Nia Aviles

Photography – Reno

Started off wanting to do theater, then moving into writing, and further wanting to explore career paths, I took an art 100 class with professor Rosenberg at UNR. And when I realized (as it happens in most mediums of art) that all of my being, my experiences and those in them, my past and current thoughts and feelings, my subconscious, when I realized that all of these components transcend in (visual) artwork, the possibility of showing someone all of yourself, or a part of yourself, in an instant, and the ability to connect with others this way, is when I realized that art is what I want to do! I just felt it, it\'s like some sort of inner reassurance that this is what I\'m \"supposed\" to be doing. I just knew(ow); I couldn\'t/can\'t picture myself doing anything else.