Welcome to our three new staff members at NMA; Vic Hopner, Claire Munoz and Erik Flippo.

Claire Munoz, Redfield Foundation School Services & Outreach Manager of the Nevada Museum of Art Education Department. Munoz has worked as an event manager within the University of Nevada, Reno Development Department; as the Performing and Creative Arts Administrator at Caltech University; and as a Special Events Coordinator at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. She holds a degree in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles. In her new role at the Museum, Claire will oversee programs for school aged children as well as the museum’s outreach efforts to community organizations in our region.

A Reno native, Erik Flippo has more than 17 years of professional design experience, including stints as a designer, art director, or design director at Fido Design in Los Angeles; Alameda Newspaper Group, STUDIOS Architecture, DirecTV Broadband, Claria Corporation and Lumenaré Networks in the Bay Area; and Art Associates, Octane Studios and Peavine Design in Reno. He earned a BFA in graphic design with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, a BA in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a newspaper design fellowship at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida. He has won multiple local and regional ADDY Awards, and his design work has been published in the book LogoLounge 3 and in Print magazine’s Digital Design Annual. Erik serves on the boards of the Advertising Association of Northern Nevada and the Reno- Tahoe chapter of AIGA, and teaches graphic design for the Nevada Museum of Art’s Visual Design Studio.

Vic Hopner, Director of Operations is a returning member to the museum. A Truckee, CA resident for 24 years, Vic retired from the California Highway Patrol to work as the museum’s Security Manager from 2003- 2005. Hopner now oversees several departments including Museum Security, IT, Janitorial Services, Events Planning & Facility Management.