UNDER THE MOUNTAIN
UNDER THE MOUNTAIN
Experience Reno’s Largest Art Immersive
Look Beneath It All
Open THursday - Sunday
12pm - 11pm
All ages are welcome!
Check out our family, student and senior memberships for special discounts.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
June Bug: A Potentialist Art Party & Fundraiser
Saturday, June 27th 12pm - 8pm
Join us for our annual Potentialist Fundraiser! This year the theme is June Bug! Get ready for many bug-rific creations!🐞🪲🐜🐛
Featuring live music, artist performances, crafts, puppets and playful shenanigans!
Band Lineup:
Heterophobia
Rigorous Proof
We'll also have over 30 local art vendors, food trucks, and tours of our 20,000 sqft immersive art exhibit!
This is an all-ages event from 12pm - 8pm on Saturday, June 27th. We are calling all the weird and wonderful creatives and connoisseurs who make our arts community so vibrant to celebrate with us.
We're coming up on our 12th birthday and want to share it with you!✨
Angel Teeth Artist Reception
Saturday, July 3rd 6pm - 9pm
Angelina, Angel Teeth, is a self-taught artist working out of Washington state. This is Angel Teeth's first show in Nevada. With a focus on the self, transformation, stars, angels, and devils. Visceral imagery combined with vibrant colors. Inspired by dreams. Unsettling and unique.
“I have had a rough time navigating the world as a disabled person, and I find an outlet through art that allows me to express my true self. I also enjoy the collaborative experience of it, how someone interprets my work. It's a conversation between the viewer, the art, and the artist. I am inspired by music, nature, people, colors, and materials. I love using found objects in my work as often as I can and allowing them to influence me.”
All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.
Kids Monster Making Series with sam sidman
Wednesdays June 24th - July 22nd
Join us for a free Summer series for kiddos ages 5 - 12. Advanced registration is required and each class is limited to 15 students.
Kids will paint a monster with a focus on texture and color. Adult supervision is mandatory. Each child will leave with an awesome monster painting!
Teacher Bio
Sam Sidman is an artist and teacher with a master's degree in education. She works full-time for the Washoe County School District and helps with art in the Under the Mountain immersive.
*Please be sure to dress in clothes that can get messy
JUly Fairy Fair
Saturday, July 11th 12pm - 8pm
Join us for our May Fairy Fair, a mystical market featuring over 30 local vendors, GD's kitchen food truck, a bar, live music, tarot, tours of our 20,000 sqft immersive art exhibit and so much more. Vendors will be inside the art immersive and outside in the sculpture garden! 🧚♂️ All bands will be outside on our boat stage from 5pm - 8pm.
The theme is water fairies! We'll have misting tents, water guns and a kiddie pool for everyone to cool down! Please dress in your most bubbly attire! 🫧
This is an all-ages event from 12pm - 8pm on Saturday, March 23rd. Dress in your favorite mythical attire and dance in the sunshine with the fairies!
Kids 4 and under get in for free! Kids 12 and under $10.
Adult tickets are $15 and all tickets include full access to our 3-floor art immersive created by over 60 local, regional and international artists! Meet our talking mushroom, dance with the cave witches, climb the Tinkertown Spaceship and make a wish in our crystal grotto.
Interested in vending? Apply here: July Fairy Fair Vendor Registration
What we’re working on
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Upside Down Universe is a bedtime story come to life. Our art director Pan and his son Axiom have been collectively building the Upside Down Universe together for over 8 years.
The story starts a little like this….
There is a story. A story worth telling. And it starts with a little boy and his father. They move to a new home one Sunday. It was an ordinary Sunday, in an ordinary house. His room was not very clean, and so he spent the whole day arranging it just how he liked. At night he heard a strange scratching noise form inside his closet.
The boy naturally tries to ignore it. But it gets louder, and louder, until a gruff voice sounds from behind the door…
"Woah what's that?!"
The boy was terrified and stumbled for the stick he keeps for just a moment like this. He slowly opened the closet door, ready for whatever horror lay inside, but there was nothing - a simple, fairly empty closet.
Until something tapped him on the shoulder, and he turned to find a monster! It was a very small monster, about 3 feet tall, with horns, purple fur and big yellow eyes.
The boy fell and scrambled until the side of the closet was at his back.
The monster only said, "Hurry up" and grabbed the boy by the hand, to drag him through the small door that appeared at the closets very end.
They came out through a wishing well, in a strange new world.
This place has had many names.
And many children to name it.
But this boy called it Upside Down Land.
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Thursday - Sunday from 12pm - 11pm
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General Admission (Age 12+): $20
Seniors: $15
Students: $10
Child (Age 5-12): $10
Infant (4 and Under): FREE
Click here for our ticketing page.
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Yes! Tickets are available at the door but we do limit the amount of guests per time slot to allow for the most magical experience for all. We recommend buying tickets in advance if you can.
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Yes! We have the space available for rent for parties and private events.
To learn more about our rates please visit our venue rental page.
You can also email us at info@under-the-universe.com or give us a call at 775-444-4605.
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The Upside Down Universe is located within the Potentialist Workshop at 836 E Second Street in Reno, NV.
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Yes! Under the Mountain is great for kids and children 4 and under get in for free!
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A group of over 60 artists created this work. Visit our artists page to learn more.
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The best way to support Under The Mountain is through becoming a sponsor. You can learn more about our sponsorship levels here.
If you’re an artist that would like to collaborate please reach out to us at info@upside-down-universe.com.
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We love hosting performances at the Upside Down Universe! For booking inquiries, please reach out to us at info@upside-down-universe.com.
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The Potentialist workshop
The Upside Down Universe is a place for daydreams to become reality and that couldn’t be possible without our amazing space and art collective, The Potentialist Workshop. The current show - Under The Mountain was made possible by the hard work of 60+ artist, creatives and leaders in the Reno area and beyond. The Upside Down Universe originally debuted at 2022 Miami Art Week. The collaborative artist group had a fantastic time building for that special event and they wanted to bring that magic back home to Reno. In the Fall and Winter of 2023, the community created Upside Down Land, Reno’s largest DIY art immersion. Our newest iteration, Under The Mountain includes 20,000 sqft of indoor/outdoor interactive art immersion. New art is frequently added and the space is always changing. We are so excited for you to experience our collective dream.
