Daniella Etel Courban (Fine Arts), part-time instructor, participated in a robust round-table discussion on the state of art in downtown Las Vegas and beyond. This aired live on KNPR's State of Nevada on May 15, 2023. 

Warren D. Cobb has been named the associate dean of the UNLV College of Fine Arts, where he is responsible for leading community partnerships, initiatives, and projects. Prior to this role, he served as the associate chair and director of Production Operations in the department of film. Warren's expertise in the art, business, and logistics of the…

Associate professor Kimberly Gratland James (Music), D.Mus., performed the role of Herodias in Richard Strauss's challenging opera, Salome, with Rimrock Opera in early April. Later in the month she performed as a soloist in Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Idaho Falls Symphony, a work she has performed often with symphonies across the United…

André Chiang, DMA (Music - Voice) recently participated in a workshop performance of the opera, Fearless, words and music written by Derrick Wang. The performance was produced by Opera Delaware in Wilmington, Delaware, and Chiang sang the role of Clint. The opera follows the life and accomplishments of Hazel Ying Lee, the first Chinese-…

UNLV Dance has been selected to perform with the New York-based Martha Graham Dance Company in a prestigious concert entitled University Partners Showcase April 22 in the famed Joyce Theater. UNLV Dance joins six other highly-regarded dance institutions presenting work from the 20th century canon of modern dance. UNLV Dance will perform a piece by…

Professor Diana Eden (Film), who teaches costume design, will be speaking at the Clark County Library at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 1 as part of its Las Vegas Stories series.  Eden first came through Las Vegas by train in 1961, stopping in the downtown station for a brief 30 minutes, time in which the just turned 21 years old, and was able to…

Jung-Hwa Kim (Architecture) has been offered a 2023-2024 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship by the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The fellowship will support her project, “The Design and Use of the Wanamaker’s Department Store Rooftop in Philadelphia, 1910 to the 1920s.”

Jennifer Vaughan (Fine Arts) was named "Executive of the Year" at the 32nd Annual Silver State Women's Awards on April 8 at a ceremony inside Resorts World, Las Vegas. Vaughan is the communications director for the College of Fine Arts.

Stefano Boselli (Theatre) published a research article titled, “And May the Best… Thing Win!’: Posthuman Actor-Networks in RuPaul’s Drag Race,” in the journal Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. Over the past 14 years, the highly successful reality TV competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race has popularized drag as the male performance of…

Professor Stephen Caplan (Music) was a featured speaker for the Music Teachers National Association national conference held in Reno, Nevada. His talk, "90% Mental, the Other Half in Physical! — The Body/Mind Conundrum in Music Performance," was part of MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday: Musician Wellness. Caplan also invited to discuss…

Adjunct faculty and alumna Lisa Ortega (Architecture) wrote Bill AB131, which calls for the state to have an Urban and Community Forestry program.  It has passed Assembly, and is on its way to the Senate for consideration.  Read more about the Bill on the State legislature website or at the Reno Gazette Journal.…

Professor Stephen Caplan (Music) was a featured speaker for the national conference of the Music Teachers National Association held in Reno, Nevada. His talk, "90% Mental, the Other Half in Physical! — The Body/Mind Conundrum in Music Performance," was part of MTNA's Pedagogy Saturday: Musician Wellness. Caplan was also invited to participate in a…