About Candace Garlock

Candace Nicol Garlock is a Nevada-based artist, curator, and educator whose collaboration experiences center on building artistic community through shared making and cross‑disciplinary exchanges. She has initiated large, prompt-based projects such as The Honeycomb Project, which brought together hundreds of small, interconnected artworks to form a visually unified “quilt” of diverse voices and NV AWE: Tiny Treasures, where Nevada artists partnered with one another to create intimate works that celebrate their shared love of the state’s landscapes and communities.

As a professor at Truckee Meadows Community College, Garlock designs collaborative assignments that connect students across printmaking, ceramics, painting, and digital media, frequently culminating in themed exhibitions. Her leadership as gallery curator and arts program director has included organizing and facilitating group shows and public programs such as “The Watershed Project” (2017), The Anatomy of Cocooning, Decocooning & Re-cocooning with visiting artist May Hariri Aboutaam (2014), the Mixed Blessings Symposium with keynote speaker Lucy Lippard (2012), and the Nevada Touring Initiative project Geographical Divides (2010), as well as large-scale collaborations like CommD – Communicable Dis-Ease for Burning Man Festival (2009) and the international project 6sides2every story (2008).

Conceptually, her collaborations mirror the layered nature of her mixed-media practice, in which printmaking, painting, and sculpture “collaborate” materially to explore relationships among people, animals, and place. Across her projects, collaboration functions as both method and subject, cultivating belonging, emphasizing care, and weaving individual narratives into larger communal artworks. To learn more about Candace Nicol Garlock, visit her website: https://candacenicolgarlock.com/