Returning for the first time since the global pandemic, DICE (Design Innovation Creativity Energy) is a multidisciplinary design conference exploring the power and potential of good design. This year, DICE focuses on the theme of Imagine: Gathering Creative Minds to Inspire a More Thoughtfully Designed Future.

For the past 13 years, DICE has served as a platform for all design disciplines and how they improve our future. This year, DICE explores how design re-imagines and re-envisions ideas of the past and fits them into contemporary environments. Design professionals, Reno’s creative community, and art and design students are invited to attend a multi-disciplinary design conference in northern Nevada examining the ways great design empowers individuals, inspires the masses, and enriches entire communities.

2023’s DICE Design Challenge: Bench of the Future: A Design for Every Person
Design a bench that is humane and comfortable. Imagine a future where every person is valued: the need for respite is weighed against the need for recreation and contemplation.

How can your design help promote and better community?

The competition is open to anyone, regardless of age, experience, or 
professional affiliation. This allows anyone with a creative vision to participate and contribute to the design 
of the Chair of the Future. 

See the DICE website for more information on the speakers and requirements for the Design Competition

PLEASE NOTE: This event is now sold out. An encore talk with Rick Beyer has been added on Friday, March 17 at noon. Please click here to register for Friday’s talk.

In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of GIs landed in France to conduct a secret mission. Armed with rubber tanks, fake artillery, and more than a few tricks up their sleeves, they put on a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the German Army as their audience. From Normandy to the Rhine, the 1,100 men, known as the Ghost Army, conjured up phony convoys, phantom divisions, and make-believe headquarters to fool the enemy about the strength and location of American units. Unpack the secrets of the Ghost Army with author and filmmaker Rick Beyer followed by a Swinging Social with the Retro Radio Dolls.

* Doors open at 5:30 pm with cash bar

Join Museum volunteer docents for a discussion that connects the book Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel with work on view in the Museum. Following a group discussion, participants can enjoy a guided tour exploring correlations between the book and the exhibitions.

Complete sections three and four of the book prior to meeting. Sections one and two were discussed at the March 22nd book club meeting.

Arrive early to place a lunch order with the Café! Space is limited and advance registration is recommended. Book available for purchase through the Museum Store.

Join Museum volunteer docents for a discussion that connects the book Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel with work on view in the Museum. Following a group discussion, participants can enjoy a guided tour exploring correlations between the book and the exhibitions.

Complete sections one and two of the book prior to meeting. Sections three and four will be discussed on May 24th. 

Arrive early to place a lunch order with the Café! Space is limited and advance registration is recommended. Book available for purchase through the Museum Store.

Part 1 Questions for discussion:

1. A major theme of Ninth Street Women is that women have been overlooked in the history of art. What are some reasons for this omission?
2. In thinking about how the women in the book began their artistic careers in New York, is there anything they had in common?
3. What was the impact of the world wars and the Great Depression on gender roles? How did this shift impact the art world in New York?
4. Twice during the period of this book – in the 1930s with the WPA and again after WWII with the GI Bill, the federal government stepped in to support artists and/or art students. What was the impact of this support?
5. Hans Hofmann had a huge influence on artists who took his classes, and he insisted that even abstract art should be inspired by a landscape, still life, or figure. How did some of the New York School artists break from this theory?
6. Many of the artists who had embraced communism during the 1930s turned to existentialism in the 1940s, particularly after Jean-Paul Sartre arrived in 1946. What was the appeal of this philosophy?
7. The author often included the stories of peripheral artists, composers, and writers who worked at the same time as these five women. Did you find these unnecessary digressions, or did these stories contribute to a fuller understanding of the artists and their times?

The theme of the 2023 NV STEAM Conference is Environments of Inspiration. The Conference will be presented virtually, beginning with Edward P. Clapp, principal investigator at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero for an opening keynote exploring creativity and innovation, design, and maker-centered learning on Wednesday, March 1 from 4 – 5:30 pm. 

To begin the second day of the Conference on Saturday, March 4, Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian, co-founders of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) will share a range of projects that merge participatory design, art in public space, and regenerative technologies in order to bring forward a hopeful, engaging, and inspiring vision of a culturally vibrant post-carbon world in their keynote from 8:30 – 9:30 am. 

Following the keynote on Saturday, multiple workshops will take place from 9:40 – 11:50 am and a closing synthesis will be from 12 – 12:30 pm.

Register for the 2023 NV STEAM CONFERENCE HERE

The theme of the 2023 NV STEAM Conference is Environments of Inspiration. The Conference will be presented virtually, beginning on Wednesday, March 1 with Edward P. Clapp, principal investigator at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero for an opening keynote exploring creativity and innovation, design, and maker-centered learning.

An additional keynote, multiple workshops and a closing synthesis will take place Saturday, March 4 from 8:30 am – 12:30 pm.

Register for the 2023 NV STEAM CONFERENCE HERE

Seniors are invited to spend the afternoon at the Museum. Enjoy a guided tour and a studio art class. Monthly tours and projects are designed for participants of all levels of experience and offer an engaging and interactive experience. 

Senior Art Afternoon will be hosted in-person in the E.L. Cord Museum School. Advanced registration is required and space is limited. Monthly sessions are offered on the second Thursday and the second Friday of the month. Tour and project will be the same for the Thursday and Friday offerings, but change monthly.

Sponsored by the Leonette Foundation Seniors and Art Endowment.

Seniors are invited to spend the afternoon at the Museum. Enjoy a guided tour and a studio art class. Monthly tours and projects are designed for participants of all levels of experience and offer an engaging and interactive experience. 

Senior Art Afternoon will be hosted in-person in the E.L. Cord Museum School. Advanced registration is required and space is limited. Monthly sessions are offered on the second Thursday and the second Friday of the month. Tour and project will be the same for the Thursday and Friday offerings, but change monthly.

Sponsored by the Leonette Foundation Seniors and Art Endowment.

Seniors are invited to spend the afternoon at the Museum. Enjoy a guided tour and a studio art class. Monthly tours and projects are designed for participants of all levels of experience and offer an engaging and interactive experience. 

Senior Art Afternoon will be hosted in-person in the E.L. Cord Museum School. Advanced registration is required and space is limited. Monthly sessions are offered on the second Thursday and the second Friday of the month. Tour and project will be the same for the Thursday and Friday offerings, but change monthly.

Sponsored by the Leonette Foundation Seniors and Art Endowment.