Join Desert Research Institute Associate Research Scientist  and Scientific Illustrator, Tiffany Pereira as she explores the union of art and science. Learn how she incorporates artistic principles into her research in Nevada and the Desert Southwest. 

Mary Anning was a pioneering paleontologist and fossil collector, yet little is known about her life. Anning’s history is incomplete and contradictory, her lifetime was a constellation of firsts. Join us for a discussion with Megan Bellister, Nell J. Redfield Curator of Learning and Engagement, as she places Mary Anning in historical and cultural context through the fashions of the time.

Denise Dutton, Statue of Mary Anning, 2022

Using camera lenses made of glacier ice, artist Tristan Duke explores our current moment of climate crisis. As Peter E. Pool Fellow at the Nevada Museum of Art’s Center for Art + Environment, the artist used his ice-lens camera to document the rapidly melting glaciers of the Sierra Nevada. Join us for a talk concluding his fellowship, and a preview of his book “Glacial Optics” forthcoming from Radius Books. 

When Langston Hughes visited Reno in 1934, the city had just a few hundred Black residents. The Black community had been growing steadily for six decades, as they established homes and businesses and built enduring social and religious institutions in the face of mounting racial prejudice and discrimination. Historian Alicia Barber will share new research about the Black community of 1930s Reno, made possible by a National Park Service Underrepresented Communities Grant received by the City of Reno in 2024.

Dr. Alicia Barber is a professional historian, author, and recognized authority on the cultural history and built environment of Reno and the state of Nevada. She researched the Northern Nevadan designs of African American architect Paul Revere Williams for the Nevada Museum of Art’s 2022 exhibit, Janna Ireland on the Architectural Legacy of Paul Revere Williams in Nevada. In collaboration with the nonprofit organization Our Story, Inc., she has intensively researched the history of Black Springs, a traditionally African American neighborhood north of Reno founded in the late 1940s. She is the co-founder and editor of the website and smart phone app Reno Historical and the author of Reno’s Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City and The Barber Brief, a weekly e-newsletter about urban development in Reno.

Photo courtesy of the Nevada Historical Society

Discover how generative AI is revolutionizing online higher education through AI-generated lectures, exams, assignments, engagement, and more. Hear from Nevada Online faculty about the specific ways they are incorporating generative AI and the impact it has on their online course development and teaching. This presentation will showcase innovative examples and discuss the potential of generative AI to enhance the learning experience and streamline course development.

About Angela Chase, M.A.

Angie is the Assistant Director of Instructional Design and Technology for Nevada Online at the University of Nevada, Reno. She develops and leads faculty training on online course development, the use of generative AI, and meeting Department of Education, university, and accreditation requirements. Angie has developed and taught two online courses for the University’s Core Humanities program and is certified in Instructional Design from Oregon State University, the Online Learning Consortium, and Quality Matters.

About Bridget A. Walsh, Ph.D., CFLE, CTSS

Bridget is a Human Development and Family Science professor at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). She also is an early childhood home visitor coach at UNR’s Child and Family Research Center. Bridget explores generative AI in her teaching of undergraduate and graduate students and her NICHD-funded research.

Art writer, activist, and sometimes curator Lucy R. Lippard joins artist Judith Lowry for a powerful discussion on the intersections of feminism, storytelling, and Indigenous identity in contemporary art, exploring how women artists reclaim their voices and cultural narrative to challenge dominant histories. 

This is a virtual program that will be broadcast in the museum’s theater for those who wish to attend in person. 

For those joining us virtually, please click the link below to join: 

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Free for Tribal Communities. 

Photo by Carrie Schneider

Join Colin Robertson, Charles N. Mathewson Senior Vice President of Education and Research, for an exciting look into the evolution of education and research at the Museum, highlighting innovative approaches and new opportunities created by the impending opening of the Museum’s expansion. 

Join Meg Pohlod, print artist and Manager/Instructor of Record at Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada, Reno, for an engaging discussion on her work, research, and the art of printmaking. Pohlod’s visual research offers a unique perspective on theories of memory, disability, trauma and family – exploring what is remembered and how it is manifested. Her work draws on personal and contemporary discourses, offering insight into the intersection of these themes. 

Pohlod’s distinctions include awards from the California Society of Printmakers, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Redfield Fellowship at Black Rock Press. She has exhibited her work and served as a visiting artist both nationally and internationally.

Following the talk, attendees will be able to view materials from Black Rock Press publications and projects.

Join Rosie Trump, Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Nevada, Reno and Founder of Future Moves, as she discusses screendance as a dynamic art form.

Rosie Trump is an award-winning filmmaker and the founder and chief curator of the Third Coast Dance Film Festival. She is interested in the momentum of action. Feminist and deliberately minimal, her work examines the tension between the ordinary and the absurd.

Rosie’s dance films have recently screened at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema Festival, San Souci Dance Film Festival, Cinedanza Festival, Extremely Short Shorts at the Aurora Picture Show, and Dance Film Association’s Long Legs Short Films. She is a regular guest curator for Frame X Frame Dance Film Fest in Houston, TX.

Recent awards include a Puffin Foundation Grant for her film “Try to Keep Up”, an Atlantic Center for the Arts residency, a jury award from the Constructed Sight Festival, and grants from the Nevada Arts Council. Rosie is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Nevada, Reno.