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.

Educators are invited to these FREE monthly informative roundtables, which provide participants an opportunity to interact with art and each other. Each month, a different exhibition becomes the focus for discussion to support children’s learning through creative play in diverse early childhood settings. Registration is required. For questions, please contact Leah Sanders, Educational Consultant or Terry Randolph, PreK Program Coordinator, WCSD.

Pre-meeting gathering at chez louie (no host) begins at 4:45 pm.

Registry credit (1.5 hours) and CEU credit (.5 for attending 5 sessions) are available.

Join the Believer Festival for a day long bazaar of ideas and intersections. Explore unorthodox mashups, peculiar pairings, insightful interactions, author signings, and more surprises.

For more information visit The Believer Festival.

SUMMER SHABBAT DINNER IS NOW SOLD OUT.

In collaboration with Blend Catering, chez louie will prepare a special Israeli-inspired Shabbat menu, served family style. Guests will dine in the Nightingale Sky Room, following a screening of the award-winning film The Last Resort, a celebration of some of Miami’s greatest visual artists and a stunning testament to its all but forgotten Jewish retirement community.

Film Starts at 5:30 pm in the Wayne and Miriam Prim Theater. Dinner will begin at 7 pm in the Nightingale Sky Room. Advanced reservations are required. Please register by June 25.

Seating for dinner is open and service will be family style. To request group seating, please call or email Heidi Loeb at 775.398.7235

Tickets to dinner include admission to the film and pricing is inclusive of gratuity.

About “The Last Resort”:

Long before Art Deco was a movement and prior to the arrival of the youth culture of MTV and Miami Vice, South Beach was home to the largest cluster of Jewish retirees in the country. Intrigued by the small apartments, low-cost of living, sunny weather, and thriving cultural life, they came in the thousands seeking refuge from the Northeast’s brutal winters. In The Last Resort, viewers embark on a journey to the iconic Miami Beach of yesterday through the lens of young photographers Andy Sweet and Gary Monroe, resulting in one of the most fascinating photographic documentations of a community ever caught on film.

Published in 2019, This Side of the Divide is an anthology reflecting the diversity and complexity of the American West. This volume of twenty-five authors, curated in part by MFA students in the Creative Writing program at the University of Nevada, Reno, presents writings about the lives, work, aspirations, fears, and ethnic roots of a diverse population. This Side of the Divide is a celebration of culture, a humble attempt to tap into that golden vein of contemporary literature thriving in the American West.

Join acclaimed authors and contributors, Chanelle Benz, Brian Evenson, and Vanessa Hua, as they read their stories and discuss the diversity of the contemporary West. A panel discussion will follow the readings and is moderated by Christopher Coake, author and director of the MFA Creative Writing program at the University of Nevada, Reno. 

A book signing will follow the program. 

This program is presented in partnership by Baobab Press, the publishing arm of Reno’s Sundance Books and Music, with the Nevada Museum of Art and Nevada Humanities.

Join us for a gallery conversation in “Without You I Am Nothing” as guest curator Alberto Rodríguez Garcia shares his perspectives about selections from the Museum’s permanent collection dealing with labor and class.

The Art Bite series is supported by Nevada Humanities.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s sartorial style became an intimate part of her artistic identity. She dressed like she painted, highly valuing abstraction, simplicity, and seriality. In a lecture titled, “Dressing for the Photographer: Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Clothes,” art historian and Living Modern guest curator, Wanda M. Corn will explore the way O’Keeffe used her distinctive taste in clothes to model for photographers, creating a public persona for O’Keeffe that still dominates the American imagination today.

Doors open at 10:30 am with complimentary coffee. Book signing to follow discussion.

Wanda M. Corn is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. At Stanford, she held the university’s first permanent appointment in the history and American art and served as chair of the Department of Art and Art History and acting director of the Stanford Museum. Active as a guest curator, she has produced various books and exhibitions, including The Color of Mood: American Tonalism 1990-1910 (1972); The Art of Andrew Wyeth (l973); Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision (1983); The Great American Thing, Modern Art and National Identity 1915-1935; Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition (2011); Seeing Gertrude Stein, Five Stories (2011-12); and most recently, Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern (2017-2019).

Sponsorship: To recognize the Scholls in perpetuity, the Nevada Museum of Art has established The Debra and Dennis Scholl Distinguished Speaker Series to present prominent visiting speakers on contemporary art and visual culture. This ongoing series is a fitting association as the Scholls continue to encourage Museums to push the boundaries in the art world.

Additional sponsorship: Enid A. Oliver, ChFC®, CLTC, Private Wealth Advisor, Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.

Contemporaries members and their invited guest are invited to an exclusive rooftop event featuring a tasting and pairing of artisanal mezcals. 

Enjoy an after hours access to the galleries. Save the date!

Additional info to follow. For more information on joining the Contemporaries, please contact Ela Zawadzka. 

Contemporaries members are invited to an exclusive takeover of “The Jesse.” Join us for specialty cocktails, tacos and a behind-the-scenes tour of Reno’s newest hot-spot as well as a short presentation on Nevada’s newest element, NEON, by Will Durham.

For additional information on the Contemporaries membership or to reserve your ticket, please contact Ela Zawadzka

Join us at the Nevada Museum of Art to commemorate the historic 150th Anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Artists Zhi Lin and Hung Liu will join Andrea and John C. Deane Senior Curator and Deputy Director Ann M. Wolfe to discuss their artworks made in response to the sacrifices of Chinese Railroad workers who raced to complete the rail line that would unite America from east to west in 1869. Directly following the presentation, a ceremonial gathering will take place at the exact time 150 years ago that the Golden Spike was hammered into the last rail at Promontory, Utah by Leland Stanford. The program will include remarks followed by the recitation of the names of over 800 known Chinese railroad workers between 2:27 pm and 2:47 pm—a twenty minute period during which the original telegram announcing the completion of the railroad was sent from Utah to Washington DC in 1869. This honorific recitation will be accompanied by the playing of traditional Chinese instruments by Todd Green.

The ceremony and panel discussion will take place in the Nightingale Sky Room with sweeping views of the Sierra Nevada.