The Nature Conservancy in Nevada has been working with artists Daniel McCormick and Mary O’Brien to restore the channels of the Carson and Truckee River systems with living sculptures. Learn about the scope and purpose of these projects form leaders of The Nature Conservancy.

North American wildlife conservation is unique in the world. In the U.S., wildlife belongs to the public and is managed by the state and federal government in the public trust, based on a model of conservation largely established and funded by hunters. Learn about this conservation history in the context of the exhibition Late Harvest.

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.