Members Only: Sneak Peek

Members, be the first to enjoy two exclusive sale days at the Members Only Sneak Peek– a benefit of membership. 20% savings on new arrivals and all your favorites like JellyCat, RiflePaper, and Maileg. Shop artfully curated gifts from elegant jewelry to the cutest stocking stuffers. Shop in-store and online.

Sip & Shop

Toast the season and enjoy some holiday cheer. Storewide savings for everyone ends today. 20% savings for Museum Members, 10% savings for everyone. Shop in-store and online.

Scholastic Art Awards 2025 Award Ceremony

Gold and Silver Key award-winning students are presented with their awards and honored during this special ceremony attended by family, teachers, friends, and members of the community. 

The ceremony will be held at the University of Nevada, Reno in the Nightingale Concert Hall located in the Church Fine Arts building.

We ask that all award recipients and their guests register to attend as capacity is limited.

Sponsors: The Nell J. Redfield Foundation, Heidimarie Rochlin, Wild Women Artists

Canceled – Parents Only Zone: Prehistoric Pajama Party

Join us for a special Parents Only Zone, while your child explores Deep Time: Sea Dragons of Nevada at the Prehistoric Pajama Party! Spend some time enjoying food, drinks and a much needed break while your children explore and discover alongside highly trained educators and staff. 

Register your children (ages 7-11) for the Pajama Party here

Registration for the Parents Only Zone includes one drink ticket.

Note: Check-in for the Prehistoric Pajama Party begins at 5pm with an orientation at 6pm. A snack will be provided from 5-5:45pm. Parents must accompany their children until orientation begins at 6pm and must remain on Museum property for the duration of the event. 

 

Canceled – Prehistoric Pajama Party

Journey through deep time–after hours in your coziest pajamas! Children ages 7-11 are invited to discover a prehistoric world, tour the galleries, enjoy hands-on art projects, handle real fossils and more!

While the kids are exploring Deep Time, Parents are invited to enjoy a special “Parents Only Zone” featuring food and drinks! Register here

Note: Check-in begins at 5pm with an orientation at 6pm. Snack will be provided from 5-5:45pm. Parents must accompany their children until orientation begins at 6pm and must remain on Museum property for the duration of the event. 

Art After Dark: Retro Rewind

Step into a time machine at Art After Dark: Retro Rewind. Join us in the Skyroom for an immersive journey through vibrant eras of the past. Dress up in your favorite vintage attire and experience an evening of art, music, libations and nostalgia at this hands-on event for adults. Take a group picture in our department store inspired photo booth, create a collage, carve your own stamp in our printmaking station and more! 

Tickets can be purchased at the door or call 775-329-3333 to purchase tickets.

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An Evening with Cowboy Musicians Brenn Hill and Andy Hedges

An evening of cowboy poetry and songs of the American West, featuring legendary cowboy musicians Brenn Hill and Andy Hedges. Utah-based Hill blends his voice with bending guitar strings in a performance style all his own, while Texas-based Hedges presents a range of classic cowboy poetry recitations, cowboy songs, and dust bowl ballads.
 
This performance is made possible by an anonymous gift in honor of poet Paul Zarzyski and in memory of troubadour Don Edwards.
 
 
*Doors open at 5 pm with cash bar
 

Image courtesy of Jessica Lifland. 

Scholastic Art Awards 2024 Award Ceremony

Gold and Silver Key award-winning students are presented with their awards and honored during this special ceremony attended by family, teachers, friends, and members of the community. 

The ceremony will be held at the University of Nevada, Reno in the Nightingale Concert Hall located in the Church Fine Arts building.

We ask that all award recipients and their guests register to attend as capacity is limited.  

Sponsors: The Hearst Foundations, Nell J. Redfield Foundation, Heidimarie Rochlin, RBC Wealth Management, Wild Women Artists

Art After Dark: Disco Balls and Overalls

Bring your overalls and wear your dancing shoes as you explore Art After Dark in the E.L. Cord Museum School. At this hands-on event for adults, upcycle your overalls into a disco statement piece, create a screen print, build a disco tile mosaic, while enjoying libations and music in our disco lounge. 

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Museum Confidential Live in Reno with Cannupa Hanska Luger

Join us for a live recording of Museum Confidential, a popular podcast syndicated on National Public Radio and Spotify, that lifts the curtain on museum practices, art world issues, and culture-makers. Inspired by the Nevada Museum of Art’s Indigenous Art Futures Initiative and the current exhibition Cannupa Hanska Luger: Speechless, podcast founder Jeff Martin will host a lively conversation with Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota) and Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Apsara DiQuinzio, about Luger’s practice, the inspiration for the exhibition, and more. The program will also celebrate the launch of the exhibition catalog produced in conjunction with the exhibition, and the artist will be available to sign copies. 

About Museum Confidential

Think of a museum. Any museum. Which artworks get displayed, and which don’t, and why? Where do they keep all the unshown (or unshowable) pieces? And why do they keep them at all? Museum Confidential was originally an unprecedented exhibition at Philbrook Museum of Art exploring such questions; it’s now a popular podcast that is posted twice monthly, from September through May — a creative partnership between Jeff Martin of Philbrook and Scott Gregory of Public Radio Tulsa. MC covers the same fertile ground that the exhibit itself had covered, of course — plus lots of other topics relating to art, artists, museums, curators, museum-going, art history, the art market, and so on. 

*Doors Open at 5pm with Cash Bar