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Events
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Art Bite
Meet the Artist: Peter Liashkov on Paper Cowboy
Friday February 10, 2012 / 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
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.
$10 / $0 Museum members | Buy Tickets
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Members Premiere
Celebrate the Art of the Tiffany Era at the Members' Premiere Hosted by NV Energy
Friday February 10, 2012 / 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Museum members are invited to be the first to view the celebrated Tiffany treasures from the turn of the century across three feature exhibitions:
- Out of the Forest: Art Nouveau Lamps
- In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows
- Tiffany & Co. Arms from the Robert M. Lee Collection
Live contemporary string duet presented by Accent. Cash bar available. Kids Open Art Studio / $5 per child. Admission is free for Museum Members with valid member card. -
hands/ON! Free Family Program on 2nd Saturdays
hands/ON! Mexican Carnival: Face Painting, Mask Making and Maracas
Saturday February 11, 2012 / 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Learn about the culture of Mexico and celebrate Carnival. Join us for live demonstrations of Mexican folk music, dancing and storytelling. Make your own music using authentic maracas. Drop in for face painting or spend some time in the Redfield Learning Center working on a personalized Carnival mask.
SCHEDULE
10 am - 4 pm Create your own Carnival Masks
10 am - 4 pm Create your own Maracas
10 - 11:30 am Learn About Mexican Carnival: Slideshow
10:30 & 11 am Fiesta Stories: Storytelling in the Gallery
11 am – 2 pm Face Painting
2 pm – 3 pm Learn About Mexican Carnival: Slideshow
2:30 & 3 pm Fiesta Stories: Storytelling in the Gallery
FREE
Admission is FREE on Second Saturdays thanks to the Nightingale Family Foundation.
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Special Events
Valentine’s Trunk Show in the Museum Store
Saturday February 11, 2012 / 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Kick off the Valentine’s Day festivities with artist Virginia Vogel's Trunk Show at the Museum Store. An artist and costume designer, Vogel is a professor in the Department of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno. Over the years she has designed for the Nevada Opera, Nevada Festival Ballet, Texas Ballet, Nevada Shakespeare Festival, the Young Conservatory, and ACT in San Francisco. This is the first show featuring her wide variety of work including intricate fabric-based, multi-media art pieces, some framed for display, and others designed to be worn on the body-- all extraordinary, one-of-a-kind creations. Admission to the Trunk Show is FREE
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Tours
Experience the Stained Glass Windows of Trinity Episcopal Church
Wednesday February 15, 2012 / 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
In conjunction with In the Company of Angels, experience locally significant stained glass artwork and learn about the beautiful windows of Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Reno. Meet at Trinity Episcopal Church at 1 pm. Free, but please rsvp by email to Colin Robertson at colin.robertson@nevadaart.org
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Black Rock Design Institute
Black Rock Design Institute Presents Urbanized, a Film by Gary Hustwit
Thursday February 16, 2012 / 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. The challenges of balancing housing, mobility, public space, civic engagement, economic development, and environmental policy are fast becoming universal concerns, as they are in Reno. Please join the Black Rock Design Institute for this special screening and conversation about urbanization in Reno. Networking and social hour with beer provided by Silver Peak Brewery at 5 pm. Film starts at 6 pm.
$10 / $8 Museum members | Buy Tickets
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Talk
Premiere Talk: Dr. Martin Eidelberg on Clara Driscoll, the Tiffany Girls, and Art of the Tiffany Era
Saturday February 18, 2012 / 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Art Historian Dr. Martin Eidelberg is one of the foremost scholars of Tiffany art glass and lamp designs, and has conducted extensive and important scholarship on the role of women in Louis Comfort Tiffany’s studio. Please join the Museum for what promises to be a fascinating look into the life, art and history of Louis Comfort Tiffany and the art glass crafted in his studio.
$15 / $10 Museum members | Buy Tickets
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Jazz Brunch
with Scot & Graham Marshall
Sunday February 19, 2012 / 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Catch a live jazz performance hosted by KUNR Radio and dine from the à la carte brunch menu from Café Musée. A la carte menu items range from $5 to $15. Café Musée has extended hours, more food options and offers a 10% discount for all Museum members - check out the latest issue of the NOTE for more information!
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Special Events
Honoring Our History: Traveling WWI Gallery
Wednesday February 22, 2012 / 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Visit this custom “big rig” traveling museum for a free interactive and educational experience designed by the National World War I Museum.
The traveling gallery will be located in the Museum parking lot for one day only.
Sponsored exclusively by Waddell & Reed on the company’s 75th anniversary. For more information contact Waddell and & Reed at (505) 888.7944 ext. 118.
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Special Events
Educators' Evening: Celebrate Art of the Tiffany Era
Thursday February 23, 2012 / 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Local educators are invited to a special reception featuring Celebrate Art of the Tiffany Era. Join Charles N. Mathewson Curator of Education Colin M. Robertson for an introduction to this three part exhibition featuring a unique mix of artwork including Louis Comfort Tiffany’s stained glass among other selections of glass of the art nouveau era and a rare collection of Tiffany & Co.’s decorative firearms.
Attendance to the reception is FREE for educators, thanks to the generosity of The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, Inc.
Light refreshments will be served and registered participants will receive materials for use in the classroom. Please note, classroom resources will be designed for K-6th grade, though may be adapted for other grades. Stay late and enjoy First Thursday at the Museum!
Space is limited and preference is given to Northern Nevada public school teachers. Private and home school educators will be registered as space permits. To register for this program, please contact Claire Munoz at claire.munoz@nevadaart.org with your name, school and grade level.
Exhibitions
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Contemporary Gallery
Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions
through February 19, 2012
Landscape Futures explores how planetary landscapes, and our perceptions of them, can be utterly transformed by technology and design. Specifically, it will investigate the shifting terrains of architectural invention, where the construction of new spatial devices on a variety of scales, from the inhabitable to the portable, can uncover previously inaccessible aspects of the built... more »
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This is Not a Trojan Horse: A Project by Amy Franceschini and Michael Taussig
through March 11, 2012
A multi-faceted and socially engaged project, This is Not a Trojan Horse is a large, human-powered, wooden horse built in Abruzzo, Italy by Amy Franceschini, founder of the artists’ collective Future Farmers. Set in the Abruzzo region of Italy, the project encourages working Italian farmers to explain why they still embrace their chosen vocations. The large-scale, mobile architecture... more »
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Cassaza Gallery
Jean-Luc Mylayne: The Heavens are Blue
through March 11, 2012
A self-taught photographer and thoughtful scholar of philosophy, French photographer Jean-Luc Mylayne explores temporality and the relationship of humankind to both nature and the environments in which we live. Since 1976 he has produced, along with his wife and collaborator, Mylène, over 400 unique photographs of birds. The titles of the works reveal the length of time invested by... more »
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CA+E Library
Richard Black: Australia’s Murray River
through March 31, 2012
Australian architect Richard Black has long been engaged with research related to the Murray River—Australia's longest and most agriculture-intensive watercourse that has been continually impacted by floods. In this exhibition, Black proposes a series of sustainable design solutions to improve both the health of the river system and those living along it. A teacher at the Royal Melbourne... more »
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Media Gallery
Peter Liashkov: Paper Cowboy
through April 15, 2012
Although artist Peter Liashkov has lived in the American West for over fifty years, he admits that he had never given significant thought to its popular cowboy culture. While in Wyoming, Liashkov constructed a series of cowboy shirts made from historical paper land deeds that were given to him by a friend. He further adorned the shirts with marks resembling traditional cattle brands, which also... more »
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Feature Gallery North
August Sander: Face of Our Time
through April 22, 2012
This exhibition features sixty black-and-white portraits taken by German photographer August Sander in the early part of the twentieth century that document a cross section of German society. This unique set of prints from Sander's series Antlitz der Zeit (Face of Our Time) has never been exhibited before, although the photographer did publish a volume of images by the same name.... more »
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A+E Gallery
The Canary Project: Landscapes of Climate Change
through April 29, 2012
The Canary Project, founded in 2006 by the artists Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris) initially consisted of Sayler photographing landscapes throughout the world where scientists are studying the impacts of climate change. Titled A History of the Future, the sites included melting glaciers in Peru, rising waters in the Netherlands and Venice, and post-Katrina New... more »
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Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall
Jacob Hashimoto : Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper
through July 1, 2012
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 »
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Wayne and Miriam Prim Theater Lobby
Art, Science, and the Arc of Inquiry: The Evolution of the Nevada Museum of Art
through July 1, 2012
Organized on the occasion of the Nevada Museum of Art’s 80th anniversary in 2011, this special exhibition will celebrate the institution’s early founders, Dr. James Church, Charles Cutts, and volunteer members of the Latimer Art Club, revealing how their vision for a regional art gallery evolved into the robust and vigorous institution that the Museum is today. Dr. James Church, who... more »
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On View
Tim Hawkinson: Totem
through October 7, 2012
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. more »
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