Nevada Arts Council

All That You Ever Wanted/Todo Lo Que Siempre Quisistes: A College of Southern Nevada traveling exhibition featuring the work of Orlando Montenegro - Henderson
2026-04-09 07:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CSN Henderson Campus Art Galleries, 700 College Drive, Henderson, 89002, United States
The College of Southern Nevada, School of Arts & Letters, and Department of Fine Arts will host a traveling exhibition of mixed media artworks by Central American-born, Nevada-based artist and College of Southern Nevada adjunct faculty, Orlando Montenegro. All That You Ever Wanted/Todo Lo Que Siempre Quisistes: A College of Southern Nevada traveling exhibition featuring the work of Orlando Montenegro, will open on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, and will travel throughout the Las Vegas Valley with showings on the CSN Charleston campus (July 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2025), the North Las Vegas campus (Nov. 1, 2025 – Feb. 28, 2026), and the Henderson campus (March 1, 2026 – June 30, 2026). A special Gallery Talk and Artist Reception with light refreshments will take place on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, at 6 p.m. in the North Las Vegas Campus Tyrone Thompson Student Union Art Gallery. The CSN Student Union Art Galleries are free, family-friendly, and open to the public.
Speaking of his life, Montenegro says, “I was born in Central America in the early 1980s. My father was a lawyer, and he got into some trouble, and my mother was an accountant, and she did not like the government at the time. They immigrated to the United States sometime in the late 80s because it seemed better economically, and they ended up working in casinos. I have two younger siblings who are nurses, and they are also married to nurses. I once almost passed out giving blood and looking at a documentary where there was blood, and I was not good at math in school, but I liked to draw. My Spanish vocabulary is not that good, but I can speak and read some of it at a basic level. I prefer to talk in English if I have to. It’s impressive how people can interpret words and images differently when they see things from their own point of view, and how their upbringing, education, and beliefs affect that point of view.”
Regarding his work, Montenegro continues, “We live in the richest country in the world, but it’s a pyramid scheme. I had surgery with insurance and paid an inflated amount, only to get another bill in the mail. I wish we had decent public transportation because gas is expensive, and people drive irresponsibly. I wanted to rent, but my mortgage is cheaper because I moved into a house before the pandemic. Home insurance and car insurance are also a scam, but I need them just in case. I don’t buy juice anymore, or cereal, or Mexican Coca-Cola. The price went up, and my Doctor said I should eat fruit and I should just drink water, because I need to worry about diabetes. He said juice is a scam.
I started using things like newspapers and food packaging because they relate to consumption and the economy. Food packaging is discardable, and it can be aesthetically pleasing depending on how it is designed. Advertisements can be beautiful or seductive, but the food flyers that I get in the mail are not considered beautiful. I am not saying they are either. I see some graffiti around town while driving, and I like the bold colors and line work. Some of it does not make sense and feels abstract or nonrepresentational. I don’t really remember what I thought when I first saw Andy Warhol’s soup can art in Professor Rico’s Art History class some twenty years ago. I am sure that at the time, I thought the book and his lectures were all gobbledygook because “art is supposed to be beautiful”.
The CSN Student Union Art Galleries are free, family-friendly, and open to the public. Gallery hours vary by campus and semester. Please visit https://www.csn.edu/student-unions for current hours of operation.
For more information, please call 702-651-4146 or visit https://www.csn.edu/artgallery.

Prairie Princess/Desert Dandy A College of Southern Nevada traveling exhibition featuring the work of Lauren Myers Reese - Charleston
2026-04-09 07:00 - 17:00 | CSN Charleston Campus Student Union Art Gallery, Student Union Building, 6375 W. Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas, NV, 89146, United States
The College of Southern Nevada, School of Arts & Letters, and Department of Fine Arts is now hosting a traveling exhibition of text-based paintings by Nevada-based artist and College of Southern Nevada adjunct faculty, Lauren Myers Reese. Prairie Princess / Desert Dandy: A College of Southern Nevada traveling exhibition featuring the work of Lauren Myers Reese, opened on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, and will travel throughout the Las Vegas Valley with showings on the CSN North Las Vegas Campus (July 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2025), the Henderson campus (Nov. 1, 2025 – Feb. 28, 2026), and the Charleston campus (March 1, 2026 – June 30, 2026). A special Gallery Talk and Artist Reception with light refreshments will take place on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, at 6 p.m. in the Henderson Campus Student Union Art Gallery. The CSN Student Union Art Galleries are free, family-friendly, and open to the public.
Lauren Myers Reese is an artist, educator, and arts administrator, and currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Art & Art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada. Reese received his Master of Fine Arts in visual art from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2022 and his Bachelor in Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, in 2012. Reese is a co-founder of the Vegas Institute for Contemporary Engagement, a research lab for art and experimentation. Before attending UNLV, Reese worked in a variety of roles, including independent curator, arts writer, nonprofit administrator, factory worker, educator, and art gallery director. Reese’s visual work has been shown across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Scotland, Estonia, and Colombia. His writings are found in the Jewish Studies Journal, Art Focus Oklahoma, Southwest Contemporary, and Settlers and Nomads.
Speaking of his work, Reese states, “This body of work layers texts from a variety of sources on the history of Nevada. These books focus on early and pre-Statehood Nevada, as well as contemporary issues like gendered work, sexuality, labor rights, and equality as it relates to the recent history of Las Vegas and Nevada. Combining historical nonfiction and accounts of the Las Vegas and Nevada area pre- and post-statehood, the work layers text to create alternative narratives, and puts a highlight on the missing parts of the narratives from traditional histories of the West. By layering texts from both historical first-hand accounts, primary sources, and contemporary artists living in Las Vegas, the words combine and layer to create a miasma of time. Time collapses as texts from a variety of writers and eras are layered on top of each other. It is a reimagined story and historical fiction told through the spaces between the words.”
The CSN Student Union Art Galleries are free, family-friendly, and open to the public. Gallery hours vary by campus and semester. Please visit https://www.csn.edu/student-unions for current hours of operation.
For more information, please call 702-651-4146 or visit https://www.csn.edu/artgallery.

Flux1: A College of Southern Nevada traveling exhibition featuring the work of Sherry Watkins - North Las Vegas
2026-04-09 07:00 - 17:00 | CSN North Las Vegas Art Galleries, 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., North Las Vegas, NV, 89030, United States
The College of Southern Nevada, School of Arts & Letters, and Department of Fine Arts will host a traveling exhibition of acrylic paintings by Nevada-based artist and College of Southern Nevada Performing Arts Center box office supervisor, Sherry Watkins. Flux1: A College of Southern Nevada traveling exhibition featuring the work of Sherry Watkins, will open on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, and will travel throughout the Las Vegas Valley with showings on the CSN Henderson Campus (July 1, 2025 – Oct. 31, 2025), the Charleston Campus (Nov. 1, 2025 – Feb. 28, 2026), and the North Las Vegas Campus (March 1, 2026 – June 30, 2026). A special Gallery Talk and Artist Reception with light refreshments will take place on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 6 p.m. in the North Las Vegas Campus, Tyrone Thompson Student Union Art Gallery. The CSN Student Union Art Galleries are free, family-friendly, and open to the public.
Originally from Illinois, Sherry Watkins has lived in Las Vegas for nearly 50 years. She attended Clark High School, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the College of Southern Nevada. Watkins has been painting for over a decade, working primarily in abstract styles. Her work explores various techniques, including fluid pouring and original design methods. Watkins uses a wide range of tools and materials to achieve distinctive effects and embraces experimentation and creative risk in her process. While she occasionally paints traditional subjects—such as characters, still lifes, and landscapes—Watkins is most drawn to the expressive freedom of abstraction.
Speaking of her work, Watkins states, “Most of my work comes from trial and error, a willingness to explore new methods, opening my boundaries to include what I might not at first be comfortable with, and sometimes just pure luck. I enjoy the freedom of abstract art. I like the power of creating something that did not previously exist. I have AD/HD. When I was doing more “traditional” painting, such as still life and landscapes, I ended up with a lot of unfinished paintings. I would be on to the next idea before finishing what I was working on. With abstract art, only the artist knows when it is truly finished. Abstract art gave me the freedom to be able to paint without the anxiety of not completing my work and leaving paintings half done.”
The CSN Student Union Art Galleries are free, family-friendly, and open to the public. Gallery hours vary by campus and semester. Please visit https://www.csn.edu/student-unions for current hours of operation.
For more information, please call 702-651-4146 or visit https://www.csn.edu/artgallery

"At the Heart of Nevada: Basin and Range”
2026-04-09 09:00 - 16:00 | City Hall Metro Gallery, 1 E. First St., Reno, NV, 89501, United States
Curated By: Julian Kilker, Checko Salgado, and Paula Garrett
Feb. 23- April 17, 2026
Reception: Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 5-7 p.m.
On the 10-year anniversary of the Basin and Range National Monument, three friends curated a documentary photography and video exhibit documenting this remote region of Nevada—one located several hours by car north of Las Vegas and Southeast of Reno. The monument features 1,100 square miles of spectacular undeveloped mountains and valleys in southeastern Nevada, and its protected status preserves geological and historical features for future generations while continuing to provide access for recreation, grazing, and military training.
The collaboration behind this exhibit echoes the cooperation among Nevadan volunteers, artists, researchers, locals, and visitors who enjoy and help protect our state’s wealth. Basin and Range National Monument is the result of an innovative collaboration among multiple stakeholders. At the Heart of Nevada parallels this creation, focusing on multiple uses of the land and collaborations among these stakeholders. Among the photographs and videos by multiple contributors are representations of geology and history, ranching, volunteering, recreation, and artistic and military engagement. Its curators, board members of the non-profit organization Friends of Basin and Range, help ensure protection of the ecological, cultural, historic, and recreational resources of the Monument area through community engagement, advocacy, interpretive and educational programming, support of academic research, site stewardship, and restoration efforts.
For more information about the Basin & Range National Monument visit https://www.friendsofbasinandrange.com.
The Metro Gallery, located on the first floor of City of Reno City Hall, is one of three galleries operated by the City of Reno. To learn more please visit: https://www.reno.gov/community/arts-culture/city-art-galleries

Always back to Nevada: Craig Sheppard and art at the University of Nevada, Reno
2026-04-09 09:00 - 17:00 | Northeastern Nevada Museum, 1515 Idaho St., Elko, NV, 89801, United States
The John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno proudly announces its exhibition, “Always back to Nevada” Craig Sheppard and art at the University of Nevada, Reno”, a curatorial project opening Dec. 9, 2025, through April 26, 2026 at the Northeastern Nevada Museum. Curated by executive director and chief curator Stephanie Gibson, “Always back to Nevada” showcases the constant oscillation of styles and experimental Nevada-centric works of the university’s Sheppard Gallery founding collector, Craig Sheppard.
Image: Craig Sheppard, The Couriers, oil on canvas, n.d., collection of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art

Three Generations of Polarized Light Art
2026-04-09 10:00 - 20:00 | Sahara West Library, 9600 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas, Nevada, 89117
In the 1960s, a time of cross-pollination in art and science, Austine’s engagement with light and optics was shaped by her discovery of the phenomena of polarized light from her first husband, astronomer and physicist H. John Wood. In 1967, Austine developed a new light-based medium that she called Polage. By collaging clear cellophane between cross-polarizing filters, she began producing full color artworks without using any pigments or dyes.
Selecting for specific wavelengths from the prismatic spectrum of color in natural light produces her color palette. Colors plucked from light are vibrantly alive and will shift and change as the filters rotate or as the viewer moves about, making the perception of the art an active component of the work.
In 1976, Austine and her husband, David Comarow moved to the Las Vegas area. They worked together to establish a long-lasting studio practice and refined her Polage medium and methods of display, leading to many innovations and commissions over the following decades. Their first studio gallery opened in Boulder City, Nevada, in 1985.
That same year, Austine’s eldest daughter, Cara Wood Ginder, began working for Austine Studios as an art assistant, fabricator, and studio manager. This began a longtime artistic partnership with her mother, which grew into full design collaboration in later years.
In 1998, Austine’s younger daughter, Erika Wood, became part of the studio, later focusing on designing hybrid production methods that enabled Polage artworks to be created in carefully controlled multiples, comparable to traditional printmaking.
At that time, Austine Studios entered a long-term relationship with Maui Jim sunglasses, bringing the medium into dialogue with applied optics and polarized-lens technology as they secured an exclusive on Austine Studios artwork in optical boutiques worldwide.
In 2018, Cara accepted the position of full-time lead artist and studio director of Austine Studios. Her daughter, Charlotte Ginder, joined the studio in 2019; the third generation to work in the family business of Polage.
After Austine’s sudden passing in 2020, Cara, Erika, and Charlotte kept up the family legacy as the artists of Austine Studios until it closed in 2025.
Austine’s art is on view in the permanent collections of the Museum of Science, Boston; the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science; and Swarthmore College, among others, appearing in museums, hospitals, public spaces, and private collections around the world.
The nearby Spring Mountains Visitor’s Center, just outside Las Vegas on Mt. Charleston, features a 75-foot-long Polage art mural celebrating the flora and fauna of the desert that inspired so much of her work.
Today Cara and Erika have launched a new collaboration, Lightread Studios, where they continue their work together creating polarized light artworks and commissions.
On exhibit at Sahara West Library, 9600 W Sahara Ave. Las Vegas, Nevada, through May 2, 2026.

Home Truth: Image-making in Absence, Photography by Steven Seidenberg
2026-04-09 12:00 - 16:00 | John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, University Arts Building - 1664 N. Virginia St., Reno, NV, 89557, United States
The photographic practice of Steven Seidenberg explores a material world of the unnoticed, fixing attention on structures, environments, and landscapes often hidden in plain sight. Three photographic series are combined in this exhibition; each focuses on past and present living conditions in a different area of the world (Puglia and Rome, Italy; Kanazawa, Japan). Seidenberg’s richly detailed images capture current and former living spaces—houses, tents, outbuildings, and empty lots— providing the viewer with ideas about the lived environment, how space is used, and how humans travel through and live within the spaces they occupy under wide-ranging material conditions.
Image: Steven Seidenberg from the series, The Architecture of Silence: Abandoned Lives of the Italian South, photograph, courtesy of the artist

This Just In: Recent Additions to the Lilley Museum of Art Collection
2026-04-09 12:00 - 16:00 | John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, University Arts Building - 1664 N. Virginia St., Reno, NV, 89557, United States
An exhibition of new acquisitions to the Lilley Museum of Art
Image: Carol Cole Levin, Fortress, 1992, Clay, concrete, wire, and wood picture frame, Collection of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist 2025.

Homeland Security: Images from the Epicenter of the Cuban Missile Crisis
2026-04-09 12:00 - 16:00 | John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, University Arts Building - 1664 N. Virginia St., Reno, NV, 89557, United States
In October 1962, Cuba was at the center of a crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Today’s history books and classes are filled with stories of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev locked in a battle of wills, but we know much less about how Cubans themselves responded to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Featuring photographs from Prensa Latina, Cuba’s revolutionary news agency, this exhibit offers a unique, intimate view of Cuban life during the crisis.
Image: Roberto Salas, A young man uses a rangefinder to watch for incoming aircraft, photograph, October 1962, courtesy of Prensa Latina.

Yari Ostovany – Paintings | Savage Mystic Gallery, Reno | April 2–25, 2026
2026-04-09 12:00 - 18:00 | Savage Mystic Gallery, 836 E. Second St., Reno, NV, 89502, United States
Savage Mystic Gallery in Reno, Nevada, is pleased to present “Yari Ostovany: Paintings,” a solo exhibition of works by abstract painter Yari Ostovany, on view April 2 through April 25, 2026.
Ostovany’s paintings explore the expressive possibilities of abstraction through layered color, gestural mark-making, and luminous surfaces. Drawing on influences ranging from the spiritual traditions of Persian art and poetry to the legacy of Western abstraction, his work creates contemplative visual spaces where intuition, memory, and presence converge.
Working primarily in oil on canvas, Ostovany builds his paintings through successive layers of color and texture. Forms emerge, dissolve, and reappear across the surface, suggesting shifting fields of energy, atmosphere, and light.
Ostovany studied art as an undergraduate at the University of Nevada, Reno, and received his Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including exhibitions in Paris, London, Cologne, New York, Los Angeles, and Tehran.
The exhibition will conclude with an artist reception on April 25 from 6–9 p.m. Visitors will have an opportunity to meet the artist and view the exhibition on its final day.
Exhibition Details:
Yari Ostovany: Paintings
Savage Mystic Gallery
836 E Second Street
Reno, NV 89502
April 2 through April 25, 2026
Artist Reception: April 25, 6–9 p.m.
savagemysticart.com
775-444-4605

April Reading Series at Mountain Music Parlor, April 9
2026-04-09 18:30 - 19:30 | Mountain Music Parlor, 735 S Center St, Reno, NV, 89501
The first four weeks of April, Mountain Music Parlor is hosting a three-poet reading on Thursday nights for National Poetry Month at 6:30 p.m. The second night, April 9, will feature readings by Irene Ayala, Marina Leigh, and George Perreault.

Heal The Soul: A Concert of Arias, Art Songs and Spirituals
2026-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Whitney Library, 5175 E. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas, 89122, United States
The Journey of Mary and Joseph to the Birth and Resurrection of Christ: An Oratorio Presented by the Grace City Opera Theater.

HIR
2026-04-10 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-11 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-12 13:30 - 15:30, 2026-04-17 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-18 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-04-19 13:30 - 15:30 | Redfield Studio Theater, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St, Reno, NV, 89557, United States
By Taylor Mac
Directed by Sandy Neace
Reserved Seating: Adults: $25; University of Nevada, Reno Faculty & Staff, Seniors (65+), Non-UNR Students: $20; UNR Students: $5 (Additional transaction fees may apply). Tickets and information at unr.edu/theatre-dance

Las Vegas Bluegrass Festival
2026-04-11 11:00 - 19:00 | Centennial Hills Amphitheater, 7101 N. Buffalo Drive, Las Vegas, NV, 89131, United States
All are welcome to attend the 10th annual free, family-friendly music event featuring headliner Sierra Hull and celebrating the time-honored tradition of Bluegrass and Americana music. Bring your chairs and umbrellas and join us on the lawn in the Centennial Hills Amphitheatre, where you’ll see some of the world’s greatest musical artists! Browse a wide array of folk art, jewelry, and other items in the artisan marketplace, and enjoy tasty barbecue, chicken, burgers and dogs, sweet treats, and plenty of other festival foods, along with beer and margaritas. Bring the kids to engage in our children’s art activities and pop-up recreation games. A perfect day of fun for the entire family.

A.V.A. Ballet Theatre and the Reno Phil's Swan Lake
2026-04-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 South Virginia Street, Reno, 89501, United States
Reno, Nevada – A.V.A. Ballet Theatre presents the classic Swan Lake on April 11 and 12 at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts. The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra will perform the haunting score to this wonderful ballet with Laura Jackson conducting. Re-staged and re-choreographed by Alexander Van Alstyne, Swan Lake is the story of Odette who was turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart. She tells the handsome Prince Siegfried that the only way the spell can be broken is if a man, pure in heart, pledges his love to her. Von Rothbart tries to keep the two apart but in the end they ascend to the heavens above Swan Lake.
Professional dancers from Ballet West will star in the lead roles. The large cast includes many talented dancers from four different ballet studios in the Reno area.
The Saturday April 11 performance will be held at 7 p.m. and the Sunday, April 12 performance will be at 2 p.m. Ticket prices are from $32 to $62 with discounts for seniors and children. For tickets call the Pioneer Center at 775-434-1050 or online at pioneercenter.com. Box office hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
A.V.A. Ballet Theatre is the resident ballet company of the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts. They are northern Nevada’s largest company under the instruction of a professional faculty with years of performing experience in renowned metropolitan ballet and production companies across the United States and Europe.

Abstractly Thinking
2026-04-12 12:00 - 16:00 | Artist Co-op Gallery of Reno, 627 Mill St., Reno, NV, 89505, United States
Join us at the Artists Co-op for “Abstractly Thinking”

April 1-30, 2026

Guest Artist: Trina Craig

Artist of the Month: Michaele Tristram

Consignment Artist of the Month: Sharon Randall

Reception: Sunday, April 12, from noon-4 p.m.

Find out what our abstract artists are thinking and doing. There will be images you have never seen before by our talented community of creative artists. Come enjoy the art, the company, the food, and the wine.

Annual “Senior Art Show” 2026 City of Reno McKinley Galleries
2026-04-13 09:00 - 16:00 | McKinley Arts and Cultural Center, 925 Riverside Dr., Reno, NV, 89503, United States
McKinley Arts & Culture Center
Gallery East/West
April 13 – May 21, 2026
Artist Reception: Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 5-7 p.m.
Reno, Nevada – Gallery East & West in the McKinley Arts & Culture Center is proud to host the “Senior Artists Exhibit & Show,” organized by the City of Reno Senior Citizens Advisory Committee. The exhibition will run from April 13 – May 21, 2026 at the McKinley Arts and Culture Center, Gallery East and West. The public is invited to attend the artists’ reception on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, from 5–7 p.m.
In honor of Older Americans Month this May, the exhibit celebrates seniors’ creativity. This is the fourth annual senior artist exhibit that showcases work by Reno residents aged 60 or older. The show includes a variety of mediums including painting, photography, macramé, needlepoint, crochet, sculpture, pottery, jewelry, glass art, and more.
The McKinley Gallery is one of three galleries operated by the City of Reno and open to the public, free of charge, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. To learn more, please visit: McKinley Gallery East and West | City of Reno Metro Gallery

What Works Goal Setting
2026-04-13 11:30 - 13:30
What Works Goal Setting is the second in a two-part workshop series for Nevada-based artists and creatives. Goal Setting is a practical, artist-led session for defining your own vision of success, using proven goal-setting behaviors.

Success Inventory
Goal Setting Strategies
SMART Goals

What Works is presented in collaboration with the Nevada Arts Council and the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation with Artists Thrive.
Date/Time: Friday, April 13, 2026 from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. PT
Location: Virtual
Cost: Free
Eligibility: Nevada area artists
Age Requirement: 18+
Total Workshop Hours: 2 hours
Preferred Registration Deadline: Wednesday, April 3, 2026 at 5 p.m. PT (to receive physical workshop materials via USPS)
Final Registration Deadline: Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 5 p.m. PT

April Reading Series at Mountain Music Parlor, April 16
2026-04-16 18:30 - 19:30 | Mountain Music Parlor, 735 S Center St, Reno, NV, 89501
The first four weeks of April, Mountain Music Parlor is hosting a three-poet reading on Thursday nights for National Poetry Month at 6:30 p.m. The third night, April 16, will feature readings by this year’s Nevada Writers’ Hall of Fame Silver Pen awardee, Arian Katsimbras, UNR English professor, Ann Keniston, and Nevada State Poet Laureate, Shaun Griffin.

Watercolor Nature Journaling Drop-in Sessions
2026-04-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Corn Creek Visitor Center, 16001 Corn Creek Rd,, NV, Las Vegas, 89124, United States
Enjoy an art session in the surrounding beauty of Corn Creek. Nature journaling is a meaningful way to connect to a place and to record our surroundings with data and creativity.
Our Artist in Resident, Jess Moore will share basic nature journaling skills and share prompts to guide your work. Everyone is an artist with nature journaling. Artists of all ages are invited to participate.
Come for a drop-in watercolor nature journaling session. All materials provided. Please come prepared for casual exploration outdoors on the Corn Creek trails.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe presented by Ely Children's Community Theater
2026-04-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Ely United Methodist Church, 1100 South Pioche Hwy., Ely, NV, 89301, United States
Join Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy as they travel through the wardrobe into Narnia to meet the Lion, Aslan, and free the land from the rule of the White Witch and her perpetual winter.

General admission tickets: $10.00Children (14 and under): free, with an accompanying adult

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is dramatized by Joseph Robinette from the story by C.S. Lewis & produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois

Classix Series | Carmina Burana
2026-04-17 18:00 - 22:00 | Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 South Virginia Street, Reno, 89501, United States
SHOWTIMES:
Friday, April 17: Doors 6 p.m., Concert 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 18: Doors 2:30 p.m., Concert 4 p.m.
Sunday, April 19: Doors 2:30 p.m., Concert 4 p.m.
The Classix Series comes to a triumphant close in the pursuit of happiness, where the program echoes with freedom, resilience, and unrelenting joy. The evening begins with Bernstein’s electrifying “On the Waterfront” Symphonic Suite, pulsing with cinematic drama and raw intensity. The Reno Phil will proudly unveil a newly commissioned work by Michelle Isaac, written to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The work is inspired by the story of Mary Katherine Goddard, the only woman to sign the historic document—a testament to courage, conviction, and the power of a single voice to shape history. The season reaches its grand finale with Orff’s “Carmina Burana,” an exhilarating choral tour de force featuring the Reno Phil Chorus and a powerhouse trio of soloists, its thunderous rhythms and ecstatic melodies transform the concert hall into a whirlwind of fate, fortune, and unrestrained joy.
ON THE PROGRAM
Leonard Bernstein “On the Waterfront”: Symphonic Suite
Michelle Isaac [world premiere, Reno Phil commission]
Carl Orff “Carmina Burana”
TAKE NOTE: There will be three showtimes of this performance. The Saturday performance begins at 4 p.m.
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for 2025-26 Classix Series concerts at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts can only be purchased at this time as part of a Classix 6-concert subscription package. Single tickets for the 2025-2026 Season go on sale Aug. 4, 2025, at 10 a.m. For information on group rates, or other ticket discounts, please visit the Reno Phil Ticket Information Site at renophil.com/ticket-info.

Boulder City Art Guild: Artists in Action
2026-04-18 09:00 - 2026-04-19 16:00 | Boulder City Parks and Recreation, 900 Arizona St., Boulder City, NV, 89005, United States
The Artists in Action Show & Sale features a diverse array of talented artists who not only display and sell their work, but also demonstrate their artistic techniques live.
Visitors have the unique opportunity to watch painters, sculptors, jewelry makers, and other creatives at work while learning about their materials, methods, and inspiration.
Join us for a fun day of art, music, and community spirit.

Flow Fiesta with Sway and Elisa!
2026-04-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Sierra View Library – Reno, 4001 South Virginia Street, Reno, NV, 89502, United States
As part of the ongoing nationwide annual Día festivities, celebrate the importance of literacy for children on Saturday, April 18, 2026, from 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at Sierra View Library in Reno! Josue Valadaze collaborates with Elisa Garcia, the City of Reno Poet Laureate, to bring poetry to life through hip hop beats, nursery rhymes, and storytelling at 1 p.m. Together, they remix classic children’s verses, poems, and stories into interactive performances that invite children ages 5 and up to clap, move, and create alongside them. Blending rhythm with children’s literature, they make poetry accessible, bilingual, and rooted in community to encourage kids to see themselves as writers and performers.
Please note: Space for this event is limited, and registration is required. Parents will be required to attend with their children. Please only register the number of children who will be participating in the event.
This program is supported by Nevada Humanities and is part of Washoe County Library System’s Children’s Day/Book Day celebration. El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), commonly known as Día, is a celebration every day of children, families, and reading that culminates yearly on April 30. Día is a nationally recognized initiative that emphasizes the importance of literacy for all children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
