Nevada Humanities

Nevada Humanities creates public programs and supports public projects statewide that articulate the Nevada experience, feature local culture and heritage, encourage intellectual curiosity, and facilitate the exploration of ideas and issues that matter to Nevadans and their communities. Founded in 1972, and now with offices in Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada Humanities is one of 56 independent, nonprofit state and territorial humanities councils who partner with the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Nevada Humanities’ programs include the award-winning Great Basin Young Chautauqua program, the Online Nevada Encyclopedia, the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl, the Las Vegas Book Festival, Nevada Reads, Letters About Literature, Nevada Humanities Awards, the Nevada Center for the Book, Nevada Humanities Program Gallery and Exhibition Series, The Salon and Pop-Up Salon programs, and statewide outreach programs and collaborations. Nevada Humanities performs the dual roles of conducting humanities programs of its own and re-granting state and federal funds designated for this purpose to Nevada nonprofit organizations to support the creation of dynamic public humanities projects. Nevada Humanities programs are implemented statewide, in both rural and urban parts of the state. For more information about Nevada Humanities visit nevadahumanities.org.