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.

Historian, futurist and co-founder of Burning Man, Michael Mikel brings his unique counter-culture ideologies and personal investigations on a series of guided tours through Decorative Arms: Treasures from the Robert M. Lee Collection. Known on the Playa as “Danger Ranger” Mikel draws on his Texas roots and love of the West as he presents a personalized introduction to decorative arms.

*Advanced registration required.

Paul D. Miller, AKA DJ Spooky, is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer whose work pushes boundaries and bridges disciplines. Join us for an interactive discussion with Miller about his practice and learn how fractals inform music, art, and design.

Miller’s work is featured in the exhibition We Belong Here. This exhibition was organized in conjunction with the 2021 NV STEAM Conference, an annual statewide event in partnership with Desert Research Institute’s Science Alive program. Scheduled for early February 2021, the virtual conference explores ideas and strategies that incorporate Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math education into classroom practices to foster student creativity and innovation. 

Educator Evening is a FREE professional development series occurring every month (excluding January and July) offering state-approved professional development hours for participation. 

This program is hosted on Zoom. Please register by Wednesday, December 2 at 9 am to participate. For registration support or questions, email Jacque.Dawson@NevadaArt.org.

In case you registered late or missed the email, here is today’s Zoom information:
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Educator Evenings are sponsored by the Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation, Bank of America, the Nell J. Redfield Foundation, and Reno Orthopedic Clinic.

STEAM education programs at the Nevada Museum of Art are sponsored by Tesla and Odyssey Foundation.

Join us for a first peek and discussion on the exhibition We Belong Here. This exhibition was organized in conjunction with the 2021 NV STEAM Conference, which explores ideas and strategies that incorporate Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math education into classroom practices that foster student creativity and innovation. 

This discussion will be presented by Claire Muñoz, the Charles N. Mathewson Senior Director of Education along with Craig Rosen, Director of Nevada STEM Networks for Desert Research Institute. 

Educator Evening is a FREE professional development series occurring every month (excluding January and July) offering state-approved professional development hours for participation. 

This program is hosted on Zoom. Please register by Wednesday, November 4 at 9 am to participate. For registration support or questions, email Jacque.Dawson@NevadaArt.org. 

In case you registered late or missed the email, here is today’s Zoom information:
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Educator Evenings are sponsored by the Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation, Bank of America, the Nell J. Redfield Foundation, and Reno Orthopedic Clinic.

STEAM education programs at the Nevada Museum of Art are sponsored by Tesla and Odyssey Foundation.

Artist Lordy Rodriguez leads October’s program live from his studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in 1976 in the Philippines, Rodriguez crafts his drawings in the tradition of early cartographers. Unlike his predecessors, however, Rodriguez emphasizes repetitive stylized patterns and intense colors rather than specific sites, territories, or boundary lines. This approach encourages viewers to reconsider the history of mapmaking, as well as our tendency to accept maps as wholly truthful and accurate representations of the land.

Rodriguez’s work is included in the Museum’s permanent collections and is currently on view in In the Flow. With his guidance, we will discuss mapmaking and identity and explore ways we might interpret his works to inspire classroom practices.

Educator Evening is a FREE professional development series occurring every month (excluding January and July) offering state-approved professional development hours for participation. Normally, Educator Evenings happen on the first Wednesday of the month. October’s has been moved a week to accommodate WCSD’s fall break.

This program is hosted on Zoom. Please register by Wednesday, October 14 at 9 am to participate. For registration support or questions, email Jacque.Dawson@NevadaArt.org.

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Educator Evenings are sponsored by the Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation, Bank of America, the Nell J. Redfield Foundation, and Reno Orthopedic Clinic. | STEAM education programs at the Nevada Museum of Art are sponsored by Tesla and Odyssey Foundation.

Join us for our virtual Educator Evening! This month we are joined by Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks, Dean of the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Reno, and an award winning author. Best known for introducing the concept of “ethnic matching” to the field of education and his book by the same title, Easton-Brooks will discuss equity in education, cultural responsiveness in the classroom and building resilience. 

Please register by Wednesday, September 2 at 9 am. The Zoom link will be sent later Wednesday morning. For registration support or questions, please email Jacque.Dawson@NevadaArt.org.

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Educator Evenings is a FREE professional development series on the first Wednesday of every month (excluding January and July) offering state-approved professional development hours for participation.

Educator Evenings are sponsored by the Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation, Bank of America, the Nell J. Redfield Foundation, and Reno Orthopedic Clinic. | STEAM education programs at the Nevada Museum of Art are sponsored by Tesla and Odyssey Foundation.

Join us for our virtual Educator Evening! This month we are joined by JoAnne Northrup, Curator of Contemporary Art, and Bay Area artist, Kal Spelletich. Spelletich has been a pivotal figure in the machine art and robotics community and frequently collaborates with scientists, engineers, musicians and audiences. Join us as he discusses his performative and interactive practice and how it may support classroom practices. 

Please register by Wednesday, August 5 at 9 am. The Zoom link will be sent later Wednesday morning. For registration support or questions, please email Jacque.Dawson@nevadaart.org.

Educator Evenings is a FREE professional development series on the first Wednesday of every month (excluding January and July) offering state-approved professional development hours for participation.

Educator Evenings are sponsored by the Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation, Bank of America, the Nell J. Redfield Foundation, and Reno Orthopedic Clinic. | STEAM education programs at the Nevada Museum of Art are sponsored by Tesla and Odyssey Foundation.

NOTE: This program has been rescheduled for Wednesday, August 5.

Join us for our virtual Educator Evening! This month we are joined by JoAnne Northrup, Curator of Contemporary Art, and Bay Area artist, Kal Spelletich. Spelletich has been a pivotal figure in the machine art and robotics community and frequently collaborates with scientists, engineers, musicians and audiences. Join us as he discusses his performative and interactive practice and how it may support classroom practices. 

Please register by Monday, June 1. Registrants will receive a Zoom link on Tuesday, June 2, to participate. For registration support or questions, please email Jacque.Dawson@nevadaart.org.

Educator Evenings is a FREE professional development series on the first Wednesday of every month (excluding January and July) offering state-approved professional development hours for participation.

Educator Evenings are sponsored by the Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation, Bank of America, the Nell J. Redfield Foundation, and Reno Orthopedic Clinic. | STEAM education programs at the Nevada Museum of Art are sponsored by Tesla and Odyssey Foundation.