The Café will be closed for remodel from Aug 12 through Sept 5, 2024. | Due to construction, Museum parking may be limited at the time of your visit. Look for additional parking in free or metered spaces along nearby streets.

Land Art Generator Initiative at Fly Ranch

Welcome the founders of the Land Art Generator Initiative, Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian for a talk on the release of their new book, Land Art of the 21st Century: Land Art Generator Initiative at Fly Ranch. The creativity of Burning Man and the design innovation of the Land Art Generator Initiative responds to the climate crisis with a catalog of radical experiments in post-carbon living.

Set in the remote corner of Northern Nevada lies a magical stretch of land called Fly Ranch. With no access to the electrical grid or other public utilities, the Burning Man Project-owned site provides an opportunity to reinvent what human settlement can aspire to be in a world that has awakened to the impacts of anthropogenic climate change and the overconsumption of natural resources.

Land Art of the 21st Century presents creatively designed systems for energy, water, agriculture, shelter, and regeneration—a proof of concept for how to live in beauty and harmony with the Earth. The results are a glimpse into the near future of our sustainable landscapes, serving as a compendium of technologies and systems, a catalog of artworks, and a blueprint for other regenerative development projects.

This event will be held in person as well as streamed live via Zoom.

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

Guillermo Galindo Presents Sonic Borders

Experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist, and visual media artist Guillermo Galindo joins us for a talk about his work Sonic Borders. By showing moments of disruption on the land, Galindo’s work introduces a complicated look at policing the boundary. 

The extent of the work of experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist, and visual media creator Guillermo Galindo, redefines the conventional limits between music, the art of music composition, and the intersections between all art disciplines, politics, and spirituality. 

Galindo’s artistic practice emerges from the crossroads between sound, sight, and performance and includes everything from orchestral compositions, instrumental works, and opera, to sculpture, visual arts, computer interaction, electro-acoustic music, filmmaking, instrument building, three-dimensional installation, and live improvisation. His acoustic compositions include major chamber and solo works, two symphonies commissioned by the UNAM (Mexico university symphony orchestra), the Oakland Symphony Orchestra and choir, and two operas.

Galindo is a Senior Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts, Stanford’s 2018 Mohr Visiting artist as well as the 2019 Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Rollins Cornell Arts Museum. 

 

 

High Desert Test Sites: Learning From What We Are Not

Join us in welcoming Acting Director, Vanesa Zendejas, and Programming Manager Elena Yu from High Desert Test Sites for a conversation about the Joshua Tree, CA based experiment where contemporary art converges with the desert. As a conceptual entity, HDTS is dedicated to “learning from what we are not” and the belief that intimately engaging with the high desert community can offer new insights and perspectives, often challenging art to take on new areas of relevancy.

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

This program will also be streamed live via Zoom Webinar for all registrants. 

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

Sundance Film Festival Shorts Film Tour

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 92-minute theatrical program of 7 short films selected from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival program, widely considered the premier showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers for close to 40 years. Including fiction, documentary, and animation from around the world, the 2021 program offers new audiences a taste of what the Festival offers and shows that short films transcend traditional storytelling. 

Jack Bacon on The Latimer School

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. 

 

Ann M. Wolfe on Art, Nature and the Founding of the Nevada Museum of Art

Join Ann M. Wolfe, Andrea and John C. Deane Family Chief Curator and Associate Director, for a look back at the history of the Nevada Museum of Art. With a special emphasis on the organization’s early ties to the San Francisco Bay Area, the Bohemian Club, Fallen Leaf Lake in the Sierra, and the University of Nevada. Covering the roots of the Latimer Art Club from the 1910s to the critical role it played in the founding of the institution.  

This registration is for a live in-person ticket. For Zoom only registration please click here.

Explore the Washoe ArTrail with ROAM

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.

Collateral & Co. presents Felt Like Five

In this film premiere, dancers travel to five different Nevada locations, coming to terms with a year that has felt like five. Felt Like Five features original poetry, choreography by Caitlin McCarty and Leslie Balzer, in a film featuring performances by Collateral & Co. dance artists.

This program will also be streamed live via zoom. All registrants will receive a link before the program.  

Collateral & Co. is operationally funded in part by the City of Reno and the National Endowment for the Arts

Reigning Queens: Frank Smigiel on Andy Warhol

The Museum welcomes Frank Smigiel, Director of Arts Programming & Partnerships at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC) in San Francisco, for the final public program related to The World Stage. Smigiel, who holds a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Delaware, leads a lively discussion on Andy Warhol’s Reigning Queens series, the artist’s use of queer imagery, and embrace of kitsch.

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

First Thursday: Guitar Woody and The Boilers Featuring Melanie Hammond

Meet friends and explore the galleries at this lively social event featuring live music, performances and specialty refreshments.  Hosted by Great Basin Brewing Company and KTHX Radio, this long-standing gathering welcomes guests and members alike. 

Wine sponsored by Whispering Vine Wine Company.