“Hands ON! at Home” brings our Art Investigators program to you! Designed for families to enjoy together virtually, “Art Investigators” encourages inquiry and discussion about a selection of artworks on view at the Museum. Following an interactive discussion participants will be encouraged to create their own inspired masterpiece to share. 

This program will be hosted on Zoom. Registration is free and only one registration per family is required. Please register by Thursday, June 11. A Zoom link will be sent on Friday, June 12.

When you join the Zoom, please enable the audio and video features. Please also update the name on Zoom to be the name(s) of your children, then the adult. 

Title sponsorship for Hands ON! Second Saturdays is provided by the Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation.

“Hands ON! at Home” brings our Art Investigators program to you! Designed for families to enjoy together virtually, “Art Investigators” encourages inquiry and discussion about a selection of artworks on view at the Museum. Following an interactive discussion participants will be encouraged to create their own inspired masterpiece to share. 

This program will be hosted on Zoom. Registration is free and only one registration per family is required. Please register by Thursday, June 11. A Zoom link will be sent on Friday, June 12.

When you join the Zoom, please enable the audio and video features. Please also update the name on Zoom to be the name(s) of your children, then the adult. 

This program will conclude with a fun hands on project you can complete at home. Please join us with and of the following supplies you have at home: paper, glue or glue sticks, colorful drawing materials. If you have collage materials (like wrapping paper or magazines) please bring that to the call.

Title sponsorship for Hands ON! Second Saturdays is provided by the Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation.

Join us for an interactive workshop experience in which you will take a different perspective on your life and story by exploring the moments in your life that have changed you. The workshop will be led by National Slam Poetry Champion IN-Q, who was recently named one of Oprah Winfrey’s SuperSoul 100 list of the world’s most influential thought leaders. In this workshop, he’ll entertain, inspire, and challenge you to look deeper into your human experience and ask questions about your life, your environment, and the world at large. 

Please bring a journal and pen.

*Doors open at 6:30 pm with cash bar. Program starts at 7 pm.

This program is presented by Entrepreneurs’ Organization as part of UPSTAGE: A Literary and Performing Art Series supported by the Nightingale Family Foundation and the Williams Foundation.

This event is open to the public. If you are a member of EO, please contact EO directly to RSVP for this event. 

MKSK is a collective of landscape architects, urban designers, and planners who are passionate about the interaction between people and place. Join us as Principal, Jeffrey Pongonis discusses his practice based around a framework of performative and contemporary infrastructure systems of organized urban spaces, connected pedestrian ways, and contributing green corridors all equally responsible in the creation of a successful, human-scaled urban pattern.

Jeffrey Pongonis is a member of Leadership Columbus in Central Ohio and an active participant at the local and national levels of the Urban Land Institute.

*Doors open at 5 pm with social hour. Program begins at 6 pm.

This program is presented in partnership with Black Rock Design Institute and North Section of the Nevada Chapter of ASLA.

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

The Reno Jazz Orchestra’s “New Directions” project is a look into the future of jazz orchestras.  How will they look and sound in the near future?  Directed by composer/trumpeter Julien Knowles, the sixteen-piece ensemble consists of musicians of all ages and musical backgrounds, with diverse musical careers that span jazz, pop, classical, and more. Knowles reflects this in his writing, as the ensemble plays a repertoire of the past, present, and future: Billy Joel, Lyle Mays, Sufjan Stevens, and Knowles himself, to name a few. Members of the ensemble include GRAMMY Nominated Pianist Adam Benjamin (Fender Rhodes) and ECM Recording Artist Peter Epstein (Saxophones), both jazz faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Doors open at 7 pm with cash bar.

This program is presented as part of UPSTAGE: A Literary and Performing Art Series supported by the Nightingale Family Foundation and the Williams Foundation.

Thought on Tap is a public engagement series organized by the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada, Reno bringing together diverse faculty, staff, students, and community members for important conversations around timely topics.

On April 9, a special Thought on Tap will take place at the Nevada Museum of Art in which we will ask local experts to discuss how politics and people’s role in politics may change and develop in the future. Some questions to be addressed are: How will social media shape the way that individuals engage with politics? What role will public protests and popular movements have in influencing political action? How will advancements in technology and communication affect the way that politics function in the twenty-first century and beyond?         

Thought on Tap is brought to you by the Core Humanities Program, the College of Liberal Arts. You will find additional information, including a full schedule at www.thoughtontap.com. Podcasts and transcripts of past episodes are now available on the Core Humanities website: Thought on Tap Archives.

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

Join the Reno Phil, the Nevada Museum of Art, and filmmaker Kerry Candaele for a screening of Candaele’s powerful documentary film – Following the Ninth. Described as “thrilling, smartly assembled and gracefully paced,” by the New York Times, this film follows Beethoven’s ninth and final symphony and its impact across the world. 

Approximate running time: 1 hour and 30 minutes

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

Museums around the country have become spaces where artists, scholars, and community come together in dialogue around civic and social issues. Join us for this conversation featuring the voices of artists Mildred Howard and Hung Liu, art historians and public officials to discuss how artists and museums can spark meaningful dialogue in the communities they serve. This program is organized on the occasion of the major exhibition, The World Stage: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.

This conversation will be held in the in the stunning Nightingale Sky Room overlooking the scenic Sierra Nevada range.

Doors open at 9:30 am with continental breakfast. Program begins at 10 am. 

Victorian Britain was the world’s first industrial nation. Great wealth for the few was accompanied by poverty and pollution. Critics like John Ruskin and William Morris argued that machine-made goods, cheap and plentiful, were inherently ugly and that only a return to natural materials and handicraft could restore the health of society. Join us as Tim Barringer follows the development of a radical socialist and ecological critique of capitalism in Victorian Britain that had effects all over the world, from Britain to the USA, Japan and India.  In this program, we will look at Pre-Raphaelite paintings and drawings in relation to industrial products of the nineteenth century and the exquisite handmade textiles and metalwork that challenged the supremacy of the machine. Radical Victorians took on the dominant ideologies of the nineteenth century and still have important lessons for our own times.

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.

Today, we consider education, career choices, and fulfillment through one’s work to be fundamental rights for women. A little more than a hundred years ago, however, these were mostly only utopian dreams. At the end of the nineteenth century, social reformers, advocates of women’s rights, and followers of the Arts and Crafts movement addressed the question of work for women designers and craftspeople. Join us as Wendy Kaplan examines the role of women designers in the Anglo/American Arts and Crafts movement, focusing on their leadership in social and economic reform as well as the restrictions on their full participation.

Wendy Kaplan has been at LACMA since 2001 and currently serves as the Department Head and Curator of Decorative Arts and Design. Previously, she held curatorial positions at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami, Glasgow Museums in Scotland, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A leading expert on late 19th- and 20th-century design, she has authored, co-authored, or edited many books on the subject such as California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Modern Way” (2011), The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World (2004), Leading “The Simple Life”: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain (1999), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1996), Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885–1945 (1995), The Arts and Crafts Movement (1991; French edition 1999), and “The Art that is Life”: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America (1987; reprint 1998), as well as organized major exhibitions on these subjects. 

This program will be held in the Wayne L. Prim Theater.