Find one-of-a-kind gifts for every art lover on your list at the annual Holiday Sale! From locally-made bags and jewelry to the Museum’s specialty books, the entire store is on sale. Everyone receives 10% savings, Museum Members receive 20%

Find one-of-a-kind gifts for every art lover on your list at the annual Holiday Sale! From locally-made bags and jewelry to the Museum’s specialty books, the entire store is on sale. Everyone receives 10% savings, Museum Members receive 20%

The entire Museum will be closed New Year’s Day in observance of the holiday.

The entire Museum will be closed to the public New Year’s Eve in observance of the holiday.

The entire Museum will be closed Christmas Day in observance of the holiday.

The entire Museum will be closed to the public Christmas Eve in observance of the holiday. 

The entire Museum will be closed all day in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday. 

Join Bretton Rodriguez, Ph.D. and Edward Schoolman, Ph.D. as they explore the relationships between medieval cultures and their weapons. The development of new and better martial technology shaped the nature of warfare in the medieval and early modern worlds, and it transformed the practical, decorative, social, and metaphorical values of weapons of war. 

Bretton Rodriguez, Ph.D. is a teaching assistant professor of Core Humanities at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a specialist in the literature, history, and culture of medieval and early modern Iberia. His research focuses on the use and manipulation of the past in historical narratives.

Ned Schoolman, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of Nevada, Reno.  His current research centers on facets of nobility, the process of migration, and environmental change during the Middle Ages in Italy.

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. 

Carter E. Foster presents a broad overview of Edward Hopper’s creative process. Starting with his early work in New York and his formative travels to Paris, Foster will explore the ways in which Hopper developed his mature style as well as his love of ambiguity and the uncanny. Using suites of drawings for major works, Foster will delve deeply into how Hopper conceived certain paintings, and how observation of the real world combined with his imagination created the disquieting atmospheres for which he is celebrated. During the presentation we will explore Hopper’s masterpieces, including Early Sunday Morning (1930), Nighthawks (1942), New York Movie (1939), and Office at Night (1940).

In a museum career spanning twenty-eight years, Carter E. Foster has specialized in the history of drawing and the continuities of artistic practice from the Renaissance to the present, and has organized dozens of exhibitions covering this range of art history. He started his position as Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Blanton Museum of Art in September of 2016. Carter worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art for over 11 years, serving as the Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawing, and he was on the team curators who developed the Whitney’s inaugural display in its new building, America is Hard to See. He developed the 2013 exhibition Hopper Drawing and edited and co-authored its catalogue. Prior to the Whitney, he held curatorial positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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

Join us for an exhibition walkthrough of “The World Stage, Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation” led by JoAnne Northrup, Curatorial Director and Curator of Contemporary Art. Guests will enjoy a guided walkthrough of the exhibition which includes canonical 20th century artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, as well as leading 21st century artists such as Jeffrey Gibson, Mickalene Thomas, and Kehinde Wiley—an artist best known for his portrait of President Obama which hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. Northrup will discuss her motivation for selecting these 100 artworks, drawn from Schnitzer’s collection of more than 14,000 works, and introduce visitors to some of the lesser-known artists in the mix.

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.