From Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement
Washoe County Library Our Safe Reopening
Washoe County Library offers limited walk-up or drive-up hold pickup at nine locations. Visit our schedule and hours page to see all the drive-up and walk-up hours. Book drops are now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week at all locations except the Duncan/Traner, Verdi, and Senior Center libraries. Return your items only to book drops; staff are unable to personally accept returns.
Virtual Events • May 5 - Revenge of the Fifth Trivia, Star Wars Trivia Night, 6-6:45 p.m. Registration required. • May 10 - Movie Minute, 7-7:15 p.m., digital library, Asian/ Pacific American Heritage Month: Life of Pi, The Farewell, The Namesake, Enter the Dragon, Moana. • May 14 - Library Pro Tips - Power Searching. Explore thebrand-new library catalog. Physical copies and downloadable ones, discover your next favorite book, 1-2 p.m. • May 15 - How Do You Solitaire? 10-10:15 a.m., demonstrating different variety of solitaire games. Must register. • May 17 Movie Minute, 7-7:15 p.m., digital library, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: Life of Pi, The Farewell, The Namesake, Enter the Dragon, Moana. • May 20 - Nevada Historical Society, 12-1 p.m., digital library. High Noon with Neal Cobb: Preserving one of the UNR Gateway District Homes. Saving a 1890s Queen Anne cottage, the UNR Gateway District Adopt-A-House program. • May 20 - Washoe County Library Virtual Book Discussion: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See. Register by Zoom, title is in Overdrive, the library’s downloadable e-book catalog.
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• June 17 - The Lost Children Archive, 2-3:30 p.m., by Valeria Liuselli. May 2021 // www.SeniorSpectrumNewspapers.com
TALK: May 13, 4-5 p.m. Melissa Leventon, a co-founder of Curatrix Group and former Curator-in-Charge of Textiles at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, takes audiences on a journey to the unconventional creativity of the British Aesthetic Movement, a revolution in fashion and decorative arts. Hosted on Zoom, email christian.davies@nevadaart.org.
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n the second half of the nineteenth century, a group of iconoclastic creators pushed against industrialization to enlighten humanity with their revolutionary take on beauty. Drawn from the collection of the city of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Victorian Radicals brings together more than 145 paintings, works on paper, and decorative objects—many of which have never been exhibited outside the U.K.—to illuminate this dynamic period of British art. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the champions of the Arts & Crafts Movement offered a radical vision of art and society inspired by pre-Renaissance culture. Works by pioneering artists Ford Madox Brown, Kate Elizabeth Bunce, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and others, represent the response of Britain’s first modern art movement to the industrialization of the period. Artists and designers explored vital concerns of their time— the relationship between art and nature, religious themes, questions of class and gender identity, the value of the handmade versus machine production, and the search for beauty in an age of industry. This is the final opportunity to see this unparalleled exhibition before it leaves the West Coast. JOHN HAWLEY OLDS LAGATTA GALLERY | FLOOR 3 ROBERT Z. HAWKINS GALLERY | FLOOR 3
