Powwow People with Director Sky Hopinka
Director Sky Hopinka offers exclusive introduction and Q&A for Powwow People. This momentous film is a vérité-style documentary grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived experience of a contemporary Native gathering. Rather than entering as observers, the filmmakers organized the powwow, and invited dancers, singers, vendors, and community members to participate in the making of this film.
Reversing Ecological Loss with Walker Basin Conservancy
The Great Basin of the United States has many lakes without an outflow. These terminal lakes and their watersheds play critical roles in supporting Great Basin biological diversity, Indigenous culture, and local economies. After water diversions to support agriculture and rural development that date back to the 1800s, Walker Lake has declined in surface area. The changes have reduced habitat and water quality for fish and birds which once had robust populations in the lake. Join an enlightening conversation on the current efforts of the Walker Basin Conservancy with CEO Peter Stanton and Board President, Dr. Sudeep Chandra, who present a compelling case for restoring Walker Lake and its watershed while supporting the needs of local Indigenous tribes and preserving the agricultural and natural heritage of the basin through science informed water transactions, ecological conservation and restoration, cultivating native plants and encouraging recreation.
This is part of a series featuring?local conservation and sustainability organizations, which complements?Into the Time Horizon.
Artist Talk: Questioning Conventions and Reframing Ideas about Nature with Mark Dion
Artist Mark Dion leads a conversation about his interdisciplinary practice and the ways he borrows from scientific methods to explore how we collect, interpret, and display the natural world. By examining how knowledge about nature is constructed, Dion challenges the objectivity and authoritative role of science in contemporary society, and shows how pseudo-science, social agendas and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.
Dion’s work, Cabinet of Extinction is on view in The Sixth Extinction section of Into the Time Horizon.
OLLI Art at the Museum: Exhibition Tour
As Into the Time Horizon prepares to close, our trained Museum docents lead an interactive conversation in the galleries about the artworks from around the world that illustrate possibilities for a better collective future.
This program is presented in partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) and is hosted every third Wednesday of the month. Support for the 2026 series provided by CJ Christenson.
Through an Artist’s Eyes: Biodiversity with Isabella Kirkland
Artist Isabella Kirkland creates works that bridge fine art and taxonomy, capturing the vibrant complexity of the natural world with hyper-realistic precision. Her meticulously researched compositions are both a joyful celebration of biodiversity and a scientifically rigorous visual archive. Meet the artist and learn about her detailed process in this special artist talk. Her work, Nova: Forest Floor, is part of the Interspecies Relationships section of Into the Time Horizon.
Image credit: Christopher Michel
Artist Talk: Intersections in the Everyday Landscape with Rodney McMillian
Join artist Rodney McMillian for a conversation about the histories, experiences, and systems that shape everyday life. Through painting, sculpture, installation, video, and performance, McMillian explores the intersections of power, race, class, and culture in America. His recent landscape paintings are portals to imagined realms, with skies, stars, and foliage floating between worlds. His works invite both escape and confrontation, offering glimpses of fantastical possibilities elsewhere.
McMillian’s work Untitled (Orange Hills) is in the Nevada Museum of Art permanent collection and is currently on view in the Strange Weather section of Into the Time Horizon.
OLLI at the Museum: Connecting Nevada Wildflowers with Northern Paiute Language Traditions
Examine how native Nevada wildflowers connect to the Northern Paiute language traditions that first named them. Melissa Melero-Moose shares how her curatorial work for Of the Earth: Contemporary Native American Baskets and Pueblo Pottery coincides with her work to promote Great Basin Native Artists and preserve cultural knowledge in danger of being lost.
This program is presented in partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) and is hosted every third Wednesday of the month. Support for the 2026 series is provided by CJ Christenson.
Enduring Tradition and a Lifetime of Innovation with Gerald Clarke
Visual artist, educator, tribal leader, and cultural practitioner Gerald Clarke discusses his wide range of work–from sculpture and installation to branded prints and performance. An enrolled citizen of the Cahuilla Band of Indians, Clarke lives in the Anza Valley where his family has lived for time immemorial. He describes his work as conceptual and united by a spirit of perseverance and adaptation, expressing his perspective as a Cahuilla person and 21st century citizen of the world. He is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Riverside where he teaches classes on Native American art, history, and culture.
Clarke’s sculpture Continuum Basket is currently on view in Of the Earth: Native American Baskets and Pueblo Pottery and is in the permanent collection of the Nevada Museum of Art.
Coral Across Time
Dr. Montana Hodges takes us on a journey into deep time to explore the coral fossil record. With their hard exoskeleton and firm attachment to the ocean floor, excellent coral fossils are discovered throughout Nevada. They tell the story of past climates on earth, including the extreme conditions that coincided with the Triassic- Jurassic Extinction and can even teach us about the environment today.
After the talk, visit Katie Grinnan’s artwork Ginger Coral and Julian Charrière’s photolithograph created from dead coral Veils/Theonella Swinhoe in the current exhibition Into the Time Horizon.
Guided Tour
Enrich 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 Fridays at 2 pm, Saturdays at 11 am and 2 pm, and Sundays at 11 am. Reservations are recommended.
FREE with admission