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. 

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. 

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. 

A local shopping extravaganza for a good cause. Donate $20 cash to Washoe County School District Children in Transition and receive a shopping pass for deep discounts at participating Midtown Reno businesses, including 20% savings on select merchandise at the Museum Shop.

Join Barbara L. Gordon as she shares her journey as a collector navigating the wonderfully intuitive and accessible designs, colors and shapes that make up American Folk Art. From her first purchase of a particularly elegant birdhouse with a green painted tin roof, plucked from a row of items in a country field, to her triumphant and long awaited acquisition of Edward Hicks’ masterpiece, The Peaceable Kingdom, Gordon discusses the thrill of the hunt and the passion and discipline it takes to build a world class collection.

Join guest curator of A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America, Richard Miller as he examines the aesthetic and meaning of the large body of work that has come to be known as American Folk Art.  The paintings, sculpture, and furniture in the Gordon collection were made between 1800 and 1920–years that bookend a period of rapid and dramatic change in the United States.  The art in this exhibition represents a period that may feel distant, but these objects that held special meaning for Americans show that their aspirations were little different from ours today: celebration of family, pride in heritage, and leaving some evidence of our lives and accomplishments after us.

Dr. Bernhard Bach’s background is in diffractive, and space flight optics, he serves as the UNR Director of Undergraduate Laboratories.  Join him in conversation as he explores the physics of light as it relates to the immersive light installation Swell.  Swell, which represents innovation in immersive light installations, draws explicit connections between wave forms, the liquid motion of floating objects and sculptural objects made of light, modified and shaped over time.

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

David Sanchez Burr is a mixed-media artist and assistant professor of media arts and technology at New Mexico Highlands University.  Join him in discussion about New Citadel II and his efforts to convey ideas of maintenance, generation and decay of the complex systems and structures that surround us. New Citadel is an ongoing project that presents a view of social, urban and ecological change through time based art and speaks to theories of urbanism, the postindustrial landscape and shelter as a perpetual social struggle. The work allows for the design, construction, and disintegration of a city to reveal and critique the chaotic processes that make our urban landscape.

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

Join University of Nevada, Reno Art and Digital Media Professor Joseph DeLappe as he discusses his collaborative project to create an installation to map, via sculptural and electronic components, the history of ongoing US drone strikes in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan. The work includes 3D printed paper reproductions of MQ9 Predator Drones, arranged in a pattern of documented drone strikes around the town of Mir Ali.

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

For the past 6 years, DICE has served as a platform for all design disciplines and how they improve our future. With the Nevada Museum of Art’s space as a creative catalyst, DICE presents an annual competition and gathers some of the world’s most inspiring speakers. The goal is to challenge our thinking and explore the power and potential of good design. Featuring renowned graphic designer Karin Hibma, landscape architect Gena Wirth, Reno’s own Stan Byers and Libby Brokaw from STANCAN Design, and urbanist Ashley Z. Hand, the afternoon is full of multi-disciplinary design ideas and a creative competition, capped off by a brief reception. More information can be found at www.designconferencenv.com

Reception to follow.