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
Fairy Fair A mystical market
January 24th 12pm - 8pm
Old Stories MADe New Artist Reception
January 30th 6pm - 9pm
Join us for our next Fairy Fair, a mystical market featuring over 30 local vendors, GD's kitchen food truck, a full bar, live music, tarot, tours of our 20,000 sqft immersive art exhibit and so much more. For this Fairy Fair, we're going old-school, house-show-style with basement band sets for that 90s nostalgia. Featuring Honor Bound, Junk Jor, Zoë Simpson and Tiny Paper Hearts!
This is an all-ages event from 12pm - 8pm on Saturday, January 24th. Dress in your flounciest dapper attire with a cozy winter twist and frolic in our weird and wondrous world!
Tickets are $15 and include full access to our 3-floor art immersive created by over 40 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.
Join us for the artist reception of Old Stories Made New with Lee Lanier on January 30th from 6pm - 9pm!
Lee Lanier is a contemporary painter from Boulder City, Nevada. His colorful paintings breathe new life into historical, literary and mythological characters. Stylistically, he combines Renaissance tableaux with 20th-century commercial illustrations and a bit of Surrealism. His inspiration comes from old stories that have survived the long march of time. In his own words, he is “drawn to universal human themes such as life and death, temptation and faith, and creativity and industry. His end goal is to “create works of art that can be viewed multiple times while inspiring spirited conversations among groups of dissimilar viewers.”
This exhibition also includes an augmented reality component, allowing viewers to experience the paintings through a lens that features new elements, such as the creation process, details of the original stories, and further insights into the paintings' varied iconography.
This is a free event with snacks, drinks, words from the artist and a talking magical fish! All are welcome.
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 located 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 50 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 40+ 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 will include 20,000 sqft of indoor/outdoor interactive art immersion. We are so excited for you to experience our collective dream.
