Community Calendar

Examine how native Nevada wildflowers connect to the Northern Paiute language traditions that first named them. Melissa Melero-Moose shares how her curatorial work for Of the Earth: Contemporary Native American Baskets and Pueblo Pottery coincides with her work to promote Great Basin Native Artists and preserve cultural knowledge in danger of being lost.

This program is presented in partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) and is hosted every third Wednesday of the month. Support for the 2026 series is provided by CJ Christenson.

Join artist Rodney McMillian for a conversation about the histories, experiences, and systems that shape everyday life. Through painting, sculpture, installation, video, and performance, McMillian explores the intersections of power, race, class, and culture in America. His recent landscape paintings are portals to imagined realms, with skies, stars, and foliage floating between worlds. His works invite both escape and confrontation, offering glimpses of fantastical possibilities elsewhere.

McMillian’s work Untitled (Orange Hills) is in the Nevada Museum of Art permanent collection and is currently on view in the Strange Weather section of Into the Time Horizon.

A gala event with appetizers, exotic silent auction items, quality wines, decadent desserts, live music and more-- will be held Friday, August 21 from 5:00 to 7:30 at the National Automobile Museum.

Sponsored by Peak Pet Urgent Care, this event sends all proceeds directly to the Shakespeare Animal Fund, helping them provide life-saving veterinary care. Gala attendees will champion pets in need with every silent auction bid and ticket purchase ($40 in advance and $45 at the door).

Celebrating the life of a beloved cocker spaniel named Shakespeare, this non-profit was founded in 2004 and has one mission statement: to help pay for emergency veterinary care for anyone who has a suffering or dying pet and can’t afford treatment.

Join fellow animal lovers for a fun event that also includes unique goodie bags for dog owners and an opportunity to mingle with others who help make Northern Nevada a better place to live by taking care of its animals.

For additional information go to ShakespeareAnimalFund.org, email jwebb.shakefund@gmail.com or call Jennifer Webb at (775) 232-7753.

This film follows a post office administrator from southern France who is reassigned to a small town in the far north where he expects bleak weather and even bleaker people. Instead, he discovers a warm, welcoming community whose humor and generosity challenge his stereotypes. As he grows attached to his new home, he must reconcile exaggerated stories he has told his wife with the truth: he has come to love the place he once feared. This heartfelt comedy is about regional identity, prejudice, and unexpected belonging.

Artist Isabella Kirkland creates works that bridge fine art and taxonomy, capturing the vibrant complexity of the natural world with hyper-realistic precision. Her meticulously researched compositions are both a joyful celebration of biodiversity and a scientifically rigorous visual archive. Meet the artist and learn about her detailed process in this special artist talk. Her work, Nova: Forest Floor, is part of the Interspecies Relationships section of Into the Time Horizon.

Join local writer Michael P. Branch for a preview of his upcoming book, Water Warriors. The book focuses on a 1989 proposal by the Southern Nevada Water Authority to pump nearly 3 billion gallons of groundwater a year from 30 rural valleys—and pipe it 300 miles to Las Vegas. The plan would have devastated wildlife and ranching communities, but a scrappy coalition—tribal leaders, ranchers, musicians, hydrologists, teachers, cowboy poets, public interest lawyers, and citizen scientists—banded together to save some of the Great Basin’s most vital water resources.

Director Sky Hopinka offers exclusive introduction and Q&A for Powwow People. This momentous film is a vérité-style documentary grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived experience of a contemporary Native gathering. Rather than entering as observers, the filmmakers organized the powwow, and invited dancers, singers, vendors, and community members to participate in the making of this film.

https://www.nevadaart.org/event/powwow-people-with-director-sky-hopinka/

Director Sky Hopinka offers exclusive introduction and Q&A for Powwow People. This momentous film is a vérité-style documentary grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived experience of a contemporary Native gathering. Rather than entering as observers, the filmmakers organized the powwow, and invited dancers, singers, vendors, and community members to participate in the making of this film.

https://www.nevadaart.org/event/powwow-people-with-director-sky-hopinka/

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 “The Art of Time” is inspired by the Centuries of the Bristlecone clock on view.

https://www.nevadaart.org/event/hands-on-second-saturday-56/

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 Adventures” 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 “The Art of Time” is inspired by the Centuries of the Bristlecone clock on view.

https://www.nevadaart.org/event/hands-on-second-saturday-56/