Families are encouraged to visit the Nevada State Museum, Carson City, on Saturday, May 30 to participate in the Western Dream Spaces youth art workshop from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Led by Nevada-born multidisciplinary artist Amadour, Western Dream Spaces is a hands-on experience that promotes healing, imagination, storytelling and creative inspiration through contemporary art, geometric abstraction, architecture, and the cultural landscapes of the American West.
Participants will create their own symbolic “dream spaces” using color, geometric shapes, texture, composition, and sculptural design while learning how artists and architects use visual language to shape emotion, memory, identity, and community. Through drawing, collage, painting, and spatial thinking exercises, children will explore how art can become a place of reflection, healing, creativity, and self-expression.
The workshop will also include an accessible art history presentation for young learners focused on architecture, public art, geometric abstraction, desert landscapes, mining history, and the visual culture of Nevada and the American West. Participants will learn how artists use shape, space, and storytelling to explore history, identity, community, and place through engaging examples designed for children and families.
Designed for ages 6–12, Western Dream Spaces encourages creative confidence, mindfulness, collaboration, problem-solving, and emotional expression while introducing participants to contemporary art, architecture, and Nevada history within an engaging museum setting.
Sponsored, in part, by the Nevada Arts Council, Western Dream Spaces is free to attend, but it does not include the cost of admission to the museum. Admission is $10 per adult and free for members and children 17 and under.
The Nevada State Museum is located at 600 N. Carson Street in Carson City and is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
About the Artist
Amadour is a Nevada-born multidisciplinary artist, musician, and educator based between Los Angeles, New York City, and Nevada. Their work explores geometric abstraction, architecture, desert landscapes, cinematic storytelling, and the evolving history of the American West.
Amadour has exhibited internationally, including in Tokyo and across the United States, and has previously collaborated on youth workshops and community arts programming with the Nevada Museum of Art, Artown, and the Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows.
Their solo exhibition, Amadour: Nevada Proscenium, will be on view at Truckee Meadows Community College from May 18 through June 18. The exhibition features geometric abstract paintings inspired by Nevada deserts, mining histories, theater stage design, highways, architecture, and the changing light of the American West. Through layered color, gold leaf, reflective surfaces, and geometric compositions, the works explore Nevada as both a physical landscape and a symbolic stage shaped by history, memory, movement, and imagination.
About the Nevada State Museum, Carson City
Founded in 1939, The Nevada State Museum (NSM) preserves the state’s history through unique and authentic educational experiences via its collections, exhibits, events, and outreach activities. The knowledge of the staff’s archivists, scientists, and historians provides leadership in heritage education which adheres to the highest standards of public-trust stewardship. For more information, visit https://www.carsonnvmuseum.org/
