Immediately following the Opening Celebration, join esteemed museum director Jim Ballinger and Mirage exhibition artist Frances Ashforth in a discussion that will explore why landscape remains an important subject for artists in 21st century America.  At this moment, when some critics declare painting dead and many contemporary artists work in non-traditional media, why does artwork that responds to landscape continue to resonate? How does the trajectory of landscape art mirror the time in which it is made?

Mirage: Energy, Water and Creativity in the Great Basin is supported in part by grants from the Robert Lehman Foundation and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.