Simon Dinnerstein’s exhibit, The Lasting World, depicts a personal journey from early, hyper-realist works through more introspective and fantastical later works.  Join the artist, in conversation, as he explores his work.  The centerpiece of the exhibit, The Fulbright Triptych, a visually complex work, part autobiographical essay, part reflection on the historical legacies of the 20th century, and part meditation on the power of images to inspire across time and place, will be one of the works discussed.

Support for the Art Bite series comes from Nevada Arts Council and Nevada Humanities & the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Jack Bacon, co-curator and long-time Reno art specialist, will focus on anecdotes related to the life and Nevada experiences of Hans Meyer-Kassel. 

Support for the Art Bite series comes from Nevada Arts Council and Nevada Humanities & the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Debra and Dennis Scholl Distinguished Speaker Series

Join legendary international art consultant Barbara Guggenheim as she explores what makes a connoisseur.  For the past twenty-five years, Guggenheim has built collections for her clientele, a who’s who list of well-known corporations and celebrities. Discover how we recognize important artistic processes and techniques in both historically significant and experimental contemporary artists alike.

The series provides opportunities for community conversation, learning, and informed dialogue about art and creativity, followed by questions and dialogue designed to engage the audience. Join highly skilled and knowledgeable Docents in the gallery for an in-depth discovery of the works in Manet to Maya Lin. 

Support for the Art Bite series comes from Nevada Arts Council and Nevada Humanities & the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Join Center for Art + Environment Director and Land Art Scholar Bill Fox for an intimate gathering exploring how artists working with land, light, and space have created the worlds largest and most important land-based sculptures.  Enjoy a glass of wine as we delve into the complexities of artist James Turrell and the legendary 600-foot-high Roden Crater. 

Cash bar, doors open at 5:00 PM

Join Ann M. Wolfe, Andrea and John C. Deane Senior Curator and Deputy Director, as she places Meyer Kassel’s art into the context of Nevada’s art history of the 1930s and discuss how Meyer-Kassel’s work differed from his Nevada contemporaries.

Art Bites provide opportunities for community conversation, learning, and informed dialogue about art and creativity, followed by questions and dialogue designed to engage the audience. Join highly skilled and knowledgeable Docents in the gallery for an in-depth discovery of the works of Enrique Chagoya. 

Art Bites provide opportunities for community conversation, learning, and informed dialogue about art and creativity, followed by questions and dialogue designed to engage the audience. Join highly skilled and knowledgeable Docents in the gallery for an in-depth discovery of the works in Marking the Infinite.

Art Bites provide opportunities for community conversation, learning, and informed dialogue about art and creativity, followed by questions and dialogue designed to engage the audience. Join highly skilled and knowledgeable Docents in the gallery for an in-depth discovery of the works of Hans Meyer-Kassel.

Artist Enrique Chagoya is well known for his innovative take on the printmaking medium which ranges from accordion-style codices to soup can labels. His work juxtaposes symbolic elements borrowed from pre-Columbian mythology, religious iconography, and popular culture to highlight cultural and historic collisions between Western and non-Western cultures that includes borders and immigration issues based on the artist’s concepts of reverse Modernism and reverse anthropology. All of this is applied with a sense humor. Join us for an artist talk as Chagoya discusses the exhibition “Enrique Chagoya: Reimagining the New World,” which illustrates an imagined world in which the European conquest of the New World has failed and the normative culture of the Americas is based in Indigenous ideology.

Born in Mexico City and residing in Berkeley, CA, Enrique Chagoya is currently Full Professor at Stanford University’s department of Art and Art History. His work can be found in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among others.