Artist’s talk kicks off January’s events

The Oats Park Art Center will be buzzing for the next few months with events ranging from an artist’s talk to the annual Evening with the Artist.

An artist’s talk and reception for Miya Hannan will be held Jan. 19 from 5-7 p.m. at the Oats Park Art Center’s E.L. Wiegand Gallery.

Hannan, whose exhibition opened in December, will begin her talk at 5:30 p.m.

Hannan’s work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in the United States and abroad. Her artist’s book, a collaboration project with Brighton Press in San Diego in 2017, is now in the collections of many institutions including the Getty Research Institute and Stanford University.

Bill Frisell is this year’s first show on Jan. 26 at the Oats Park Arts Center’s Barkley Theater. Individual tickets are $17 members, $20 nonmembers. To purchase tickets, call 775-423-1440 or charts@phonewave.net. Tickets are also available at Jeff’s Copy Express and ITT@Naval Air Station Fallon. All seats are reserved. The box office, Art Bar and galleries open at 7 p.m. with the performance at 8 p.m.

The Churchill Arts Council’s 33rd annual fundraising dinner and silent auction, “A Day of the Death Evening With the Arts” — is March 2. The evening features a variety of artworks, vacation getaways and other eclectic items donated by local and regional artists and businesses. This is the social event of the season and fundraiser for the 2018-19 programs and activities.

The cost is $90 per person, which includes dinner, wine and admission to the auction or $100 per person, which includes $20 worth of raffle tickets. Seating is limited, so reserve your table early. For reservations, call 775-423-1440 or email info@churchillarts.org.

Plan your Spring Film Series in February with three movies directed by Kathryn Bigelow: “K-19: The Widowmaker” on Feb. 8, “The Hurt Locker” on Feb. 15 and “Zero Dark Thirty” on Feb. 22.

“K-19: The Widowmaker” is about the first of many disasters that befell the nuclear Soviet missile submarine K-19 at the height of the Cold War, while “The Hurt Locker” follows an Iraq War explosive ordnance disposal team who are targeted by insurgents, and shows their psychological reactions to the stress of combat. The final movie, “Zero Dark Thirty,” dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.