WILLIAM L. FOX NAMED DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR ART + ENVIRONMENT AT THE NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART
The Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art launches this month with a series of highlights including the appointment of William L. Fox as the Center’s first director.
William L. Fox has been called an art critic, science writer, and cultural geographer. He will be responsible for developing a long-range plan for the Center's growth and programming, including an exhibition and publications series, residencies for artists and scholars and partnerships with other institutions around the world. Fox has published ten books on cognition and landscape, fifteen collections of poetry, numerous essays in art monographs, and articles and poems in more than seventy magazines and journals. Among his nonfiction titles are Terra Antarctica: Looking Into the Emptiest Continent; In the Desert of Desire: Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle; Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty; The Black Rock Desert; and, The Void, the Grid & the Sign: Traversing the Great Basin. Born in San Diego, Fox grew up in Reno, and earned a degree in English Literature from Claremont McKenna College. Continually active in the fields of scholarship and poetry, he worked at the Nevada Arts Council from 1979 until 1993, where he was the executive director for seven years.
From 1993 until 2009 Fox served as a consultant to arts foundations and organizations across the United States while writing books set in the extreme environments of the Antarctic, the Arctic, Chile, Nepal, and other locations. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club.
He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation, and has been a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Clark Art Institute, the Australian National University, and National Museum of Australia. His most recent book is Aereality: Essays on the World from Above, and he is currently engaged in two new projects, both book-length studies in art and environment.
“It is a real privilege to have Bill serve as the first director for the Center for Art and Environment,” said Walker. “For more than three decades Bill has been a highly-respected critic, scholar and creative practitioner. His expertise and leadership will generate global art and environment dialogue.”
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.
William L. Fox has been called an art critic, science writer, and cultural geographer. He will be responsible for developing a long-range plan for the Center's growth and programming, including an exhibition and publications series, residencies for artists and scholars and partnerships with other institutions around the world. Fox has published ten books on cognition and landscape, fifteen collections of poetry, numerous essays in art monographs, and articles and poems in more than seventy magazines and journals. Among his nonfiction titles are Terra Antarctica: Looking Into the Emptiest Continent; In the Desert of Desire: Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle; Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty; The Black Rock Desert; and, The Void, the Grid & the Sign: Traversing the Great Basin. Born in San Diego, Fox grew up in Reno, and earned a degree in English Literature from Claremont McKenna College. Continually active in the fields of scholarship and poetry, he worked at the Nevada Arts Council from 1979 until 1993, where he was the executive director for seven years.
From 1993 until 2009 Fox served as a consultant to arts foundations and organizations across the United States while writing books set in the extreme environments of the Antarctic, the Arctic, Chile, Nepal, and other locations. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club.
He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation, and has been a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Clark Art Institute, the Australian National University, and National Museum of Australia. His most recent book is Aereality: Essays on the World from Above, and he is currently engaged in two new projects, both book-length studies in art and environment.
“It is a real privilege to have Bill serve as the first director for the Center for Art and Environment,” said Walker. “For more than three decades Bill has been a highly-respected critic, scholar and creative practitioner. His expertise and leadership will generate global art and environment dialogue.”
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.
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