The series provides opportunities for community conversation, learning, and informed discussion about art and creativity, followed by questions and dialogue designed to engage the audience. Join highly skilled and knowledgeable Docents in the gallery for an in-depth discovery of Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography.

Support for the Art Bite series comes from Nevada Arts Council and Nevada Humanities & the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The series provides opportunities for community conversation, learning, and informed discussion about art and creativity, followed by questions and dialogue designed to engage the audience. Join highly skilled and knowledgeable Docents in the gallery for an in-depth discovery of Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography.

Support for the Art Bite series comes from Nevada Arts Council and Nevada Humanities & the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The series provides opportunities for community conversation, learning, and informed discussion about art and creativity, followed by questions and dialogue designed to engage the audience. Join highly skilled and knowledgeable Docents in the gallery for an in-depth discovery of Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography.

Support for the Art Bite series comes from Nevada Arts Council and Nevada Humanities & the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Debra and Dennis Scholl Distinguished Speaker Series

Join artist and icon Judy Chicago in conversation with curator Philipp Kaiser as they discuss Chicago’s work from the early 1970s and her response to the male-dominated Land Art scene. Chicago’s Atmospheres were pyrotechnic performances with the goal of feminizing the environment and reclaiming the landscape. Chicago’s work is featured in Laid Bare in the Landscape.

A book signing will follow the conversation. Doors will open at 5 pm for merchandise sales and a cash bar.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Judy Chicago is an artist, educator, author, and humanist whose work and life are models for an enlarged definition of art, an expanded role for the artist, and women’s rights to freedom of expression. Chicago’s most well-known and widely-acclaimed work is The Dinner Party, which is the centerpiece of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Her larger body of work, including her groundbreaking firework performances, are only being rediscovered and celebrated today.

Philipp Kaiser in an independent curator and critic based in Los Angeles. He is the former senior curator of Museum of Contemporary Art, in Los Angeles, where he curated Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 (2012). He is the former director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany and organized the Swiss Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

Join us for an evening of yoga, reflection, poetry, and conversation.

This Sky Room program will consist of modifiable yoga sequences to honor the Winter Solstice, peppered with select poetry readings from Songs of a Pagan, followed by tea and conversation.

All levels of yoga practitioners are welcome, including first-timers.

Schedule of Events

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Gather, Greet, and Center

5:30 pm – 5:45 pm | Introduction to Anne Brigman and the Solstice

5:45 pm – 7:45 pm | Yoga and Poetry

7:45 pm – 8:30 pm | Tea and Reflection

To compare the landscape photographs of Anne Brigman to works by her feminist counterparts of the latter twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is to weave a new thread through generations of visionary women artists who have aimed to further alternative ways of seeing and knowing.

Not only a photographer, Anne Brigman was also a writer, critic, poet, and actor who was an advocate for women’s freedom during the suffrage movement and an influential voice in her East Bay Area community.

This theatrical presentation tells the story of Brigman’s life in her own words.

Starring Mary Bennett, professional actor, educator, theater maker and Producing Artistic Director of Bruka Theater as Anne Brigman. Written in collaboration with Ann M. Wolfe.

Not only a photographer, Anne Brigman was also a writer, critic, poet, and actor who was an advocate for women’s freedom during the suffrage movement and an influential voice in her East Bay Area community.

This theatrical presentation tells the story of Brigman’s life in her own words.

Starring Mary Bennett, professional actor, educator, theater maker and Producing Artistic Director of Bruka Theater as Anne Brigman. Written in collaboration with Ann M. Wolfe.

Sponsored by our partner, the DRI Research Foundation.

Annie Montague Alexander (1867–1950) was an intrepid explorer, amateur naturalist, skilled markswoman, philanthropist, farmer, and founder of two natural history museums at UC Berkeley. Working with scientists, Alexander joined research expeditions in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, Northern California, the Eastern Sierra, and Nevada–where she took part in the 1905 Saurian Expedition and ichthyosaur excavation in the West Humboldt Range.

Barbara R. Stein offers a portrait of this remarkable woman, a pioneer who helped shape the world of science, yet whose name has been little known until now.

Join the Holland Project and the Nevada Museum of Art for the annual pop-up art and music event. This roving party kicks off at 6 pm at the Holland Project (160 Vesta Street), followed by a super-stop at Shopper’s Square (formerly Marshall’s storefront) where you will experience a 30,000 square foot cyber mall with art installations. Then, grab your bike and let Reno Bike Project lead you to the final stop at the Museum where we will screen the 1973 film Fantastic Planets accompanied by a live score written and performed by by Ilya Arbatam, Steven Corder, Tucker Rash, Jamie Hemingway, and Michael DeWayne. End the night with a rooftop party featuring screenprinting by Laika Press, a Virtual Reality station, a retro pinball arcade, glow room installation, LiteBrite. Dance party will include an 80s cover band, DJ Peachsprite and Yung Milkcrate. 

For the full timeline, visit hollandreno.org