Join Babelito (Emmanuel Ortega Ph.D.) and FavyFav (Justin Favela) from the podcast Latinos Who Lunch for a special lecture on one of Mexico’s most important 19th century painters: Jose Maria Velasco. Velasco’s landscapes have represented Mexico throughout the world. In this talk, the dynamic Latinos Who Lunch duo will deconstruct the myth of the nation as it pertains to academic painting in the 19th and 20th centuries, and address the romanticism of Velasco’s landscapes, which Favela re-contextualizes in his own work, now on view in the exhibition Unsettled.

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

Born in Tampico, Mexico and residing and working today in San Francisco, performance artist and painter Ana Teresa Fernández’s work addresses issues of place, identity and community. Join us for a presentation and panel discussion inspired by her installation in the Unsettled exhibition, Erasing the Border (Borrando la Frontera), a documentation of her performance piece based at the US/Mexico border. 

Along with Ana Teresa Fernández, panel participants will include Dr. Daniel Enrique Pérez, associate professor of Chicanx and Latinx studies in the Department of World Languages and Literatures and the director of the Core Humanities program at the UNR, Dr. Linda Curcio Nagy, associate professor of History at UNR specializing in Mexican and Latin American cultural history and Alejandra Hernández Chávez, an active immigrant rights activist, born in Mexico, raised in Reno and formerly undocumented. Panel discussion will be moderated by Alberto Garcia, UNR Art History student, activist, and first-generation Mexican-American.

The artworks in Unsettled raise provocative questions about westward expansion, colonization and artistic experimentation.  Join Curatorial Director and Curator of Contemporary Art JoAnne Northrup in the Unsettled galleries as she explores the feminine voice and perspective of the diverse cultures and artists of the Greater West.

Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Art & Ecology and Lannan Endowed Chair, College of Fine Art, University of New Mexico, Bill Gilbert explores the revival of and contemporary evolution from Indigenous pottery traditions in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. Join Bill, in conversation with Bill Fox, Director of the Center for Art and Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, as they debate the connection of the southwestern and pre-Columbian traditions to lands old and new.

NOTE: Registration for this event is now full. To view the full schedule of Literary Crawl activities, please visit nevadahumanities.org

Join us for Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl Keynote Event: An Evening with Adam Johnson. The evening features award-winning novelist Adam Johnson reading from his recent work. Johnson is the author of several books, including Fortune Smiles, and the novel The Orphan Master’s Son, which was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. There will be a question and answer session following the reading which will be moderated by Dr. Hugh Shapiro, associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.

This event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required. NOTE: Pre-resgistration is now sold out.

For more information on the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl, please visit nevadahumanities.org

Join Louise Sandhaus as she explores Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots and the history of California graphic design. A tumultuous tale recounting a 10-year effort to publish a kaleidoscopic vision of California’s rich graphic design history, the 416-page outcome, and the aftershocks still to come!

Doors open at 5pm for social hour and cash bar inside chez louie.
Program begins at 6 pm.

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 event for an evening of storytelling and films based on Family Portraits.

Doors open at 5pm for social hour and chez louie cash bar. Stories begin at 6pm.

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 event for an evening of storytelling and films based on the Wild Woman.

Doors open at 5pm for social hour and chez louie cash bar. Stories begin at 6pm.

Presented by The Folk & The Lore in partnership with Reno Rodeo

In celebration for the upcoming centennial and sesquicentennial for Reno Rodeo and the City of Reno (respectively), The Folk & The Lore will be telling the unique stories of western life and how the Rodeo has shaped the unique identity of our city. We will be exploring western traditions, notable characters from Reno’s past and present, and how the ranching community came to be what it is today.

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 lore. Join this event for an evening of storytelling and films based on the Stories From Rural Nevada.

Funding, in part, provided by the City of Reno Arts & Culture Commission.

Doors open at 5pm for social hour and chez louie cash bar. Stories begin at 6pm.

Presented by The Folk & The Lore in partnership with Reno Rodeo

In celebration for the upcoming centennial and sesquicentennial for Reno Rodeo and the City of Reno (respectively), The Folk & The Lore will be telling the unique stories of western life and how the Rodeo has shaped the unique identity of our city. We will be exploring western traditions, notable characters from Reno’s past and present, and how the ranching community came to be what it is today.

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 lore. Join this event for an evening of storytelling and films based on the Stories From Our Ancestors.

Funding, in part, provided by the City of Reno Arts & Culture Commission. 

Doors open at 5pm for social hour and chez louie cash bar. Stories begin at 6pm.