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Take a Class at the Museum School
Looking to brush up on your watercolor skills? Have you always wanted to take Life Drawing? Do you have a child who loves to play with clay? Looking to build a design portfolio in preparation for applying to a college or university?
The E.L. Cord Museum School offers art classes on a year-around schedule – presenting a wide range of classes for people of all ages, skills, and technical abilities to foster their creativity. Toddlers, children, teens, adults and seniors are welcome to explore painting, life drawing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, design courses, and book arts in one of our quarterly classes. See the Class Schedule here.
ART BITE: Meet the Artist Peter Liashkov Paper Cowboy
Artist Peter Liashkov spent time in a Wyoming residency program at the UCROSS Foundation in which he made the works on display in Paper Cowboy. Join the artist for an explanation of the works on display, their influences, and their relationship to historical land use issues.
Cost: $10 / $0 Museum members | Buy Tickets here.
Second Saturdays are FREE in 2012
The Museum’s popular family program now occurs on the Second Saturday of every month in 2012. Children, parents, grandparents, neighbors, and friends are welcome to take part in a day filled with art projects, gallery activities, storytelling, and cultural events.
Second Saturday is presented exclusively by the Nightingale Family Foundation.
Hands/ON! is presented on the Second Saturday of every month FREE due to support from the Mathewson CLAT #5, the Sato Foundation, the City of Reno Arts and Culture Commission, and Art4Moore.
Gift Certificates Available at the Museum
Give the Gift of a year of Museum Membership, a selection of Museum School classes, or unique items in the Museum Store – gift certificates are available for purchase at the Admissions Desk and in the Museum Store.
LIVE Charm of Hugo on First Thursday
Grab a beer, groove to the live music, and check out the galleries at First Thursday. First Thursday wine bar sponsored by Whispering Vine Wine Company. Sponsored annually by The X 100.1 FM Radio and Great Basin Brewing Company. Bottled water sponsored by Sam's Club. Bring the kids for Kids Open Art Studio, available from 5 - 7 pm for $5 per child.
First Thursday is free for Museum members or non-members with paid regular admission.
Call For Submissions
The Museum's Art + Environment social network seeks lively original writing that explores contemporary art, architecture, and design and its intersections with environment, nature, landscape and place in support of the practice, study and awareness of creative interactions between people and their natural, built, virtual environments. Art + Environment publishes blog entries, essays, and observations that blend interesting critical and research-based rigor with personal experience and journalistic edge, and reviews of books, exhibitions, programs, and projects going on in the fields inhabiting the intersections of art and environment. Send manuscripts, proposals, or queries electronically to socialnetwork@nevadaart.org with “Art + Environment Submission” in the subject line. For more information visit the Art + Environment community HERE.
Hawkinson Sculpture Installation
Internationally-acclaimed artist Tim Hawkinson is known for his complex sculptures. Made from bronze, this single sculpture Totem evokes the forms of discarded plastic bottles or jugs, inviting conversations about water, land, and the challenges Native American cultures have faced related to these natural resources.
View the Museum’s 2010 Annual Report
Download a copy of the Nevada Museum of Art's 2010 Annual Report here: http://www.nevadaart.org/about/annual-report.
Free Admission
Second Saturday
Dec. 10 / 10am - 5pm
Bring your family and friends this holiday season and enjoy a day at the Museum for FREE on the Second Saturday of each month in 2011. Visit Saturday, December 10 and enjoy the Museum's signature photography collection The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment. Stop by Café Museé for lunch and browse the Museum Store for last minute gifts.
New Grants Awarded
The Museum was recently awarded $135,000 in grants from three nationally recognized agencies. The Museum received a grant of $100,000 from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, its first ever, to support the Museum’s Art + Environment initiatives. The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, awarded the Museum $10,000 and $25,000 respectively to benefit the Museum’s 2011 exhibition and publication titled The Altered Landscape.
