Locally made whips on the wall at the Holland Project Gallery on 140 Vesta Street as part of an ongoing exhibit called “Whip Craft: Illegal Art of Downtown Reno”, until April 18th with a reception April 1st at 6 p.m..
Here’s a statement from the organizers which looks back at an anti whip ordinance for which Reno was made fun of nationally.
“In October 2021 the City of Reno banned the possession of bullwhips. Though this move seemed like a wacky oddity to the national press (with headlines in AP, New York Magazine, Daily Mail and many more), it was in fact a reaction to an unlikely cultural phenomenon unique to Reno,” the press release for the exhibit indicates…