May 2013

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Events

  •   Tours

    Guided Tours at the Museum

    Thursday May 23, 2013 / 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

    The Museum offers a wide variety of tours designed to fit guests' unique interests and needs. 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.
    Space is limited to a first-come, first-served basis. Reservations are not needed. Guided Tours are free for members and paid general admission.

  •   Special Events

    IGNITE RENO 12

    Thursday May 23, 2013 / 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

    Once in a while a handful of Reno’s most gifted and geeky creatives gather to share some of their best ideas in a series of five-minute, 20-slide presentations about a good idea. Ignite’s “lightning-presentation” format encourages speakers to keep their wits about them, enjoy the camaraderie of quick thinkers, and enjoy a drink at the cash bar run by Composition Café. IGNITE RENO 12 takes place in the Museum’s Founders’ Room.

  •   Tours

    Guided Tours at the Museum

    Saturday May 25, 2013 / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

    The Museum offers a wide variety of tours designed to fit guests' unique interests and needs. 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.
    Space is limited to a first-come, first-served basis. Reservations are not needed. Guided Tours are free for members and paid general admission.

  •   Tours

    Guided Tours at the Museum

    Sunday May 26, 2013 / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

    The Museum offers a wide variety of tours designed to fit guests' unique interests and needs. 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.
    Space is limited to a first-come, first-served basis. Reservations are not needed. Guided Tours are free for members and paid general admission.

  •   Tours

    Guided Tours at the Museum

    Thursday May 30, 2013 / 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

    The Museum offers a wide variety of tours designed to fit guests' unique interests and needs. 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.
    Space is limited to a first-come, first-served basis. Reservations are not needed. Guided Tours are free for members and paid general admission.

  •   Tours

    Guided Tours at the Museum

    Saturday June 1, 2013 / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

    The Museum offers a wide variety of tours designed to fit guests' unique interests and needs. 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.
    Space is limited to a first-come, first-served basis. Reservations are not needed. Guided Tours are free for members and paid general admission.

  •   Tours

    Guided Tours at the Museum

    Sunday June 2, 2013 / 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

    The Museum offers a wide variety of tours designed to fit guests' unique interests and needs. 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.
    Space is limited to a first-come, first-served basis. Reservations are not needed. Guided Tours are free for members and paid general admission.

  •   Special Events

    Educators' Evening: Art of the Greater West

    Thursday June 6, 2013 / 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

    Local educators are invited to a special reception featuring a presentation and discussion on a selection of works from the Art of the Greater West Collection with Charles N. Mathewson Curator of Education Colin M. Robertson. Light refreshments will be served and registered participants will receive any related materials for use in the classroom based on themes found in the collection.

    Reserve a space for this event by emailing Jacque Dawson. Please include your name, school and grade level. Space is limited and preference is given to Northern Nevada public school teachers.

    Teacher in-service credit is available in 2013 for participation. Earn a half credit for attending 5 events and one credit for attending 10. Please check with the State of Nevada to see if credit may be applied to your area of licensure.

    Attendance to the reception is FREE for educators, thanks to the generosity of The Nell J. Redfield Foundation.

  •   First Thursday

    Featuring Strange on the Range

    Thursday June 6, 2013 / 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

    Grab a beer, groove to the live music, and check out the galleries at First Thursday. Sponsorship by Barrick Gold of North America and hosted by The X 100.1 FM Radio and Great Basin Brewing Company. Wine bar sponsored by Whispering Vine Wine 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. Come in your favorite burner costume for a fun fashion show.

    First Thursday is free for Museum members or non-members with paid regular admission.

  •   Buy Tickets Art Bite

    Miguel Luciano on Pimp my Piragua and Contemporary Latin American Art

    Friday June 7, 2013 / 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm

    Miguel Luciano’s bicycle-based work Pimp My Piragua activates public spaces on a neighborhood scale. Hear from Luciano about the contexts for which this work has been created. Then come back on Saturday, June 8 for Second Saturday and see it in action.

    $10 / $0 Museum members | Buy Tickets


Exhibitions

Admission
  • ‘And Those Figures Through the Leaves. And That Light Through the Smoke,’ Part Two of Feature Gallery North

    Frohawk Two Feathers : ‘And Those Figures Through the Leaves. And That Light Through the Smoke,’ Part Two of "The Americas"

    through June 9, 2013

    Frohawk Two Feathers is the artistic alter-ego of Umar Rashid, born in 1976 in Chicago, Illinois. A performer, writer and artist, his work is filled with real and imagined colonial histories and often takes the form of mixed media paintings that resemble Native American ledger paintings. Central to the understanding of Two Feather’s work is a construct he calls “Frengland.” The artist... more »

    Included with Admission

  • Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall

    Jacob Hashimoto : Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper

    through June 16, 2013

    In anticipation of the Museum’s 80th Anniversary in 2011, contemporary artist Jacob Hashimoto was commissioned to create a large-scale, site-specific artwork to hang in the Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall. Hashimoto’s sculpture—fabricated from thousands of small “kites”—is made from bamboo-stiffened rice papers not unlike those used for centuries to make traditional Japanese kites.... more »

    Included with Admission

  • Ken Goldberg, Sanjay Krishnan, Fernanda Viégas, and Martin Wattenberg Media Gallery

    BLOOM: Ken Goldberg, Sanjay Krishnan, Fernanda Viégas, and Martin Wattenberg

    through June 16, 2013

    The Nevada Museum of Art, long known for exhibitions and collections related to the natural and built environment, now ventures into virtual environments with the commission of Bloom. Created by collaborators Ken Goldberg, Sanjay Krishnan, Fernanda Viégas, and Martin Wattenberg, Bloom was envisioned as a tribute to the late American painter Kenneth Noland (1924-2010).... more »

    Included with Admission

  • Highlights from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York Feature Gallery

    Voces y Visiones: Highlights from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York

    through July 7, 2013

    Launching a long-term collaboration with New York’s El Museo del Barrio—the leading Latino cultural institution in the U.S. dedicated to Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean art—the Nevada Museum of Art presents a wide-ranging and diverse survey of their stellar art collection. This lively exhibition presents more than fifty objects including sculpture, painting, prints, photographs, and... more »

    Included with Admission

  • An Unsolved Art World Mystery Hawkin's Gallery

    A Real Van Gogh?: An Unsolved Art World Mystery

    through August 25, 2013

    In 1948, William Goetz, the famed Hollywood producer, head of Universal Pictures, and legendary art collector, purchased a painting attributed to Vincent Van Gogh for $50,000. Although it was acquired from a reputable art dealer and deemed genuine by a prominent Van Gogh expert at the time, debate about the painting’s authenticity ignited an art world controversy that impacted U.S. foreign... more »

    Included with Admission

  • Explosions and Possibilities Small Works Gallery

    Amerique Powell: Explosions and Possibilities

    through September 1, 2013

    A 2012 graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno’s MFA program, Amerique Powell’s lively acrylic paintings are explosions of color and pattern. Her works bears the influence of late 20th century art movements, particularly Feminist Art and Pattern and Decoration. In the tradition of these movements, Powell dares to paint using a traditionally domestic, “decorative” palette and... more »

    Included with Admission

  • A Collection Selection Contemporary Gallery

    In All Cases: A Collection Selection

    through September 8, 2013

    This exhibition samples the Nevada Museum of Art’s diverse and growing contemporary art collection alongside a selection of artworks on loan from private collectors. The Museum recognizes Contemporary Art as a crucial area of investment, and curators seek out works for the permanent collection that reflect the institution’s ongoing commitment to artists’ creative interactions with... more »

    Included with Admission

  • The Back of the Map CA+E Gallery

    Erika Osborne: The Back of the Map

    through November 17, 2013

    Maps are not pictures of the land, but rather abstractions we use to understand where we are and how to move across the landscape. Maps can be as complicated and difficult to read as an abstract painting, but because we are surrounded by maps--from printed road maps bought at gas stations to digital ones on our smartphones--we are adept at reading them. Our familiarity with them means that we... more »

    Included with Admission