Lordy Rodriguez’s work explores the human urge to locate oneself by charting the environment in precise detail. Using the language of cartography, Rodriguez will discuss his drawings that go beyond map-making into abstracted, imaginary terrain.

Lordy Rodriguez’s work is part of the Museum’s permanent collection and is on view in the exhibition In The Flow.

This program is hosted on Zoom. Please register by 9 am, October 16, to receive the link.

For registration support or questions, email christian.davies@nevadaart.org.

The Art Bite lecture series is supported by Nevada Humanities with additional sponsorship and free program registration for students supported by the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Welcome artist, activist, and educator, Mildred Howard, as she discusses her sculptural installations and mixed-media assemblages. Howard’s work on view in The World Stage: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation pays tribute to the swagger and nerve of women who have transcended social boundaries.

This program is hosted on Zoom. Please register by 9 am, September 25, to receive the link.

For registration support or questions, email christian.davies@nevadaart.org.

Join us online for an artist talk and conversation with artist Hung Liu whose work is featured in The World Stage now on view.

Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948, growing up under the Maoist regime. Initially trained in the Socialist Realist style, Liu studied mural painting as a graduate student at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, before immigrating to the US in 1984 to attend the University of California, San Diego, where she studied under Allan Kaprow, the American originator of Happenings. Washing her subjects in veils of dripping linseed oil, she both “preserves and destroys the image.” Liu has invented a kind of weeping realism that surrenders to the erosion of memory and the passage of time, while also bringing faded photographic images vividly to life as rich, facile paintings. She summons the ghosts of history to the present. In effect, Liu turns old photographs into new paintings. As a painter, Liu challenges the documentary authority of historical Chinese photographs by subjecting them to the more reflective process of painting. Liu currently lives in Oakland, California. She is Professor Emerita at Mills College, where she has taught since 1990.

This program will be hosted on Zoom. Please have Zoom downloaded and your audio and video features turned on. Please register by Thursday, July 23. A Zoom link will be sent to you Friday morning. Please check your spam folder for the invite as they are sometimes directed there.

Join us online for an artist talk and conversation with artist Wendy Red Star whose work is featured in The World Stage exhibition now on view.

Wendy Red Star was raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana. Her work is informed both by her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance. An avid researcher of archives and historical narratives, Red Star seeks to incorporate and recast her research, offering new and unexpected perspectives in work that is at once inquisitive, witty and unsettling. Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles. She lives and works in Portland, OR.

This program will be hosted on Zoom. Please have Zoom downloaded and your audio and video features turned on. Please register by Thursday, June 25. A Zoom link will be sent to you Friday morning.

MKSK is a collective of landscape architects, urban designers, and planners who are passionate about the interaction between people and place. Join us as Principal, Jeffrey Pongonis discusses his practice based around a framework of performative and contemporary infrastructure systems of organized urban spaces, connected pedestrian ways, and contributing green corridors all equally responsible in the creation of a successful, human-scaled urban pattern.

Jeffrey Pongonis is a member of Leadership Columbus in Central Ohio and an active participant at the local and national levels of the Urban Land Institute.

*Doors open at 5 pm with social hour. Program begins at 6 pm.

This program is presented in partnership with Black Rock Design Institute and North Section of the Nevada Chapter of ASLA.

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

Thought on Tap is a public engagement series organized by the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada, Reno bringing together diverse faculty, staff, students, and community members for important conversations around timely topics.

On April 9, a special Thought on Tap will take place at the Nevada Museum of Art in which we will ask local experts to discuss how politics and people’s role in politics may change and develop in the future. Some questions to be addressed are: How will social media shape the way that individuals engage with politics? What role will public protests and popular movements have in influencing political action? How will advancements in technology and communication affect the way that politics function in the twenty-first century and beyond?         

Thought on Tap is brought to you by the Core Humanities Program, the College of Liberal Arts. You will find additional information, including a full schedule at www.thoughtontap.com. Podcasts and transcripts of past episodes are now available on the Core Humanities website: Thought on Tap Archives.

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

Museums around the country have become spaces where artists, scholars, and community come together in dialogue around civic and social issues. Join us for this conversation featuring the voices of artists Mildred Howard and Hung Liu, art historians and public officials to discuss how artists and museums can spark meaningful dialogue in the communities they serve. This program is organized on the occasion of the major exhibition, The World Stage: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.

This conversation will be held in the in the stunning Nightingale Sky Room overlooking the scenic Sierra Nevada range.

Doors open at 9:30 am with continental breakfast. Program begins at 10 am. 

Victorian Britain was the world’s first industrial nation. Great wealth for the few was accompanied by poverty and pollution. Critics like John Ruskin and William Morris argued that machine-made goods, cheap and plentiful, were inherently ugly and that only a return to natural materials and handicraft could restore the health of society. Join us as Tim Barringer follows the development of a radical socialist and ecological critique of capitalism in Victorian Britain that had effects all over the world, from Britain to the USA, Japan and India.  In this program, we will look at Pre-Raphaelite paintings and drawings in relation to industrial products of the nineteenth century and the exquisite handmade textiles and metalwork that challenged the supremacy of the machine. Radical Victorians took on the dominant ideologies of the nineteenth century and still have important lessons for our own times.

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

Today, we consider education, career choices, and fulfillment through one’s work to be fundamental rights for women. A little more than a hundred years ago, however, these were mostly only utopian dreams. At the end of the nineteenth century, social reformers, advocates of women’s rights, and followers of the Arts and Crafts movement addressed the question of work for women designers and craftspeople. Join us as Wendy Kaplan examines the role of women designers in the Anglo/American Arts and Crafts movement, focusing on their leadership in social and economic reform as well as the restrictions on their full participation.

Wendy Kaplan has been at LACMA since 2001 and currently serves as the Department Head and Curator of Decorative Arts and Design. Previously, she held curatorial positions at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami, Glasgow Museums in Scotland, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A leading expert on late 19th- and 20th-century design, she has authored, co-authored, or edited many books on the subject such as California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Modern Way” (2011), The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World (2004), Leading “The Simple Life”: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain (1999), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1996), Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885–1945 (1995), The Arts and Crafts Movement (1991; French edition 1999), and “The Art that is Life”: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America (1987; reprint 1998), as well as organized major exhibitions on these subjects. 

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.