Native American Collection Project and Installation

The Nevada Museum of Art will undertake a project focused on its collection of late 20th-century and contemporary Native American basketry and Pueblo pottery, to be carried out in tandem with an Indigenous garden project (supported by a 2023 Luce grant). In concert with Native American stakeholders and regional communities, NMA will survey, document, and preserve the collection before reinstalling and interpreting it in new galleries adjacent to the rooftop Indigenous Garden. Collaborations facilitated through the museum’s open-access Art + Environment Lab will foreground living cultural traditions and practices and their integral relationships to the environments and natural resources that inspire and nurture them. A new mural by Newe/Western Shoshone and Wá∙šiw/Washoe artist Jack Malotte Key will be a key feature of the galleries. Voices of makers and community members, including the Great Basin Native Basketweavers Association, will inform and be included in the gallery program through touch-screen kiosks and gallery handbooks.