Multi-media artist Cass Nevada will exhibit historic maps she has created to tell a narrative on change at Carco Theater April 4-May 13.

An artist’s reception is 5-7 p.m. Saturday, April 23, at the theater, 1717 Maple Valley Highway, presented by the Renton Municipal Arts Commission.

In 2008 Nevada was given a bundle of maps from a 1930s Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, a massive project that resulted in the first systematic property records of King County.

The maps, recorded on linen and cotton sheets, were drawn up by teams of unemployed workers during the Great Depression and beyond. After the maps were transferred to microfiche in the 1970s, they were discarded and, in some cases, retrieved from dumpsters by ceramicists and artists for the quality of the fabric.

Those maps formed the basis of Nevada’s 10-piece “Maps: the Nature of Change” project using natural and local plant pigments to create a narrative of sorts that complements the WPA project. The narrative involves change over time, disruption, continuity and a meditation on how we as humans organize and conceptualize space.

Nevada is an artist and writer who channels her passion for nature through the use of natural plant pigments, found objects and recycled materials, according to a press release.

For more information about the artist, visit her website at www.cassnevada.com

Carco Theatre is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with additional viewings on show nights. For show times call 425-430-6706 or visit rentonwa.gov.