To acknowledge the U.S. semi-quincentennial in 2026, the Nevada Museum of Art presents Broad Stripes Bright Stars: Celebrating 250 Years of America’s Icons, an exhibition featuring hundreds of objects from the collection of Kit Hinrichs, a prominent San Francisco graphic designer and private collector. Broad Stripes Bright Stars will span multiple galleries, featuring iconic American symbols such as Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty, alongside a wide range of handmade works, including quilts, needlework, folk art, and sculpture. The exhibition also presents historic and contemporary objects related to politics and the military, such as protest posters, recruitment materials, and toy soldiers. A special collection of Stars and Stripes objects commemorates 250 years of American life, featuring historic flags from the pre–Civil War era to the present, as well as patriotic fans, stamps, toys, games, and commercial memorabilia.

Complementing the exhibition is a comprehensive 280-page book that captures the collection’s eclectic spirit.

This exhibit was organized by Studio Hinrichs, San Francisco.

Lead Sponsor
Marian Capurro Durkee

Major Sponsors
Letty Casazza and Sunny Stoehr, in memory of Earl and Wanda Casazza

Supporting Sponsors
Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation
Nancy and Harvey Fennell | Dickson Realty
Sandra Osborne
Gayle and Cliff Scheffel

This exhibition, which occupies every gallery of the Museum, invites visitors to consider how to move forward on our planet—ethically, responsibly, and with care for coming generations. It strives to catalyze and amplify protection for the Earth and build an awareness around environmental concerns on many different levels. In the process, it promotes forward-thinking models rooted in collectivity, engagement, and collaboration.

A “time horizon,” a concept mostly used in economics, is a point in the future that one sets for the length of an investment. In his acclaimed novel The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson astutely describes the environment’s time horizon as the window of opportunity we still have to avert the most cataclysmic effects of climate change. The pattern of rising temperatures is evident in desert communities such as Reno, which has the unfortunate title of being the fastest warming city in the United States (with Las Vegas coming in second). Since 1970, Reno’s average annual temperature has increased by 7.8°F.

Into the Time Horizon encompasses seven discrete thematic sections, while also including several large-scale installations that interweave the project’s primary concerns. Including nearly 200 artists, the exhibition sheds insight into the wide range of output, across all mediums, of makers who are integrating environmentalism into their innovative creative approaches. Ecofeminism is a recurring motif, with more than 50 percent of the artists identifying as female.

Maya Lin: Pin River–Tahoe Watershed
November 15, 2025–May 31, 2026

Ernesto Neto: Children of the Earth
November 15, 2025–September 20, 2026

Listening to the Land
January 31, 2026–February 21, 2027

Circularity
February 21–November 29, 2026

Interspecies Relationships
February 21–November 29, 2026

The Sixth Extinction
February 21–November 29, 2026

Strange Weather
February 21–November 29, 2026

Pierre Huyghe: Human Mask
February 28, 2026–January 3, 2027

This Vital Earth
February 28, 2026–January 3, 2027

Altered Lands and the Anthropocene
March 28–September 20, 2026

Film + Video Series
March 28–November 1, 2026

Exhibition Playlist: 101 Songs for the Environment
Ongoing

Into the Time Horizon Artists

Into the Time Horizon is organized by Apsara DiQuinzio, Andrea and John C. Deane Family Chief Curator, with Kolin Perry, assistant curator.

Title Sponsor
Wayne L. Prim Foundation

Lead Sponsors
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Thomas Lee Bottom
Sandy Raffealli | Bill Pearce Motors
Teiger Foundation

Major Sponsors
The Bretzlaff Foundation
Judy and Dave Collins
Barbara and Tad Danz
Friends of Nevada Museum of Art
Cathy and Larry Spector

Sponsors
Sallie and Bob Armstrong
Kathie Bartlett
Dan Brower and Raquel Guardia
Kellie Campbell | Southwestern Properties Corp.
Chica Charitable Gift Fund
Susan and Bubba Crutchfield
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation
Pamela Joyner and Fred Giuffrida
Jackie and Steve Kane
Debra Marko and Bill Franklin
Maureen Mullarkey and Steve Miller
Yvonne Murphy and Murray Mackenzie
Linda and Alvaro Pascotto
Peter E. Pool
Melanie Rudnick
Phil and Jennifer Satre
Gayle and Cliff Scheffel
Gordon and Roswitha Kima Smale, PhD
Earl Tarble
Betsy and Henry Thumann
Christine and Scott Tusher
Kavitha and Tuhin Verma

Supporting Sponsors
Betsy Burgess and Tim Bailey
Caviness Family
CEJohnson Foundation
Maria and Mark Denzler
Nancy and Harvey Fennell | Dickson Realty
Dr. Michael D. Lewis and Linda L. Tate
Lurieland Foundation at CFNN
Viki Matica and Doug Brewer
Charlotte McConnell
Keith McWilliams | Evercore Wealth & Trust
Ormat Technologies
Darby and David Walker
Marietta Wu and Thomas Yamamoto

Additional Support
Martha Hesse Dolan and Robert E. Dolan
Mimi Ellis-Hogan
Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund
Katie and Matt Paige

Join us for a screening of the film Putuparri and the Rainmakers, a universal story about the sacred relationship between people and place. It takes audiences on a rare and emotional journey to meet the traditional rainmakers of Australia’s Great Sandy Desert who have fought a twenty-year battle to win back their traditional homeland.

The film spans ten transformative years in the life of Tom ‘Putuparri’ Lawford as he navigates the deep chasm between his Western upbringing and his growing determination to fight for his family’s homeland. A trip back to his grandparents’ country in the desert begins the process of cultural awakening. Putuparri is shocked to learn that the dreamtime myths are not just stories, that there is a country called Kurtal and a snake spirit that is the subject of an elaborate rainmaking ritual.

Putuparri is a man caught between two worlds: the deeply spiritual universe of his people’s traditional culture and his life in modern society where he struggles with alcoholism and domestic violence. As he reconnects with his ancestral lands and learns about his traditional culture he begins to accept his future as a leader of his people and shoulders his responsibility to pass this knowledge on to the next generation.

Set against the backdrop of their long fight to reclaim their traditional lands, Putuparri and the Rainmakers is an emotional, visually breathtaking story of love, hope and the survival of Aboriginal law and culture against all odds.

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

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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Jimmy López Bellido, a world-renowned, Finnish-trained, Peruvian-American composer, was invited by Laura Jackson, Music Director of the Reno Philharmonic, to work with curators at the Nevada Museum of Art to select photographs from the Museum’s Carol Franc Buck Altered Landscape Photography Collection to inspire his brand-new composition, Symphony No. 3: Altered Landscape.

The symphony explores the dynamic interconnectedness of humans and the Earth and envisions a hypothetical future where people exist in harmony with the natural environment.

Join us for a discussion with Jimmy López Bellido, Laura Jackson and Director of the Center for Art + Environment, William L. Fox. For tickets to the world premiere symphony, please visit renophil.com

In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten–until now. Summer of Soul shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The feature includes concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension and more.

Summer of Soul is presented in partnership with Northern Nevada Black Cultural Awareness Society. 

Run time: 1 hour 57 minutes

Free. Advanced registration is required.

The Reno Philharmonic, together with the Museum, explores the marriage of art and music with a new symphony by Jimmy López Bellido. Inspired by The Altered Landscape: Carole Franc Buck Collection, the composition studies the dynamic interconnectedness of humans and the Earth and envisions a hypothetical future where we exist in harmony with our natural environment. Listeners discover an art museum in Mussorgsky’s mind, as he imagines walking from one picture to the next, characterizing each painting through sound.

This program is hosted at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts.

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.