Tour the featured exhibition with one of the Museum’s trained docents during a regularly scheduled Guided Tour offered Thursdays at 6 pm (except First Thursdays); Saturdays at 1 pm; and Sundays at 1 pm. Reservations are not needed. 

FREE with admission

Presented by Bank of America

Join us for a blowout summer block party! Enjoy a free day at the Museum, live performances, food and craft vendors and hands-on art projects. Have your face painted, tour the galleries, drop in the E.L. Cord Museum School for free art projects while enjoying the sounds of live music! Activities run from 10 am – 4 pm. FREE admission to the Museum continues until 6 pm.

EXHIBITIONS
View Miradas: Ancient Roots in Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art, works from the Bank of America Collection , and City of Dust: The Evolution of Burning Man.

FOOD TRUCKS
Kenji’s | Lazy Sundae Ice Cream Truck | St. Lawrence Pizza | La Favorita

FUN
Rock Climbing Wall | Face Painting | Tissue Paper Flowers | Drop-in Drawing | Printed Postcards hosted by the Holland Project | Hula-hooping and Sidewalk Chalk | Fish Flower Press Bicycle Press

MEET THE ARTIST
Meet the artist, Peter Hazel, and see his maquette of the large-scale Burning Man sculpture “Bloom.” Join him and help create a gift for Burning Man this year. Learn more about Bloom and how you can help be a part of the project here.

MUSIC
Live Music by Ritmo Ardiente | Performances by Danza De Matlachines Guadalupana | DJ by Amplified Entertainment

GYPSY GETAWAY WAGONS
Collaborative Painting Project

ART MART VENDORS
Eastern Slopes Clay Works | Elevation Hoops | Faith Colors | Grace Hayes | Infinite Glass | Jiggler Designs | Barbara Kallestad | Louise Noel Silk Paintings | Meridian Press | Pottery by Leigh | Rock NV Jewelry | Shelby McAuliffe | Sierra Essentials | Tahoe Teas | Wild Sierra Soap

Lead sponsorship for the Hands ON! program through 2024 is provided by the Robert S. and Dorothy J. Keyser Foundation. Additional sponsorship by NV Energy, the Sato Foundation, the Thomas P. Raley Foundation, US Bank, and the City of Reno Arts & Culture Commission. Free admission on Second Saturdays is sponsored exclusively by the Nightingale Family Foundation. Media sponsorship by Entravision and El Sol de Nevada.

Find holiday gifts handmade by local artists at this boutique shopping experience. First, encounter Susie Rusk, a Nevada native with a love of creating handmade artisanal jewelry. Want a unique sculpture? Mother and daughter team Debbie and Rachael Lambin of Reno turn books into art objects through their work, My Thousand Words book sculptures.

The Holland Project challenged local filmmakers and musicians to create original music videos. Here’s the catch: they had just 48 hours to plan, shoot and edit their videos and were required to include selected objects, icons or locations as part of the final cut. Check out the results in the 4x4x48 Music Video Challenge screening.

NOTE: Some language may not be suitable for all audiences.

Recipient of the Nevada Governor’s Arts Award and the Nevada Heritage Award, Great Basin buckaroo and braider Doug Groves makes finely crafted artisan horse gear.  Learning rawhide braiding from peers in the bunkhouse and beyond, he now passes on the skills and techniques for turning rawhide into beautiful and functional gear.  Join Doug as he discusses the history of rawhide, its traditional uses as horse gear, and how our ranching history is passed on with this skill through stories and folklore.

Support for the Art Bite series comes from Nevada Arts Council and Nevada Humanities.

The Nevada Woodchucks are dedicated to teaching the skills of woodworking to Northern Nevada.  Through the sharing of ideas, accomplishments, techniques and woodworking projects, this organization is keeping traditional craft alive and sharing the joy of handmade toys with children in the community.  Join Woodchucks President and avid woodworker Rick Barbieri for a lively discussion of toys, tools and community. 

Support for the Art Bite series comes from Nevada Arts Council and Nevada Humanities.

Freyer believes that wood is one of nature’s riches gifts. It can be as light and luminescent as water or as dense and opaque as stone. Sculpted by a craftsman, wood expresses and inspires emotion by transcending its function to touch the soul. Join local wood worker Eric Freyer as he discusses the process behind creating studio furniture and the importance of craft and tradition in the community.

Support for the Art Bite series comes from Nevada Arts Council and Nevada Humanities.

Join Las Vegas based artist, Justin Favela and his family in a public celebration featuring his family’s traditions. Guests will enjoy live music performed by the RPA Youth Mariachi Band, a taco buffet, a piñata, cake and art activities in an interactive family-friendly party as part of Favela’s performance “Family Fiesta” on the rooftop of the Museum.

Favela’s work is featured in the exhibition Tilting the Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada.  Admission and all activities are free for this event and all day as part of the Museum’s Hands ON! on Second Saturday monthly program. 

NOTE: All seats in the Museum’s Theater have been sold to this event. This registration is for the simulcast presentation which will be a live video feed of Michael Branch’s presentation. 

Michael Branch, writer, humorist and environmentalist unveils his newest book “Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness,” creative nonfiction reflecting on raising children in an extreme desert landscape.

Reception and book signing to follow presentation. Live music following talk by Shiloh.

Do your holiday shopping during this annual sale, where you’ll find one-of-a-kind gifts for every art lover on your list. From locally-made bags and jewelry, to the Museum’s incomparable books, the entire store is on sale. Members receive 20% savings, 10% for everyone else.