Welcome to The Art + Environment Conference at the Nevada Museum of Art. We’re launching this new initiative with a conference in October, and we hope you will join us to talk about how and why art has become just as important as science in understanding the nature of environments.

Just as scientists in the 1960s began crossing disciplines to understand how environments work, so artists started to mix genres in order to model our relationship with them. Sculptors stopped working with clay and steel in their studios and went directly to the earth. Architects became installation artists and digital cartographers. Painters and photographers became participant-observers in agriculture and industry.

We’re bringing together artists, designers, writers, and scientists from around the country to discuss how they change-and are changed by-the natural, built, and virtual environments in which they work.

General Registration (May 16 to September 26, 2008)
NMA Members – $360 // General – $400 // Students – $300

Seating is available for 180 registrants with an additional 60 seats available in the simulcast area. Seats will be assigned in the order of registrations received until final capacity is met.

Saturday Afternoon Excursion to the Nevada Desert
Saturday, October 4 // 3:30 to 7:30 pm //$50 per person

The Museum will host an afternoon excursion to Nevada’s scenic desert including the Pyramid Lake region. Enjoy the open spaces of northern Nevada, walk the same land as those from centuries prior, and listen to indigenous Paiute stories told by Ben Aleck and Ralph Burns of the Pyramid Lake Museum/Visitors’ Center. Leading the excursion will be Peter Goin, photographer and Foundation Professor of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno.

REGISTER HERE