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.
Museum Closes at 3 pm for Christmas Eve
The Museum will close at 3pm in observance of Christmas Eve.
Book Launch: “On the Trail of the Jackalope” with author Michael Branch
Join us for a book launch with celebrated author, Michael Branch for the release of his new book, On the Trail of the Jackalope. Discover the never-before-told story of the horned rabbit—the myths, the hoaxes, the very real scientific breakthrough it inspired—and how it became a cultural touchstone of the American West.
Doors open at 5 pm for book sales and hosted beer. Book signing to follow.
Michael Branch is University Foundation Professor of English at UNR. His nine books include three works of humorous creative nonfiction inspired by the Great Basin Desert: Raising Wild (2016), Rants from the Hill (2017), and How to Cuss in Western (2018). Mike has published more than 300 essays and reviews, including pieces recognized as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays, The Best Creative Nonfiction, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and the humor collection The Best American Non-required Reading. He is the recipient of Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award, the Western Literature Association Frederick Manfred Award for Creative Writing, and the Montana Prize for Humor.
The Art of Jean LaMarr: Exhibition Preview, Book Release and Reception
Celebrate the opening weekend of The Art of Jean LaMarr with live music, friends, festivities, and extended gallery hours. Meet the artist.
Show your support for the artist Jean LaMarr, by wearing purple!
Pre-signed books available for purchase.
An Evening of Black Springs Stories (Virtual)
Join Nevada Humanities and Our Story Inc. for An Introduction to Black Springs, a conversation about the history of Black Springs, Nevada, a neighborhood located in the North Valleys, approximately six miles from downtown Reno.
The conversation will be moderated by Angie Taylor, President and Chief Executive Officer for Guardian Quest, Inc., and the event will feature past and present residents and community supporters of Black Springs, including Helen Townsell-Parker and Demetrice Dalton, with an overview of some ongoing collaborative projects to document and promote the neighborhood’s history from historian Alicia Barber. We will discuss the development and growth of this area from the 1940s to today, including the struggle and fight for basic infrastructure for the residents of Black Springs. Additionally, the story will be shared of how Black families purchased homes in Black Springs against seemingly insurmountable odds, including a lack of electricity, water, sewers, and paved roads, and began to build a lasting community.
This is a FREE program.
This program will be hosted live online via zoom. Click here to join this program for free.
Image Credit: Nevada Black History Project, UNRS-P1977-56-0782, Special Collections and University Archives Department, University of Nevada, Reno.
(Virtual) Art as Cultural Communication and the Intersections of Contemporary Native Life
Susan Lobo is a cultural anthropologist specializing in research and community-based advocacy work in urban and rural Native communities in the United States and Latin America. She has taught at the University of California, Berkeley where she was the coordinator of the Center for Latin American Studies, at U.C. Davis, and at the University of Arizona. Between 1978-1995 she was the coordinator of the Community History Project, located at Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland where she and artist Jean LaMarr first became friends. More recently she has worked for Tohono O’odham Community Action. Her publications include The Sweet Smell of Home: The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana, the textbook Native American Voices, editor of American Indians and the Urban Experience and Organización Social, Patrones de Residencia e Idetidad en Comunidades Indígenas Urbanas en Estados Unidos. She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona and Tacuarembó, Uruguay.
Join us for a conversation as Lobo explores art as cultural communication and the intersections of contemporary Native life, while also exploring the work of Jean LaMarr.
NOTE: This program is hosted virtually on Zoom.
Museum Closed in Observance of New Year’s Day
The Museum is closed today in observance of New Year’s Day. The Museum will be open Sunday, January 2 from 10 am to 6 pm.