Welcome artists and authors, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens for an amorous path to saving the planet. Their new book Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover describes how the two came together as lovers and collaborators, and how this union led to the miraculous conception of the Love Art Laboratory. 

Nevada art specialist Jack Bacon and co-curator of the exhibition The Latimer School will share stories of the Latimer Art Club’s founding members, many of whom came from pioneer families as far afield as Tuscarora, Virginia City, and Carson City. 

Jack Bacon will be signing copies of The Latimer School: Lorenzo Latimer and the Latimer Art Club following his talk. 

Discover the origins of the Latimer Art Club, Reno’s oldest art club with Eileen Fuller, the Latimer Art Club’s current Art Show Chair and board member. This active club supports Northern Nevada artist through exhibitions, classes, and paint outs throughout the region. Eileen Fuller is a Reno based landscape artist who will also offer her own artistic practice as part of the current activities of the Latimer Art Club. 

Per local, State, and CDC health guidelines for Covid-19, the Museum requires that masks are worn while indoors unless actively eating or drinking.

Program support and free program registration for students from the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The ROAM Collective is comprised of contemporary architect Jack Hawkins, sculptor and musician Davey Hawkins, landscape photographer Scott Hinton, and geographer Kerry Rohrmeier. A first of its kind for Northern Nevada, the Washoe ArTrail is a public participatory experience that routes along the Truckee River from Reno/Sparks to Gerlach.

Program support and free program registration for students from the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The Museum’s Center for Art + Environment holds the largest archive collection of contemporary Antarctic art in the country. The Antarctic is the most extreme environment on Earth and art projects there are unique in their relationship to the environment. In conjunction with Adequate Earth, an online exhibition organized by the Antarctic Artists and Writers Collective, Peter E. Pool Director, Center for Art + Environment Bill Fox will lead a virtual mini-symposium with Sarah Airriess, Kirsten Carlson, Guy Guthridge, Ulrike Heine, Greg Neri, and Kim Stanley Robinson, to explore the future of creative producers in Antarctica. 

Since the early 1980s, more than 120 artists, writers, composers, performers, and science communicators have traveled to Antarctica as part of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (AAWP). In 2019, 13 former AAWP participants formed the program’s first alumni organization, the Antarctic Artists and Writers Collective (AAWC), with a mission “to inspire and educate the public about Antarctica and its scientific exploration through collaborations in the arts.” Adequate Earth presents the Antarctic works of the founding members of the Collective.

Join the program here via this link.

Learn why the Victorian Radicals found followers all over the world, from Britain to the USA, Japan, and India, with curator Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor and Chair of the History of Art at Yale University. He will detail the development of a socialist and ecological critique of capitalism in Victorian Britain that produced some of the most spectacular artworks of the industrial era.

As the world’s first industrial nation, Victorian Britain was a place where great wealth for the few was accompanied by poverty and pollution. Barringer will discuss criticisms of the time offered by John Ruskin and William Morris, who argued that machine-made goods, cheap and plentiful, were inherently ugly and that only a return to natural materials and handicrafts could restore the health of society. Accordingly, avant-garde artists in Britain produced rich and beautiful paintings, metalwork, textiles, ceramics, and glass that looked back to the glories of the medieval era but also imagined a utopian future. 

Program hosted on Zoom. For registration support or questions, email christian.davies@nevadaart.org. 

Fawn Douglas is an Indigenous American artist and enrolled member of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe. Join her for a conversation about her work that gives voice to oral traditions and operates as a filter that keeps the integrity of sacred information, while allowing Nuwuvi culture to be shared with a broader audience. She’ll share her creative practice and the Nuwu Art, Cultural Arts + Activism Center, which she recently co-founded as a grassroots, community art center in Las Vegas. Douglas is currently enrolled in the MFA program at UNLV.

Fawn Douglas’s work is part of the Museum’s permanent collection and is on view in the exhibition In The Flow.

This program is hosted on Zoom. For registration support or questions, email christian.davies@nevadaart.org.

The Art Bite lecture series is supported by Nevada Humanities with additional sponsorship and free program registration for students supported by the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Melissa Leventon, a co-founder of Curatrix Group and former Curator-in-Charge of Textiles at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, is a specialist in European and American costume and textiles. She takes audiences on a journey into the unconventional creativity of the British Aesthetic Movement, a revolution in fashion and decorative arts. 

Program hosted on Zoom. For registration support and questions, email christian.davies@nevadaart.org.