Due to construction, Museum parking may be limited at the time of your visit. Look for additional parking in free or metered spaces along nearby streets.

Encore Screening: Remaining Native

Join us for an encore screening of this coming-of-age documentary directed by Paige Bethmann. Remaining Native follows Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner. As Ku struggles to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete, the memory of his great grandfather’s escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.

Early Closure

The Museum will close at 5 pm for a private event. 

!Women Art Revolution

Attend a screening of !Women Art Revolution, a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson, which explores the slow but steady rise of the women’s art community in the 1960s and 1970s. Stay after the screening for a discussion facilitated by Dr. Katherine Fusco, Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Gender, Race and Identity Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. 

Beyond Fossils – Creating a Soundscape for Deep Time: Sea Dragons of Nevada

Join Jean-Paul Perrotte, Associate Professor of Composition and Director of the Electro-Acoustic Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno, as he discusses the creation of an immersive soundscape for the exhibition Deep Time: Sea Dragons of Nevada. Drawing from the ancient, mysterious world of prehistoric sea reptiles, Perrotte will discuss how sound can help bring the deep history and vast scale of Nevada’s prehistoric past to life. 

Using Human Perception to Inform Machine Perception

Modern machine learning has origins in human learning, taking cues from human perception to build, train and evaluate machine learning models. As machine learning (ML) has begun to outperform humans in many challenging tasks, the focus has shifted from modeling humans to simply improving performance of these ML models. Join Dr. Emily Hand, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Director of the Machine Perception Lab, as she details approaches to explainable attribute recognition, prominent feature recognition and face recognition, and the influence of human perception.

Invisible Art Forms: Diatoms in the Victorian Era

Join Dr. Paula Noble, Professor and Chair of the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, as she discusses diatoms, a group of algae that produce intricate skeletons of glass. There are over 20,000 known species of diatoms inhabiting virtually every moist environment, and contributing 20-30% of the oxygen we breathe. Learn more about their life and habitat and discover how diatom arrangements became an art form and fascination of amateur naturalists in the Victorian era. You will hear about the masterful techniques used to create these tiny works of art and take a tour of many beautiful micro-mosaics captured by the bright field and dark field photography, featuring works by Johan Diedrich Möller (1844-1907), Henry Dalton (1836-1912), Eduard Thum (1847-1926) and Klauss Kemp (1937-1922). 

Image courtesy of The Magazine Antiques

Microscope slide of diatoms, sponge spicules, butterfly-wing scales, synapta plates, and wheels of chirodota (sea cucumber), probably made by Eduard Thum (1847–1926), sold by Watson and Sons, London, c. 1880. Collection of Howard Lynk.

Jurassic Spark: How Nevada’s Fossils Shed Light on Today’s Extinctions

One of the best climate and oceanic record keepers through deep time are marine fossils, including ichthyosaurs and reefal ecosystems, which fossilize extremely well and have millions of years of data to share. The marine fossil record of Nevada shows one particular mass extinction record with eerily similar conditions to today. Join Montana Hodges, paleontologist, professor and science writer, to learn about mass extinctions of the past and present. 

Members’ First Look: Eternal Signs: Indigenous Australian Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection

Museum members are invited to an exclusive preview of Eternal Signs, an exhibition celebrating contemporary Indigenous Australian art from the renowned Kaplan & Levi Collection. Enjoy remarks by Apsara DiQuinzio, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, and be among the first to explore the exhibition. Mingle with fellow members and enjoy a cash bar in the newly opened Thomas and Pauline Tusher Sculpture Garden. Featuring over seventy works by artists from across Australia’s diverse Indigenous communities, this landmark exhibition is a significant addition to the Museum’s Art of the Greater West Collection
 
This event is FREE for Museum Members! Not a member? Join the celebration and become part of our community today.
If your membership expires prior to the event, you will be invited to renew upon arrival to enjoy full member access.
 

Thomas J. Price and Yesomi Umolu in Conversation

Artist Thomas J. Price and Arts Leader and Cultural Strategist, Yesomi Umolu discuss how Price’s body of work relates to his installation at the Museum.

Turning Pages Book Club: Learning to See

Join Museum volunteer docents for a discussion of Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America by Elise Hooper making connections to current exhibition Dorothea Lange: Seeing People and artists featured at the Museum. Participants should have completed the book prior to meeting. Register online for guiding questions that will be discussed at the book club. Arrive early to place a lunch order with the Café! Space is limited, advanced reservations are recommended.