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

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

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

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 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.

Join Curator of Education Colin Robertson for a look at the past, present, and future of the built environment of Lake Tahoe, highlighted by structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Julia Morgan, and Frederic DeLongchamps.

Join Ann M. Wolfe to examine how Lake Tahoe and Donner Pass photography came of age concurrent with the settlement of the American West and played a role in defining how America’s newest frontier territories were imagined.

Bill Fox, Director of the Museum’s Center for Art + Environment, takes us on an exploration of the early cartographic depictions of the Great Basin and Lake Tahoe.

Scholar Marvin Cohodas discusses Washoe basketry in the early twentieth century as it relates to the “basket craze” of the time. Special attention is given to Washoe weaver Louisa Keyser (Datsolalee) and Abe and Amy Cohn who marketed her baskets nationally.

Curator of nineteenth-century painting Alfred Harrison surveys painters whose iconic works have never before been on view together in the same exhibition including Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, William Keith, John Ross Key and William Marple.