In Elko!
In the spring of 2026, visitors walking into the Leonard Student Center at Great Basin College in Elko, Nevada, encounter something that feels less like a conventional art exhibit and more like stepping inside a living metaphor. Mounted across the walls is the Honeycomb Project, a sprawling installation made of countless wooden hexagons, each one its own tiny artwork, all fitting together into a single, intricate whole. The effect is at once visually striking and quietly symbolic: it suggests that community is not a vague idea, but something you can literally see, tile by tile. The Honeycomb Project is the brainchild of Nevada artist and educator Candace Garlock, who has spent years exploring how collaborative art can knit together people and places. Her earlier project, “NV Awe: Tiny Treasures,” invited participants to transform small wooden discs into miniature celebrations of Nevada; the enthusiastic response to that effort became the seed for this larger, more ambitious honeycomb c...
