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Events
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Special Events
Julie Silber on Women’s Quilting Traditions
Thursday March 11, 2010 / 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join the Nevada Museum of Art and the Nevada Women's Fund as they celebrate the acclaimed quilters featured in A Survey of Gee’s Bend Quilts. Nationally renowned quilts expert and author Julie Silber will provide her insights into this uniquely American art tradition followed by a reception and exhibition tour. This partnership event supports the missions and activities of the Nevada Museum of Art and the Nevada Women’s Fund. Seating is limited.
$25 / $25 Museum members | Buy Tickets
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Art Bite
Julie Silber on A Survey of Gee's Bend Quilts
Friday March 12, 2010 / 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Renowned quilt expert Julie Silber investigates the complex intertwining of women's history and quilt making over the past forty years. These half-hour dialogues invite guests to experience an informal and intimate introduction to works in the galleries. The Art Bite series is supported, in part, by the Gabelli Foundation.
$5 / $4 Museum members | Buy Tickets
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Art Afternoon
Art Afternoon: Workshop & Social for Seniors
Friday March 12, 2010 / 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Expand your interests with a docent-guided tour and studio art class. Light refreshments. No art background necessary.
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Film
Nobody
Thursday March 18, 2010 / 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Explore one student's personal journey to find inspiration in Nobody, presented by the Nevada Museum of Art Teen Art Council. A quirky comedy of discovery, Nobody is written by Rob Perez of 40 Days and 40 Nights. Rated PG-13. To view the trailer for this film, please visit: http://nobodythecomedy.com/ Tickets for this screening are $5 for everyone, including members.
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Jazz Brunch
KUNR Sunday Jazz Brunch with Colin Ross Band
Sunday March 21, 2010 / 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Catch a live jazz performance hosted by KUNR Radio and dine from the á la carte brunch menu from Café Musée. A la carte items are priced from $5 - $15 each.
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Special Events
Taste of Gee's Bend Dinner
Thursday March 25, 2010 / 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Celebrate the history and culture of Gee's Bend, Alabama, as Café Musée prepares a pre fixe dinner including the traditional southern tastes of Crisp Winter Greens, Double-Crusted Buttermilk Fried Chicken Breast with Corn and Goat Cheese Grits and Sweet Potato Pie with Vanilla Whipped Cream. Cost: $34.50 for Members / $44.50 for non-members, which includes admission to the Museum. For reservations please contact Cafe Musee at 775.332.1848 ex 104.
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Black Rock Design Institute
Black Rock Design Institute: Joseph Tanney | Resolution: 4 Architecture
Thursday March 25, 2010 / 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Principal Joseph Tanney discusses the design directives and motivation behind Resolution: 4 Architecture, winners of the Dwell Magazine Home Design Invitational 2003.
$10 / $8 Museum members | Buy Tickets
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Special Events
Teen Art Night
Friday March 26, 2010 / 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Join the Nevada Museum of Art Teen Art Council and the Holland Project for the second annual Teen Art Night. Teens are invited to dress up in prom wear or as your favorite celebrity for a Hollywood themed event planned for teens, by teens. Enjoy live music performances, a silk-screening workshop with artist Ron Rash, a teen film competition with prizes (submissions due to the Holland Project by 3/15 - for details visit: www.hollandreno.org), and an encore screening of Nobody.
$5 / $5 Museum members | Buy Tickets
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hands/ON! Sunday Family Program
Tiny Quilts
Sunday March 28, 2010 / 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Bring the whole family and, inspired by the quilts of Gee's Bend, create your own tiny quilts using colorful, textured fabrics. One-hour sessions beginning at noon, 1 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm. Bring the entire family for this free, fun program featuring hands-on art projects and gallery activities for all ages.
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Museum Event
Bluesman Al Blake Performs
Saturday April 3, 2010 / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Join the Museum in welcoming the celebrated bluesman for a special performance in association with A Survey of Gee’s Bend Quilts. Blake’s encyclopedic knowledge of the Blues and its players makes him one of the most serious students of this uniquely American genre and the creator of some of the deepest and purest Blues of the post-modern era.
$12 / $10 Museum members | Buy Tickets
Exhibitions
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Small Works Gallery
Elaine Parks: Swarm
through March 14, 2010
For artist Elaine Parks, the annual invasion of Mormon crickets in the Nevada town of Tuscarora is an event she anticipates with both deference and dread. Located about 50 miles north of Elko in the northeastern region of Nevada, Tuscarora is just one of many small towns across the American West that braces for the insects-known formally as shield backed katydids-that invade each year.... more »
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E. L. Wiegand Gallery
Raphael: The Woman with the Veil
through March 21, 2010
Presented by Arte ITALIA, through its relationship with New York-based Foundation for Italian Art & Culture, Raphael's masterpiece painting The Woman with the Veil will be exhibited in the E. L. Wiegand Gallery at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, NV from January 9 through March 21, 2010. Depicting a woman wearing a veil the painting embodies some of the high Renaissance... more »
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Installation Gallery
The Work Ethic in American Art:
through March 28, 2010
This small exhibition highlights works from the Museum's E.L. Wiegand Collection that was founded in 1988 to support acquisitions with a thematic focus on the work ethic in American Art. The collection includes paintings that depict laborers, work environments, and workers at rest. Among the works in the exhibition will be those by Lovell Birge Harrison, Elsie Palmer Payne, Jacob Getlar... more »
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Reynolds Hall and Prim Theater Gallery
The Scholastic Art Awards of 2010:
through April 3, 2010
The Museum presents an exhibition of artwork created by northern Nevada middle and high school students as part of The Scholastic Art Awards of 2010, a national program established 86 years ago to recognize and reward impressive talent among students. Serving 13 counties in northern Nevada, the program invites students to compete for awards and scholarships. The exhibition is... more »
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Feature Gallery South
A Survey of Gee's Bend Quilts:
through April 11, 2010
Quilting has been a longstanding tradition among the women of Gee's Bend - a small town on Alabama River where cotton plantation owner Joseph Gee's land was located. Until the Roosevelt era, the community lived in log cabins where one could "see the stars" and feel the wind and rain through gaps in the ceilings and walls. At the same time, quilting was a rare opportunity for creative personal... more »
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Feature Gallery North
Monsters and Maidens: Amphora Pottery of the Art Nouveau Era
through April 11, 2010
Between 1892 and 1918 the Amphora Pottery Company manufactured thousands of remarkably imaginative and delicately crafted ceramic vessels in its workshop in Teplitz, Austria. From snarling dragons and sea creatures to medieval maidens and lily pads, the wares of the Amphora pottery makers were influenced by artistic and literary movements ranging from Symbolism and Secessionism to Art Nouveau.... more »
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Feature Gallery East
The Beffi Triptych: Preserving Abruzzo's Cultural Heritage
through April 11, 2010
The mountainous region of Abruzzo in central Italy has endured many earthquakes, most recently on the night of April 6, 2009, when a powerful quake registered 5.8 on the Richter scale. More than 300 people perished, 1,500 were injured, and 65,000 were initially left homeless. The earthquake caused significant damage to the cultural heritage of Abruzzo including the sixteenth-century Castello... more »
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C A+E Gallery
China Town: Lucy Raven
through May 9, 2010
Lucy Raven's video China Town traces copper mining and production from an open pit mine in East Ely, Nevada to the Yangtze River in China, where the semi-processed ore is sent to be smelted, refined, and spun into wire and used to electrify the nation. The video consists of an animated sequence created from more than 7,000 photographs, along with ambient sound that Raven recorded along... more »
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Hawkins Contemporary Gallery
Bryan Christiansen: Trophy Hunter
through May 9, 2010
Bryan Christiansen's life-sized contemporary sculptures challenge conventional notions about rural life, home, the rituals of the hunting tradition, and the innocence of childhood. Using discarded household furniture that he finds in neglected urban areas, Christiansen crafts assemblages that stand in for the trophies, antler mounts, and pelts so often prized by hunters. Raised in a small... more »
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Media Gallery
Penelope Gottlieb: NO $ DOWN
through May 23, 2010
For nearly a decade, Penelope Gottlieb has worked to produce a series of drawings that examine the archetypal American dream of home ownership, while also exploring the idea of the house as a status symbol, marker of class identity, and focal point of desire. In NO $ DOWN, Gottlieb's colored-pencil drawings catalogue frontal views of popular domestic architecture. From storybook homes... more »
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