Walker Lake & Bighorn Sheep Resilience in the Desert

The Lake

Walker Lake has given up more than 150 feet of itself within a lifetime — its river drawn off upstream for corporate farming, until the fish went first, then the birds that came for them.

But not everything left. Nevada’s largest bighorn herd still comes down to the water — and the people of this small lake town stayed with it. Resilience is not resistance; it is staying, and finding beauty in what remains.

This July, around twenty artists — painters, printmakers, ceramicists, metalworkers, some local, some from across the country — gather at The Bighorn Crossing: a month of art to draw eyes to a dying lake, before it is gone. Free, all month, indoors and across the outdoor grounds — in connection with Artown.