The series provides opportunities for community conversation, learning, and informed dialogue about art and creativity, followed by questions and dialogue designed to engage the audience. Join highly skilled and knowledgeable Docents in the gallery for an in-depth discovery of the works in Manet to Maya Lin. 

Support for the Art Bite series comes from Nevada Arts Council and Nevada Humanities & the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Join Center for Art + Environment Director and Land Art Scholar Bill Fox for an intimate gathering exploring how artists working with land, light, and space have created the worlds largest and most important land-based sculptures.  Enjoy a glass of wine as we delve into the complexities of artist James Turrell and the legendary 600-foot-high Roden Crater. 

Cash bar, doors open at 5:00 PM

Join Ann M. Wolfe, Andrea and John C. Deane Senior Curator and Deputy Director, as she places Meyer Kassel’s art into the context of Nevada’s art history of the 1930s and discuss how Meyer-Kassel’s work differed from his Nevada contemporaries.

Art Bites provide opportunities for community conversation, learning, and informed dialogue about art and creativity, followed by questions and dialogue designed to engage the audience. Join highly skilled and knowledgeable Docents in the gallery for an in-depth discovery of the works of Enrique Chagoya. 

Art Bites provide opportunities for community conversation, learning, and informed dialogue about art and creativity, followed by questions and dialogue designed to engage the audience. Join highly skilled and knowledgeable Docents in the gallery for an in-depth discovery of the works in Marking the Infinite.

Art Bites provide opportunities for community conversation, learning, and informed dialogue about art and creativity, followed by questions and dialogue designed to engage the audience. Join highly skilled and knowledgeable Docents in the gallery for an in-depth discovery of the works of Hans Meyer-Kassel.

Artist Enrique Chagoya is well known for his innovative take on the printmaking medium which ranges from accordion-style codices to soup can labels. His work juxtaposes symbolic elements borrowed from pre-Columbian mythology, religious iconography, and popular culture to highlight cultural and historic collisions between Western and non-Western cultures that includes borders and immigration issues based on the artist’s concepts of reverse Modernism and reverse anthropology. All of this is applied with a sense humor. Join us for an artist talk as Chagoya discusses the exhibition “Enrique Chagoya: Reimagining the New World,” which illustrates an imagined world in which the European conquest of the New World has failed and the normative culture of the Americas is based in Indigenous ideology.

Born in Mexico City and residing in Berkeley, CA, Enrique Chagoya is currently Full Professor at Stanford University’s department of Art and Art History. His work can be found in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among others.

The Rational Dress Society is a counter-fashion collective and the designers of JUMPSUIT, the ungendered, open-source monogarment to replace all clothes in perpetuity. Join founders Abigail Glaum-Lathbury and Maura Brewer to explore how they use design and controversy to challenge identity and buying practices.

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.

By the time Hans Meyer-Kassel settled in Nevada in 1935, he was sixty-three-years-old with a lifetime of experience and artistic accomplishments. Drawn to the American West, the German émigré artist and his wife relocated for a short time to Reno, and then Carson City, before settling in the small town of Genoa on the eastern slope of the Sierras. Longtime Nevada author and researcher, Guy Clifton will recount the life of Hans Meyer-Kassel, revealing new materials recently discovered through his research of newspaper reviews, archives, and other unpublished articles.

William L. Fox serves as the Director of the Center for Art and Environment, at the Nevada Museum of Art.  As one of the show’s curators, Fox will explore the significance of Marking the Infinite and the diverse island continent which influences the artistic practices of Aboriginal Australians.  Join Fox in the galleries for an in-depth discovery of the works in Marking the Infinite.