Seniors are invited to spend the afternoon at the Museum. Enjoy a guided tour and a studio art class. Monthly tours and projects are designed for participants of all levels of experience and offer an engaging and interactive experience. 

Senior Art Afternoon will be hosted in-person in the E.L. Cord Museum School. Advanced registration is required and space is limited. Monthly sessions are offered on the second Thursday and the second Friday of the month. Tour and project will be the same for the Thursday and Friday offerings, but change monthly.

Sponsored by the Leonette Foundation Seniors and Art Endowment. 

Additional support provided by the City of Reno.

Step into the captivating world of groundbreaking artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson as she takes you on a journey through her visionary career. For this conversation Hershman Leeson will by joined by B. Ruby Rich—a scholar and critic of independent, Latin American, documentary, feminist, and queer films; and a professor emerita of Film & Digital Media and Social Documentation at UC Santa Cruz. Their conversation will explore the themes and innovations that define Hershman Leeson’s work, diving into the intersection of humanity, technology, and artificial intelligence. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear their insights in relation to the thought-provoking exhibition, Lynn Hershman Leeson: Of Humans, Cyborgs, and AI.

Celebrate the music of the 1920s and the poetry of Langston Hughes at this event, featuring live jazz by Sapphire Jazz Ensemble and local poets reading Hughes’ works.

Photo: 

Griffith J. Davis (1923 – 1993)

Pocketbook Edition Cover for The Ways of White Folks

1947

Giclee Print 11 x 11

Copyright Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Archives

Join four local choreographers as they screen dance films created in response to both new and reimagined spaces throughout the Museum and its forthcoming expansion. After the screenings, each choreographer will participate in a panel discussion exploring the role of dance in museum spaces, the creative process behind making a dance film, and the intersection of dance and visual art.

Featured local choreographers include: Caitlin Bell, Cari Cunningham, Maggie Stack, and Rosie Trump.

Join Desert Research Institute Associate Research Scientist  and Scientific Illustrator, Tiffany Pereira as she explores the union of art and science. Learn how she incorporates artistic principles into her research in Nevada and the Desert Southwest. 

Join Colin Robertson, Charles N. Mathewson Senior Vice President of Education and Research at the Nevada Museum of Art, for an introduction to a new programmatic partnership between the Museum and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). He will survey some about what’s to come programmatically, and how the partnership aims to increase lifelong learning opportunities in the community.

How do creative minds bring to life the fantasy and sci-fi worlds of Avatar, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars, and video games like Monster Hunter, Elden Ring, and Pokémon? What would these worlds and the creatures in them be like if not for our knowledge of the vast fossil record and geologic history? Our modern world is rich with inspiration, but it is grounded and preceded by the past. 99% of all life is extinct and our modern world represents a fraction of Earth’s 4.6-billion-year history. Join Dr. Kiersten Formoso and discover the rich way that paleontology and geology have influenced creative minds. 

Collateral & Co. returns to the Museum for a multi-disciplinary, evening-length dance work that examines the fragile and ephemeral nature of life through the presence and experience of the endangered monarch butterfly. Fragments of Existence follows the butterfly’s remarkable metamorphosis – its delicate appearance, the threat to its survival, and its graceful, impermanent existence – as a mirror to explore human transience, the passage of time, and our own vulnerability within the larger web of human life.

Featuring poetry by Melanie Perish and Collateral & Co. Artistic Director, Caitlin Bell, time-lapse sketching by scientist and artist Tiffany Pereira, and choreography by Caitlin Bell in collaboration with Collateral & Co. Dance Artists, the boundary between human and insect blurs, emphasizing our shared fragility and interdependence. Offering a reflection on our own place in the ever-changing fabric of life, Fragments of Existence is a call to awareness and action: a celebration of beauty, a meditation on mortality, and a call to protect what is at risk before it is too late.

*Doors open at 6:30pm with a cash bar 

This coming-of-age documentary directed by Paige Bethmann 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.  Stay after the screening for a panel discussion. 

In celebration of Older Americans Month, the Museum offers FREE admission to seniors every Wednesday during the month of May.