Cultural Center Artown
Citywide · Reno
Reno's beloved month-long July arts festival bringing hundreds of free performances, exhibitions, and studio tours to parks, galleries, and public spaces across the city since 1996.
Art Galleries in Reno
Reno calls itself the Biggest Little City in the World, and its art scene lives up to that paradox - a metropolitan arts infrastructure of genuine depth in a compact and accessible city that sits in the shadow of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada. The Nevada Museum of Art is the only accredited art museum in the state and holds a strong permanent collection with particular depth in landscape painting and photography of the American West, alongside a contemporary program that regularly presents work of national significance. Reno's downtown arts district, energized in part by the cultural aftereffects of Burning Man - which draws tens of thousands of participants annually to the Black Rock Desert 100 miles north - has developed a lively community of studios, alternative spaces, and galleries that reflect the city's distinctive mix of casino culture and counterculture creativity.
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Museum Nevada Museum of Art
Downtown Reno · Reno
The only accredited art museum in Nevada, housed in a striking zinc-clad building designed by Will Bruder. The collection focuses on art of the American West and the Great Basin, with an innovative Center for Art + Environment.
Gallery Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery
University of Nevada Reno · Reno
The primary exhibition space for the University of Nevada Reno's Department of Art, presenting work by students, faculty, and invited national artists across all media in a purpose-built gallery on campus.
Cultural Center Sierra Arts Foundation
Downtown Reno · Reno
A nonprofit arts organization supporting Northern Nevada artists through grants, residencies, gallery exhibitions, and public programming, with a gallery space presenting rotating community exhibitions.
Gallery Stremmel Gallery
South Meadows · Reno
One of the most respected fine art galleries in the Mountain West, representing nationally recognized painters and sculptors with a focus on contemporary realism, abstraction, and Western American art.
Cultural Center The Holland Project
Midtown Reno · Reno
Reno's essential DIY arts and music venue, running a gallery, recording studio, and event space for independent artists and musicians - the cultural heartbeat of the city's alternative creative community.
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Reno's Creative Renaissance
Reno's transformation from a small gambling town into a creative community has been driven in part by Burning Man, the annual arts festival on the Black Rock Desert 100 miles north of the city, which has seeded a culture of large-scale fabrication, installation art, and creative community that operates year-round in Reno's studios and warehouse spaces. The Nevada Museum of Art, housed in a striking Will Bruder-designed building in the heart of downtown, runs an ambitious program of contemporary and historical exhibitions with particular strength in art that engages with the Western landscape and environment. The Stremmel Gallery, one of the region's most respected commercial galleries, has championed contemporary painting and sculpture for decades. The downtown Midtown District has emerged as Reno's most creative neighborhood, with galleries, studios, and independent businesses occupying former warehouses and storefronts in a neighborhood that retains the gritty energy of genuine creative community. The city's art world is a genuine discovery for visitors who take time to look beyond the casino strip along Virginia Street.