Art historian and author Kirsty Stonell Walker explores the colorful histories of women of the era in her book, Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang. She will introduce an enchanting and revolutionary band of women – artists, sculptors, inventors, models, wives, sisters, and muses – who provide inspiration for groundbreakers and troublemakers today.

Stonell Walker became a “historian of the Victorian,” mainly because it rhymed. In almost twenty years’ worth of study, she has written the only biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s most notorious model and muse, Fanny Cornforth. In 2012, she updated the text to cover all-new research and material that has arisen since the publication of the first edition in 2006, including the BBC series Desperate Romantics. She is also the author of A Curl of Copper and Pearl, published in Spring 2014. In 2015 she published a novel, We Are Villains All, a murder mystery centered on the lives of a Victorian poet and his best friend, a photographer. She has written The Kissed Mouth blog since 2011, airing Victorian dirty linen in a humorous and thought-provoking way.

Program hosted on Zoom. For registration support or questions, email christian.davies@nevadaart.org.

Professor Dennis Dworkin of University of Nevada Reno, Global Studies is an intellectual historian of Britain, Ireland, and Europe who specializes in cultural theory. From this informed perspective, he will explore the working-class, conservative, and liberal responses to a changing social landscape during the Industrial Revolution, as seen in Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement.

Program hosted on Zoom. For registration support or questions, email christian.davies@nevadaart.org.

Professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, Dennis Dworkin introduces the world of the Industrial Revolution. Join us as Professor Dworkin explores the working-class, conservative, and liberal responses to a changing social landscape.

Teens are invited to meet artists from diverse backgrounds and practices through an interactive conversation exploring process, disciplines, identity, concept development, and more. Hosted by Las Vegas-based artist, Lance Smith, this online series provides meaningful opportunities for teens everywhere to connect with one another, encounter working artists, and talk about art.

Guest Artist: Justin Favela
Topic: The Color Pink, Paper and Tires

Program hosted on Zoom. For registration support and questions, email claire.munoz@nevadaart.org.

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Teens are invited to meet artists from diverse backgrounds and practices through an interactive conversation exploring process, disciplines, identity, concept development, and more. Hosted by Las Vegas-based artist, Lance Smith, this online series provides meaningful opportunities for teens everywhere to connect with one another, encounter working artists, and talk about art.

Join us in March and speak with Las Vegas-based artist Mikayla Whitmore. Discussion topics include: camouflage, mirrors and the color yellow.

Program hosted on Zoom. For registration support and questions, email claire.munoz@nevadaart.org.

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Teens are invited to meet artists from diverse backgrounds and practices through an interactive conversation exploring process, disciplines, identity, concept development, and more. Hosted by Las Vegas-based artist, Lance Smith, this online series provides meaningful opportunities for teens everywhere to connect with one another, encounter working artists, and talk about art.

Joining us this month is Krystal Ramirez, an artist who works across media, utilizing everyday materials, text, and photography to engage concepts of race, gender, and physical labor within the framework of her Latinx identity.

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Oklahoma-based artist Rachel Hayes is celebrated for geometric fiber artworks that reference abstract painting and incorporate colors and sightlines of the natural landscape. Her elaborate textiles are displayed in interior spaces, but also transform natural environments, connecting her practice to Land Art and the work of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Hayes will share insight into her work on view in the exhibition In the Flow.

This program is hosted on Zoom. Please register by 9 am, December 11, to receive the link.

For registration support or questions, email christian.davies@nevadaart.org.

The Art Bite lecture series is supported by Nevada Humanities with additional sponsorship and free program registration for students supported by the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

In this online conversation, Judy Chicago and CA+E Director Bill Fox will talk about the importance of archives in general, the Center for Art + Environment’s recent acquisition of Chicago’s Dry Ice, Smoke, and Fireworks archive, and how her Atmospheres work expands the definition of Land Art. JoAnne Northrup, Curatorial Director and Curator of Contemporary Art, will moderate this conversation, which can be attended from anywhere.

This program will be hosted on Facebook Live by Through the Flower artspace. You do not need a Facebook account to watch. Those interested in attending the Live event virtually are encouraged to participate by submitting questions through Through the Flower’s Facebook or Instagram by September 18. They are running a contest for submitted questions; one winner will be chosen to receive an autographed copy of Chicago’s autobiography.