ADVISORY GROUP NAMED TO THE CENTER FOR ART + ENVIRONMENT AT THE NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART

With the formal establishment of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, an international advisory group has been created and includes: Matt Coolidge, Director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation; Bill Gilbert, Co-Director of the Land Arts of the American West program; Lucy Lippard, cultural critic, Geoff Manaugh, senior editor of Dwell magazine and author of BLDBLOG; and Steve Wells, Ph.D., president of Desert Research Institute (DRI). The advisory group meets on an ad-hoc basis and offers strategic planning and connectivity to ongoing art and environment initiatives around the world. Nevada Museum of Art staff members participating on the task force include Ann M. Wolfe, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Nevada Museum of Art and author of Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl; Colin Robertson, Curator of Education, Nevada Museum of Art and author of several essays on the intersections of art and environment; Daryn Glassbrook, Ph.D., Associate Director Foundation and Government Relations, Nevada Museum of Art; and Fox.


ABOUT THE NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART
The Museum’s feature exhibitions showcase national and international artists while the permanent collection of twentieth and twenty-first century art is divided into five focus collections linked by an overall emphasis on land and environment. This thematic focus provides scope and direction for future acquisitions and exhibitions. Designed by architect Will Bruder, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for the Visual Arts became the new facility for the Nevada Museum of Art in May of 2003. With its torqued exterior wall, suspended atrium staircase and views of Reno’s skyline as well as the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the building is recognized as one of the most distinguished architectural achievements in Nevada.