Curator JoAnne Northrup leads an expedition through the galleries of the exhibition Late Harvest, exploring ideas about animal lives in art.

JoAnne Northrup’s popular and critically acclaimed exhibition Late Harvest closes January 18. Don’t miss this final chance to walk through the galleries with her and experience the artistic wonders of the exhibition.

From the creative mind of Jessi LeMay comes the storytelling and narrative filmmaking project The Folk & the Lore. This multimedia project aims to collect, archive, and tell stories from Reno and throughout the region through photography, short films, and live storytelling events that will be held regularly at the Nevada Museum of Art. Together, we believe that when you know your neighbor’s story, not only do you feel more connected to your community, but those stories become part of your own. Join this premiere event for an evening of storytelling and films based on the holidays. Doors open at 5pm for social hour and chez louie cash bar. Stories begin at 6pm.

It’s easy to dismiss taxidermy as a kitschy or morbid sideline, the realm of trophy fish and jackalopes or a throwback to the dusty diorama. Yet it is a world full of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists, and gifted museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit of creating the illusion of life. Learn from writer Melissa Milgrom about her fascination with the art form and its relation to the artwork in Late Harvest.

Toby Jurovics is the Chief Curator and Richard and Mary Holland Curator of American Western Art at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, where he specializes in the historical photography of Timothy O’Sullivan. Join the Nevada Museum of Art in welcoming Jurovics for a talk exploring O’Sullivan’s Civil War and King Survey photographs highlighted in The 36th Star: Nevada’s Journey from Territory to State.

Learn how President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and the subsequent ratification of the thirteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, is integrally linked to Nevada having become a state in 1864.

Join locally-famed astronomical interpreter Dan Ruby from the University of Nevada, Reno Fleischmann Planetarium for an exploration of the astronomy of the South Pole and Lita Albuquerque’s Stellar Axis.

Join curator JoAnne Northrup for a walking discussion of the exhibition and the complex ways artists are exploring human relationships with animals.

Highlighting the DICE 2014: CRAFT conference is a dialogue with internationally acclaimed architect Tom Kundig. Kundig has received some of the world’s highest design honors, including a National Design Award for architecture from the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and an Academy Award in Architecture. A limited number of individual tickets to this portion of the DICE program will be available for sale for those who cannot attend the DICE Conference.

Join author Jennifer Raiser and photographer Sydney Erthal for a celebration of the new book Burning Man: Art on Fire. Every August, tens of thousands of participants gather to celebrate artistic expression in Nevada’s barren Black Rock Desert. This vastly inhospitable location, called the playa, is the site of Burning Man, where, within a 9-mile fence, artists called Burners create a temporary city devoted to art and participation. Braving extreme elements, over two hundred wildly ambitious works of art are created and intended to delight, provoke, involve, or amaze. Burning Man: Art on Fire is an authorized collection of some of the most stunning examples of Burning Man art. Experience the amazing sculptures, art, stories, and interviews from the world’s greatest gathering of artists. Get lost in a rich gallery of images showcasing the best examples of playa art with over 200 photos.