Audubon Birds at the Nevada Museum of Art

Even if you aren't particulaly into birds, you'll enjoy the current featured exhibit Explorer, Naturalist, Artist: John James Audubon and The Birds of America at the Nevada Museum of Art (NMA) in Reno. This exhibition features fifty of Audubon's most dramatic and life-sized watercolor paintings from the first-edition printing of The New York Historical Society Edition. The works on display are from The Dana Rose Richardson Memorial Collection of Audubon Prints that is housed at the Nevada Museum of Art.

There are other events related to the Audubon exhibition, including...

Lahontan Audubon Society Bird Walks - Group size is limited and reservations are required. Suggested $5 donation to LAS.
- December 11 at 9 a.m. - Contact: Linda Badzioch, 775-851-8353 or lbadzioch@pyramid.net
- December 18 at 8:30 a.m. - Contact: Quentin Browne & Christiane Omer, 775-354-2634, happycpo@aol.com

Birds & Books with Lahontan Audubon Society - Join the Lahontan Audubon Society Birds & Books Group for a free discussion of John James Audubon: The Making of an American, and a tour of the feature exhibition. Book available for purchase in the Museum Store. December 16 at 6:30 p.m.

ART BITE Wings Over Nevada: John James Audubon Never Saw These Birds - Discover Nevada's amazing diversity of birds with Alan Gubanich, Vice-President of the Lahontan Audubon Society, who presents a photographic tour of the Silver State's birds. December 10 at noon.

Source: Nevada Museum of Art press release.

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