Artist Responses to a Changing Earth
Into the Time Horizon brings together a wide range of artistic perspectives that confront the impacts of the climate crisis. Join Assistant Curator Kolin L. Perry for an exploration of selected works from the exhibition, as he highlights how artists are engaging with and responding to environmental change across the globe.
Detail of Artwork: Kim Stringfellow, Abandoned Trailer, Bombay Beach, CA, 2000/printed 2009. Chromogenic print, 30 1/2 x 38 in. (77.5 x 96.5 cm). Nevada Museum of Art, the Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection. 2010.02.01. Image courtesy of the artist.
Artist Talk: Materiality and Environmental Justice with Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio
Delve into the interwoven social and environmental histories of material and place making with Los Angeles-based artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio. By casting ficus trees in rubber, Aparicio captures their textures while tracing layered histories, including Indigenous knowledge of latex and the migration of people and plants across borders into the United States.
His artwork La ceiba me salvó/The Ceiba Saved Me is currently on view in This Vital Earth, a section of the landmark exhibition, Into the Time Horizon.
Artist Talk: Alchemy and the Unknown with Jay Heikes
Discover the contemplative, experimental work of artist Jay Heikes who uses unexpected chemical processes to reinterpret visual symbols and investigate themes of evolution and regeneration, stasis and corrosion, entropy, and transformation.
His artwork featured in the Strange Weather section of Into the Time Horizon draws connections between the disruption of the natural world and our political climate.
BRDI Presents LND LAB: Case Studies in an Experimental Landscape
How can landscape architects respond to novelty in their designed landscapes so that maintenance becomes an extension of design? This question requires an experimental approach that embraces the inherent tension between intention and materiality. Michael Geffel, Principal at LND LAB describes the theory, inspiration, and pragmatism that led to the founding of LND LAB, his design consultancy, which reframes maintenance and operations as tools to socially activate and ecologically regenerate fallow landscapes over time.
This is part of the Black Rock Design Institute (BRDI) lecture series for cross-disciplinary design professionals.
*Join a hosted beer and social hour at 5 pm. The talk will begin at 6 pm.
Rescheduled: OLLI Art at the Museum: Ikebana in Bloom at the Museum School
This program was rescheduled from February 18th.
Travel on a journey of Ikebana, the traditional Japanese art of flower arranging, and- delve into the profound beauty and cultural significance of Japanese floral art with museum school instructor Truus Ten Kate Sharp.
This program is in partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) and is hosted every third Wednesday of the month.
Thinking About Today: Artists and Urgent Issues
Into the Time Horizon Assistant Curator Kolin L. Perry leads a focused exploration of intertwined histories and unpacks how artists in the exhibition grapple with urgent issues, including resource extraction, water rights, and community violence.
Detail of artwork: Patrick Nagatani ‘Bida Hi’/ Opposite Views; Northeast—Navajo Tract Homes and Uranium Tailings, Southwest Shiprock, New Mexico, 1990. Chromogenic print, 17 x 22 in. (43.2 x 55.9 cm). Nevada Museum of Art, the Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection. © 2026 Estate of Patrick Nagatani / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Introduction to Ecofeminisms with Prisca Gayles
Explore the history and modern context for ecofeminisms with Dr. Prisca Gayles, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. Ecofeminism is a theme threaded through Into the Time Horizon, and essential to the environmental work the exhibition advocates for through the work of women artists from around the world.
Artwork: Andrea Bowers, Ecofeminist Sycamore Branches: The Earth Does Not Belong to Us We Belong to the Earth, 2019. Steel, neon tubing, recycled transformers, 90 ½ x 80 x 9 in. (229.9 x 203.2 x 22.9 cm). Private Collection. Image courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery
Protecting the Wild with Friends of Nevada Wilderness
Explore the conservation, recreation, restoration, and policy work of Friends of Nevada Wilderness with Executive Director Shaaron Netherton. This nonprofit is dedicated to protecting and preserving qualifying public lands as wilderness, defending wild places from ongoing threats, engaging and educating the public, and advancing responsible stewardship and restoration of Nevada’s wild landscapes.
This is part of a series featuring local conservation and sustainability organizations in our community on the second Fridays of the month to complement Into the Time Horizon.
Artist Talk: Landscape and Reciprocity with Teresa Baker
Connect to the landscape and explore the intuitive, mixed-media work of artist Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa/German American). Utilizing natural and artificial materials and guided by her Mandan/Hidatsa culture, Baker creates abstracted landscapes that explore vast space, and how we move, see and explore within them. Baker is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes in Western North Dakota and imbues innate objects with culture and identity.
Baker’s sculpture Fishhook of Tomorrow’s Tug is in the current exhibition on view Into the Time Horizon and is in the permanent collection of the Nevada Museum of Art.