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This month and every month, we honor the history, achievements, and ongoing fight for equality of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Over the years, Nevada Humanities has been fortunate to partner with talented local storytellers and artists who shared important stories from queer communities. In celebration of Pride Month, we’ve highlighted two of those stories below.
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Rainbow Rodeo: Reno and the Gay Rodeo Movement
The Reno Gay Rodeo was a groundbreaking event that defied stereotypes and fostered community in 1976 Nevada. It became a beacon of inclusion and authenticity, igniting a legacy that continues to thrive today. Learn more about this piece of 2SLGBTQIA+ history from Carly Sauvageau, the editor for the documentary Rainbow Rodeo.
Queer Cities and their Temporary Monuments
Vegas-based artist Emily Budd penned a powerful essay about The Stonewall Group and a 1986 gay couple’s courageous mission to cultivate a queer utopia in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada. The story is one of hope and resilience, and inspired Budd to sculpt “Memorial for Queer Rhyolite, a temporary monument to dreams in the dust,” in an effort to prolong the dream of a queer future in a small western town.
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Image: Nevada Humanities Exhibition Series: A Blooming Diaspera, curated by Brent Holmes
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On June 19, Nevada Humanities celebrates Juneteenth, a significant day in American history that marks the end of slavery in the United States. Although Juneteenth didn’t become an official national holiday until 2021, June 19 has been celebrated as a day of freedom, reflection, and joy within the Black American community since 1866. The day signifies the liberation of the last enslaved people in the Confederacy in Galveston, Texas, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth also serves as a reminder of the continued fight for equality and justice.
This Juneteenth, we invite you to honor the holiday with us by learning more about the Black American experience in Nevada. Check out these Nevada Humanities programs:
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Nevada Humanities Exhibition Series
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Dear Vegas
On display through July 24, 2024
Nevada Humanities Program Gallery
1017 South 1st Street, #190, Las Vegas
Nevada Humanities presents Dear Vegas, an exhibition curated by Harrison Bernard Nuzzo, a Las Vegas poet, editor, and an instructor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of English.
This free exhibition offers an artistic love letter to the city from artists, poets, and writers who call this community home, including works of poetry, painting, photography, prose, sculpture, and mixed media artworks. Featured artists include: Featured artists include: Krista Diamond, Clement Gelly, Ahmed Naji, Harrison Bernard Nuzzo, Devon Norwood, Norma Jean Ortega, Miles Winfree, and Montaysia Yuneek.
The participating artists showcase the people who call Las Vegas home, along with their experiences living, loving, working, and raising families, as well as their relationships with the built environment and natural world of the Las Vegas Valley. This exhibition is presented by Nevada Humanities and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Hosted by program manager Kathleen Kuo, every live streaming event on Twitch features special guests for engaging and educational conversations about the humanities in everyday life. Tune in when you are ready from the comfort of your home. While you can watch without an account, creating a free account will let you participate in the chat and ask questions.
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June 20 @ 6 pm with Naseem Jamnia
A United We Stand Program
Join us for a United We Stand program on Humanities at Play with award-winning Nevada author Naseem Jamnia. During the first hour of our program, we will play one night, hot springs; the second hour of our program will consist of an interactive Q&A and interview where we will learn more about Naseem’s work, radical writing, inclusivity and social justice, and more.
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If you miss a livestream, recordings remain on our Twitch channel for one week. Afterwards, visit our YouTube channel for archived Humanities at Play events.
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Image: Humanities at Play, Nevada Humanities
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Image: Cyanotype images courtesy of Megan Berner.
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Sagebrush to Sandstone: Cyanotypes - Printing with the Sun
July 14 | 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Idlewild Park - Truckee Meadows Parks
Nevada Humanities is excited to participate in the 29th annual Artown celebration. On July 14, discover the magic of cyanotype, an early photographic process using sunlight and water to create unique cyan-blue images. In this hands-on workshop led by visual artist Megan Berner, you’ll learn to prepare your own cyanotype paper and create original photograms using natural and found objects.
This event is produced jointly by Nevada Humanities and Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation. This program is supported with funding by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Humanities at Play
Cradle with Kip Grosvenor Hutchins
July 9 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PT | Online - Twitch
Join us for an early celebration of Naadam, a traditional Mongolian summer festival. During this stream, we will learn more about Mongolian foodways, folk songs, and traditions connected with Naadam from Kip Grosvenor Hutchins, a cultural anthropologist and Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Oberlin College.
Humanities at Play
Lutong Bahay: Lola's Home Cooking with Lorrie May Manuel
July 11 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PT | Online - Twitch
Join us for a stream celebrating the rich and culturally diverse culinary history and traditions of the Philippines with Las Vegas-based artist Lorrie May Manuel. In Lutong Bahay, we will learn how to cook iconic Filipino dishes and discover the history and culture of their place of origin. Don’t miss out on the creation of our live coloring pages featuring Lorrie May's illustrations of Filipino food!
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Nevada Humanities Supported Events Across the State
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- Nevada Women's Film Festival | June 19-23, 2024 | University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
- Far Beyond The Walls Exhibition| June 22 - September 30, 2024 | Nevada State Prison Preservation Society | Nevada State Prison (decommissioned), Carson City
- Sagebrush and Solitude: Maynard Dixon in Nevada Exhibition | Through July 28, 2024 | Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
- Fresh Outlook 2024 | Through August 15, 2024 | Capital City Arts Initiative, Community Development Building, Carson City
- Tom Gilbertson: Recent Works | June 5 - September 26, 2024 | Capital City Arts Initiative, Courthouse Gallery, Carson City
Check directly with our partner and grantee organizations on event changes and cancellations.
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Catch up on past events
Have you missed out on some of our programs and events? You can catch up by watching past events here.
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Nevada Humanities Grant Opportunities
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Nevada Humanities FY2024 Mini-Grants
Application Deadline: Rolling; application must be submitted at least 10 weeks before the project's first public event. Application portal closes on July 30, 2024.
Nevada Humanities FY2024 Planning Grants
Application Deadline: Rolling; application must be submitted at least 10 weeks before the first planning meeting. Application portal closes on July 30, 2024.
Learn more and read the grant guidelines here.
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