This year the Nevada Museum of Art will celebrate the 25th Annual Taste for Art, a wine and food fund raising extravaganza to support art education and exhibitions at the Museum. In past years, the Museum has attracted well over 1000 participants to the wine tasting which was held in the courtyards of IGT. This year we decided to take advantage of our award-winning Museum facility and appeal to a smaller crowd of participants with higher-end wines and food pairings. more...
Archives | Summer 2009
Annual Arts & Flowers Luncheon
Save the Date for November 5th, 2009!
by Lucy Walker
The Volunteers in Art will be hosting the 28th Annual Arts and Flowers Luncheon on Thursday, November 5 at Harrah’s Convention Center. This is your opportunity to shop the artisan mall for distinctive, original, handcrafted holiday gifts. Your favorites, like the Santa lady will be there, as well as, 11 new vendors. Among the new artists are creators of soaps and candles; fused glass ornaments and necklaces; hand-woven tea towels and table runners; several new jewelers; hand-woven baskets; gourds and veggies made from upholstery fabric; Christmas coasters and pet pads. If you aren’t sure what a pet pad is, be sure to arrive at Arts and Flowers early! more...
"The aesthetic of industry is based on function. It is basically scaffolding with containers and pipes...but to me they are sculptures.” Bernd Becher.more...
Have you seen it? The Nevada Museum of Art has a new image.more...
As most of you have probably noticed, the previous edition of the Volunteers Newsletter for Spring 2009 had been published online, instead of the much more expensive prior paper format.more...
Archives | Summer 2009
New Nell J. Redfield Learning Center
A Clear View of the Future.
by Colin M. Robertson
I’d like to share with you some news about several exciting changes that the Museum’s third floor classroom is about to undergo over the next two months. As many of you know, the Museum’s third floor classroom is one of the most widely used spaces in the building, serving needs in the School Tours, Teacher Training, hands/ON!, and Kids Open Art Studio programs, to name just a few.more...
Summertime is upon us and what better way to spend it than meeting other interesting people, learning about art and becoming a docent. more...
Welcome Linda Dierks, our Vice President of Advancement and Jackie Clay, our new museum store manager.more...
The mysteries of installation art were unveiled at an Art Bite July 10 when University of Nevada art instructor, Jeff Erickson discussed Jennifer Steinkamp’s Fly to Mars media installation.more...