Western Dream Spaces: A Youth Workshop with Artist Amadour in Geometric Abstraction, Architecture, Healing, and Nevada History

Nevada State Museum presents Western Dream Spaces, a youth arts and healing workshop led by Nevada-born multidisciplinary artist Amadour. Inspired by contemporary art, geometric abstraction, architecture, and the cultural landscapes of the American West, this hands-on workshop invites young participants to explore creativity, storytelling, emotional wellness, and imaginative world-building through art.

Participants will create their own symbolic “dream spaces” using color, geometric shapes, texture, composition, and sculptural design while learning how artists and architects use visual language to shape emotion, memory, identity, and community. Through drawing, collage, painting, and spatial thinking exercises, children will explore how art can become a place of reflection, healing, creativity, and self-expression.

The workshop will also include an accessible art history presentation for young learners focused on architecture, public art, geometric abstraction, desert landscapes, mining history, and the visual culture of Nevada and the American West. Participants will learn how artists use shape, space, and storytelling to explore history, identity, community, and place through engaging examples designed for children and families.

Designed for ages 6–12, Western Dream Spaces encourages creative confidence, mindfulness, collaboration, problem-solving, and emotional expression while introducing participants to contemporary art, architecture, and Nevada history within an engaging museum setting.

This activity will run approximately 2 hours long from 10 AM to 12 PM on Saturday, May 30th. Admission to the museum is NOT included. 

About the Artist

Amadour is a Nevada-born multidisciplinary artist, musician, and educator based between Los Angeles, New York City, and Nevada. Their work explores geometric abstraction, architecture, desert landscapes, cinematic storytelling, and the evolving history of the American West. Amadour has exhibited internationally, including in Tokyo and across the United States, and has previously collaborated on youth workshops and community arts programming with the Nevada Museum of Art, Artown, and the Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows.

Their solo exhibition, Amadour: Nevada Proscenium, will be on view at Truckee Meadows Community College from May 18 through June 18. The exhibition features geometric abstract paintings inspired by Nevada deserts, mining histories, theater stage design, highways, architecture, and the changing light of the American West. Through layered color, gold leaf, reflective surfaces, and geometric compositions, the works explore Nevada as both a physical landscape and a symbolic stage shaped by history, memory, movement, and imagination.

Through workshops and community engagement, Amadour encourages young artists to see creativity as a powerful tool for imagination, healing, and connection.

Sponsored in part by the Nevada Arts Council.