It only happens once a year – shop the Nevada Museum of Art Holiday Sale. Find jewelry, stationery, home décor, art books, glassware, puzzles, toys and locally made gifts.  10% savings for everyone, 20% savings for Museum Members.  Shop in-store and online.

It only happens once a year – shop the Nevada Museum of Art Holiday Sale. Find jewelry, stationery, home décor, art books, glassware, puzzles, toys and locally made gifts.  10% savings for everyone, 20% savings for Museum Members.  Shop in-store and online.

Mixed-media artist Rose B. Simpson presents a “Transformance”– a new work presented as part of the 2021 Art + Environment Season. Simpson’s work engages ceramic sculpture, metals, fashion, performance, music, installation, writing, and custom cars. The Nevada Museum of Art has invited Simpson to be in residency at Nuwu Art + Activism Studios in Las Vegas, NV with support from artist Fawn Douglas. Simpson will collaborate with members of the local Indigenous community to co-create an experience informed by their collective lifetimes of a post-apocalyptic reality.

IN-PERSON:  The “Transformance” takes place at the Nuwu Art + Activism Studios located at 1335 S. Maryland Parkway in Las Vegas, NV. Parking is available behind the orange building at 1325 S. Maryland Parkway. To assure safe and healthy spaces for the community, all adults must be vaccinated against COVID when gathering at the Nuwu Art facilities. Public restrooms available. No additional services provided. The event is free and open to the public.

VIRTUAL:  View the live broadcast scheduled for Saturday, November 13 at 2 pm on Instagram: @nevadaart

The Transformance is realized with generous support from VIA Art Fund.

Brandon Leake, winner of America’s Got Talent Season 15 presents a one-man spoken-word play, that walks through a college senior’s late-night woes, a battle with his own inner demons. Spoken Views Collective, a Northern Nevada spoken word poetry collective will open this program. 

VIP Tickets are limited and include a T-Shirt and meet and greet with Brandon Leake before the performance. Email Christian.Davies@nevadaart.org for more information and with size preferences. 

Brandon Leake, winner of America’s Got Talent Season 15 presents a one-man spoken-word play, that walks through a college senior’s late-night woes, a battle with his own inner demons. Spoken Views Collective, a Northern Nevada spoken word poetry collective will open this program. 

VIP Tickets are limited and include a T-Shirt and meet and greet with Brandon Leake before the performance at 5 pm. Click HERE for VIP tickets. 

Email christian.davies@nevadaart.org for more information and with size preferences. 

Judy Chicago’s response to the monumental Earthworks of the American West was nearly simultaneous with their production. Beginning in 1968, Chicago embarked on a series of ephemeral Atmospheres performances using colored smokes and fireworks in the desert that were intended to “soften that macho Land Art scene.” Long overlooked by art historians and scholars, Chicago’s Atmospheres offer a critical counterpoint and essential context to the predominantly male Land Artists working in the desert during the 1960s and 70s. Chicago will be in conversation with William L. Fox, Peter E. Pool Director, Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art.

Ticket includes a hosted reception following the program.

In person tickets for this program are sold out. To be added to the waitlist for this program please email christian.davies@nevadaart.org 

This event is presented as part of the Art + Environment Season: Land Art Past, Present, Futures. Single event tickets to this program are open to the general public and Museum members. Admission is included for individuals who are registered for the Art+ Environment Season. For ticketing questions, please contact christian.davies@nevadaart.org

Special sponsorship provided by the Debra and Dennis Scholl Distinguished Speaker Series.

Musica Sierra presents New Vintage Baroque, an adventurous historical instrument ensemble dedicated to the creation of 21st century music. Berkeley-based keyboard, vocalist and composer Majel Connery, Canadian violinist Edwin Huizinga and Pennsylvanian bassoonist Ben Matus take you on a first-person sonic experience of the Sierra Valley landscape in a world premiere performance of the electronic song cycle, The Rivers Are Our Brothers. Keeping in the spirit of the unique programming style of New Vintage Baroque, this program will also feature various arrangements for Baroque violin and bassoon including Vivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons. 

*Doors open at 6 pm with cash bar. Concert begins at 7 pm.

This program is brought to you through Musica Sierra’s pilot residency program, Musical Headwaters, which brings musicians and composers of New Vintage Baroque to the headwaters of the middle fork of the Feather River to compose and perform works which reflect the natural world.

Program sponsors: The Firefly Scientist Foundation, Sierra County Arts Council, Sierra Schools Foundation, First 5 Sierra, Sierra-Plumas Joint Unified, The Feather River Land Trust, Lucy Blake, and Steven Nightingale.

This program is presented as part of UPSTAGE: A Literary and Performing Art Series supported by the Nightingale Family Foundation and the Williams Foundation. 

The Museum’s Center for Art + Environment holds the largest archive collection of contemporary Antarctic art in the country. The Antarctic is the most extreme environment on Earth and art projects there are unique in their relationship to the environment. In conjunction with Adequate Earth, an online exhibition organized by the Antarctic Artists and Writers Collective, Peter E. Pool Director, Center for Art + Environment Bill Fox will lead a virtual mini-symposium with Sarah Airriess, Kirsten Carlson, Guy Guthridge, Ulrike Heine, Greg Neri, and Kim Stanley Robinson, to explore the future of creative producers in Antarctica. 

Since the early 1980s, more than 120 artists, writers, composers, performers, and science communicators have traveled to Antarctica as part of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (AAWP). In 2019, 13 former AAWP participants formed the program’s first alumni organization, the Antarctic Artists and Writers Collective (AAWC), with a mission “to inspire and educate the public about Antarctica and its scientific exploration through collaborations in the arts.” Adequate Earth presents the Antarctic works of the founding members of the Collective.

Join the program here via this link.

As a benefit of membership, reserve advance admission tickets now to see Victorian Radicals before it opens to the public. Don your best Victorian ensemble and strike a pose in the gallery, take a selfie, and share:@nevadaart #victorianradicals. In partnership with the local theater community, encounter Jane Morris and William Morris in the galleries throughout the day. Listen to popular music of Victorian Britain played by members of the Reno Philharmonic and indulge in Victorian themed cocktail, tea, and dessert specials for purchase at the newly re-opened Chez Louie.

This special virtual ceremony honors the award-winning students of the Scholastic Art Awards 2021. Join us and hear from guest speakers, partners, supporters and award recipients who will share their special messages and stories with students, families, teachers and our community.

The program will premiere on the Museum’s Facebook page, where you can engage in a real-time conversation with fellow participants. The broadcast can also be accessed through our YouTube channel.