Nevada Museum of Art
Founded in 1931, the Nevada Museum of Art (the Museum) is the only art museum in Nevada accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Co-founded in 1931 by Dr. James Church, an early climate scientist, humanist, and lover of art, the Museum in its early days was run by a small group of outdoor landscape painters. As a result, the Museum has long understood the importance of examining how humans interact with their natural, built, and virtual surroundings. Designed by internationally renowned architect Will Bruder, the present Museum facility opened in 2003 at the heart of Reno’s downtown Liberty district. The four-level, 70,000-square-foot building is inspired by geological formations in northern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, and serves as a visual metaphor for the institution’s scholarly focus on art and environment. The institution’s identity continues to be shaped by the geographic location and environment. The Museum’s proximity to the San Francisco Bay Area, the Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and the surrounding Great Basin desert region places it at the nexus of both awe-inspiring scenery and a rapidly changing landscape. It is an ideal place for dynamic conversations about the ways that humans creatively interact with environments. This idea is reflected in the Museum’s permanent collection, which is divided into four thematic focus areas: the Robert S. and Dorothy J. Keyser Art of the Greater West Collection, the Carol Franc Buck Altered Landscape Photography Collection, the Contemporary Art Collection, and the E. L. Wiegand Work Ethic in American Art Collection. Mission We are a museum of ideas. While building upon our founding collections and values, we strive to offer meaningful art and cultural experiences, and foster new knowledge in the visual arts by encouraging interdisciplinary investigation. The Nevada Museum of Art serves as an educational resource for everyone.www.nevadaart.org
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Oct 12, 2026
Bill FoxGUEST
I took a left-hand turn at one point.
Bill FoxGUEST
I've talked about this, you know, before, and I ended up working at an art museum where I, I, uh, founded the Institute for Art and Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno.
Bill FoxGUEST
So I'm now the director emeritus of that institute.
Bill FoxGUEST
I still work at that museum.
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Bill FoxGUEST
They come back a week later, and they have a developed print, right? Using...
Bill FoxGUEST
And, and, and the print's very uniquely colored.
Bill FoxGUEST
It's kind of blue and gold because of the nature of the natural chemicals, right? And, um, so we gave them a, a show at the Nevada Museum of Art, actually, of these things, and, and they're exquisite photographs.
Bill FoxGUEST
And they, and they, um...
Jonathon KeatsGUEST
I wanted to bring this into the city with this clock that had a pendulum that would swing at a rate that was based upon the trees, and effectively, by virtue of being based on their growth, would be a clock that was metabolically tied to the trees as they're living up on the mountain.
Jonathon KeatsGUEST
And so I did it, or again, I should say we, and most of that we should be Phil Abernethy and Brittany Nicole Cox in particular, who engineered a clock that is designed for the next five thousand years to keep time as the trees are in a way that we can encounter that time in the city, in the biggest little city in the world, which is of course Reno, which happens to be the place where the Nevada Museum of Art is located and where that museum, which has been a partner together with Long Now from the very beginning, where that museum has been able to make a very public-facing way in which people can see these trees and can interact with them through this clock.
Jonathon KeatsGUEST
So all of this effort, a decade or more of work, might seem strange, to say the least.
Jonathon KeatsGUEST
So I should tell you maybe a little bit about my motivations.