Join Las Vegas based artist, Justin Favela and his family in a public celebration featuring his family’s traditions. Guests will enjoy live music performed by the RPA Youth Mariachi Band, a taco buffet, a piñata, cake and art activities in an interactive family-friendly party as part of Favela’s performance “Family Fiesta” on the rooftop of the Museum.

Favela’s work is featured in the exhibition Tilting the Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada.  Admission and all activities are free for this event and all day as part of the Museum’s Hands ON! on Second Saturday monthly program. 

NOTE: All seats in the Museum’s Theater have been sold to this event. This registration is for the simulcast presentation which will be a live video feed of Michael Branch’s presentation. 

Michael Branch, writer, humorist and environmentalist unveils his newest book “Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness,” creative nonfiction reflecting on raising children in an extreme desert landscape.

Reception and book signing to follow presentation. Live music following talk by Shiloh.

Do your holiday shopping during this annual sale, where you’ll find one-of-a-kind gifts for every art lover on your list. From locally-made bags and jewelry, to the Museum’s incomparable books, the entire store is on sale. Members receive 20% savings, 10% for everyone else. 

Do your holiday shopping during this annual sale, where you’ll find one-of-a-kind gifts for every art lover on your list. From locally-made bags and jewelry, to the Museum’s incomparable books, the entire store is on sale. Members receive 20% savings, 10% for everyone else. 

Do your holiday shopping during this annual sale, where you’ll find one-of-a-kind gifts for every art lover on your list. From locally-made bags and jewelry, to the Museum’s incomparable books, the entire store is on sale. Members receive 20% savings, 10% for everyone else. 

Do your holiday shopping during this annual sale, where you’ll find one-of-a-kind gifts for every art lover on your list. From locally-made bags and jewelry, to the Museum’s incomparable books, the entire store is on sale. Members receive 20% savings, 10% for everyone else. 

A local shopping extravaganza for a good cause. Donate $20 cash to Washoe County School District Children in Transition and receive a shopping pass for deep discounts at participating Midtown Reno businesses, including 20% savings on select merchandise at the Museum Shop.

Join Barbara L. Gordon as she shares her journey as a collector navigating the wonderfully intuitive and accessible designs, colors and shapes that make up American Folk Art. From her first purchase of a particularly elegant birdhouse with a green painted tin roof, plucked from a row of items in a country field, to her triumphant and long awaited acquisition of Edward Hicks’ masterpiece, The Peaceable Kingdom, Gordon discusses the thrill of the hunt and the passion and discipline it takes to build a world class collection.

Join guest curator of A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America, Richard Miller as he examines the aesthetic and meaning of the large body of work that has come to be known as American Folk Art.  The paintings, sculpture, and furniture in the Gordon collection were made between 1800 and 1920–years that bookend a period of rapid and dramatic change in the United States.  The art in this exhibition represents a period that may feel distant, but these objects that held special meaning for Americans show that their aspirations were little different from ours today: celebration of family, pride in heritage, and leaving some evidence of our lives and accomplishments after us.

Dr. Bernhard Bach’s background is in diffractive, and space flight optics, he serves as the UNR Director of Undergraduate Laboratories.  Join him in conversation as he explores the physics of light as it relates to the immersive light installation Swell.  Swell, which represents innovation in immersive light installations, draws explicit connections between wave forms, the liquid motion of floating objects and sculptural objects made of light, modified and shaped over time.

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