Susanne Schindler is an architect and historian focused on the intersection of policy and design in housing. Join us as Schindler explores ways in which design and architecture inform planning practices and can be used to address contemporary challenges including housing affordability and urban governance. Schindler argues that we need to understand how we got here if we want to change where we’re going.  

Susanne Schindler currently is a visiting lecturer at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. She completed a PhD on housing, architecture, and inequality in New York City in the late 1960s and writes regularly for a range of publications, including e-flux, Perspecta, and Planning Perspectives. Since 2015, she has been the housing columnist for Urban Omnibus. 

Doors open at 10:30 am with coffee hosted by BRDI.

Sarah Lillegard is an interdisciplinary artist whose installations and soft sculptures are influenced by both traditional craftwork and the landscape of the Great Basin. Lillegard is a member of the Reno Fiber Guild, a writer/photographer for the non-profit Fibershed, and local small flock sheep shearer. Join us for a talk about the natural dye process and how it connects to our local fibershed and environmental sustainability in contemporary craft culture. 

San Francisco-based Lundberg Design is a twenty-person architectural firm and fabrication studio founded by Olle Lundberg in 1987. With a philosophy rooted in environmental sustainability and “nature-inspired modernism,” Lundberg Design thinks long-term, designing singular places that last, buildings that will outlive the builders and spaces that demonstrate how we can live respectfully within the limits of our Earth. 

In addition to architectural design, Lundberg Design utilizes a fabrication shop as part of their core practice. The shop provides a place to experiment with materials and details; a place to build things and emphasizes the notion of craft in their projects. Utilizing process to informs the end result, the act of making is an inseparable part of the design practice at Lundberg Design.

Join us as founder Olle Lundberg discusses the “Five Food Groups” of Lundberg Design: metal, stone, glass, wood and found objects, and how those elements contribute to the unique identity of Lundberg Design.

Olle Lundberg graduated with a Masters in Architecture from the University of Virginia and also holds degrees in English Literature and Sculpture from Washington and Lee University. He moved to the Bay Area in 1980, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, Mary Breuer, and their dog Sammy (who also accompanies him to work every day). Weekdays they live in a loft apartment attached to the Lundberg Design metal shop, while on weekends they can usually be found at their cabin on the Sonoma Coast.

Doors open at 10 am with coffee in the Theater Lobby. Program begins at 11 am.

Like a blind date, the exhibition “In Conversation: Alma Allen and J.B. Blunk” stages an encounter between two people who never met but whose work and lives share a deep affinity. The work of the artists Alma Allen and J.B. Blunk blurs the line between design and sculpture, with both men creating evocative organic work from natural materials.

Join us for a gallery talk hosted by Brooke Hodge, Director of Architecture and Design at the Palm Springs Art Museum and curator of “In Conversation.”

In this workshop, you’ll get a sneak peek into how brand marks shape our culture, lifestyles and purchase habits through the meaning of the graphic details. Marks Of Desire is an intermediate typography workshop where you’ll create a new wordmark by modifying an existing logotype, giving rise to a new meaning for a brand. Enjoy the day finessing the proper scale, spacing, and stroke weight of custom letterforms. We will discuss how these details make a wordmark stand the test of time and withstand future applications. All participants will receive refreshments and heavy apps to keep you satiated throughout your workshop.

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ABOUT MICHAEL STINSON

Michael is the lead instructor at TypeEd and Creative Director at Ramp Creative. He is an ex-engineering student and has spent over 19 years in the field of design focusing on brand identity, development and annual reports for brands such as Quiksilver, Canon, Wet Seal, K2, United Way and Sicor. He has lectured the topics of typography and graphic design at both the University of Southern California (USC) and College of the Canyons in Valencia.

PREPARATION AND REQUIREMENTS

Intermediate Adobe Illustrator skills are required in order to keep pace.

Participants must bring their own fully-charged laptop with Adobe Illustrator pre-installed. 

A free trial of the Creative Suite can be found on Adobe’s Web Site. 

Workshop instruction will be demonstrated on Adobe Illustrator on a Mac.

The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection presents 94 works from 49 contemporary Aboriginal artists from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Traditionally, these poles—named lorrkon in the west and larrakitj in the east—marked the final point in Aboriginal mortuary rites. They signified the moment when the spirit of the deceased had finally returned home—when they had left all vestiges of the mundane “outside” world, and become one with the “inside” world of the ancestral realm. Today, these poles are made as contemporary works of art. The artists included in the exhibition are some of the most respected contemporary artists working in Australia today. 

Join us for a panel discussion featuring two Aboriginal artists Gunybi Ganambarr and Barayuwa Mununggurr from Buku-Larrnggay; Henry Skerritt, Curator of Indigenous Arts of Australia at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia; and Will Stubbs, Director of Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre. This important discussion will be moderated by William L. Fox, Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art. 

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.

Dellis is a Design Partner at PWP Landscape Architecture whose work spans a diverse range of scales and typologies including public civic spaces, cultural gardens, corporate headquarters, academic campuses, airports, memorials, and competitions. Dellis brings to his work a background in fine arts, art history, and theater and is particularly fascinated by the interplay of art, landscape, and human scale.

Social hour at 5:00 pm, event begins at 6:00 pm

Sponsorship for the 2018 BRDI Series is provided by Henriksen Butler and Herman Miller, the Nevada Arts Council, and Northern Nevada AIA

From Reno we look at the dramatic escarpment of the Sierra Nevada, a short drive away. As a California native, artist Ann Johnston has frequented many of the high trails, particularly on the east side, and she has spent many more hours of her artistic life trying to imagine how to put her appreciation and understanding into cloth and stitches.  She calls the resulting body of large-scale quilts (34 to-date) “The Contact,” which includes both the geologic and historic influences on what we see. This body of work is featured in the Museum’s exhibition “Ann Johnston: Quilts of the Sierra.” Johnston looks inside what we see through a lens, at details of crystal structures and beneath the surface of the land, imagining geologic events that inform her current body of work. Join Johnston as she reveals the sources of her ideas, the development process, and where it will take her next.

Women photographers across geographies and cultures have used the land as an apparatus to formulate ideas about gender, identity, and race as well as a means to critique local and global politics. Van Hoesen will focus on the work of four artists featured in Laid Bare in the Landscape:  Ana Mendieta, Mary Beth Edelson, Otobong Nkanga, and Laura Aguilar. Dr. Brett M. Van Hoesen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Nevada, Reno. 

Have you always wanted to learn how to write a song? Learn alongside the band. Casey Bell and Dan Morse of local band Fine Motor will teach you the ins and outs of crafting that perfect verse. From the Beach Boys to Beyoncé, discover what kind of structures make a foolproof song. No musical experience necessary.

This free workshop will be held in the E.L. Cord Museum School at the Nevada Museum of Art as part of the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl. For the full schedule of events, please visit nevadahumanities.org. Advanced registration not required.