Nevada Museum of Art announces award winners

More than 280 imaginative teenagers across Northern Nevada, which include a university student from Truckee, will shortly be awarded for their initial artwork submitted to this year’s Scholastic Art Awards. A panel of neighborhood judges sorted by much more than 1,200 works submitted in 17 classes for the Northern Nevada visible arts element of the 2021 Scholastic Arts & Producing Awards, overseen by the Nevada Museum of Art. Winners and scholarship recipients will be honored with a virtual ceremony, premiering reside on the Nevada Museum of Art Fb site at YouTube channels at 6 pm this Friday, Feb. 19.

Exhibitions of the American Visions Nominees and Gold Important successful performs are on watch through March 5 at the Nevada Museum of Art and Sheppard Up to date at the College of Nevada, Reno, respectively.

Judges deliberated around which submissions would acquire awards dependent on originality, technical techniques and the emergence of a own eyesight. From the submissions preferred to acquire awards, 5 performs ended up nominated for the American Visions Award, the best regional honor. Judges chosen 125 personal parts and 7 portfolios to acquire Gold Important awards. American Visions Nominees and Gold Crucial profitable performs will go on to compete at the national degree and have the prospect to be acknowledged as the greatest up-and-coming artists in the country. Judges selected 197 supplemental specific submissions and 14 portfolios to receive the Silver Important award for fantastic achievement at the regional amount. The panel selected 309 individual submissions and 10 portfolios to acquire Honorable Point out. Lastly, five college students demonstrating extraordinary talent were awarded scholarships.



For the initially time, the Museum is partnering with the College of Nevada, Reno College of the Arts and Faculty of Liberal Arts to current concurrent exhibitions of find winning performs. Select Gold Crucial artworks will be exhibited at the Sheppard Modern day gallery at The Lilley Museum of Art at the College as a result of March 5, 2021. Meanwhile, the five American Visions nominees will be on display screen at the Nevada Museum of Art, Donald W. Reynolds Centre for the Visible Arts, Wayne L. Prim Theater Foyer, situated at 160 West Liberty Avenue in downtown Reno, Feb. 5 by means of March 5.

Award-successful learners, their buddies and families, and the public are invited to enjoy the digital awards ceremony, Friday, Feb. 19, on the Nevada Museum of Art Facebook Web site and on YouTube. The stay broadcast will start at 6 pm and will feature choose student, their will work, and speeches from previous winners, teachers, and Museum personnel. A recording of the broadcast will be readily available to share just after the function.



The Scholastic Artwork & Composing Awards is the longest-working countrywide arts recognition initiative for innovative teens. Considering that 1923 the Awards have determined and awarded some of the nation’s most accomplished visionaries. Past winners involve influential American artists and writers this sort of as Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Stephen King, and Reno’s own Michael Sarich. For 23 years, the Nevada Museum of Art has overseen the Northern Nevada regional visual arts part of the Scholastic Artwork & Composing Awards.

The 2021 Scholastic Art Awards is generously sponsored by an anonymous donor, Town of Reno Arts & Tradition Fee, and the Nell J. Redfield Foundation. Added aid is offered from Wild Women Artists.

Supply: The Nevada Museum of Art