Monthly Archives: January, 2010
Artown awarded $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant
For the second consecutive year the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded Artown $20,000, this time for the 2010 festival, one of only two grants awarded to Nevada-based organizations. As the nation’s largest funder of the arts, NEA’s one-year Access to Artistic Excellence grant helps Artown to bring a diverse array of arts and culture to Reno, Nev., through the entire month of July.
Nevada Small Business Development Center offers free monthly seminars
“Energy Efficiency” seminars teach local businesses how to reduce energy use, lower costs
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASEThe University of Nevada, Reno’s Small Business Development Center is...
Something really gross is coming to Reno
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE Animal Grossology exhibit opens January 30 at the Wilbur D. May Museum.Some of the slimiest, stinkiest and downright yuckiest...
Everyday Mysteries: Roy Curtis’s photographs of Reno in the 1920s
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE The Nevada Historical Society will present “Everyday Mysteries” an exhibition of work by Reno commercial photographer, Roy Curtis. Curtis's photographs will...
Genoa Cowboy Festival announces juried art show
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASEWestern, cowboy, and southwest Indian artists are invited to submit an application to participate in galleries planned as part of the Genoa...
Chancellor says Nevada higher education system will plan for 8 percent budget cuts
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASEby Sean Whaley - Nevada News BureauChancellor Dan Klaich has informed the state budget office that the higher education system will participate...
Saddle-Trained Horses Available for Adoption on Saturday, February 13
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Nevada Department of Agriculture & the Nevada Department of Corrections invite horse lovers and...
BLM schedules observation days to view Calico wild horse gather
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASEThe Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Winnemucca District has tentatively scheduled eleven observation days in January to provide the media and public...
Governor Gibbons unveils education reform plan – political rivals raise questions
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASEby Sean Whaley - Nevada News BureauGov. Jim Gibbons today released a plan to make sweeping changes to the state's public education...
Renaissance scholar to give Raphael opening talk
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASEOpening Talk: David Alan Brown on Raphael
Saturday, Jan. 9, 11 a.m.
David Alan Brown, renowned Renaissance scholar and curator of Italian Painting at...
