Picasso In Clay
Vivienne Hall, Owner and Director of Squire Fine Arts in Los Gatos, California discusses the exhibition Picasso in Clay and shares insight on the shaping of the Robert Felton and Lindsay Wallis Collection.
This program will be hosted in person as well as streamed live on Zoom.
Lessons from Picasso’s Ceramics
Dr. Brett M. Van Hoesen, Associate Professor and Area Head of Art History at the University of Nevada, Reno, explores three key lessons in conjunction with Picasso’s ceramics: the importance of playfulness, the necessity for experimentation, and the culture of collaboration.
Program support and free program registration for students from the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Art Bite: Visions of Smoke Creek with Artist Michael Moore
Artist Michael Moore spends three to five months a year living and painting at his Smoke Creek studio. While in the desert, Moore rises each morning to paint the landscape of the Smoke Creek playa. Join us for a conversation with Michael Moore and William L. Fox, the Peter E. Pool Director of the Center for Art + Environment.
This program will be hosted in person as well as streamed live on Zoom.
A Community Forum: Reckoning with Nevada’s Boarding School Past
NOTE: Pre-sale in-person tickets have sold out. Please join us virtually.
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Beginning in 1890, thousands of American Indian children were sent to Stewart Indian Boarding School in Carson City, Nevada as part of the U.S. government’s policy of forced assimilation. This community forum provides an opportunity to learn about and discuss this history and the traumatic legacy that remains. Participants include Stacey Montooth, Executive Director of the Nevada Indian Commission; Dr. Debra Harry, Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity, University of Nevada, Reno; and the debut of Jean LaMarr’s performance, They Danced, They Sang, Until the Matron Came.
This program is a hybrid presentation.
Co-presented by Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum, Carson City, Nevada
For questions about registration, please email claire.munoz@nevadaart.org
Suzan Shown Harjo on Indigenous Rights, Arts and Activism (Hybrid)
Suzan Shown Harjo has worked for decades to shape a national Native American policy agenda that addresses issues at the core of Indigenous identity: sacred places protection and repatriation, religious freedom, treaty and inherent sovereign rights, mascot eradication, and language revitalization. Join together in the Museum’s theater, as Harjo speaks virtually from Washington, D.C. to discuss past and ongoing issues surrounding artists’ rights, women’s rights, and Native rights. Dr. Debra Harry, Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity, University of Nevada, Reno, will moderate a conversation and Q&A following the presentation.
For those joining in-person, a light reception to follow program.
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Suzan Shown Harjo, a Cheyenne citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, born in her Treaty territory in El Reno, OK, also is Hotvlkvlke Mvskokvlke of Nuyakv Ground, raised on Muscogee Nation Reservation allotted farmland. A writer, curator, and policy advocate, she has developed landmark laws and led campaigns for Indigenous Peoples’ inherent sovereignty and human rights, protecting cultural, historic, and sacred places and recovering over one million acres of land. A Founding Trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, she and others envisioned it in 1967 and achieved its 1989 enabling act with its historic repatriation provision, and she conceived, curated, researched, and edited its “Nation to Nation” Treaties book (2014) and exhibition (2014-2025). She also was Curator of the first Native contemporary art exhibit ever shown in the U.S. House & Senate Rotundas (1992). An award-winning Columnist and a School of Advanced Research Poetry Fellow and Summer Scholar, her policy and creative writings are widely published. Recipient of a 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom, she has helped reshape society with her leadership and successes toward ending “Indian” slurs and appropriations from sports, geographic locations, and popular culture, and with her persistent work protecting Native ancestors, arts, cultures, lands, languages, religious freedom, and waters.
Rose B. Simpson on Transformance: Film Screening and Dialogue (Virtual)
As part of the fall 2021 Art + Environment Season, mixed-media artist Rose B. Simpson presented Transformance, a public performance developed in collaboration with members of the Southern Paiute (Nuwu) community. Join us for the premiere viewing of Transformance, a short film documenting Simpson’s residency at Nuwu Art + Activism Studios as well as the live performance. Simpson will be in dialogue with collaborator and artist, Fawn Douglas and filmmaker, Ben-Alex Dupris.
The Transformance was realized with generous support from VIA Art Fund.
This is a virtual program hosted on Zoom. Pre-registration required.
Guided Tour
Personalize your experience with a guided tour. A docent will guide you through the galleries, offering insight and history to the artwork on view.
Guided tours are offered every Saturday at 11 am. Guided tours will also be offered on Sundays at 11 am beginning in March. Reservations are recommended.
FREE with admission
Guided Tour
Personalize your experience with a guided tour. A docent will guide you through the galleries, offering insight and history to the artwork on view.
Guided tours are offered every Saturday at 11 am. Reservations are recommended.
FREE with admission
I Heard the Song of My Grandmother: Art and Indigenous Feminisms
Join us for a gathering with artists, writers, and curators to consider how activist art continues to subvert stereotypes and advance rights for Indigenous women. Participants include Dr. Anya Montiel, curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian; Dr. Nancy Marie Mithlo, Professor, Department of Gender Studies at UCLA, Los Angeles; Kristen Dorsey, doctoral student, Department of Gender Studies at UCLA; and Las Vegas-based artist Fawn Douglas. Film screening of Purple Flower Girl, produced and directed by Tsanavi Spoonhunter.
This event is presented in-person and on Zoom.
Paid registration includes live in-person access to the symposium, hosted on the fourth floor Nightingale Sky Room. Paid registration also includes morning coffee/tea and lunch.
You may also access the symposium for free on Zoom. Click here to register in advance for virtual access.
*Scholarships available. Click here to apply for a scholarship, or contact claire.munoz@nevadaart.org for more information.
Museum Closes at 3 pm for New Year’s Eve
The Museum will close at 3pm today in observance of New Year’s Eve.