Book Talk With Award Winning Artist Scott MacLeod in Silver City June 17, 2025

Artist Scott MacLeod will be at the Silver City Schoolhouse and Library Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 7pm to give an illustrated talk about “Serious Projects,” a new catalog documenting his five-decades-long career creating art in the U.S. and internationally.

MacLeod recently gave his first talk about “Serious Projects” in Czechia, one of several countries where he has co-produced international cultural exchange projects.

A previous artist-in-residence in Silver City, MacLeod has donated many of his artworks and books to the people of the historic Comstock town. His catalog shows highlights of his long art career, including photos of sculptures and assemblages he created during his residency at the Resident Artist Program at McCormick House in Silver City. Art pieces created with objects found in Silver City include a miniature western “ghost town” called Fort Mylo, referencing local musician Mylo McCormick. Silver Angel, an assemblage with outstretched “wings”, is near McCormick House and faces the Sierra Nevada mountain range. A six foot tall sculpture made from vintage VW exhausts and titled “Tree” is perched on a hill overlooking the east side of the town. The USS Bob McKinney, a ship sculpture dedicated to the beloved Comstock denizen, was originally placed high in the hills to the town’s north, where McKinney used to walk. Last but not least, a ship sculpture called The USS Silver Clipper that MacLeod made in partnership with locals as a gift for the town is “moored” in the Silver City Volunteer Library.

MacLeod is also a writer whose fiction, poetry, theater and critical writings have been widely published in the US and abroad. He has previously donated dozens of his books to the Silver City Volunteer Library and the Resident Artist Program, and has offered free writing workshops in Silver City in the past.

Many Silver Citians have been recipients of art created by MacLeod. In 2022 during “Scott MacLeod Appreciation Day” at the Silver City Schoolhouse, MacLeod arrived with a selection of his paintings and prints in hand and gifted them to delighted locals. With the combination of his gifts of art to locals and his donations of paintings, prints, and outdoor sculptures, assemblages and miniature ghost towns to the Resident Artist Program’s collection, Silver City is brimming with MacLeod’s artwork.

Formerly based in Oakland, California, Scott MacLeod currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. His installations, paintings and sculptures have been widely exhibited in the U.S. at venues such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as well as internationally in Czechia, Belgium, England, Italy and Germany. Visual arts awards include the San Francisco Art Institute’s Adaline Kent Award and a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Visual Arts Award.

The free, public event includes light refreshments and takes place at the Silver City Schoolhouse and Library at 385 High Street, Silver City, Nevada 89428. The Resident Artist Program and the Silver City Volunteer Library are co-sponsoring the event. For more information, contact Resident Artist Program director Quest Lakes at (775) 847-0742.

Article submitted by Quest Lakes.