The central theme of artist Michelle Lassaline’s work can be described by the Portuguese word saudade, which roughly translates to “homesickness,” but also carries the meaning of invented memories. For example, you may feel saudade for your childhood home, a place much grander in your memory than the building that now sits at the same address. Saudade is the homesickness for somewhere that never existed except in the form of that fleeting land called childhood. Learn about these ideas of place and their relation to this emerging artist’s work. 

Artist Erika Harrsch discusses the intersections between art and public engagement in her work on display in the museum and the pop-up art performances happening throughout the community.

Robert Adams’ photographs of the American landscape became some of the most famous of the twentieth century. Join photographer Scott Hinton for a gallery discussion of Adams’ most recent body of work, a portfolio of images made in Oregon’s Nehalem Bay State Park.

The Nature Conservancy in Nevada has been working with artists Daniel McCormick and Mary O’Brien to restore the channels of the Carson and Truckee River systems with living sculptures. Learn about the scope and purpose of these projects form leaders of The Nature Conservancy.

North American wildlife conservation is unique in the world. In the U.S., wildlife belongs to the public and is managed by the state and federal government in the public trust, based on a model of conservation largely established and funded by hunters. Learn about this conservation history in the context of the exhibition Late Harvest.