Events
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Group ToursGuided Tour – Saturday Afternoon
Saturday April 21, 2018 / 1 – 2 pm
Tour the featured exhibition with one of the Museum’s trained docents during a regularly scheduled Guided Tour offered Saturdays at 1 pm. Additional Guided Tours on Sundays at 1 pm; the last Wednesday of each month at 1:30 pm; and Thursdays at 6 pm (except First Thursdays). Reservations are not needed.
FREE with admission
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Ongoing ProgramsSunday Music Brunch: The Socks
Sunday April 22, 2018 / 10 am – 2 pm
Enjoy live music and brunch every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm presented by chez louie. The menu features creative cuisine, mimosas and a Bloody Mary Bar. Museum members receive a 10% savings. Reservations strongly encouraged at 775.284.2921.
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Group ToursGuided Tour – Sunday Afternoon
Sunday April 22, 2018 / 1 – 2 pm
Tour the featured exhibition with one of the Museum’s trained docents during a regularly scheduled Guided Tour offered Sundays at 1 pm. Additional Guided Tours on Saturdays at 1 pm; the last Wednesday of each month at 1:30 pm; and Thursdays at 6 pm (except First Thursdays). Reservations are not needed.
FREE with admission
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Group ToursGuided Tour – Wednesday Afternoon
Wednesday April 25, 2018 / 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Enjoy a tour of the galleries after lunch with one of the Museum’s trained docents during a regularly scheduled Guided Tour offered the last Wednesday of each month at 1:30 pm. Additional Guided Tours offered Thursdays at 6 pm (except First Thursdays); Saturdays at 1 pm; and Sundays at 1 pm. Reservations are not needed.
FREE with admission
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Group ToursGuided Tour – Thursday Evening
Thursday April 26, 2018 / 5 – 6 pm
Tour the featured exhibition with one of the Museum’s trained docents during a regularly scheduled Guided Tour offered Thursdays at 6 pm (except First Thursdays). Additional Guided Tours on Saturdays at 1 pm; Sundays at 1 pm; and the last Wednesday of each month at 1:30 pm. Reservations are not needed.
FREE with admission
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Register FilmBRDI Presents: Columbus
Thursday April 26, 2018 / 6 – 8 pm
In celebration of Architecture Week, join the Black Rock Design Institute (BRDI) and the American Institute of Architects, Northern Nevada (AIANN) for a special screening of Columbus. First premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Columbus is set in the title city of Columbus, Indiana, home to an outstanding collection of works of modern architecture by renowned architects including Eero Saarinen and I.M. Pei. Written and directed by video essayist and formalist film director Kogonada, Columbus explores the various architectural buildings in and around the city, through the eyes of unique and unforgettable characters.
Social hour at 5:00 pm, event begins at 6:00 pm
Sponsorship for the 2018 BRDI Series is provided by Henriksen Butler and Herman Miller, the Nevada Arts Council, and Northern Nevada AIA.
$7 General / $5 Museum members
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Register TalksDocents in the Gallery: Marking the Infinite
Friday April 27, 2018 / 12 – 1 pm
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.
$10 General / FREE Museum members
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Register Special EventsTeen Art Night
Friday April 27, 2018 / 7 – 10 pm
Join the Holland Project at the Nevada Museum of Art for our annual “teen-takeover” featuring live music, a DJ dance party and hands-on art stations. Don’t miss the photo booth, bites from Hug High’s culinary program and a live photo-feed. Galleries are open late!
Handcrafted Buttons | Craft-Custom Embroidery Shop | Screenprinting with Laika Press | Parfumerie Station | Virtual Reality Air Painting | Handcrafted Pocketbooks | Photobooth | Craft your own Beats | Bedazzled Jewelry | Sticker Stop
Performances by: Yung J | Life After Mars | Night Rooms | DJ: Peachsprite | Artemesia
Bites by Bibo Gelato and Hug High Culinary
Teachers may submit a request for a fee waiver/reduction to claire.munoz@nevadaart.org if required.
$10 General
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Group Tours
Guided Tour – Saturday Afternoon
Saturday April 28, 2018 / 1 – 2 pm
Tour the featured exhibition with one of the Museum’s trained docents during a regularly scheduled Guided Tour offered Saturdays at 1 pm. Additional Guided Tours on Sundays at 1 pm; the last Wednesday of each month at 1:30 pm; and Thursdays at 6 pm (except First Thursdays). Reservations are not needed.
FREE with admission
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Register Ongoing Programs
Sunday Music Brunch: Judith and Rocky
Sunday April 29, 2018 / 10 am – 2 pm
Enjoy live music and brunch every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm presented by chez louie. The menu features creative cuisine, mimosas and a Bloody Mary Bar. Museum members receive a 10% savings. Reservations strongly encouraged at 775.284.2921.
Exhibitions
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John Hawley Olds LaGatta GalleryMarking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia
through May 13, 2018
Marking the Infinite presents the work of nine of Australia’s leading Aboriginal women artists. While many of them have established reputations in Australia, for... more »
Included with Admission
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Feature Gallery NorthEnrique Chagoya: Reimagining the New World
through July 8, 2018
Enrique Chagoya’s provocative works incorporate diverse symbolic elements from pre-Columbian mythology, Western religious iconography, and American popular culture. Chagoya often appropriates the visual tropes... more »
Included with Admission
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CA+E Research Library and ArchivesRandolph Sims: On the Spur of the Moment
through July 15, 2018
Randolph Sims helped American Land Artist Michael Heizer use land moving equipment for the first time on Nevada’s Coyote Dry Lake in 1968. Sims... more »
Included with Admission
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Robert Z. Hawkins GalleryHans Meyer-Kassel: Artist of Nevada
through September 2, 2018
The paintings of Hans Meyer-Kassel (1872-1952) have hung in the castles of kings and the homes of presidents. Still today, decades after his death,... more »
Included with Admission
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Donald W. Reynolds Grand HallTrevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector
through September 30, 2018
The fourteen-foot diameter Mylar balloon hanging in the Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall is a model for a future artwork by contemporary artist Trevor... more »
Included with Admission
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Earl and Wanda Casazza Gallery, Small Works GalleryCelebrating Israel’s 70th Anniversary: Michal Rovner and Tal Shochat
through October 28, 2018
In 2018, the State of Israel marks seventy years since its founding by the United Nations following World War II. For this occasion, the... more »
Included with Admission
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Carol Franc Buck GalleryThe Nuclear Landscape
through October 28, 2018
Nevada’s past and future are closely intertwined with the nuclear history and politics of the United States. Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department... more »
Included with Admission
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Donald W. Reynolds Grand HallAndrea Zittel: Wallsprawl
through December 31, 2018
Andrea Zittel’s Wallsprawl #4 (Las Vegas, Next to Nellis Air Force Base), is based on an aerial photograph of the southern Nevada military installation known... more »
Included with Admission
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Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains
through December 31, 2018
Across the desert south of Las Vegas, Nevada, rises a large, colorful anomaly. Seven colossal stone forms defy gravity with their teetering formations. The... more »
Included with Admission
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Wayne and Miriam Prim Theater LobbyMaya Lin: Pin River—Tahoe Watershed
through December 31, 2018
For more than two decades Maya Lin (b. 1959) has engaged the vocabulary of a cartographer, making artworks ranging from stand-alone sculptures to room-sized... more »
Included with Admission
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Newton and Louise Tarble GalleryJames Turrell: Roden Crater
through January 6, 2019
James Turrell is an artist whose media are light and space, and for the last forty years he has been carefully sculpting the cinder... more »
Included with Admission
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E. L. Wiegand GalleryHistory of Transportation: A Mural Study by Helen Lundeberg
through January 6, 2019
A highlight of the E.L. Wiegand Work Ethic Collection, American artist Helen Lundeberg’s History of Transportation traces a progression of labor from the Native... more »
Included with Admission
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Ina Mae and Raymond Rude GalleryArt of the Greater West
through January 6, 2019
The Robert S. and Dorothy J. Keyser Art of the Greater West Collection at the Nevada Museum of Art aims to make connections between artistic... more »
Included with Admission