Over the course of six weeks during the summer of 1969, thousands of people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival to celebrate Black history, culture, music and fashion. Inspired by the Questlove film of the same title, this exhibition showcases select album covers of several of the influential black musicians and artists that continue to inspire music of today.
This exhibition is organized and presented by the Northern Nevada Black Cultural Awareness Society.

Since 1999, Northern Nevada middle and high school students have been invited to submit their artwork to the Scholastic Art Awards competition. The Museum’s annual presentation of the Scholastic Awards is scheduled in conjunction with the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a national program designed to identify America’s most gifted young artists and writers. This program has honored some of our nation’s most celebrated artists including Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, Michael Sarich, Cindy Sherman, Robert Redford, and Andy Warhol.

Students in grades 7-12 (age 13 and up) submit their art which is then judged by a panel of local artists and art professionals. Artworks are eligible for the highest award of Gold Key, followed by a Silver Key, or an Honorable Mention based on originality, technical skill, and an emergence of a personal vision. Along with going on to compete in the national competition, select works will be shown in a joint exhibition presented by the Nevada Museum of Art and The Lilley Museum of Art, the School of the Arts, and the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno.

2022 Award Recipients

Gold Key Works
On view at Sheppard Contemporary / Church Fine Arts building, University of Nevada, Reno

Parking is available at the Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex, bottom floor.

American Visions Nominated Works
On view at Nevada Museum of Art / Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall

Award Ceremony
Nightingale Concert Hall / Church Fine Arts building, University of Nevada, Reno
Thursday, February 10, 2022 / 6 – 7 pm

We invite Gold and Silver Key award recipients to be honored during this special ceremony. All invited guests are required to RSVP to Jacque Dawson by February 1, 2022 to attend. Due to limited space, Gold and Silver Key award-winning students may RSVP with up to two guests and educators may bring one guest.

Sponsors
Anonymous
City of Reno Arts & Culture Commission
Nell J. Redfield Foundation
Wild Women Artists

Michael Moore is a painter based nomadically in the San Francisco Bay Area, southern Colorado, and the Smoke Creek Desert in Nevada. Moore spends three to five months a year living and painting at his Smoke Creek studio. While in the desert, Moore rises each morning to paint the landscape of the Smoke Creek playa. This meditative practice yields hundreds of watercolor studies that he displays in his studio in large wall grids. He also traverses the Great Basin seeking subjects for his larger paintings made in either watercolor or acrylic. Moore’s thinly applied paints evoke the transparency of the desert and its expansive skies.

Exhibition support provided by Wanda Casazza, in memory of Earl Casazza

This exhibition accompanies a new musical composition commissioned by the Reno Philharmonic in collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art. Jimmy López Bellido, a world-renowned, Finnish-trained, Peruvian-American composer, was invited by Laura Jackson, Music Director of the Reno Philharmonic, to work with curators at the Nevada Museum of Art to select photographs from the Museum’s photography collection to inspire his brand new, Symphony. No. 3: Altered Landscape. The Carol Franc Buck Altered Landscape Photography Collection is the Nevada Museum of Art’s signature collection of photographs featuring more than 2,000 images reflecting changes to the natural and built environment.

Lead Sponsors

The Deborah and T.J. Day Foundation
Jackie and Steve Kane
Charlotte and Dick McConnell
Sandy Raffealli | Bill Pearce Motors

Sponsors

Atlantis Casino Resort Spa | John and Catherine Farahi

Although Spanish-born artist Pablo Picasso is best known as a Modernist who invented the artistic style known as Cubism, he also produced a lesser-known, but equally impressive body of decorative ceramic objects during the latter part of his life. This exhibition features thirty ceramic works designed by Picasso that are on loan from longtime collectors Robert Felton and Lindsay Wallis. The artworks are a generous bequest to the Nevada Museum of Art.  

Following World War II and the liberation of Paris, Picasso began to increasingly spend time in the coastal region of southern France. In 1946, he encountered an exhibition of pottery in Vallauris, a town with a long history of pottery production reaching back to the Roman Empire. It was there that he met Suzanne and Georges Ramié, owners of the Madoura ceramics workshop, who invited him to model some small works from clay. This was the beginning of a longtime friendship and business relationship. 

In 1947, Picasso gave up his urban home in the rue des Grands-Augustins in Paris and set up his principal studio in Vallauris. He remained in Madoura for several years. During this time, the Ramiés allowed Picasso to make and decorate ceramic wares in their workshop whenever he pleased. In exchange, Picasso allowed them to edition his creations and to retain the profits from their sale.  

Over a period of 20 years, Picasso worked with ceramic artists at the studio to create nearly 4,000 objects. His involvement in the production of each piece varied. Sometimes he created the mold used to form an object, other times he sculpted and gouged the clay into unique shapes, and often he simply decorated or painted objects that other ceramicists had already thrown and shaped.    

Whether a plate, pitcher, bowl, mask, tile, or platter, Picasso decorated his objects with a range of colorful and witty subjects. From everyday animals or plants, to mythological creatures and hybrid human-animals, Picasso’s ceramics reflect the joy and newfound freedom he embraced while living in southern France following the war.  

Sponsors

Betsy Burgess and Tim Bailey
Barbara and Tad Danz

Supporting Sponsors

The Collections Committee of the Nevada Museum of Art
Tammy and Michael Dermody
Evercore Wealth Management

Additional Support

Linda Frye

Feature Image: Pablo Picasso, Engraved Bull, 1947, Rectangular dish A.R. white earthenware clay, decoration in engobes, engraved under yellow glaze, 12 1/2 x 15 ½ inches. Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Promised gift of Robert Felton and Lindsay Wallis. © 2022 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

This year the Latimer Art Club celebrates its 100th anniversary. To honor this important milestone, the Museum hosts a juried exhibition of present-day Latimer Art Club members. The Latimer Art Club is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the fine arts in a wide variety of media. The Club encourages skill development with creative programs and college scholarships.

For more information, visit: https://latimerartclub.com

Black Wall Street is an exhibition featuring a collection of archival photographs and a video presentation, which offer a glimpse into the aftermath of the “Tulsa Race Massacre” of 1921. May 30 through June 1, 2021 marks the 100^th anniversary of this event, where the historic Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma was decimated, and claimed the lives of hundreds.

This community-based program is presented by Black Wall Street Reno, an organization center dedicated to crafting young minds into curious and courageous members of society.

Founded by Andrea Zittel in 2002, High Desert Test Sites (HDTS) is a nonprofit arts organization based in Joshua Tree, California. Located on 100 acres owned by Zittel, HDTS is dedicated to “learning from what we are not” and the belief that learning from the high desert community can offer new insight and perspectives, often challenging art to take on new areas of relevancy. HDTS is known for its roving biennial events featuring artworks installed in diverse desert locations, and its programs that include performances, workshops, film screenings, publications, residencies, excursions, as well as two well-known community-based programs known as Kip’s Desert Book Club and High Desert Test Kitchen. This exhibition features highlights from the HDTS archives, recently acquired by the Nevada Museum of Art. A significant portion of this collection was originally exhibited and curated by Sohrab Mohebbi and Aram Moshayedi in An Ephemeral History of High Desert Test Sites: 2002-2015. This exhibition is guest curated by Brooke Hodge.

Additional Support

Heidi Allyn Loeb

This exhibition presents a selection of artworks by Aboriginal Australian contemporary artists that are both gifts to the Nevada Museum of Art and loans from private collectors. Most museum acquisitions of Aboriginal Australian art in the United States have arisen recently from the generosity of private collectors, but the Nevada Museum of Art began working with Aboriginal artists in remote desert communities more than a decade ago through research projects in association with our Center for Art + Environment. By 2017 the Center had acquired more than a hundred paintings from field projects for its collections, and today the Museum hosts one of the largest public collections of Aboriginal art in the United States. The Museum has also supported cultural exchange opportunities for visiting Aboriginal Australian artists and Great Basin Indigenous communities.

The Museum’s interest in these works grew out of the idea that Nevada and Australia share many cultural and geographic characteristics, such as vast expanses of open land, rich natural resources, diverse Indigenous peoples, legacies of colonialism, and the ongoing conflicts that inevitably arise when these factors coexist. Aboriginal Australian art has its deepest roots in transmitting essential knowledge from generation to generation through stories, song, dance, and body decorations for more than forty thousand years. Their contemporary art is relevant to all of our collections and educational endeavors, whether those are focused on art and the environment, how humans alter the landscape and interact with it, and even how we code data and knowledge.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by Martha Hesse Dolan and Robert E. Dolan

[Image: Kathleen Petyarre. My Place Atnangkere. 1996. acrylic on linen. 48 x 48 inches. Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Kaplan and Margaret Levi. Photo courtesy: Chris Holloman Photography]