We Were Lost in Our Country will be temporarily closed Feb. 4 – Feb. 7 as part of the Museum’s expansion efforts.

Catherine Fowler and Darla Gary-Sage Discuss Washoe Functional Basketry

Join anthropologists Dr. Catherine Fowler and Dr. Darla Garey-Sage to learn more about their research related to the materials and functional uses of woven Washoe baskets.

Educational and public programming sponsored by Dorothy Lemelson

Lordy Rodriguez on Drawing Lake Tahoe

Lordy Rodriguez’s large-scale drawing explores the visual language of cartography and ideas about the lake’s place in the memory and imagination of visitors and residents alike.

Educational and public programming sponsored by Dorothy Lemelson

Cancelled: Alan Hess on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Designs for the (Unbuilt) Lake Tahoe Summer Colony

CANCELLED: Due to a medical emergency, the speaker for Friday, Alan Hess, is unable to participate in the Art Bite program. The Nevada Museum of Art apologizes for the inconvenience. 

Architecture historian Alan Hess explores the unbuilt architectural heritage of Lake Tahoe including Frank Lloyd Wright’s speculative 1923 designs for a summer colony on Emerald Bay.

Educational and public programming sponsored by Dorothy Lemelson

Meet the Artist: Phyllis Shafer

Painter Phyllis Shafer calls the Lake Tahoe Basin home. Learn how Lake Tahoe and its surroundings have influenced her plein air paintings.

Educational and public programming sponsored by Dorothy Lemelson

Michael Branch on John Muir’s Tahoe Journal

Dr. Michael Branch, one of the foremost scholars of John Muir’s journals, discusses Muir’s 1888 visit to Lake Tahoe and the journal on display in the exhibition.

Educational and public programming sponsored by Dorothy Lemelson

Architect Wright Sherman on the Tahoe City Transit Center

Join architect Wright Sherman for a look at the Tahoe City Transit Center and a discussion of Lake Tahoe with an eye toward the future.

Educational and public programming sponsored by Dorothy Lemelson

Alfred Harrison on Albert Bierstadt’s Lake Tahoe Paintings

Nineteenth-century painting scholar Alfred Harrison discusses the many paintings by Albert Bierstadt of Lake Tahoe and Collis P. Huntington’s commissioned painting of Donner Lake.

Educational and public programming sponsored by Dorothy Lemelson

Gene Hattori on Native American Baskets of Lake Tahoe

Curator of Anthropology at the Nevada State Museum, Dr. Gene Hattori discusses their extensive collection of works by the important Washoe weaver Louisa Keyser (Datsolalee).

Educational and public programming sponsored by Dorothy Lemelson

Meet the Artist: Katie Lewis

Reno artist Katie Lewis’s work visualizes different kinds of data she compiles about her own life—physical sensations, the number of steps she takes each day—and then transforms the data into visual accumulations of pins, thread, paper, and graphite.

Bob Anderson and Lyndsey Schultz on the Tahoe Rim Trail

Bob Anderson and Lyndsey Schultz take attendees on a virtual tour of the 170 mile Tahoe Rim Trail, highlighting connections to the history of the Lake Tahoe Basin and to the upcoming exhibition Tahoe: A Visual History. Includes a preview of the exhibition-themed hikes scheduled in September and October.