Join us as Art Afternoon for Seniors goes virtual!

Instructor Carol Raphel will share perspectives on several works from the Museum’s collections or exhibitions and will facilitate a lively group discussion and virtual workshop.

Participants will need to have Zoom and will need to be able to use their camera function on Zoom.

Please register by Thursday, December 10. A Zoom link will be sent by email to registrants the morning of Friday, December 11.

A recommended simple supply list will be posted at least five days in advance. 

Sponsored by the Leonette Foundation Seniors and Art Endowment and Renown Health.

Ashley Hlebinsky, Robert W. Woodruff Curator of the Cody Firearms Museum, discusses the evolution of collecting since the 16th century, and examines how private passion impacts public display. Hlebinsky explores how collectors have been perceived throughout the years, and how collectors have had a historic role in the establishment of museums and methods of firearm display over the centuries. 

The mythos of the Wild West has long inspired the nation.  During the 30s and 40s, America’s appetite for films about the West seemed insatiable.   In answer, the big studios created a steady stream of big budget Western films with established stars.  Meanwhile, on the back lots of mini studios like Republic and on ranches in the Simi Valley, a sub genre was putting out hundreds of smaller films a year. These were the B Westerns and they would launch the careers of cowboy stars like Hopalong Cassidy, Tim McCoy, Hoot Gibson and The Durango Kid himself, Charles Starrett. This genre of Western film, vastly popular in its time, is nearly forgotten now. Screenwriter, producer and film buff, Tim Kirk, will discuss the careers of Hollywood’s gunslingers and the changing attitudes towards the West.

The Art Bite lecture series is supported by Nevada Humanities with additional sponsorship and free admission for students supported by the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. 

Michael Heizer is among the greatest, and often least accessible, American artists. As one of the last living figures who launched the Land Art movement, his legacy of works that are literally and metaphorically monumental has an incalculable influence on the world of sculpture and environmental art. But his seclusion in the remote Nevada desert, as well as his notorious obduracy, have resulted in significant gaps in our critical understanding. Michael Heizer: The Once and Future Monuments spans the breadth of Heizer’s career, uniquely combining fieldwork, personal narrative, and biographical research to create the first major assessment in years of this titan of American art.

Join us as Fox discusses Heizer’s work with Alan Rapp, the Editorial Director at Monacelli Press in New York, publisher of Michael Heizer: The Once and Future Monuments. Rapp is an editor, writer, and visual book developer. He earned an MFA in Design Criticism at School of Visual Arts and formerly served as a senior editor at Chronicle Books.

*Doors open at 5:30 pm. Book signing to follow.

After the moment of the gunfight at the OK Corral in late 1881, Wyatt Earp became famous in his own time. He was already known within the western territories as a tough lawman. The gunfight represented the epitome of what the wild west stood for: good guys against bad guys in a thrilling duel. The real event was thirty seconds long. The motivations behind it have complicated details. But Wyatt wanted us to forget all that. He was never shot in a gunfight and lived into old age. By chance, at a championship boxing match at the turn of the century – which became the first feature-length movie – Earp saw the power of cinema in action. He decided he could rewrite history through the magic of movies, hanging out in Hollywood in the 1920s to try to get a movie made about his life. And it actually worked.

Following the film screening enjoy remarks by screenwriter and producer Tim Kirk.

Film run time: 76 minutes

NOTE: Tickets to this event are now sold out.

Singer songwriter, painter, essayist – Tom Russell has recorded 35 highly acclaimed records and published five books. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, K.D. Lang, Joe Ely, and numerous others. Rolling Stone has dubbed Russell the “greatest living folk-country songwriter” and critics have called him “the last great American voice.” Join us for a very special concert with this musical treasure of the American West.

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

Concert will be held in the Nightingale Sky Room. Open Seating.

As part of the 2019 D.I.C.E. Conference, Rick Joy, Principal of Rick Joy Architects, offers the Keynote lecture. This Keynote is included with the DICE Conference ticket price, however, if you are interested in only attending the Keynote, this ticket offers that as an opportunity. 

Rick Joy Architects is a 32 person architecture and planning firm established in 1993 in Tucson, Arizona. From the beginning, each of RJA’s works has been exhibited and published extensively and have won numerous awards. Joy received the 2002 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture and in 2004 won the prestigious National Design Award from the Smithsonian Institute/Cooper-Hewitt Museum. He periodically serves as a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. 

RJA has realized architectural works throughout North America with extensive experience with lifestyle based projects from numerous single family residences to an ultra-lux resort and large scale master-plans.  The office has several active residential commissions in New York City, Long Island, Park City, Turks and Caicos.  RJA is currently completing the prestigious commission of the new Train Station and Campus Gateway Buildings to Princeton University, a mixxed use development building in Austin and an apartment building in Mexico City. 

Chez Louie hosts live music and brunch every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm.  With a refined menu of creative dishes, mimosas and a Bloody Mary Bar, Sunday Music Brunch is the perfect precursor to an afternoon in the galleries. Museum members receive a 10% savings. Reservations strongly encouraged at 775.284.2921.

Chez Louie hosts live music and brunch every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm.  With a refined menu of creative dishes, mimosas and a Bloody Mary Bar, Sunday Music Brunch is the perfect precursor to an afternoon in the galleries. Museum members receive a 10% savings. Reservations strongly encouraged at 775.284.2921.

Chez Louie hosts live music and brunch every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm.  With a refined menu of creative dishes, mimosas and a Bloody Mary Bar, Sunday Music Brunch is the perfect precursor to an afternoon in the galleries. Museum members receive a 10% savings. Reservations strongly encouraged at 775.284.2921.