Four young Cowboys hatch an outrageous plot to adopt, train, and ride a string of wild mustangs 3,000 miles from Mexico to Canada through the wildest terrain of the American West. The trip became an epic journey of self-discovery, tested friendships, and iconic landscapes that included runaway horses, a sassy donkey, perilous mountain passes, rodeos, sickness, injury, and death. The Audience Award winner at Telluride Mountainfilm and Hot Docs Film Festival, Unbranded is a soaring tale of danger and resilience, an emotionally charged odyssey that shines a bright light on the complex plight of our country’s wild horses.

Anthony McCall is a British-born, New York-based artist known for creating immersive, “solid light” installations, which occupy a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing. McCall’s work is represented in numerous collections, including, Tate, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and  SFMoMA, amongst others. McCall’s new solid light installation is part of the Nevada Museum of Art’s Contemporary Collection and is on view July 30–January 8. Join us as McCall discusses his newest work followed by a walk-through of the exhibition.

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

For artist Steve Lambert, art is a bridge that connects uncommon, idealistic, or even radical ideas with everyday life. He carefully crafts conditions where these discussions can take place, often working collaboratively with the audience, bringing them into the process or even having them physically complete the work.  Join Steve as he discusses how to Dream Bigger Than Clients.

Doors open at 5pm for social hour and cash bar inside chez louie. Program begins at 6 pm.

From the creative mind of Jessi LeMay comes the storytelling and narrative filmmaking project The Folk & the Lore. This multimedia project aims to collect, archive, and tell stories from Reno and throughout the region through photography, short films, and live storytelling events that will be held regularly at the Nevada Museum of Art. Together, we believe that when you know your neighbor’s story, not only do you feel more connected to your community, but those stories become part of your own. Join this event for an evening of storytelling and films centered around the theme of “Secret Lives.”

Doors open at 5 pm for social hour and chez louie cash bar. Stories begin at 6 pm.

Join us as rodeo poet, recording artist and former bareback bronc rider, Paul Zarzyski, launches us into the month-long celebration of Artown with an evening full of poetry, lyrics and prose presented in Zarzyski’s “rock-n’-rowel” delivery. 

Doors open at 5 pm with a cash bar. Following the performance, Zarzyski will be on hand to sign copies of his latest book of poetry, Steering With My Knees. A spoken word and music CD of the same title will also be available.

Support for education and public programs during The Horse comes from Wells Fargo.

Photo credit: Kevin Martini-Fuller

Filmmaker H. Paul Moon discusses his film of Joel Nelson’s “Equus Caballus” currently on view in the exhibition “The Horse.” Join us for the debut screening of his newest short film “Mining the Mother Lode” recited by Andy Hedges, and a discussion about cinematography of the west ranging from equine to landscape.

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

Support for education and public programs during The Horse comes from Wells Fargo.

Curator of Art and Civilization at the Reading Public Museum, Scott Schweigert is the curator of the exhibition American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony and is a specialist in European art of the seventeenth century. Join Schweigert for a discussion on the emergence of artists’ colonies during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as it relates to the American Impressionists.  Learn more about the effect that these colonies had on artists’ creativity, including the ability to collaborate, teach, and experiment in their work.  American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony features a large collection of oil paintings and works on paper from the collection of the Reading Public Museum. American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony will be on view at the Nevada Museum of Art May 14 – August 14, 2016.

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

SOLD OUT – ALL COMPLIMENTARY RESEVATIONS FOR THIS EVENT ARE TAKEN.  Doors open at 10 am on Saturday.  Please show a valid Membership card upon entry and bring your printed reservation receipt. If you do not have a printed reservation receipt, a guest list will be available at the door.

A limited amount of tickets are available at the door for the Overflow Party.  Tickets are first come, first served until maximum capacity is met.

Due to the “sold out” status of the Members Premiere and concert presented in the Nightingale Sky Room, we will be simulcasting the concert by the Steep Canyon Rangers into other spaces within the Museum.  Members may enjoy a preview of The Horse, purchase a drink, and enjoy the concert from a monitor or in the theater.  The Sky Room will be open to the membership once the concert ends (until 3 pm). 

The Museum would like to extend huge gratitude to all our members for your incredible support. The unexpected positive response you have shown for this premiere is deeply humbling. Let’s celebrate!

Hosted by NV Energy. Entertainment sponsored by Anne Brockinton Lee and Robert M. Lee

Enjoy a panel discussion on following the history of horses in movies and television with film historians Petrine Mitchum (daughter of actor and director, Robert Mitchum) and author of Hollywood Hoofbeats, Christopher Langley from the Museum of Western Film History and renowned cowboy poet, Larry Maurice. 

Guests will enjoy a short intermission where Petrine Mitchum will be on hand to sign copies of Hollywood Hoofbeats after which guests will enjoy a screening of the 1951 film, The Flame of Araby.

Based on a Will James story, Sand is a prized stallion, belonging to Mark Stevens (Jeff Keane) that disappears into the Colorado wilderness (filmed on location in Lone Pine, California) after a train accident. When recovered, Sand has developed a mean streak. Suffering various abuses, the original owner finally regains Sand’s trust.