Black Reno in the 1930s
When Langston Hughes visited Reno in 1934, the city had just a few hundred Black residents. The Black community had been growing steadily for six decades, as they established homes and businesses and built enduring social and religious institutions in the face of mounting racial prejudice and discrimination. Historian Alicia Barber will share new research about the Black community of 1930s Reno, made possible by a National Park Service Underrepresented Communities Grant received by the City of Reno in 2024.
Dr. Alicia Barber is a professional historian, author, and recognized authority on the cultural history and built environment of Reno and the state of Nevada. She researched the Northern Nevadan designs of African American architect Paul Revere Williams for the Nevada Museum of Art’s 2022 exhibit, Janna Ireland on the Architectural Legacy of Paul Revere Williams in Nevada. In collaboration with the nonprofit organization Our Story, Inc., she has intensively researched the history of Black Springs, a traditionally African American neighborhood north of Reno founded in the late 1940s. She is the co-founder and editor of the website and smart phone app Reno Historical and the author of Reno’s Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City and The Barber Brief, a weekly e-newsletter about urban development in Reno.
Photo courtesy of the Nevada Historical Society
Growing up with Dorothea
The Future of Learning: Generative AI in Online Education
Discover how generative AI is revolutionizing online higher education through AI-generated lectures, exams, assignments, engagement, and more. Hear from Nevada Online faculty about the specific ways they are incorporating generative AI and the impact it has on their online course development and teaching. This presentation will showcase innovative examples and discuss the potential of generative AI to enhance the learning experience and streamline course development.
About Angela Chase, M.A.
Angie is the Assistant Director of Instructional Design and Technology for Nevada Online at the University of Nevada, Reno. She develops and leads faculty training on online course development, the use of generative AI, and meeting Department of Education, university, and accreditation requirements. Angie has developed and taught two online courses for the University’s Core Humanities program and is certified in Instructional Design from Oregon State University, the Online Learning Consortium, and Quality Matters.
About Bridget A. Walsh, Ph.D., CFLE, CTSS
Bridget is a Human Development and Family Science professor at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). She also is an early childhood home visitor coach at UNR’s Child and Family Research Center. Bridget explores generative AI in her teaching of undergraduate and graduate students and her NICHD-funded research.
Lucy Lippard and Judith Lowry on Storytelling and Indigenous Feminisms (Hybrid)
Art writer, activist, and sometimes curator Lucy R. Lippard joins artist Judith Lowry for a powerful discussion on the intersections of feminism, storytelling, and Indigenous identity in contemporary art, exploring how women artists reclaim their voices and cultural narrative to challenge dominant histories.
This is a virtual program that will be broadcast in the museum’s theater for those who wish to attend in person.
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Photo by Carrie Schneider
Shaping the Future: A Vision for Education and Research at the Museum
Join Colin Robertson, Charles N. Mathewson Senior Vice President of Education and Research, for an exciting look into the evolution of education and research at the Museum, highlighting innovative approaches and new opportunities created by the impending opening of the Museum’s expansion.
Impressions in Ink: Exploring the Art of Printmaking
Join Meg Pohlod, print artist and Manager/Instructor of Record at Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada, Reno, for an engaging discussion on her work, research, and the art of printmaking. Pohlod’s visual research offers a unique perspective on theories of memory, disability, trauma and family – exploring what is remembered and how it is manifested. Her work draws on personal and contemporary discourses, offering insight into the intersection of these themes.
Pohlod’s distinctions include awards from the California Society of Printmakers, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Redfield Fellowship at Black Rock Press. She has exhibited her work and served as a visiting artist both nationally and internationally.
Following the talk, attendees will have the opportunity to print their own ephemera using a traditional Kelsey platen press, featuring printer’s cuts from the Barbara Ann Kelly historic wood type collection. Additional materials from Black Rock Press publications and projects will also be on display.
Moving Images: The Art of Screendance
Join Rosie Trump, Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Nevada, Reno and Founder of Future Moves, as she discusses screendance as a dynamic art form.
Rosie Trump is an award-winning filmmaker and the founder and chief curator of the Third Coast Dance Film Festival. She is interested in the momentum of action. Feminist and deliberately minimal, her work examines the tension between the ordinary and the absurd.
Rosie’s dance films have recently screened at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema Festival, San Souci Dance Film Festival, Cinedanza Festival, Extremely Short Shorts at the Aurora Picture Show, and Dance Film Association’s Long Legs Short Films. She is a regular guest curator for Frame X Frame Dance Film Fest in Houston, TX.
Recent awards include a Puffin Foundation Grant for her film “Try to Keep Up”, an Atlantic Center for the Arts residency, a jury award from the Constructed Sight Festival, and grants from the Nevada Arts Council. Rosie is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Kurtal: Snake Spirit
The film Kurtal: Snake Spirit tells the story of Spider, a sprightly 80– year– old Aboriginal elder, who travels from Fitzroy Crossing into the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. Dialogue with Apsara DiQuinzio, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, to follow the screening.
Resisting Colonial Constructions of Indigeneity and Land
Join Dr. Debra Harry, Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies for the Department of Gender, Race and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno, as she explores the inherent relationships between Indigenous Peoples and their lands, and how these relationships have transcended colonial efforts to erase these connections and the peoples themselves.
Dr. Debra Harry is Numu/Kooyooe Tukadu from Pyramid Lake, Nevada. Dr. Harry serves as an Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies for the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Debra Harry’s research analyzes the linkages between biotechnology, intellectual property and globalization in relation to Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Dr. Harry has authored numerous articles related to the protection of Indigenous Peoples’ biodiversity and traditional knowledge including “Biocolonialism and Indigenous Knowledge in United Nations Discourse,” (2011) 20 Griffith Law Review, “Indigenous Peoples and Gene Disputes” 84 Chicago-Kent Law Review (2009). She also contributed a chapter titled, “Acts of Self-Determination and Self-Defense: Indigenous Peoples Responses to Biocolonialism,” as a contribution to a book entitled “Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age,” (edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Peter Shorett) 2005. In 1994, Dr. Harry received a three-year national Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellowship and studied the field of human genetic research and its implications for Indigenous peoples. Dr. Harry earned her Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland under the supervision of renowned Maori scholar, Dr. Linda Tuhiwai Smith.
Nevada Has Dinosaurs?!
Josh Bonde, a born and raised Nevadan and proud member of the Te-Moak Band of Western Shoshone, explores his path to being an Indigenous scientist and discusses the dinosaurs that once resided in Nevada. Bonde received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Nevada, Reno, his M.S. in Earth Sciences from Montana State University-Bozeman, and his Ph.D. From the University of Nevada, Reno. He is an advocate for science education across the State of Nevada and is currently the Director at the Nevada State Museum.