so many, because I wasn’t
intending on a place this big. But when I did find this place, and saw the possibilities of
berming into the side of the hill for the insulation value, and the logs combined—because
this is cold country, here—that I decided to have a house the way I like to live. And that’s
why it’s all free and open with the kitchen island in the middle. And I was lucky enough
to find a contractor here in Ely who could do it. However, my partner, who was also a
cement—he was a contractor, also—started the place. He did all the groundwork, and he
put in all the foundations and that sort of thing. And he got arrested for supposedly
digging one arrowhead—I mean, that’s the conviction that they had on him, but I think it
was a trumped-up charge. Because the stuff he had, pretty much the museum all had
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certificates. But, I don’t know. Anyway, I had to hire another contractor along the way,
and I was lucky enough to get a local guy who’s honest and talented and worked for a
decent price. And we’re still good friends. Matter of fact, I—if you see the picture of the
fishing over here, under the sika deer, and those are salmon on the Kenai Peninsula in
Alaska. I’ve gone fishing with him up there twice now. And the 65-pounder is mine. And
the little fish on the end is my buddy’s fish. [Laughter] The little silver salmon. But
we’re—and we’re still friends, even after that. Even after that fishing trip.
So, I understand we’re going to be closing now, and from all you’ve heard, I’ve had just a
wonderful time, a great life. Everybody has just been absolutely great to me. If I do have
things that are, that I think are wrong for me and bad for me, I just remember all the good
things. And how lucky I have been. And I’d kind of like to talk directly to younger
people now. And I know it’s hard to get out in the outdoors now, when we have all this
electronic stuff, and screens, and whatever, that keep you all tied up, and keep you from
getting any activity. But I would encourage you, if you have somebody in your family or
something that goes for these outdoor things—maybe you can talk them into introducing
you to what is, what was our Newe way of life. Being on the land, living with the land,
and preserving the land. Right now, I’m in a big battle with a bunch of people to try to
keep the Great Basin water in the Great Basin, instead of being pumped away for where it
will never recycle into the system again, and that, the Great Basin Water Network, I’m on
their board of directors. And I would encourage you, our native people, our native kids,
to get to know the Earth Mother. She’s kind, she’s generous, and she needs protection.
And we can do it. I know we can. We’re having problems with climate change, and it’s a
good time to be able to extend, do something, learn about what’s out there, and always
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have faith in yourself, and always look at the bright side. There’s always something good
in everything. And ignore that other stuff.
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Norm Cavanaugh
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Delaine Spilsbury
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Duck Creek, NV [residence of Delaine Spilsbury]
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Oral history interview with Delaine Spilsbury, Western Shoshone from Ely, NV, on 05/28/2014
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<p>Delaine Stark Spilsbury is a Western Shoshone, or as she says a Great Basin Shoshone, from Ely, Nevada. She was born in Ely, Nevada during the depression, and attended school there as well as Las Vegas. Delaine speaks about her ancestors and how the hunted and gathered within the area as well as their family groups. She gives us an account of her family’s lineage and their vocations. She also speaks of how she hunted, fished, and mined with her father. She then goes on to tell of her hunting adventures, including some with Ted Nugent, and how she got into drafting. She finishes her oral history by leaving a message for the youth.<br /> <br />Interviewed by Norm Cavanaugh</p>
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Argentum
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�A r g e n t u m 2 0 14
As I looked at the beautifully crafted keys included in this year’s Argentum,
my mind filled with images of pirate chests, the distinctive keys required
to open them, and the curious and unusual treasures hidden within. I
envisioned precious metal shaped by imagination and skill, one-of-a-kind
works of art, multi-colored ceramics, even inventive words provoking
thoughts of unknown worlds and emotions. I would definitely seek for those
things in my personal treasure hunt.
I encourage you to peruse Argentum and discover the unique treasures
hidden within our 2014 edition. Appreciate the efforts of authors and artists
who unleash individual creativity to provide us with work that can spark the
imagination and take us to new and novel places.
When you are finished exploring these pages, please pass along this
Argentum to someone else. In doing so, you help Great Basin College
recognize local authors and artists, and support our efforts to encourage
creativity in our students, faculty, staff and communities.
--- Lora Minter, editor
For information about submitting your work for upcoming Argentum magazines:
Website: http://gbcnv.edu/argentum
Email: argentum@gbcnv.edu
This publication is made possible by the generosity of:
GBC’s Office of Academic Affairs
GBC’s Arts and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Committee
Special thanks to the Argentum Steering Committee: Tanya Stokes, Karen Kimber,
Lynne Volpi, and Beth Clifton. Without the support of Patty Fox, Cynthia Delaney,
Kristen Frantzen Orr, Gail Rappa, Angie de Braga, and the Media Services office,
this issue would still be sitting on the desk. Their support of artists and authors at
GBC is inspiring.
Kudos to Marin Wendell and Erin Radermacher of Everything Elko for their support
of the arts and their help in producing Argentum.
Cover Art:
Cynthia Delaney, GBC Faculty/Elko “Not Forgotten” Digital Photo Collage
Back Cover Art:
Patricia Anderson, GBC Staff/Spring Creek “GBC Fountain in Fall” Digital Photo
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�Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s
Artist Title
Taela Terrillion
Toni Rose Milano
Gail Rappa
Duane Troike
Frank J. Henley
Kathi Griffis
Nicole Schubert
Cheryl Schmidtlein
Richard Hooton
Ann Haglund & Shelby Smith
Paul Bowen
Cindy Joyce
Mallary Paoli
Joyce Armour
Ceren Yalcin
Earl Edwards
Joe de Braga
Maureen Dempsey
Anthony DeBellis
Thomas Brown
Patricia Gray
Sarah Hadland
Talisa Brown
Andrea Medina
Arthor Asson
Frank Sawyer
Katie Glennon
Gretchen Greiner
Susan Church
Kristen Frantzen Orr
Gail Rappa
Simone Marie
Lois Ports
Michael Bail
Amber Shinpaugh
Amber Shinpaugh
Sarah Sweetwater
Kevin Lee Johnston
Heather Kennison
Franklin Graham Sr.
Patty Fox
Thelma Richie Homer
Lacey Gobber
Martha Watson
Page
Koi................................................................... 6
Florida Pelican.................................................. 7
Flash................................................................ 8
Stamped Image................................................ 9
T-Rex.............................................................. 10
But Mommy................................................... 12
Egyptian Narrative ......................................... 13
Tropical Birds - Eleven Different Parrots.......... 14
I Like Birds..................................................... 15
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Birch Tree with Cardinals................................ 16
Alone in the Light........................................... 17
Foxy Lady....................................................... 18
Highland Cow................................................ 19
Lady............................................................... 20
Queen Bee..................................................... 21
Zebra Cranes. ................................................ 21
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A Perfect Day................................................. 22
Canoeing. ...................................................... 23
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Wig Wag Signals at Night. .............................. 24
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Headed Home............................................... 25
Bison, Yellowstone.......................................... 26
Intensity......................................................... 27
Life is an Open Door...................................... 28
Cowgirl.......................................................... 29
I Want to Milk an Ostrich............................... 30
Phoenix.......................................................... 31
Trailer Trash.................................................... 32
Owl Pin.......................................................... 34
Key to my Heart............................................. 35
Key to the Bird Lady’s Heart........................... 35
Moonstone Key.............................................. 35
Fleur de Lis Bracelet....................................... 36
Leaf Bracelets................................................. 36
Mad Hatter.................................................... 37
Entirety. ......................................................... 38
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Washed Away. ............................................... 39
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Traveler.......................................................... 40
Tractor in Snow.............................................. 42
Consider the Tumbleweed.............................. 42
Deeth, Nevada............................................... 43
Reese River Sheep.......................................... 44
Wear and TEAR.............................................. 45
Contrast Image............................................... 46
Boats.............................................................. 47
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A heartfelt “thank you” goes to the following community members who gave
generously of their time to select this year’s Argentum entries. Your expertise and
efforts, graciously volunteered, are appreciated.
Sidnie Miller,
Artist and Educator
Sidnie Miller was born in Elko, Nevada,
and is a third generation Elkoan on both
sides. She graduated from the University
of California Santa Barbara with a degree
in painting and a teaching certificate. She
taught art in Elko schools for 30 years and
then taught for GBC. She loves all areas of
art, particularly jewelry creation.
Beth Carpel,
Writer and Photographer
Beth Carpel grew up in Washington, D.C.
and lived in various parts of the country
before settling in Spring Creek. Her
photography tends toward the natural word.
In the past few years she’s been interested in
birds and bones. Her “bonescape” photos are
changed digitally to a much greater degree
than her nature photos. She is the author of
the novel Assembling Georgia.
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�Keith Clark,
Photographer
Keith Clark is an internationally published
photographer. From Africa to Asia, Ireland
to Alaska, Keith’s work has been featured in
magazines, books, galleries and on national
television. He has photographed Emmy
award-winning actors. His Las Vegas studio
hosted authors, executives, brides, babies,
friends and family.
Clark now makes his home at the base of
the Ruby Mountains in Lamoille, Nevada,
where he owns a studio and enjoys capturing
images of the old West from horseback.
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�Taela Terrillion, GBC Student/Spring Creek “Koi” Digital Photo
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�Toni Rose Milano, GBC Student/Spring Creek “Florida Pelican” Digital Photo
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�Flash
Little clan of siblings as I first remember it, still fresh and mostly intact: two boys, two
girls, tallest Tommy to shortest me. We stand on the sturdy staircase in an array of flannel
pajamas, faces lit with rare, genuine awe by the Christmas card of a tree hovering over a
pond of shiny paper parcels all green, red, silver, gold.
Perhaps it’s not my memory at all and only a glimpse from a shuffle through old
smeared Polaroids: captured moments all mahogany and bruised blue in the dim morning,
lit by the tangle of colored tree lights, illuminated by the camera’s tinny flash. Or, more than
likely, a remembered snippet from dad’s fickle movie camera, brought out rarely then, each
of us having moved through the endearing stages of early childhood.
There is no photo, but my mother likes to tell of me at three, running down a path in
the public gardens on my chubby little legs crying out, “Here I come, swan boats!” I will
have to take her word for it. And, when she is gone, will her words slip into the sacred
realm of the dead, where insignificant comments and dismissed advice become profound,
where recollections transform to facts?
And my own wonder that my children, so awake in each moment, will likely not
remember much of what they have experienced up to now. It will be up to my husband
and I to be the keepers of their early memories. I can only hope that joy will be so familiar
it won’t stand out as a stark snapshot of an experience, but instead be as common as the
millions of unremarkable and miraculous breaths they will take.
Gail Rappa GBC Faculty/Tuscarora
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�Duane Troike, GBC Visual Foundations Online Student/Winnemucca
“Stamped Image” Ink on posterboard
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�Frank J. Henley, Community Member/Spring Creek “T-Rex” Digital Photo
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�“I enjoy photographing
nature doing unusual
things … Nevada is full of
interesting objects.”
Frank Henley
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�Kathi Griffis, Community Member/Spring Creek “But Mommy” Graphite
“Just a science kid trying to pass my fine arts credit!!
Some things turn out cool!”
Nicole Schubert
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�Nicole Schubert, GBC Visual Foundations Student/Spring Creek “Egyptian Narrative”
Black Sharpie
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�Cheryl Schmidtlein, Community Member/Elko “Tropical Birds Eleven Different Parrots” Stained Glass, Copper Foil
“Stained glass is more than church windows … the sky is
the limit. Working with glass does something to your soul.”
Cheryl Schmidtlein
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�I Like Birds
Especially the ones that learn how to cuss,
I once told a friend.
I like Mynahs and Macaws and Cockatoos,
And Roosters with their cock-a-doodle-doos.
I like Corvids, too,
The Magpies and Crows clean up my road kill
When I run over a snake on the gravel road
At the bottom of my hill.
I don’t like snakes.
They hiss and slither and rattle and
Leave their winding tracks in dirt and sand
And they coil and threaten with ready fangs.
The crows will get them - it’s all right,
When they come out to sun themselves
On a warm dirt road in the cold, bright light.
And crawl so slow they’re easy to catch.
The mocking crows follow and sass me from above.
“Caw! Caw! Caw! you ground-bound creature down below,
Where the little houses stand row on row,
And where children play, and
People come and go.”
Go keep us safe, I scold and shout, and leave me be!
Can’t you see I’m stuck here on the ground.
Go do your job and eat a snake!
I’d come with you, but not to eat.
If I had wings like you.
Richard Hooton Community Member/Elko
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�Ann Hagland & Shelby Smith, Community Members/
Elko “Birch Trees with Cardinals” Fabric Art
This collaborative work began with an October 2010 Quilt World pattern which was reduced. Hagland
developed her own cardinals and Smith used a long arm machine to free form quilt the background.
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�Paul Bowen, Community Member/Elko “Alone in the Light” Digital Photo
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�Cindy Joyce, Community Member/Wells “Foxy Lady” Digital Photo
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�Mallary Paoli, Community Member/Elko “Highland Cow” Digital Photo
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�Joyce Armour, Community Member/Elko “Lady” Rock, Clay, Resin, Paint, Brass
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�Ceren Yalcin,
GBC Student/Elko
“Queen Bee”
Acrylic on Clay/Sculpture
“Art, to me, is beauty
interpreted in the eyes of
the beholder.”
Earl Edwards
Earl Edwards,
Community Member/Spring Creek
“Zebra Cranes”
Zebrawood
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�Joe de Braga, Community Member/Elko “A Perfect Day” Digital Cell Phone Photo
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�Canoeing
You and I
are better
at canoeing
than we
once were.
Fifteen years:
J strokes
C strokes
Draw strokes
Paddle-like-hell strokes.
We’ve learned
canoeing is an art.
You’ve stopped giving
long-winded directions
from the stern,
Last week
you showed me
a new stroke:
The sweep you
called it.
My paddle had
to be tilted at
just the right angle;
you had to pull
your paddle at the
same time I did.
If not, we’d swim you said.
I thought about trying
it just to see if you were right.
I’ve quit steering
from the bow and holding
onto the gunwale.
Fifteen years ago
I might have.
We’ve studied:
the river
the rocks
the rapids
the waves
You and I
are better
at canoeing
than we
once were.
Together.
Maureen Dempsey Community Member/Spring Creek
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�Anthony DeBellis, GBC Student/Ely “Wig Wag Signals at Night” Digital Photo
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�Thomas Brown, Community Member/Spring Creek “Headed Home” Digital Photo
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�Patricia Gray, Community Member/Spring Creek “Bison, Yellowstone”
Acrylic Ink on Clayboard
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�Sarah Hadland, GBC Visual Foundations Student/Eureka “Intensity”
Colored pencil, Push-pencil, Black Sharpie
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�Talisa Brown, GBC Photography Student/Pahrump “Life is an Open Door” Digital Photo
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�Andrea Medina, GBC Ceramics Student/Elko “Cowgirl” Ceramics
“I am just beginning on my photography journey.
I am taking my first photography class at GBC
and am so excited to learn this art!”
Talisa Brown
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�I Want to Milk An Ostrich
I want to milk an ostrich,
A sublime ambition indeed.
For the ostrich is,
Without a doubt,
A most noble breed.
With cows there is the stool,
For goats one must kneel.
But one may,
In comfort stand,
For ostriches – ideal!
Oh, I suppose it’s true,
Standing will work for giraffes.
But hitting the bucket,
At such a range,
Will require considerable craft.
I rack my brain,
But fail to find a third.
So on the whole,
With comfort in mind,
I want to milk a bird.
Arthur Asson Community Member/Spring Creek
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�Phoenix
As I gazed into the flames
And watched them rise to touch the sky
I searched the blood-red glowing embers
For memories long since gone by
I saw my birth as an infinitesimal spark
Too small in fury to warrant a blaze
And then in seconds a boy I saw
With imagination a dreamer of days
In seconds still a man I saw
Lean and hungry in his youthful years
Then with the slightest breath of wind
A wise man drowning in aging tears
And as I gazed into the flames
And watched them rise ever higher
The charred remains of my body I saw
Burning on the funeral pyre.
Frank Sawyer GBC Faculty/Elko
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�Trailer Trash
I’ve had the hardest time figuring out I own my home and share it with none. Occasionally,
my children and grandchildren punctuate my solitude. My housekeeper comes most
frequently, sweeping up puppy-chewed pinecone mess, changing coral bed linens, watering
vivid green plants. Home is a 1974 rectangular trailer, one end for entertaining, cooking,
eating, the other for laundry, bathing, sleeping. I live in high desert plateau of rabbitbrush,
sage, pinion pine, prairie grasses, thin dirt, granite rocks.
I rarely use the living room, dining area or den. Business calls are taken in my office chair,
bed, bathroom, or over kitchen sink, me dripping juice from a peach so ripe the smell
swoons me. Most days and into evening I inhabit the office where my computer lives. Bills
are paid in the dark of night to soaring music. When first light leavens darkness, I go to
sleep in my bedroom where king bed and big screen television face off in perpetuity.
This trailer encloses 1,200 square feet, the living space facing the Ruby Mountains, a
miniature model of full scale mountain ranges in Colorado where I was born. Two large
windows face the Rubies behind which the sun and moon rise. So clear the air, a few steps
out my door seem enough to ride the moon, gliding across the night sky like wooden swan
boats on park pond.
In the den, a propane stove, forest green enamel with glass panels front and sides, real fake
logs. I love the flame, the ease of it and the beauty. I had a pellet stove that ate 50-pound
bags I heaved into its maw twice daily, soot blackening glass almost immediately. I must see
the fire or any stove turns into nothing more than folly.
My bedroom and bath make up the other end. A tiny window brings light into the
bathroom. My brother-in-law parked his beater truck on the dirt road above my bathroom
and stood on its bed to see if he could spy me. That’s how we placed that sliver of sight
through the wall just so for incoming light.
When we moved into this house, twelve years ago, my husband was dying of Alzheimer’s.
We moved in Thanksgiving. He died mid-December. I bought this trailer because it cost less
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peer through my windows. I bought this trailer because I felt safe within its silence.
Who is it that moved in with me secretly, who silences my desires and esthetics, preferences
and dreams? Who is she that lives within me invisible, killing plans to make beautiful my
bathroom, all the worst of plastic harvest gold shower bath combo, faux marble vanity,
flaking fake gold faucet, thin mirror with fluorescent light box above to illuminate my
spartan grooming -- brush hair, scrub teeth, swipe face, done.
Who is she to inform me that it is foolish to move my leather sleigh bed into the living
room to view the moon and sun rise? Who is it that believes that this house is for others?
She will not countenance kitchen cabinets painted flat black with warm cream walls and
soapstone countertops. I want to know who this is living so assuredly in my home, setting
the rules, scaring the crap out of me at 3 a.m.
My grandparents, parents, and husband were so blink of an eye. Only my life seems so
long. I’ve been wandering in the infinite space of empty, frozen in pain of loss. Creation of
self, as with the earth, requires that wild burning in the dark at the hand of the unbidden
one. Pulsing lava she bellows to expansion and diminishment. I am throat to both.
Genesis fire in this lifetime rises from fault lines laid down within me, unwelcome places,
barren places, weak places, burned places. I create out of failed seams and boiling
fissures oozing lava, the red raw and flawed, cracked, down low places, sulfurous hissing.
Everything good and loving within me comes from such a place.
Perhaps in another lifetime I will create my self from ocean shores, outer banks, cliff edges,
high mountain ridges, within drifts of snow or sand. Now, in this time and place, paint the
cabinets black as a coffin. Rip out carpet and put down yellow pine floors. Move bed to
behold rising sun, moon, constellations. I and the stiff one are uneasy keepers of the silence
within the empty.
Katie Glennon Community Member/Elko
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�Gretchen Greiner, GBC Jewelry 2 Student /Elko “Owl Pin” Bone, Brass, Copper, Silver
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�Susan Church, GBC Jewelry 2 Student/Keddy Ranch
“Key to my Heart” Copper, Silver
Kristen Frantzen Orr, GBC Faculty/Spring Creek
“Key to the Bird Lady’s Heart”
Jewelry Fabrication - Sterling Silver, Copper
Gail Rappa, GBC Faculty/Tuscarora
“Moonstone Key”
Sterling Silver, 14K Gold, Moonstone
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�Simone Marie, GBC Jewelry 2 Student/Spring Creek “Fleur de Lis Bracelet”
Metal, Brass, Copper, Silver
Lois Ports, GBC Jewelry 2 Student/Elko “Leaf Bracelets” Copper, Brass
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�Entirety
i want to relive the straight lines of your jaw,
and the subtle curves of your lips
the shallow stare of your eyes
the ever-present dent in your chin when you smile
your sharp cheekbones
the gentle structure of your nose
the slight arch in your eyebrows
you in your entirety. you’re so incredible to me.
i am in love with the straight lines of your temper,
and the subtle curves of your arms around me,
the shallow stare of your love pouring onto me,
the ever-present dent in your heart where i belong,
your sharp physique,
the gentle structure of your personality,
the slight arch in your back as you lean down to kiss me.
i am in love with you. you in your entirety.
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�Washed Away
I’ve been taking so many baths
just to drown away the scent of you from my skin;
to mask the potent odor of heartbreak
with the fragrance of independence.
But no amount of Lush products could wash away the memories
or clean my body of the imprints you made;
my fragile skin acting like memory foam
to your powerful grip.
So, instead I am left with gallons of water
flowery bubble bath
and a million curses,
followed by your name.
Amber Shinpaugh GBC Student/Las Vegas
“My creative process is not unusual for a writer. I stay up
until 3 a.m. and write until I can no longer think.”
Amber Shinpaugh
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�Traveler
Open your front door,
Walk out in the world.
Begin your journey
With a hungry heart.
Turn around now
And close the door on your house.
Step out of your comfort
And into the unknown.
Maybe what you really need
Is a traditional Turkish Bath
To steam and soak off the old
And scrub away the dead skin.
Empty your full mind
Of your preferred tastes,
Your favorite fragrances,
Of smoothly paved paths.
Forget your best tennis match and
Leave behind your favorite American team.
They fill your mouth too full of words
And your mind with your own stories.
Go out beyond your history
Into a landscape of strange roads.
Leave your past
Back in your homeland.
Listen. You are here now.
What stories will their history tell?
You are the visitor here in Turkey.
Your job is to be a good student.
This day is for new stories
Spoken in tongues sounding strange,
Accompanied by music
In other notes and rhythms.
Their stories are buried in ancient sites,
Written on stones in unknown forms,
Carved with shapes new to you
Connected by myths of different titles.
Stand still in the new land
Opening the pores of your senses
Like a child at play,
Cram life into your mouth.
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Forget the flavors of your cuisine
And the musical marches of your history
As you savor a yogurt soup
And feel your feet on cobblestone streets.
Be a child learning at play
Become a student with an open mind,
Notice all the differences
And celebrate them
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So this tastes sharp and lumpy.
Be patient. Taste again.
Soon its tartness will be welcomed
You’re on your Silk Road now.
With eagerness, trade what you know
Bartering good heartedly
For the unknown.
Let this adventure become your Silk Road
Trading your country’s riches for new ones.
Trade your baseballs for spices
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Setting bowls of oregano and cumin at your table
Don’t be embarrassed by your ignorance.
When their currency confuses and you pay too much
Smile into their laughter
And be the fool lightheartedly.
Bring your synthetic, machine-made cloth
To exchange for the handspun, woven fabrics
Designed with ancient symbols.
Echoing magical meanings.
Next time, those multiple zeroes
Will more clearly translate
And you’ll recognize the million lira purchase
Is only $1.70 in our currency.
With your shoes and socks off
Embrace the sensuous silkiness
Of the weaver’s flying fingers
Massaging your soul from the soles up.
Returning home, open your front door,
Walk back in from the world.
Fingering those coins
As disks full of memories.
Sarah Sweetwater GBC Professor Emeritus/Elko
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�Kevin Lee Johnston, GBC Photography Student/Winnemucca “Tractor in Snow”
Digital Photo
Consider the Tumbleweed
Consider the tumbleweed;
Tumbleweeds are not lonely;
When the tumbleweeds of life roll in
Its shallow roots are so easily uplifted.
They amass in great numbers
Many are lost in the wind.
So it moves on, spreading its seed
And when they long last come to rest,
Others still, are found again
And welcoming change as a long lost friend.
They shelter their young to create new life.
So new ones can begin.
Heather Kennison Community Member/Spring Creek
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�Patty Fox, GBC Faculty/Spring Creek “Reese River Sheep” Watercolor
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�Wear and TEAR
You’d think I would have learned
that love and blind desire
can cause a lot of pain;
like the red plaid DeLiso Debs
I passed every day
in the window of the corner shoe store:
irresistible
something I had to have
couldn’t live without
laid away
paid for on time,
the last payment as much of a sacrifice
as the first;
the wound on my heel
breaking open with every wearing.
Thelma Richie Homer Community Member/Elko
“I came to writing poetry in my 70s…my advice to aspiring
poets is that it never too late … just start.”
Thelma Richie Homer
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�Lacey Gobber, GBC Visual Foundations Online Student/Carlin “Contrast Image” Black Sharpie
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�A r g e n t u m 2 0 13
As I paged through the April issue of Smithsonian magazine, a headline -- “Burning Man” -caught my eye. A commentary on Nevada’s counter-culture event, I wondered? Nope. Instead,
the article detailed the creative efforts of Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang who “paints” with
fireworks and gunpowder.
Guo-Qiang may be “the only artist in human history who has had some one billion people gaze
simultaneously at one of his artworks,” the writer proclaims. Guo-Qiang’s “fireworks sculpture”
was televised worldwide for the opening of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, and, according to
the article, Guo-Qiang’s subsequent “huge flaming earth sculptures…are meant to be seen from
space.” The author reports that Guo-Qiang wants to open “a dialogue with the universe.”
It was a much more modest bunch chosen to be a part of this year’s Argentum. None mentioned
aspirations of grandeur, but most looked deeper inside and commented on the therapeutic
nature of creating art.
“Writing is the best form of therapy one could have,” noted Emily Hardy. “Paper does not judge,
nor does the pen mock.”
For many, art was an escape from everyday life, an indulgence in their creative side, sanctuary
from a stressful world. They wrote, painted, focused a lens, carved, and manipulated metal and
glass, all in hopes of capturing a special moment and preserving it for all time.
“Art, to me, has always been the most noble and highest of callings,” wrote Nicholas LaPalm. “As
artists we are ambassadors, responsible for carrying the words, images, ideals, and inspiration to
the imaginations of the masses. Moreover, we are bound to the virtues of art, and indentured to
upholding the notions of truth and of beauty.”
Think art isn’t important? Think again. -- Lora Minter, Editor
Kristen Frantzen Orr, GBC Faculty/Spring Creek “Fresh Powder” Digital Photo
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�Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s
Artist Title
Kristen Frantzen Orr
Janet Correa
Cassie Rantapaa
Evelynn Thompson
Maggie Corbari
Jeannie Bailey
Wil Becker
KM Withers
Patricia Gray
Kristen Orr and Gail Rappa
Sally Rampe
Jolina Adams
Brandee Alexus Betancourt
Mike McFarlane
Mark Curtis
Jennifer Pierce
Heather Boyer
Patty Fox
Heather Wines
Jason Wallace
Paul Bowen
Anthony DeBellis
Nicholas LaPalm
Lauren Petrie
Brian Kump
Andrea Medina-Visscher
Shania Cook
Heidi Stevens
Jayme Cornmesser
Daniel Stevenson
Tanya L. Stokes
Sidne Teske
Katy Cooper
Cindy Joyce
Katie Glennon
Khatlyn Micheli
Megan Frandsen
Ami Rogers
Emily Hardy
Debbie Heaton-Lamp
Martha Watson
Thelma Richie Homer
Jana Tompkins
Genny Albitre
Page
Fresh Powder.................................................... 2
Bullet Proof...................................................... 6
Wine Pour........................................................ 7
Dancers............................................................ 8
Autumn Afternoon.......................................... 10
Acquiescence................................................. 10
Efflorescent Rendezvous................................. 11
Sanctuary Lake Powell.................................... 12
Hillside Home, Marietta, NV.......................... 13
Golden Nocturne........................................... 14
Heart Leaf Earrings & Pendant........................ 15
Antique Key with Red Heart........................... 15
Black Onyx Ring............................................. 16
Peach Bowl.................................................... 16
Sailing on Lake Superior................................. 17
Repositioned.................................................. 18
Waiting for the Loom...................................... 19
Tippets........................................................... 20
Brodie............................................................ 21
Time............................................................... 22
Winter Reflection............................................ 23
Northern Nevada Ore Train............................ 24
Melancholic Skies........................................... 25
Autumn Showers............................................ 26
Roll of Honor................................................. 27
Old Wagon Wheel.......................................... 27
They Changed Today...................................... 28
Saddle............................................................ 29
Tuck............................................................... 30
Gone to Seed................................................. 31
Gholley’s Breakfast......................................... 32
Winter at the Stone House.............................. 33
Whispy Winter................................................ 34
A Buttery Glow in Winter’s Snow.................... 35
Into the White................................................ 36
The Night is White.......................................... 37
Wild One....................................................... 38
Secret............................................................. 39
Switched........................................................ 40
Sunflower Burst.............................................. 42
Family Walk.................................................... 44
Wanderlust..................................................... 45
Words............................................................ 46
Eye on Sunset................................................. 47
Cover: Loretta Reed, GBC Student/Spring Creek, Cowboy Cathedral, Digital Photo
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Thanks to the following community members who gave so generously of their time
to select this year’s entries to Argentum. Your expertise and efforts, so graciously
volunteered, are greatly appreciated.
�C h a r l i e E k b u r g , Photographer
Charlie Ekburg has been interested and involved in
photography since the 1950s. In the early 1980s he founded
Sweet Light Photography to serve part-time customers with
darkroom services as well as the creation of images. Ekburg
revamped his business plan in the mid-1990s in order to
produce stock photographic images and do assignment
photography. He is currently the official photographer for
the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. (Recently a photo
he took of cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell was projectd
onto the jumbo screen in the middle of New York City’s
Times Square.) Ekburg also produces exclusive images
for the National Basque Festival and the Ruby Mountain
Balloon Festival, and is creator of the official RMBF poster.
His images have been printed in Nevada Magazine,
The Santa Fean, and The Los Angeles Times. In addition,
Ekburg is an adjunct instructor for Great Basin College
where he teaches photographic concepts. His website is
www.sweetlightphotography.com.
This publication is made possible by the generosity of:
GBC’s Office of Academic Affairs
GBC’s Arts and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Committee
Special thanks to Tanya Stokes, Karen Dannehl, and Karen Kimber for their help
in guiding Argentum 2013. Thanks, also, to GBC’s Media Services for entry photography
and publicity support, and to Tim Beasley for computer/web assistance.
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��Ta m Fo r e e , Artist and Educator
Tam Foree graduated from Colorado State University
with a Bachelor of Art Education degree in 1985. That
same year she began working for the Elko County
School District as an Art Specialist for elementary
students. After a successful career teaching in public
schools, she retired to pursue another career as a
“classical realist” painter. “Leaving the educational
field was difficult for me,” Foree says, “so I chose
to continue teaching art by offering lessons to
homeschoolers and after-school students one day a
week. Now I can focus on being an artist when I grow
up!” Foree lives in Spring Creek with her husband.
They have two daughters who are attending UNR.
�B e t h C a r p e l ,
Writer and Photographer
Beth Carpel grew up in Washington, D.C. and
lived in various parts of the country before
settling in Spring Creek where she built her
house (a collaborative effort) and raised two
sons (also collaborative – it does take a village).
Excerpts from her novel, Assembling Georgia, and
examples of her photography, including nature
photography from Nevada and the wetlands of
Florida as well as scenes from Asia, can be found at
www.bethcarpel.com.
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�Janet Correa, GBC Student/West Wendover “Bullet Proof” Digital Photo Collage
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�Cassie Rantapaa, GBC Student/Elko “Wine Pour” Acrylic
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�Evelynn Thompson, Community Member/Elko “Dancers” Acrylic
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�“I start with colors and shapes and put them
together in a way that speaks to me.“
– Evelynn Thompson
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�Maggie Corbari, GBC Student/Winnemucca “Autumn Afternoon” Digital Photo
Acquiescence
Irises sway in the breeze, promises of sweet
perfume and pollen tease
fluttering butterflies and bumblebees.
High, full sun beckons blades of grass to rise
up and become more than they are,
anticipating falling blossoms.
Tiny green crabapples swell into heavy red orbs,
branches creaking, groaning.
Lengthened summer rays spill from streaming
cotton-balled clouds, slicing afternoon air –
shadows across yesterday’s sky.
Nipping frost in the air and on the skin:
apples sweeter versions of themselves in
lingering Indian summer. Sweet perfume, pollen –
not-so-distant
memories
the moment light becomes
periwinkle twinkling stars and breath is a long
exhale
sinking between mountains and moon.
Jeannie Bailey GBC Staff/Elko
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�Wil Becker, GBC Student/Battle Mountain “Efflorescent Rendezvous” Digital Photo
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�KM Withers, GBC Faculty/Pahrump “Sanctuary Lake Powell” Oil on Canvas
“� his image started from a photo from one
T
of my houseboat expeditions ... but it has
changed to one expressing the beauty of
reflected light into this unknown cove
and the peace of nightfall … Sanctuary.”
– KM Withers
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�Patricia Gray, Community Member/Spring Creek “Hillside Home, Marietta, NV” Acrylic
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�Kristen Frantzen Orr/Gail Rappa, GBC Faculty/Spring Creek/Tuscarora “Golden Nocturne”
Jewelry
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�Sally Rampe, GBC Student/Elko “Heart Leaf Earrings & Pendant” Copper, Silver
“� orking glass over a torch
W
is a huge adrenaline rush
… nothing gives me more
pleasure than flame-working
glass beads. In this technique
the bead is formed directly
onto another surface.”
– Jolina Adams
Jolina Adams, GBC Staff/Winnemucca
“Antique
Key with Red Heart”
Glass Bead
Flameworked
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�Brandee Alexus Betancourt, GBC Student/Elko “Black Onyx Ring” Black Onyx, Silver
Bezel, Copper Band
“� aking bowls from singleM
piece raw wood is a
rewarding challenge. You
never know exactly what
character of wood will be
exposed after turning on the
lathe. It’s amazing what you
can make from your friends’
and neighbors’ trees.”
– Mike McFarlane
Mike McFarlane, GBC VP Academic Affairs/Elko “Peach Bowl” Wood
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�Mark Curtis, GBC President/Elko “Sailing on Lake Superior”
Stained
Glass, Lead Came, Copper Foil
“� have always loved to work creatively with my hands.
I
About 25 years ago I became interested in stained glass
and church window restoration. This has become my
primary creative and artistic outlet.”
– Mark Curtis
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�Repositioned
Here a maternal juxtaposition
seeking to just position
myself away from
two children, my children
constantly, so selfishly
reappearing on top of MY Self
Only to position myself
at each day’s end
impossibly close to them
Close enough to gently cradle
the juxtaposition of
Someday
Two selves
Not needing me so close
Jennifer Pierce GBC Staff/Elko
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�Heather Boyer, Community Member/Wells “Waiting for the Loom” Digital Photo
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�Patty Fox, GBC Faculty/Elko “Tippets” Watercolor
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�Heather Wines, Community Member/Tuscarora “Brodie” Digital Photo
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�Time
Silence within a scream, stars at noon
Smiling eyes behind a frown, leap of faith
Mysteries exposed, secrets unknown
Reality in control, monkey on our backs
Flight in captivity, magic carpet ride
Lost in the pursuit, ghost of our fate
Distance betrothed to desire, needs without
Desperation within us, at the mercy of its whim
Daydreams of delight, controller of possibilities
Senseless machine of nature, governor of our success
Dreams given life, rectifier of mistakes
Decision of fate, impossibility to dream
Eras bygone, memories of compassion
Examination of values, quality inspired by need
Enormity measured, calculation by the masses
Intangible truths, lightning in the sky
Walls of darkness, moths in a tornado
Discipline inherent, steamroller of wrath
Ruler by defeat, king of futility
Measure of our lives, measure of our success
Lifetimes but a moment, moments become lifetimes
Jason Wallace Community member/Elko
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�Paul Bowen, GBC Student/Elko “Winter Reflection” Digital Photo
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�Anthony DeBellis, GBC Student/Ely “Northern Nevada Ore Train” Digital Photo
“I am a fireman and conductor on the Nevada Northern Railway in Ely.
Everything at the railroad is original, and mostly dates back to pre-1912. I try and
recreate photos that could have been taken 100 years ago with what is left today.”
– Anthony DeBellis
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�Melancholic Skies
Today is grey, as the skies are filled, of clouds without silver lining.
The fog extends, transcends, then ends, where the light-blonde sun is shining.
If only the grey, inside of me, would end just as abruptly,
Or if the grey in man, which forces his hand, to feast and rule corruptly,
I’d picnic there, and only stare, at the cruel dark clouds behind me.
And I’d invite all of you, the animals too, to rest under Eden’s fig tree.
But alas, it doesn’t end, instead black and white blend, in harmonic co-existence.
Thus, I’m destined to be sad, mankind: To be bad. And so we walk the tightrope’s distance.
We must balance it all, try not to fall, for in life’s long haul; there is no path of least resistance.
Nicholas LaPalm Community Member/Spring Creek
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�Lauren Petrie, Community Member/Elko “Autumn Showers” Digital Photo
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�Brian Kump, GBC Student/Elko “Roll of Honor” Digital Photo
Andrea Medina-Visscher, GBC Student/Elko “Old Wagon Wheel” Digital Photo
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�Shania Cook, GBC Student/Elko “They Changed Today” Digital Photo
“I have been inspired this year to
try something different – and art is
what has spoken to me. I have been
finding art in every state, in every
home, and all around me.”
– Shania Cook
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�Heidi Stevens, GBC Student/Elko “Saddle” Digital Photo
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�Jayme Cornmesser, GBC Student/Deeth “Tuck” Digital Photo
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�Daniel Stevenson, GBC Student/Elko “Gone to Seed” Digital Photo
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�Gholley’s Breakfast
Gholley
the Gilly
keeper of my land.
Slumbers contently
‘neath a canopy
of evergreen tam.
While out on the
fence post,
perching,
Magpies spy.
Yodeling softly,
their eversome cry...
“Have a European for Breakfast”
my daughter once
claimed
... the Birds sang.
“Have a European for Breakfast”
politely,
patiently.
“Have a European for Breakfast” they ask again
as they wait.
And to Magpies’ ears’
soundless answers
to query,
They swoop,
lightly down...
Stiff legged, in unison,
like Bridesmaids marching down,
a diamond lit aisle,
Made of Heaven sent snow.
Leaving angel-winged marks
to the glittering show.
Determinedly striding to the altar,
they traverse to the
old cat’s bowl.
“Breakfast is Served”
While my old cat, Gholley the Gilly,
keeper of my wee spot of
land.
Indeed...
slumbers in La La Land...
‘neath a canopy of evergreen tam.
Only to dream...
of Having Europeans for Breakfast.
Tanya L. Stokes GBC Staff/Spring Creek
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�Sidne Teske, Community Member/Tuscarora “Winter at the Stone House” Soft Pastels
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�Katy Cooper, Community Member/Spring Creek “Whispy Winter” Digital Photo
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�Cindy Joyce, Community Member/Wells “A Buttery Glow in Winter’s Snow” Digital Photo
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�Into the White
I drove my cat to her death today, Devi yowling in her crate on the passenger
seat of my rig, my fingers touching through the crate holes, hoping my love
and gratitude would travel like lightning to her heart. She quieted as we rose
over the low hills between home and the high destination unknown to us.
I drove home empty crated today, yowling, tears striking my cheeks like
lightning. My son came to bid Devi goodbye, his words to her so intimate it
hurt to hear. And I, holding Devi still for final ministrations, lost myself in this
great whiteness where thought and words end. I still don’t know how Devi
and I merged in the white upon her death.
Devi came to me as a four-month-old kitten, pregnant already, bullied by a
tomcat, crying at the thick wooden door of our house. I still don’t know how
she talked through wood.
She delivered three kittens in my lap, looking into my eyes as labor began,
asking me to explain to her this pain, that suddenness of kittens. I still don’t
know how I comforted her.
Devi held me night after night for nine years after my husband died. She
kneaded my chest until I put my forearm full length under her and held
her neck and head in my hand. Her massage of purring, soft warmth of
underbelly fur, and Braille of delicate bones decoded this huge beauty within
her. I still don’t know how beauty caused me to hold on, hold on, hold on.
Devi had feline AIDS. Hard that last year was, diarrhea, skeletal thinness,
crazed yowling, fleeing from the unseen down the hallway, hiding shoe deep
in the closet, and at last an exhausted slide into sleep crimped by pain. I
fought and fought to heal her until she jumped on my bed one last time and
held me after almost a year’s absence. She told me it was time and mine to
do, the mechanics of release. I still don’t know how she threaded through my
thick denial.
Last week I drove to Sacramento to help a friend deal with a painful rejection.
I saw Devi walk across the top of my friend’s refrigerator. For real. With my
very eyes. I still don’t know how this works, just that the whiteness is now
larded with the luminous gold of her eyes.
Katie Glennon Community Member/Elko
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�Khatlyn Micheli, GBC Student/Carlin “The Night is White” Digital Photo
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�Megan Frandsen, GBC Student/Elko “Wild One” Watercolor
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�Secret
She sits across from me uncomfortably shifting her weight in the well-worn couch cushion.
Crimson nails strum nervously against the ceramic cup held close, not for warmth, but for courage.
The tang of morning coffee and stale nicotine wafts across the table as she leans in.
Our eyes lock, hers pleading with silent intensity.
Every indelicate detail of her recent transgression rolls wickedly through garnet-stained lips.
I feign indifference, preserving my empathetic facade.
Feeling the electric pulse of delight begin to swell.
She who is adored by all and wears her Chanel suit so well.
After bearing two perfect children, she has not let herself go.
Yet has gone farther than I could ever imagine.
Her shoulders sag and her eyes dull with resignation as she concludes her sordid tale.
I breathe it in slowly, chest compressed, crushed under the weight of the secret.
It begins to fester almost immediately after the telling of it.
Ami Rogers GBC Staff/Battle Mountain
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�Switched
(an excerpt from the short story “Harmony’s Melody”)
Sassi dreaded her spring break. She wished to visit Ireland, to see grandpa again.
Her father would never schedule the time off or allow mother and daughter a trip.
Sassi watched the clock with trepidation. Time was up. She moved sluggishly,
passing the bus. She spotted the Ford Grand Torino. A handsome man lounged
behind the steering wheel, smiling. She sighed, climbing into the car. Father
launched into a well-rehearsed sermon. Sassi tuned him out. It was about fitting in
with her American neighbors.
“I took this week off.” Father said.
“Okay,” she replied hesitantly.
“Has mother been teaching you Gaelic?”
Mother was, but Father hated their heritage and forbid it. “No.”
He squinted skeptically, but remained silent.
One evening Sassi came into the kitchen. Mother was chopping onions and crying,
a fresh bruise on her cheek. Sassi decided that her plan had to be put in motion
tonight. Dinner was tense. Silverware chimed against plates and the cicadas chirped
outside, punctuated by Father’s outbursts. He complained of the food, the used
furniture, his daughter.
“Now or never,” she thought, as Father’s words lashed about the room.
Quickly she grabbed each parent by the wrist. Her hands barely closed around flesh
when she released the power. Time slowed. Sassi drew in their emotions. Anger
flowed up her right arm from her father. Fear slid up her left arm to mingle with the
little girl’s own anxiety. Sassi forced anger into Mother and planted a double dose of
fear into Father. It was time he knew what his family felt.
It was over in seconds. Sassi felt a wave of exhaustion consume her, but forced
herself not to pass out. Polarity in the room had shifted. Mother was clenching a
knife, knuckles white and angry. Her head jerked up and her eyes fixed on Father, as
she released a guttural snarl. She launched herself at Father. His chair slid back with
a chilling screech, tripping him as he backed away.
Sassi tried to cry out, but her body wouldn’t respond. She watched Mother attack
Father. In relief Sassi noticed the projected fear slough from Father, being sucked
into the ground. She waited for the same from Mother, but the energy didn’t
dissipate. Sassi’s last image was Father trying to fend off a mad woman’s steak knife.
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�Sassi woke under the table, cold tile supporting her cheek. A crash of shattering
glass pulled her attention to the far side of the kitchen. Mother hurtling curses and
objects at the closed door to the living room. Sassi scuttled further under the table,
back pressed against the wall, knees drawn to her chest. A wailing police siren halted
Mother’s next toss.
“Fucking asshole! You called the police? Coward! Let them in, I’m sure they would
love to hear what you’ve done to us!”
Red and blue lights bounced through the kitchen’s sliding glass door. Sassi could hear
slamming car doors. Men’s voices came muffled through the window and dark figures
were outlined by the flashing lights. Mother mumbled, eyes narrowed as she rifled
through a drawer. Metal caught Sassi’s eye, reflecting her pale image on the broad flat
surface of a large blade. Mother hid the blade behind her back when a voice called
out.
“Mrs. Flint, this is Officer Gates. Open the door. No one needs to get hurt. Your
husband is concerned for your daughter. Where is the girl?”
“My daughter?” Mother shouted. She rounded on Sassi, “Little bird, would you open
the door?”
Her tone sent chills down Sassi’s spine. She unlocked the door and Gates pulled it
open, herding Sassi outside. Sassi noticed his hand gripped on his weapon.
“Mrs. Flint, I need to see your hands.” Gates said. “Empty, at your side”
“Don’t give her to HIM. Whatever he told you, it’s a lie!” Mother spat.
“Final warning. Hands empty and at your side!” Gates commanded.
Sassi began to shake again. Three officers were in battle formation behind her. Sassi
darted toward her mother intending to suck all emotion from the deranged woman.
At the same time, Mother struck out. The woman slashed the air centimeters from the
policeman’s face.
Sassi clamped a hand against her mother’s hand, drawing anger from her parent.
At that moment Gates tugged Sassi’s arm. “No!” she thought as power flowed. As
backup arrived Sassi was torn from her mother and dragged into a squad car. A shriek
tore the night air, followed by a gun blast.
“Mommy! Mooooommmmyyy!” Sassi yelled, pounding on the window.
Emily Hardy GBC Student/Spring Creek
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�Debbie Heaton-Lamp, Community Member/Elko “Sunflower Burst” Watercolor
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�Martha Watson, GBC Student/Elko “Family Walk” Acrylic
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�Wanderlust
The world holds me lightly in its arms
and on dark nights
when clouds loom low
and stars pin up a heavy sky
I become its courier
traveling in silent radiance
to the moon
and beyond
to the very edge of nothingness
eavesdropping on angels
listening to their wings
cutting through the air
as if thumbing through the pages
of my latest book of songs.
Thelma Richie Homer Community Member/Elko
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�Words...
torn from the mind
detailing life
spilling across the page
ordering chaotic thoughts
or creating havoc
Words...
brightened by hope
steeped in despair
jumbled together without reason
or perhaps that is their purpose
Would the meaning change if the ink were red?
Jana Tompkins Community Member/Elko
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�Genny Albitre, Community Member/Elko “Eye on Sunset” Digital Photo
“I caught the reflection of the sunset in the eye of my horse
and, at that moment, was mesmerized by the image.”
– Genny Albitre
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�Argentum 2012
What is art? This is a timeless question best left to museum curators, art historians,
testy critics, and creative types arguing fervently in smoke-filled bars. A more
uncomplicated question may be “Why is there art?”
For those of you who are encouraged, entertained, educated, -- and maybe
“bewitched, bothered and bewildered” -- the answer to “why” is as unique as each
individual artist and each individual viewer.
As you turn the pages in this year’s Argentum, I hope you are intrigued by the
interesting ways your fellow artists and authors view the world. You may find yourself
asking, “What was the photographer thinking at the moment he or she triggered the
shutter?” “Why does this author’s words make me question my beliefs?” “What did the
bead maker feel at the moment a flower blossomed from the flame?”
The world is full of questions. Perhaps art invites us to seek out answers. Enjoy.
Wendy Porter, Community member “Peace” Watercolor
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�Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s
Artist
Title
Page
Wendy Porter
Lorraine Giurlani
Kristen Orr and Gail Rappa
Lois Ports
Kristen Orr and Gail Rappa
Ann Hagland
Megan Anderson
Thelma Richie Homer
Karen Dannehl
William Becker
Jeannie Rosenthal
Wendy Porter
Allan Fisk
Summer Callender
Jennifer Pierce
G. Edward Winch
Patricia Gray
Ruth Collins
Cindy Joyce
Roger Hockemier
Gayla Rockwell
Nancy Harris McLelland
Susan Summer Elliot
Will Barber
Issac Duran
Janet Sanchez
Ron Richardson
Dan Thurston
Debbie Heaton-Lamp
Mary Ann Plavi
Megan Anderson
Gim Briggs
Paige Allen
Michele Barney
Kendra Thompson
Peace............................................................ 2
Wall Mirror................................................... 4
Shades of Green........................................... 6
Metamorphosis............................................. 7
Blossoms...................................................... 8
.
Begonia Bug................................................. 9
Breaking Dawn........................................... 10
Performance............................................... 11
Solutions..................................................... 11
Turkish Delight. .......................................... 12
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The Sound of Heaven................................. 13
Sarah.......................................................... 14
Anniversary Quilt........................................ 15
Michele’s Pastels......................................... 15
.
Mandala..................................................... 16
Mandala..................................................... 17
Lullaby No. Thirty-Something...................... 18
Mojave....................................................... 20
.
Horizon...................................................... 21
Old Fishing Boat, Walker Lake, NV. ............ 22
.
Grackles..................................................... 24
.
Protecting the Young................................... 25
Beach......................................................... 26
The Shack................................................... 27
Three Poems About You:............................. 28
The Resentments You Carry......................... 28
Your Life Passes........................................... 28
Your Life Is Scattered in the Lawn................ 29
Ink Blue...................................................... 30
Homestead Under Storm Clouds................ 32
Eyes of a Stranger. ...................................... 33
.
Black Hat. .................................................. 34
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Springtime in NE Nevada............................ 35
The Generator............................................ 36
.
Lamoille Aspens.......................................... 38
Pogonip...................................................... 39
Perky and A’Poppin!!.................................. 40
Fall Bloom. ................................................. 42
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Fall Woods.................................................. 44
Up in the Air............................................... 45
Summer Air. ............................................... 46
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Taking the Leap........................................... 47
Cover: Kristen Frantzen Orr, Grasshopper Kaleidoscope
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�Lorraine Giurlani, GBC student “Wall Mirror” Photograph
This publication is made possible by the generosity of:
GBC’s Office of Academic Affairs
GBC’s Intellectual and Cultural Enrichment (ICE) Committee
GBC Foundation
Special thanks to Karen Dannehl and Tanya Stokes for their help in guiding the creation
of Argentum 2012, and to David Orr and Kristen Frantzen Orr for bead photography.
Kudos to Marin Wendell and Erin Radermacher of Everything Elko for their
support of local arts and help in producing Argentum 2012.
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�Argentum Selection Committee - 2012
Thanks to the following community members who gave so generously of their
time to select this year’s submissions for Argentum. Your volunteered efforts and
expertise are greatly appreciated.
� ailey
B
Billington, Advocate for the Arts
Bailey Billington was born and raised in Elko, Nevada. She has been involved in visual
art from a young age including singing and playing the flute in band and in her church.
She began acting in theatre productions at Great Basin College while in high school
and also performed in many plays while attending GBC. She also took up photography
as a GBC student. After graduating with an Associate of Arts, Billington transferred to
Northern Arizona University where she studied Anthropology and Photography, and
completed her Bachelor of Arts degree. Billington returned to Elko and continued acting
with the Silver Stage Players. Today, she is a member of the City of Elko Arts and Culture
Advisory Board, Rotary International and works for the American Red Cross. She enjoys
working on her photography portfolio and on her many hobbies with her family and
new son.
� ichard
R
Hooton, Author
Richard Hooton was born and raised in southern Idaho, spending his early years on his
grandfather’s ranch near Sun Valley. A member of Western Writers of America, he is the
author of the acclaimed historical fiction novel, Soldier Hollow, and his most recent
release, The Lamb Cart. He still maintains his roots in the Intermountain West, and is
currently a resident of Elko, Nevada, where he is researching and working on his next
novel, The Mustang Riders.
� ynne
L
Kistler, Artist
Lynne Kistler was born in Washington D.C., and raised in Reno, Nevada. She is a
fifth-generation Nevadan. She graduated from the University of Nevada Reno, with a
Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters in Art Education. Kistler taught high school art for
30 years in Reno. She then moved to Lamoille to ride and drive her horses, and teach art
at Great Basin College. She enjoys creating her own artwork and is now getting ready
for her own art show at the Northeastern Nevada Museum next year.
� ene
G
Russell, Photographer
Gene Russell was born in northern California. Growing into his musical self, his early
creations were of notes, not prints. Russell found his passion as a photographer while
in Houston, Texas. Since the early 1980’s he has been sculpting his craft in fashion,
portraiture and product photography. His client list includes the Queen of England, both
Bush presidents, as well as notable film stars. Russell settled in Elko with his late wife,
Karen, and now calls Elko County home.
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�Kristen Frantzen Orr and Gail Rappa, GBC faculty “Shades of Green”
Flameworked
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�Metamorphosis
Cold, hard rods of trapped color
Coaxed into the intensity of dancing flame
Molten wraps of vivid hues
Flowing, reacting, merging
Creativity once hidden, now transparent
Uniquely formed, its shape emerges
Placed within the kiln it rests
Time to strengthen, to anneal
Still glass, yet transformed
The bead emerges
Lois Ports GBC student
“There is something very mesmerizing
about working with molten glass to
create small works of art.”
– Lois Ports, GBC student
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�Kristen Frantzen Orr and Gail Rappa, GBC faculty “Blossoms” Flameworked
glass bead, sterling silver, amethyst
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�Ann Hagland, GBC student “Begonia Bug” Flameworked glass focal bead sculpture
Making glass beads satisfies a need to use my
hands to produce something that pleases me,
challenges me and always has a bit of whimsy.
– Ann Hagland, GBC student
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�Megan Anderson, GBC student “Breaking Dawn” Photograph
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�Performance
Solutions
It must have been wonderful once
Pillories!
no lines tying us to false light,
Centered in the town square
when nothing blighted the landscape
head and hands locked in wood
when on a dark night
exposed to public scorn:
one leg at a time
Pillories!
the moon
stepping out onto a stage
What a good idea
pinpricked only with stars
for
strutted her stuff
wily politicians
like an old burlesque queen
priests that prey
blowing kisses
lawbreakers
beaming promises
jawbreakers
revealing not quite everything
errant husbands
leaving us wanting more.
run-away brides
Oh,
prodigal sons
Moon…
wolves in sheep’s clothing
snakes in the grass
maybe even
bad cooks!
Pillories!
WHAT
A
GOOD
IDEA!
Thelma Richie Homer Community Member
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�Karen Dannehl, GBC student “Turkish Delight” Jewelry - Necklace Argentium Silver
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�The Sound of Heaven
All of the players, all of the singers are lined up.
No tuning was required, no practice was needed.
Their faces are bright, their smiles are wide.
Each is prepared to give all that they have.
And suddenly, without hesitation, it begins.
A low rumble is heard from thousands of drums.
A hum comes forth from a million throats.
Slowly, each instrument enters in turn.
Pianos and Organs, Trumpets and Tubas,
Mandolins and Violins, Guitars and Sitars,
Flutes and Piccolos, Chimes and Harps,
All of the instruments that ever were join together.
Millions of voices, never missing a verse,
Millions of fingers, never missing a note,
Millions of drummers, never missing a beat,
Millions of players, never missing a step.
Each one is perfectly tuned, perfectly together.
Each one is amplified by the stars themselves,
Resonating with the music, giving praise to the Creator.
It lasts for days, the players never tiring or slowing.
The song is brand new, never heard before,
Yet the players know it all, through and through.
Impossible to imagine, yet fully realized in an instant.
Soon after it ends, another, more astonishing song begins.
William Becker GBC student/staff
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�Jeannie Rosenthal, GBC student “Sarah” Jewelry - Bracelet, Copper, silver, brass and stone
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�Incorporating old fabrics
and recycling clothing into
useful creations has been
Wendy Porter, Community member “Anniversary Quilt”
Quilt,
Cotton
a welcome challenge.
Creating a quilt from a
50-year-old maid-of-honor
gown brought back
pleasant memories.
– Wendy Porter, Community member
Wendy Porter, Community member “Michele’s Pastels”
Quilt,
Cotton
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�Allan Fisk, GBC student “Mandala” Colored pencil on black paper
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�Summer Callender, GBC student “Mandala” Colored pencil on black paper
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�Lullaby No. Thirty-something
There is meaning
in the mediocrity of days
Listening close enough
to hear its humming through the seemingly endless
pointless, repetitious minutes
of the day
That,
the listening
and actually hearing,
is the most difficult daily task
But if I am still enough
a thin line
of colorful sound vibrates—
Often briefly
Always beautifully—
and if I chose to listen,
soft transcendental truths
alight upon heart and mind
___________________________
I’m rocking my baby boy to sleep
His head rests, restless on my chest
tossing left, tossing right
fighting sleep, welcoming stillness, drifting between
I notice the books on the shelf
are falling over
There is an urge to straighten them
-ImmediatelyThen to tackle the basket of laundry
sleeping on my daughter’s bed
where she should at the time be resting
But she is drifting between sleep and awake
Lying with her father
in the living room, spilling over with the day’s clutter
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�So many unfinished tasks
are falling over
Like books on a shelf
Urging to be straightened
So many unfinished chores
collecting dust in the corners of our house
In the cracks of my day
Perceptions of who I am and wanted to be
slipping through imagined crevices
-My soul retreats thinking about it all___________________________
In one small flicker
my son’s breathing slows
Peacefully drifts
His head no longer tossing
but resting on my chest
My breath involuntarily follows
In
out
in
out,
breathe…
Our body heat sticky this dusk of summer night
Yet he turns in to nuzzle closer
and I, too, nestle into our swarthy cocoon
The books will fall over again
One basket of laundry will be replaced
by another
The unfinished mediocrity
of the day continues
to stagnate all around me
But this
This
transcends tedious daily drudgery
Inside this sticky cocoon
there is humming – glorious soft humming
Jennifer Pierce GBC faculty
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�G. Edward Winch, GBC student “Mojave” Acrylic
I’m a free range artist practicing in cartoons, illustrations,
caricatures, psychedelic paintings, and photography. I’m always
exploring new ways to express art.
– G. Edward Winch, GBC student
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�G. Edward Winch, GBC student “Horizon” Acrylic, Ink
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�Patricia Gray, Community member “Old Fishing Boat, Walker Lake, Nevada” Acrylic, Ink on Clayboard
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�It’s a lifelong ambition —
pursuing fine art. Among
my favorite subjects are
landscapes depicting the
solitude of Nevada.
– Patricia Gray, Community member
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�Ruth Collins, Community member “Grackles” Photograph
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�Cindy Joyce, Community member “Protecting the Young” Photograph
“I believe photography is a unique form
of art that reflects one’s soul.”
– Cindy Joyce, Community member
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�Roger Hockemier, Community member “Beach” Photograph
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�Gayla Rockwell, GBC Student “The Shack” Photograph
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� Three Poems About You
The Resentments You Carry
Your Life Passes
You face an elevator
Your life passes
holding your resentments,
before your eyes
grudges and angers
behind your back.
folded and packed.
You press the button.
Your life passes,
The door slides open.
like the guy says,
You step inside.
while on your way
“I’m free,” you say
somewhere else.
as you speed up or down.
You think you know
Your life passes
what floor you’re on.
as you grasp at straws
You think the baggage
arrange chairs
is gone.
on sinking ships
Wherever you are,
Your life passes
you hold resentments
regardless of time zones
next to your heart,
or metronomes.
near where you breathe.
And the ticking
of your days
marks wasted time
and useless ways.
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�Your Life Is Scattered on the Lawn
Carrying a well-packed
U-Haul box to the car,
you trip over the hose,
fall flat and hard, arms out,
as if to thrust a desperate gift
on anybody passing by.
The street is empty.
No one walks a dog,
rides past on a bike.
No one stoops to help.
Your life is scattered on the lawn,
in the gutter.
Your photos blow away from you.
You look at the contents
spilled from the box
important only an hour ago
and cry and cry
for your life and your stuff.
Nancy Harris McLelland Community member
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Susan Summer Elliott, Community member “Ink Blue” Photograph
�Will Barber, Community member “Homestead Under Storm Clouds” Photograph
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�Isaac Duran, GBC student “Eyes of a Stranger” Photograph
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�Janet Sanchez, GBC student “Black Hat” Photograph
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�Ron Richardson, Community member “Springtime in NE Nevada” Photograph
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�The Generator
We have a place on Jackstone Creek
At the foot of the Adobe Hills.
It’s nothing big or fancy,
But for us it fills the bill.
It’s not the Rubies or Lamoille,
But there’s beauty to be had.
We have a creek that flows year ‘round;
For Nevada that’s not bad.
So I call my friend Bret Murphy,
He knows this stuff more than me.
“That valve below the solenoid
Don’t seem right to me.”
There’s trees along the driveway;
The green’s a pretty sight.
The generator shed’s in back.
Life is good when things go right.
Of course it’s not stocked in Elko,
So I phone up Salt Lake.
“We’ll put it on the bus tonight,
Same model, number, make.”
But with the good there’s problems too,
And we’ve had our share of those.
Two miles of road become two miles of mud
When it thaws after the snows.
Next day at noon Greyhound calls,
“Your parts have just come in.”
I hurry down to pick them up,
Then go right home again.
But the problem that I dread the most
(I’ve come to hate the sound)
Is my wife calling me at work,
“The generator’s down.”
This doesn’t seem too difficult,
Pull off the old, put in the new.
But the diesel still won’t start,
Guess there’s something else to do.
Now I’m not a good mechanic
But there’s a little bit I know
I’d best go home and take a look;
Perhaps I can make it go.
I go through it all again once more,
It ought to start, but no.
I recheck everything I’ve done
But I still can’t make it go.
First I snug down all the bolts;
The wires all seem tight.
But I guess I missed the problem,
‘Cause something sure ain’t right.
My wife come out, “Can I help?”
“No,” snarling, I growl.
She calls away my helper,
“We’ll leave dad alone for now.”
My five-year-old comes out to help.
“Daddy, why won’t the engine turn?”
I smile at him; I’m glad he’s here.
“Son, that’s what we’re trying to learn.”
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Together we check it out;
I poke and probe and pry.
But it seems past my ability
To find the reason why.
I take it apart, redo it all;
This time should do the trick.
But when I try to start it,
It still won’t move a lick.
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�“Dammit.” I stomp outside the shed,
Throw the wrench across the yard.
“This --- ---- thing’s a piece of ----.”
It shouldn’t be this hard.
Then I look to the western sky;
The sun is getting low.
Perhaps I ought to try a prayer,
I’ve done all else I know.
“Dear Lord, I don’t deserve it,
For my family, please, not me.”
Then I face the generator;
“Now START, you S.O.B.”
My poems are literally true –
an attempt to find romance in
modern, everyday life.
– Dan Thurston, Community Member
I’ve done all that I can do;
I’ll try it just once more.
Then wonder upon wonder,
The old diesel starts to roar.
I go inside to wash my hands
And my wife’s not quite so grim.
My little boy is happy;
Dad’s a hero, still, to him.
But I know I didn’t start it;
It was the words I spoke out there.
But you, the listener, can decide,
Was it the cussing or the prayer?
Dan Thurston Community member
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�Debbie Heaton-Lamp, Community member “Lamoille Aspens” Watercolor
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�Mary Ann Plavi, GBC student “Pogonip” Photograph
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�I’ve always been ‘that girl
with the camera…always
wanting to capture the
Megan Anderson, GBC student “Perky and A Poppin’!!” Photograph
memories. My children are
my constant inspiration, as
are the moon, flowers and
nature in general.
– Megan Anderson, GBC student
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Gim Briggs, GBC staff “Fall Bloom” Photograph
�Paige Allen, Community member “Fall Woods” Photograph
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�Michele Barney, Community member “Up in the Air” Photograph
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�Summer Air
Summer Air, Simple, Subtle, Saturating
Frigid, bitter, expansive lake below
Building audacity to make that leap
Standing on this intimidating cliff
Trying not to look below
Just force myself off
Force myself into the abyss beneath
It always looks so much higher
From the tippy top
Always looks so much more intimidating
Instigating, irrational, implacable
Falling, feeling fearless, flailing
Lightening I feel in the floor of my stomach,
lightening I crave so deeply
My body’s disbelief that my mind actually did it
Then SPLAT. The water welcomes me
Will this deepening water like me too much?
Mercilessly want to keep me all to itself?
Then I break through that barrier to the vital oxygen
And take the deepest, most genuine breath of my life.
I feel SO alive
Living, Laughter, Lustrous
Kendra Thompson GBC staff
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�Kendra Thompson, GBC staff “Taking the Leap” Photograph
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Argentum Art and Literary Magazine
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Great Basin College's Art and literary magazine featuring student, faculty, and community works.
Description
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Great Basin College's art and literary magazine devoted to highlighting the excellent artistic expression of its students, faculty, staff, and members of the communities in which GBC serves.
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Great Basin College / Arts and Cultural Enrichment
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Great Basin College
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07/01/2014
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Great Basin College's students, faculty, staff, and members of the communities in which GBC serves.
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English
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2012 issue of Great Basin College's art and literary magazine, Argentum. Devoted to highlighting the excellent artistic expression of its students, faculty, staff, and members of the communities in which GBC serves.
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Great Basin College
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Great Basin College
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03/01/2012
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Great Basin College's students, faculty, staff, and members of the communities in which GBC serves.
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Great Basin College
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Great Basin College's students, faculty, staff, and members of the communities in which GBC serves.
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Great Basin College
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Great Basin College
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Great Basin College
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Great Basin College
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Great Basin College
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