The Museum is closed today in celebration of The Love of Art event.

The moviola becomes a “time machine” that transforms trucks into dinosaurs. – Robert Smithson 

Artist Robert Smithson (1938-73) is known for his monumental earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970) situated along the shoreline of Great Salt Lake. He is also known for bringing the deep past to the present world of art, positing a world populated with prehistoric motifs: dinosaurs and sea monsters. Speaker Hikmet Sidney Loe will discuss Smithson’s childhood fascination with creatures from past geologic eras, which he carried into and employed in his adult artistic endeavors. Eschewing one specific geographic region and blending high and low images—cutouts and postcards with the contemporary art of the 1970s—he created unique worlds filled with the wonders of metaphor and imagination.  

Hikmet Sidney Loe is Assistant Visiting Professor in art history at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is an author, curator, and public speaker whose work examines the changeable nature of the earth and addresses our perceptual and cultural constructs of the land. Her first book, The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson’s Earthwork through Time and Place (2017) won the 15 Bytes Book Award for Art Book (2018). Her next book, The Sun Tunnels Encyclo: Exploring Nancy Holt’s Earthwork through Perception and Site is scheduled to be published in 2026 by The University of Utah Press.

Join Tuan Andrew Nguyen as he retraces the making of We Were Lost in Our Country. Now in the Nevada Museum of Art permanent collection, this moving-image work tells the remarkable story of the Ngurrara Canvas II (1997), which was made by a group of forty men and four women from the Walmajarri, Wangkatjunga, Mangala and Juwaliny communities and language groups. Through interviews with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Nguyen conveys the story of the Ngurrara Canvas II, exploring themes of personal agency, inherited trauma, and intergenerational transmission.

Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York; Photo: Harry Vu

Presented as part of the Debra and Dennis Scholl Distinguished Speaker Series

Educators are invited to these FREE monthly informative in-person meetings which provide participants an opportunity to interact with art and each other. Meetings in the Museum allow a different exhibition to become the focus for discussion to support children’s learning through creative play in diverse early childhood settings. It is a time for uncommon conversations.

Please register for the ECE Roundtable. For questions, please contact Leah Sanders, Educational Consultant or Terry Randolph, Program Manager, Truckee River Child Development Center.

Credit: Nevada Registry approved (1.5 hours), CEU hours and MyPGS (WCSD)

Educators are invited to these FREE monthly informative in-person meetings which provide participants an opportunity to interact with art and each other. Meetings in the Museum allow a different exhibition to become the focus for discussion to support children’s learning through creative play in diverse early childhood settings. It is a time for uncommon conversations.

Please register for the ECE Roundtable. For questions, please contact Leah Sanders, Educational Consultant or Terry Randolph, Program Manager, Truckee River Child Development Center.

Credit: Nevada Registry approved (1.5 hours), CEU hours and MyPGS (WCSD)

Educators are invited to these FREE monthly informative in-person meetings which provide participants an opportunity to interact with art and each other. Meetings in the Museum allow a different exhibition to become the focus for discussion to support children’s learning through creative play in diverse early childhood settings. It is a time for uncommon conversations.

Please register for the ECE Roundtable. For questions, please contact Leah Sanders, Educational Consultant or Terry Randolph, Program Manager, Truckee River Child Development Center.

Credit: Nevada Registry approved (1.5 hours), CEU hours and MyPGS (WCSD)

Educators are invited to these FREE monthly informative in-person meetings which provide participants an opportunity to interact with art and each other. Meetings in the Museum allow a different exhibition to become the focus for discussion to support children’s learning through creative play in diverse early childhood settings. It is a time for uncommon conversations.

Please register for the ECE Roundtable. For questions, please contact Leah Sanders, Educational Consultant or Terry Randolph, Program Manager, Truckee River Child Development Center.

Credit: Nevada Registry approved (1.5 hours), CEU hours and MyPGS (WCSD)

Educators are invited to these FREE monthly informative in-person meetings which provide participants an opportunity to interact with art and each other. Meetings in the Museum allow a different exhibition to become the focus for discussion to support children’s learning through creative play in diverse early childhood settings. It is a time for uncommon conversations.

Please register for the ECE Roundtable. For questions, please contact Leah Sanders, Educational Consultant or Terry Randolph, Program Manager, Truckee River Child Development Center.

Credit: Nevada Registry approved (1.5 hours), CEU hours and MyPGS (WCSD)

Educators are invited to these FREE monthly informative in-person meetings which provide participants an opportunity to interact with art and each other. Meetings in the Museum allow a different exhibition to become the focus for discussion to support children’s learning through creative play in diverse early childhood settings. It is a time for uncommon conversations.

Please register for the ECE Roundtable. For questions, please contact Leah Sanders, Educational Consultant or Terry Randolph, Program Manager, Truckee River Child Development Center.

Credit: Nevada Registry approved (1.5 hours), CEU hours and MyPGS (WCSD)

Educators are invited to these FREE monthly informative in-person meetings which provide participants an opportunity to interact with art and each other. Meetings in the Museum allow a different exhibition to become the focus for discussion to support children’s learning through creative play in diverse early childhood settings. It is a time for uncommon conversations.

Please register for the ECE Roundtable. For questions, please contact Leah Sanders, Educational Consultant or Terry Randolph, Program Manager, Truckee River Child Development Center.

Credit: Nevada Registry approved (1.5 hours), CEU hours and MyPGS (WCSD)