Due to construction, Museum parking may be limited at the time of your visit. Look for additional parking in free or metered spaces along nearby streets.

The Love of Art

A Luncheon & Artisan Shopping Experience hosted by the Volunteers in Art to benefit the Nevada Museum of Art.

Join us in celebrating the creative spirit that connects our community with an artful event – formerly known as the Arts & Flowers Luncheon – featuring exclusive shopping, flavorsome dining & drawings for exceptional prizes.

Event Schedule

10 am – Shopping & Refreshments
12:30 pm – Luncheon & Remarks
2 pm – Raffle Winners Announced

  • 10% shopping savings for Museum members
  • Signature luncheon & dessert, served with wine & bubbles served in the Nightingale Sky Room
  • Shop curated collections inspired by exhibitions past & present
  • Raffle featuring a Herman Miller Eames lounge chair & ottoman donated by HB Workplaces, plus a painting by Nevada artist Jack Malotte
  • Insightful exhibition tours guided by VIA docents
  • Free valet parking

Proceeds support the Museum’s exhibition program.

For ticketing assistance, please call 775.329.3333 ex. 100.

Lead Sponsor

Julie and Michael Teel, Owners Raley’s

Major Sponsor

Charlotte McConnell

Sponsor

Jennifer Laity
Stacie Mathewson

Wine Sponsor

Camille and Larry Ruvo | Southern Glazer’s Wine Spirits & Beer

Additional Support

HB Workplaces

Members’ After Hours

As a benefit of membership, active Museum members are invited to view the fall lineup of exhibitions, including a last-chance-look at the feature exhibition Janna Ireland on the Architectural Legacy of Paul Revere Williams. Enjoy extended gallery hours, live music by the rocksteady/ska band Keyser Soze in the Nightingale Sky Room and cocktails on the Mathewson Sky Plaza. Galleries will host local DJ Fox&Buck. Drop in on the 3rd floor for a pop-up collage workshop and contribute to a future edition of Fallen Fruit’s collective zine. Drinks and small bites menu available for purchase.  

FREE for Members 
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Loud as Folk Eleven Year Anniversary Showcase

Loud As Folk celebrates their eleven years history highlighting songwriters in Reno with live performances by internationally acclaimed cellist Third Seven, Eric Andersen, Grace Hayes and Whitney Myer. Hosted by Spike McGuire.

Doors open at 6 pm with cash bar.

Presented as part of “UPSTAGE: A Literary and Performing Art Series” supported by the Nightingale Family Foundation and the Williams Foundation.

 

Spoken Views Collective and Wolf Speaks Present Javon Johnson

Spoken Views Collective and Wolf Speaks presents an evening of spoken word poetry with three-time national slam champion poet and author Javon Johnson. 

Dr. Javon Johnson is a creative scholar who has mounted exhibitions at the California African American Museum where he managed the History Department. A renowned spoken word poet, he is a three-time national poetry slam champion, a four-time national finalist, and has appeared on appeared on HBO’sDef Poetry Jam, BET’s Lyric Café, TVOnes Verses & Flow, The Steve Harvey Show, The Arsenio Hall Show, United Shades of America with Kamau Bell on CNN, and co-wrote a documentary titled Crossover, which aired on Showtime, in collaboration with the NBA and Nike.

Dr. Johnson’s first book, Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities (Rutgers University Press 2017), unpacks some of the complicated issues that comprise performance poetry spaces and argues that the truly radical potential in slam and spoken word communities lies not just in proving literary worth, speaking back to power, or even in altering power structures, but instead in imagining and working towards altogether different social relationships.

Javon Johnson is an Assistant Professor and Director of African American & African Diaspora studies and holds an appointment in Gender & Sexuality Studies in the Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 

Presented as part of “UPSTAGE: A Literary and Performing Art Series” supported by the Nightingale Family Foundation and the Williams Foundation.

The Art of Jean LaMarr: Exhibition Preview, Book Release and Reception

Celebrate the opening weekend of The Art of Jean LaMarr with live music, friends, festivities, and extended gallery hours. Meet the artist. 

Show your support for the artist Jean LaMarr, by wearing purple!

Pre-signed books available for purchase. 

Eleanor Preger and Rachel Hayes: A Collaboration of Art and Nature

A largely self-taught photographer, Eleanor Preger honed her craft taking photographs at the annual Burning Man gathering that takes place in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Over the years, she has built a reputation for capturing the colors, movement, sound, and soul of artists and artworks set against the stark and striking backdrop of the desert playa.

In spring 2022, Preger collaborated with contemporary artist Rachel Hayes, whose large-scale textile installation is currently on view in the Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall. Preger and Hayes ventured outdoors for a series of photography sessions at Mount Rose Meadows, Lake Tahoe’s Glenbrook community, and other locales in the Tahoe Basin. With help from family and friends, Hayes’ installed her sculptural fabric artworks in a variety of dramatic landscape settings.

During these sessions, Preger took thousands of photographs. While the ever-changing light and prevailing winds certainly had a hand in determining the final product, it was Preger’s unique photographic vision that resulted in this series of dynamic photographs. Taken together, these images remind us to take pleasure in nature’s fleeting moments and to embrace the ephemeral wonders of art and nature.

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

Bloom is an internet-based Earthwork that transforms cold, hard data into an experience of playfulness and unpredictability. A seismograph measures the Hayward Fault’s movements and transmits this information by way of the Internet. With special permission from the UC Berkeley Seismological Lab, these data sets are captured and run through a computer program designed by the artists. The result is a field of colorful, circular blooms that changes constantly in response to the live movements of the Earth.

With Bloom, the artists explore the contrast between virtual and natural environments. The project references Kenneth Noland (1924-2010) and other Color Field painters of the 1960s.

Special thanks to Richard Allen, Doug Neuhouser, and Peggy Hellweg of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory for the live data feed from the Hayward Fault seismometer station and to David Nachum, Vijay Vasudevan, Woj Matusek for work on earlier versions, and to Anne Wagner for insights.

View from the Playa: Photographs by Eleanor Preger

A decade ago, Eleanor Preger never imagined herself taking photographs at Burning Man. Highlights of this Incline Village-based photographer’s work will be on view in the Nightingale Sky Room.

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

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). Noland was a pioneer of Color Field painting with an innovative approach to color.

In this internet-based Earthwork, unpredictable live movements of the Hayward Fault are detected by a seismograph, transmitted continuously via the Internet, and processed to generate an evolving field of circular blooms. The size and position of each bloom is based on real-time changes in the Earth’s motion, measured as a vertical velocity continuously updated from the seismometer. Horizontal position based on time; vertical based on magnitude of rate of change; and size based on time between events. Colors come from photographs of flowers found on photo-sharing site Flickr.

Referencing landscape painting and abstraction, Bloom creates a sublime experience of the growth and fragility of the natural world.

Special thanks to Richard Allen, Doug Neuhouser, and Peggy Hellweg of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory for the live data feed from the Hayward Fault seismometer station and to David Nachum, Vijay Vasudevan, Woj Matusek for work on earlier versions, and to Anne Wagner for insights.