This year the Latimer Art Club celebrates its 100th anniversary. To honor this important milestone, the Museum hosts a juried exhibition of present-day Latimer Art Club members. The Latimer Art Club is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the fine arts in a wide variety of media. The Club encourages skill development with creative programs and college scholarships.

For more information, visit: https://latimerartclub.com

Black Wall Street is an exhibition featuring a collection of archival photographs and a video presentation, which offer a glimpse into the aftermath of the “Tulsa Race Massacre” of 1921. May 30 through June 1, 2021 marks the 100^th anniversary of this event, where the historic Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma was decimated, and claimed the lives of hundreds.

This community-based program is presented by Black Wall Street Reno, an organization center dedicated to crafting young minds into curious and courageous members of society.

Since 1999, Northern Nevada middle and high school students have been invited to submit their artwork to the Scholastic Art Awards competition. The Museum’s annual presentation of the Scholastic Awards is scheduled in conjunction with the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a national program designed to identify America’s most gifted young artists and writers. This program has honored some of our nation’s most celebrated artists including Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, Michael Sarich, Cindy Sherman, Robert Redford, and Andy Warhol.

Students in grades 7-12 (age 13 and up) submit their art which is then judged by a panel of local artists and art professionals. Artworks are eligible for the highest award of Gold Key, a Silver Key, or an Honorable Mention based on originality, technical skill, and an emergence of a personal vision. Along with going on to compete in the national competition, select works will be shown in a joint exhibition presented by the Nevada Museum of Art and The Lilley Museum of Art, the School of the Arts, and the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Northern Nevada Award Announcement

Scholastic Art Awards 2021 Announcement

Exhibition

February 5 – March 5, 2021

Gold Key Works
On view at Sheppard Contemporary / Church Fine Arts building, University of Nevada, Reno

Parking is available at the Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex, bottom floor.

American Visions Nominated Works
On view at Nevada Museum of Art / Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall

Virtual Award Ceremony

Friday, February 19, 2021 / 6 – 7 pm / Facebook LIVE and YouTube

Sponsors

Anonymous
City of Reno Arts & Culture Commission
Nell J. Redfield Foundation
Wild Women Artists

Karin Apollonia Müller’s photographs investigate the struggle between the natural world and the built environment. In her series FAROUT, Müller is particularly interested in human settlement patterns. During her research, she stumbled upon images from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, a joint project of NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.) The research images became the basis for Müller’s Citylights photographs.  The “lights” in these works reflect human population and distribution across the planet. While Müller did not manipulate the satellite images, she did turn the world upside down—occasionally fusing continents to encourage disorientation.

For more than two decades Maya Lin (b. 1959) has engaged the vocabulary of a cartographer, making artworks ranging from stand-alone sculptures to room-sized installations that help people visualize the complex natural and cultural systems operating in the world. In 2012 the Nevada Museum of Art invited Lin to make new artworks in response to the unique Lake Tahoe landscape. After visiting with scientists at the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Lin created a series of sculptures that make visible the bones of the planet—in part by manufacturing an architecture of its natural features.

Pin River—Tahoe Watershed (2012) is a large-scale wall installation made from thousands of straight pins showing the perimeter of Lake Tahoe and its tributaries. Straight pins have long been used as markers on maps to signify the location of the viewer or the site of a specific place or event. By aggregating thousands of custom-made pins into maps of large-scale geographic features, Lin reverses our standard notion of figure to ground. Viewers begin to realize how rivers and lakes actually consist of many thousands of individual incidents of rain and snow, flood and drought, pools and waterfalls, bays and inlets. By, literally, pinning down the watershed of Lake Tahoe, Lin maps its hydrological complexity, while at the same time unifying it as a whole.

Sponsor:

Jenny and Garrett Sutton | Corporate Direct, Inc.

For nearly fifty years, Don Dondero was celebrated as one of Reno’s most notable and accomplished publicity photographers. From capturing civic celebrations and commercial commissions, to significant regional events and Reno’s illustrious celebrity nightlife, Dondero was one of northern Nevada’s most called-upon photographers for over fifty years. Dondero loved taking pictures and rarely turned down a job.

Born in Ely, Nevada in 1920 and raised in Carson City, Dondero served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy in World War II before taking up photography. Upon Dondero’s return to Reno, he picked up his first camera and never looked back. Along with his wife Liz Dondero, he built a successful photography business—focusing on freelance work, Don worked primarily out of a downtown Reno studio located above the CalNeva Casino (located at 150 N. Virginia St.) From 1973 to 1978, the Dondero family operated a popular camera shop—Parklane Cameras — located in Park Lane Mall.

A prolific photographer, Dondero supplied a steady stream of images to both regional and San Francisco Bay Area newspapers. As northern Nevada’s primary Associated Press photographer, his work was also distributed widely round the world. Upon Dondero’s passing in 2003, he left a treasure trove of visual material that documents and memorializes a bygone era—and cements his legacy as one of northern Nevada’s most prolific and important photographers

The photographs on view are on loan from the private collection of Debbie Dondero and were all shot in Reno, Nevada during the 1950s.  The exhibit was organized by guest curator Carol Buckman.

This theme comprises one section of the museum-wide exhibition, Tahoe: A Visual History.

Illustrations by BillyHawk Enos, Kevin Jones, Charles Munroe, and Mauricio Sandoval

The Washoe people have lived in the Lake Tahoe region for countless generations. They shared a common language, ancestral traditions, legends, and a great reverence for the lake.

Cultural preservation, and specifically language preservation, is important to the Washoe people and the Washoe Tribe today. In an effort to revitalize Washoe language and traditions for future generations, the Tribe’s language program—known as the Patalŋi Me?k’i Head Start Immersion Nest—recently published a series of children’s books with support from the Administration for Native Americans.

Four artists, BillyHawk Enos, Kevin Jones, Charles Munroe, and Mauricio Sandoval, illustrated the legends. The stories were retold and translated by Lisa Enos and Washoe Elder Melba Rakow. This exhibition features the original illustrations.

The books accompanying these original artworks are for sale in the Museum Store. Sales help to support Washoe youth language revitalization programs.

For Your Eyes Only is an exhibition of artist’s books that explores the structural possibilities of the book, and includes works by artists and printers Julie Chen, Tim Ely, Peter Koch, Eunkang Koh, Patti Scobey, Barbara Tetenbaum, and more.

As long as there have been books, artists have been experimenting with the form of their construction. In the latter half of the 20th century, techniques in the visual arts and traditions in the art of the book from the previous century onwards met, mingled, and hybridized, resulting in the broad and energetic genre known as the artist’s book. This collision has resulted in an amazing array of beautiful, delightful, and downright strange books that are folded, cut, glued, and otherwise modified to make objects that are often more sculptural than text to be read.