Gallery Events

No Strings Attached

Valentines Exhibition and
Silent Auction

Jan. 23-Feb. 10
Hours: M-Th:11a-5p, F:11a-2p

Feb. 10
Silent Auction and Reception 5:30-8p
Auction starts at 5:30 p.m. and ends at 6:30 p.m.
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Church Fine Arts Building

Gallery-as-Studio Artist

Feb. 13, Opening Lecture, 5:30 p.m.
Wells Fargo Auditorum, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
Feb. 13-24, Open Studio, for hours call 775-784-6658
Feb. 23, Closing Lecture, 5:30 p.m., Room 153
Church Fine Arts Building, and Reception, 6:30-8 p.m.
Feb. 27-March 9, normal gallery hours
The most exciting event of the spring season is the experimental program, Gallery-as-Studio Artist Residency. After requesting nominations from around the country, a shortlist of 10 artists was created and invitations to apply were sent. One artist will be in residence for two weeks in Reno between Feb. 13 and 24 using the gallery space as their studio to create new work, which will result in an exhibition after they leave. The artist was selected based on their interest in the local Reno area, their response to the space, and availability to the public and student population. The winning nomination is Amy Sacksteder. She is an associate professor of art at Eastern Michigan University; she received her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Dayton in 2001 and received her master’s degree in painting from Northern Illinois University in 2004. Sacksteder has been featured in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, attended artist residencies in Illinois, Newfoundland, Southern France, Philadelphia, Budapest and Reykjavik, and published in journals such as New American Paintings.

“Annual Student Art show”, Juror TBA

March 15 - March 30
Lecture March 15: 5:30 – 6:30 TBA location, reception to 8pm

Two Collaboration: Tad Beck with Jennifer Locke Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery with Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Gallery

April 12, 5:30 p.m., Wells Fargo Auditorium, Matthewson-IGT Knowledge Center
More thantwo years ago, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery director Marjorie Vecchio curated an exhibition entitled “I Like Winners: Sport and Selfhood.” During the opening week, many of the participating artists were in town and two of them, Tad Beck and Jennifer Locke, instantly became friends and artistic collaborators. The artists felt so strongly about their collaborative relationship, they invited Vecchio to propose a curated show entitled ”Capsize” at one of the country’s most respected and established interdisciplinary art venues, the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). That proposal was not only accepted but given high priority by the assistant director and curator of LACE, Robert Crouch, and will be installed, with Vecchio as the curator, in their Main Exhibition Space. Given that this exciting partnership started in Reno, the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery continues the collaborative spirit and brings artists Beck and Locke, as well as the LACE curator, Crouch, to Reno for a four-day residency to produce a catalog with introductions by both Vecchio and Crouch, and a keynote essay by University of California, Riverside scholar Jennifer Doyle.