Nevada Humanities

Nevada Humanities awards matching project grants—Major Project Grants, Mini-Grants, and Planning Grants—to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, education institutions, and government and tribal entities to support public humanities projects across Nevada.

Nevada Center for the Book (a Library of Congress Affiliate) is a program of Nevada Humanities dedicated to promoting literature and literacy throughout the Silver State. Two books by Nevada authors have been selected to represent Nevada at the National Book Festival–Nudi Gill by Bonnie Kelso and Chasing Giants by Zeb Hogan and Stefan Lovgren.

Nevada Reads is a statewide book club that invites Nevadans to read selected works of literature and come together in community conversations and literary programs. Author GennaRose Nethercott is featured at June 2023 events at public libraries across Nevada.

Nevada Humanities announces Memory and Resistance: Remembering Japanese American Incarceration — an evening conversation marking the 81st anniversary of the Japanese American incarceration during WWII.

Nevada Humanities presents a new exhibition, Lifting the Veil: Interpretations of Space in the Nevada Landscape, that allows viewers to experience Nevada through artworks focused on the diverse elements of the Nevada landscape.

Thirty cultural organizations across Nevada have been awarded $194,110 in Major Project Grants by Nevada Humanities.

These grants fund humanities projects across the state and benefit nonprofit organizations and government and tribal entities, including libraries, museums, and schools to fund public and educational programs in the humanities. Nevada Humanities Major Project Grants offer up to $7,500 to facilitate local cultural programs and explore issues that matter to Nevadans.

Nevada Humanities announces an online conversation about community, self-determination, and sovereignty with members of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation on October 26 at 6:30 pm PDT/7:30 pm MDT.

Nevada Humanities presents Heart to Heart: Our Pandemic Stories, a new exhibition curated by Kathleen Kuo, Nevada Humanities Program Manager, from October 6 through November 22, 2022 at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery, 1017 South 1st Street, #190, Las Vegas.

The 2022 Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl will take place Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. in Reno, featuring an exploratory day of literary events. Over 40 fiction, non-fiction, and poetry readings, as well as panel discussions, book signings, art installations and projects, and creative workshops are part of the 2022 Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl.

As part of the ongoing Nevada Humanities Exhibition Series, a new exhibition, Along the Colorado opens at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery on August 4, 2022, and will be on display online at nevadahumanities.org. Along the Colorado, produced by Nevada Humanities and curated by Nevada artist Sapira Cheuk, includes paintings, mixed media, and video works that explore the water crisis faced by the desert Southwest, the nation, and the planet.

Nevada Humanities, in partnership with Double Scoop, is hosting a timely conversation about the many connections between art and mental health.

Nevada Humanities, in partnership with Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation, is launching Humanities in Nature, which is a series of outdoor nature walks that are part of the Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation Discover Your Parks walk series at northern Nevada parks.

As part of the ongoing Nevada Humanities Exhibition Series, a new exhibition, Mojave by Jeff Fulmer, opens at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery on March 31, 2022, and will be on display as a virtual exhibition indefinitely at nevadahumanities.org.

Nevada Humanities announces a new initiative of humanities-based programming through 2022 entitled A More Perfect Union. Nevada Humanities’ A More Perfect Union initiative is designed to demonstrate and enhance the critical role the humanities play in our nation.

Nevada Humanities has awarded 60 grants totaling $614,357.92 to 44 nonprofit organizations across Nevada.

Supported by the federal American Rescue Plan Relief Act (ARP), Nevada Humanities Relief Operating Grant and Nevada Humanities Recovery Program Grants help Nevada’s humanities-focused organizations prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nevada Humanities is pleased to announce that Humanities Heart to Heart, a virtual essay program of Nevada Humanities, has won the 2021 Helen and Martin Schwartz Prize for outstanding public humanities programming conducted or supported by a state humanities council in 2020.

Nevada Humanities is pleased to announce the publication of Sagebrush to Sandstone: A Humanities Guide to Outdoor Nevada, a 100-page nature guide published by Nevada Humanities and designed by Black Rock Press, including special front and back covers letterpress printed by Black Rock Press.

Nevada Humanities is pleased to announce a funding opportunity to grant $612,049 to Nevada communities through Nevada Humanities American Rescue Plan Relief and Recovery Grants.

Nevada Humanities will host a free, virtual event with authors Kendra Atleework and Michael P. Branch, celebrating the paperback release of Ms. Atleework’s book Miracle Country: A Memoir of a Family and a Landscape.

Nevada Humanities will conclude its Why It Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation series — a national initiative about civic and electoral engagement — with two events in May. Why It Matters: Journalism and Democracy will be held on Tuesday, May 11 from noon to 1 p.m. on Zoom.

Nevada Humanities welcomes Nevadans to join in a free, virtual Meet the Authors Earth Day Conversation between the authors of 2021 Nevada Reads books on Thursday, April 22, 2021, at 2-3 pm PDT on Zoom.

Kendra Atleework, author of Miracle Country: A Memoir, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, will join in a discussion and Q&A, which will be moderated by author and educator Gayle Brandeis, around the 2021 Nevada Reads theme, “Cultivating Environmental Literacy.”

A panel of community members and advocates will talk about the history of dis-enfranchisement policies throughout the United States, including current laws that strip formerly incarcerated citizens and other marginalized people from their right to vote.

Nevada Humanities, in collaboration with Core Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno, The Humanities Center at Great Basin College, and with the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at UNLV, welcomes author and historian Isabel Wilkerson to a keynote talk.

Washoe County Commissioner Alexis Hill, Nevada State Senator Nicole Cannizzaro, West Wendover Mayor Daniel Corona, and Nevada State Senator Ben Kieckhefer will come together for a conversation to discuss what brought them to politics and public service.

The Capital City Arts Initiative (CCAI) announces its exhibition, "Photo Finished 2021", at the Community Development Building (the Brick), 108 E Proctor Street, Carson City through March 25, 2021.

Thirteen seniors from Carson High School’s Advanced Photography program have work in the exhibit which is available online at ccainv.org.

Nevada Humanities has announced the book selections for its statewide 2021 Nevada Reads program. Nevada Reads will feature two memoirs — Miracle Country: A Memoir by Kendra Atleework, and World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

Nevada Humanities has been awarded $50,000 by The Federation of State Humanities Councils and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a new national initiative, Why It Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation, which will explore civic participation as it relates to electoral engagement in a multivocal democracy.

The Capital City Arts Initiative and Western Nevada College present "Metallum Terrae" an exhibition by Kyle Karrasch in the college’s Bristlecone Gallery, 2201 W College Parkway, Carson City now through Dec. 17, 2020. The gallery is open to the public, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The Capital City Arts Initiative presents its exhibition, "Relaunch", by artist Mark Brandvik at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery. The exhibition will be in the gallery from October 2, 2020 – January 28, 2021.

As part of National Arts and Humanities Month in October, Nevada Humanities and the Gender, Race and Identity Department and the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, are pleased to present Writing from the Margins: Poetry and Puerto Rico.