The Atlas: A Radically Accessible Education and Research Hub
FAIN: CHA-264409-19
Nevada Museum of Art, Inc. (Reno, NV 89501-1916)
Ann M. Wolfe (Project Director: August 2018 to May 2024)
A project to expand research and educational
facilities in a new campus that would enhance accessibility to the Museum’s art
and archival collections, which hold the work of American artists, Australian
aboriginal painters, landscape photographers, eco-artists, and which total approximately
3,000 fine art objects, 7,500 library books, and 1,000,000 archival items.
Building upon an existing global focus on art and environment, the Nevada Museum of Art is working with architect Rem Koolhaas’s Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) to expand its research and education facilities to better serve our communities and to lead our region into a future driven by creative innovation. The Museum seeks to establish a new campus known as the Atlas, a radically accessible education and research hub where art catalyzes interdisciplinary inquiry and curiosity about our changing world. The Atlas will use the Museum’s unique art, archives, and library collections to enable visitors to experience those collections rhizomatically, i.e., driven by their own interests, impulses, and ideas. Boundaries between galleries, learning laboratories, storage areas, social spaces, and the outdoors will be porous. This challenge grant will support Phase Two of the project’s conception and design, the goal of which is a unified programmatic and architectural design.
Associated Products
Reno expansion designs and renderings by architect Will Bruder (Building)Name: Reno expansion designs and renderings by architect Will Bruder
Abstract: These designs and renderings were developed by architect Will Bruder in late 2019. These represent the current vision for the Nevada Museum of Art expansion project, including an expanded campus; new Center for Art + Environment archive, library, and research center; increased educational space for school groups; greatly expanded gallery spaces; and new collection storage space. These designs and renderings allow us to move forward with project fundraising and provide a practical guide for the work to be completed.
Director: Ann Wolfe, Project Director
Year: 2019
Chuck and Stacie Mathewson's $16M donation propels Nevada Museum of Art's ambitious expansion (Article)Title: Chuck and Stacie Mathewson's $16M donation propels Nevada Museum of Art's ambitious expansion
Author: Mark Robison
Abstract: News Article: Chuck and Stacie Mathewson's $16M donation propels Nevada Museum of Art's ambitious expansion
Year: 2023
Primary URL:
https://www.rgj.com/story/news/local/2023/10/13/nevada-museum-art-charles-stacie-mathewson-education-research-center-expansion/71132087007/Primary URL Description: Link to article: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/local/2023/10/13/nevada-museum-art-charles-stacie-mathewson-education-research-center-expansion/71132087007/
Format: Newspaper
Publisher: Reno Gazette Journal