Artown kicked-off their sweet 16 with classic fun, color and creativity.  Festivities included hands-on children’s art activities, U.S. Bank mural painting, improvisation activities with TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada, live music with the Note-Ables, t-shirt painting courtesy Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum and dancing. Body Masterpiece, back by popular demand, transformed children’s faces with their signature style of face painting for the opening parade.

Artown’s Opening Night celebration featured a performance by Grammy-nominated Mexican-American singer/songwriter Perla Batalla.

To see more photos of Opening Day click here.

I burned a man near Reno, just to watch him die.

Photo by albany_tim

Feeding the wooden horse in front of the Nevada Mudeum of Art by nternetbiz

For over 20 years, Montana sculptor Deborah Butterfield has transformed scrap metal, discarded wood, and bronze into larger-than-life sculptures of the horse that are breathtakingly beautiful and captivating to encounter.