Sagebrush to Sandstone Events
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July 14 | 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Idlewild Park - Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation Office
Nevada Humanities is excited to participate in the 29th annual Reno 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.
Image: Cyanotypes images courtesy of Megan Berner
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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 poet Harrison Bernard Nuzzo. This exhibition offers an artistic love letter to the city from artists, poets, and writers who call this community home.
Dear Vegas includes works of poetry, painting, photography, prose, sculpture, and mixed media artworks. Featured artists include: Krista Diamond, Ahmed Naji, Harrison Bernard Nuzzo, Devon Norwood, Norma Jean Ortega, Sin á Tes Souhaits, 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, and their relationships with the built environment and natural world.
Curator Harrison Bernard Nuzzo is a poet, poetry editor and translator, and activist from Las Vegas, Nevada. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he is an instructor in the Department of English.
Image Credit: Norma Jean Ortega, We Hot Pyramids
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Hosted by program manager Kathleen Kuo, our Humanities at Play livestream events take place on Twitch and feature 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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July 11 @ 6 pm with Lorrie May Manuel
We’re celebrating Filipino food and culture with Las Vegas-based artist Lorrie May Manuel. We’ll spend the first hour playing through the game Lutong Bahay: Lola’s Home Cooking before switching to live illustrations of Filipino food coloring pages and conversation.
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July 25 @ 6 pm with Dawn Smallman from Oregon Humanities
Get to know humanities council staff from around the nation! We’ll play Botany Manor with Dawn Smallman, Program Manager at Oregon Humanities, while learning about place-based storytelling, gardening, grant opportunities, public humanities programming in Oregon, and more.
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July 30 @ 6 pm with Edmond Chang
A United We Stand Program
Join us for a conversation on violence and vulnerability in video games, queerness and representation, technoculture and the digital humanities, and more on this stream with Edmond Chang, Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. We’ll play LIM, a game about the violent experience of inhabiting a liminal social space, followed by a Q&A where we will learn more about Edmond’s research and work.
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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.
Image: Humanities at Play, Nevada Humanities.
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Nevada Humanities-Supported Events Across the State
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Far Beyond The Walls Exhibition| June 22 - September 30, 2024 | Nevada State Prison Preservation Society | Nevada State Prison (decommissioned), Carson City
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Sagebrush and Solitude: Maynard Dixon in Nevada Exhibition | Through July 28, 2024 |Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
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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
- The Women Who Saved History Podcast | Presented by Women of Diversity Productions, Inc
Please check directly with our partner and grantee organizations in case of event changes and cancellations.
Image: Far Beyond the Walls Exhibition, Nevada State Prison yard, photo by Frances Melhop
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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
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.
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.
Connect with us on our website and through social media.
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Public Humanities Project Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is now accepting applications for the Public Humanities Projects program, which supports bringing the humanities to life for all audiences through public programming. Small and mid-sized organizations are encouraged to apply if their projects address topics of regional or national relevance by drawing connections to broad themes or historical questions. The deadline is August 14, 2024.
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