Join artist Galen Brown and Curator of Contemporary Art, JoAnne Northrup  in the gallery for an informal conversation regarding Sine Cere. Take this special opportunity to meet and engage with the artist in this retrospective exhibition.

The Art Bite series is supported by Nevada Humanities.

Published in 2019, This Side of the Divide is an anthology reflecting the diversity and complexity of the American West. This volume of twenty-five authors, curated in part by MFA students in the Creative Writing program at the University of Nevada, Reno, presents writings about the lives, work, aspirations, fears, and ethnic roots of a diverse population. This Side of the Divide is a celebration of culture, a humble attempt to tap into that golden vein of contemporary literature thriving in the American West.

Join acclaimed authors and contributors, Chanelle Benz, Brian Evenson, and Vanessa Hua, as they read their stories and discuss the diversity of the contemporary West. A panel discussion will follow the readings and is moderated by Christopher Coake, author and director of the MFA Creative Writing program at the University of Nevada, Reno. 

A book signing will follow the program. 

This program is presented in partnership by Baobab Press, the publishing arm of Reno’s Sundance Books and Music, with the Nevada Museum of Art and Nevada Humanities.

Join us for a gallery conversation in “Without You I Am Nothing” as guest curator Alberto Rodríguez Garcia shares his perspectives about selections from the Museum’s permanent collection dealing with labor and class.

The Art Bite series is supported by Nevada Humanities.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s sartorial style became an intimate part of her artistic identity. She dressed like she painted, highly valuing abstraction, simplicity, and seriality. In a lecture titled, “Dressing for the Photographer: Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Clothes,” art historian and Living Modern guest curator, Wanda M. Corn will explore the way O’Keeffe used her distinctive taste in clothes to model for photographers, creating a public persona for O’Keeffe that still dominates the American imagination today.

Doors open at 10:30 am with complimentary coffee. Book signing to follow discussion.

Wanda M. Corn is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. At Stanford, she held the university’s first permanent appointment in the history and American art and served as chair of the Department of Art and Art History and acting director of the Stanford Museum. Active as a guest curator, she has produced various books and exhibitions, including The Color of Mood: American Tonalism 1990-1910 (1972); The Art of Andrew Wyeth (l973); Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision (1983); The Great American Thing, Modern Art and National Identity 1915-1935; Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition (2011); Seeing Gertrude Stein, Five Stories (2011-12); and most recently, Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern (2017-2019).

Sponsorship: To recognize the Scholls in perpetuity, the Nevada Museum of Art has established The Debra and Dennis Scholl Distinguished Speaker Series to present prominent visiting speakers on contemporary art and visual culture. This ongoing series is a fitting association as the Scholls continue to encourage Museums to push the boundaries in the art world.

Additional sponsorship: Enid A. Oliver, ChFC®, CLTC, Private Wealth Advisor, Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.

Jack Malotte’s artworks celebrates the landscapes of the Great Basin, with a unique focus on contemporary political issues faced by Native people seeking to protect and preserve access to their lands. Malotte infuses wry humor into his work, even as he delves into subject matter that is sometimes serious and sobering. Malotte’s most recent work reconsiders historical narratives and myths of the American West, refers to Western Shoshone and Washoe traditions and legends, and highlights longtime political, environmental, and legal struggles of Native communities. Join us for a conversation between Jack Malotte and Ann M. Wolfe, Andrea and John C. Deane Family Senior Curator and Deputy Director. 

Doors open at 10:30 am with book sales. Signing to follow the talk.

Join author, photographer and co-founder of Burning Man, Will Roger as he reveals his newest book which includes a substantial collection of Roger’s aerial photos chronicling the ever-changing cityscape and transformation of the temporary Black Rock City. This program will feature a panel discussion between Will Roger, Crimson Rose, Tony Coyote Perez-Banuet and William L. Fox, Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, moderated by James Stanford.

Doors open at 5 pm with bar. Book signing to follow.

Textile artist Toni Lowden uses fibers to explore color, texture and pattern in her large-scale weavings. Join us for a discussion about the use of textiles to communicate a narrative. 

The Art Bite lecture series is sponsors by Nevada Arts Council and Nevada Humanities 

“The center of the Wašiw (Washoe) world is Da’aw (Lake Tahoe) both geographically and spiritually. Like most native peoples our lifestyles revolved around the environment; the people were part of the environment, and everything was provided by the environment.” 

Join Washoe Tribal Council member, Helen Fillmore as she explores the history and geology of the West Shore through the Washoe oral history combined with modern geological discoveries.

About Helen Fillmore

Helen Fillmore is a research assistant in cooperative extension as she works towards her masters in Hydrology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Helen received her bachelor’s in environmental science and terrestrial resource management at the University of Washington. Helen was a wildland firefighter with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and with the Bureau of Land Management.

Helen currently sits on the tribal council for the Washoe Tribe as an off-reservation representative and is one of just a handful of remaining speakers of the Washu language. In 2017 Helen published an article titled “Using the Washoe Language to Inform Hydrologic and Environmental Models.” Today Helen joins us to share information about West Shore of Lake Tahoe combining Washoe oral history with modern geological discoveries.

Kenneth Carbone is a designer, artist, musician, author and teacher. As the Co-Founder and Artist-in-Residence of the Carbone Smolan Agency, he is among America’s most respected graphic designers, whose work is renowned for its balance of substance and style. Under his design ethos “unify, simplify, amplify,” Ken has built a reputation for creating outstanding design programs for a world-class clientele for over forty years.

Ken Carbone will share the joys, challenges, and rewards of a career in the arts. He’ll speak about his early love of drawing, how he turned that passion into a very successful 40-year career in design and his most recent pursuits in fine art. This presentation will offer encouraging examples and practices that will inspire anyone involved in the creative profession.

Following a presentation, there will time allocated for a Q & A session moderated by Jeff Pickett.

Ken Carbone is a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and is a featured blogger for Fast Company magazine as well as Huffington Post. He is a recipient of the 2014 AIGA Medal, awarded to individuals in recognition of their exceptional achievements, services or other contributions to the field of design and visual communication.

Listen to the artist recount how his childhood memories of growing up in a bi-cultural household inspired the semi-satirical social commentary of his autobiographical work.