Community Calendar

Washoe County’s Climate Action Plan aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Brian Beffort, Washoe County Sustainability Manager, will share how it addresses the cost of living, rising heat, wildfire risk and air quality, and actions you can take to build a climate-resilient household and community.

This is part of an Art Bite series featuring local conservation and sustainability organizations, which complements Into the Time Horizon.

Estelle J. Kelsey Foundation Hands ON! Second Saturdays offers monthly free admission, hands-on art activities, storytelling, a docent-guided tour, live performances, and community collaborations. “Art Expeditions” provides children the opportunity to engage with Museum staff and take a closer look at current work on view. New exhibitions, community collaborations, guest performances and monthly themes rotate in this engaging series of monthly programs.

This month’s theme “Fruitful Summer” is inspired by Fallen Fruit’s Monument to Sharing.

https://www.nevadaart.org/event/hands-on-second-saturday-65/

Explore the complex global relationships embedded in efforts to preserve plant life for future generations. Deep beneath the Arctic permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault safeguards seeds from around the world as a vital backup in times of crisis.

Wild Relatives begins with a real event that captured international attention: in 2012, an agricultural research center was forced to relocate from Aleppo to Lebanon during the Syrian Civil War, undertaking the painstaking work of replanting seeds retrieved from the Svalbard reserve. Through this journey, the film reveals an intricate web of human and nonhuman relationships between these two distant places.

Join director Jumana Manna for a virtual introduction to her feature-length film, followed by an audience Q&A. This special screening complements Interspecies Relationships in the exhibition Into the Time Horizon.

https://www.nevadaart.org/event/wild-relatives-with-director-jumana-manna/

Visual artist, educator, tribal leader, and cultural practitioner Gerald Clarke discusses his wide range of work–from sculpture and installation to branded prints and performance. An enrolled citizen of the Cahuilla Band of Indians, Clarke lives in the Anza Valley where his family has lived for time immemorial. He describes his work as conceptual and united by a spirit of perseverance and adaptation, expressing his perspective as a Cahuilla person and 21st century citizen of the world. He is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Riverside where he teaches classes on Native American art, history, and culture.

Into the Time Horizon brings together a wide range of artistic perspectives that confront the impacts of the climate crisis. Join Assistant Curator Kolin L. Perry for an exploration of selected works from the exhibition, as he highlights how artists are engaging with and responding to environmental change across the globe.

Detail of Artwork: Kim Stringfellow, Abandoned Trailer, Bombay Beach, CA, 2000/printed 2009. Chromogenic print, 30 1/2 x 38 in. (77.5 x 96.5 cm). Nevada Museum of Art, the Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection. 2010.02.01. Image courtesy of the artist.

https://www.nevadaart.org/event/artist-responses-to-a-changing-earth/

Into the Time Horizon brings together a wide range of artistic perspectives that confront the impacts of the climate crisis. Join Assistant Curator Kolin L. Perry for an exploration of selected works from the exhibition, as he highlights how artists are engaging with and responding to environmental change across the globe.

Delve into the interwoven social and environmental histories of material and place making with Los Angeles-based artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio. By casting ficus trees in rubber, Aparicio captures their textures while tracing layered histories, including Indigenous knowledge of latex and the migration of people and plants across borders into the United States.

His artwork La ceiba me salvó/The Ceiba Saved Me is currently on view in This Vital Earth, a section of the landmark exhibition, Into the Time Horizon.

Experience Once Every Other Week, a dance work by choreographer Angela Ritchie that explores sustainability and creative intervention. Structured in three parts, Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, the performance blends humor and creativity to reflect on the connection between humans and our planet.

https://www.nevadaart.org/event/performance-once-every-other-week/

Participate in a night of big art, good food, and silly, wonderful company.

The annual Playa Art Preview gala will be held on August 1st, 2026 to benefit The Generator, our spectacular Makerspace, and the stellar community attached.

Making big art is magic. We want to bring you into our 60,000 sqft. buildspace so you can see the magic in progress and meet the creators behind these larger than life sculptures.

You’ll experience these monumental works up close, hear directly from the artists, and witness the creativity, engineering, and collaboration that bring these projects to life.

Let us feed you some incredible Paella while we talk about what goes into making big art: the process, the people, and our place in all of this beauty. We’ll follow dinner with desserts and drinks at the artists’ build spaces, so you can really see the process of creating such huge work.

Join us for an unforgettable night of art, storytelling, and community -all in support of your local 501(c)(3) nonprofit makerspace!

Explore the abstract, colorful, large-scale murals of Odili Donald Odita, a Joyner/Giuffrida Artist in Residence, in this dynamic conversation with artist Torkwase Dyson. Drawing on Africanist approaches to pattern and international political contexts that position color as a form of communication, their dialogue will journey through their practices and coalesce in the Odita’s current work.