A pink A-frame signboard stands in front of a wall covered with framed images in pink and blue. Darker pin text on the board reads: "What do you miss about a place from your past? What do you love about a place where you are now?) followed by a statement about children and the immigration process. The framed images are a little out of cost in the background, but each one includes a drawing of a person's face.

Christine Wong Yap with students from Edwin and Anita Lee Newcomer Elementary, What I Love & Miss (detail), 2022, Series of 20 portraits with calligraphy: social practice, drawings, inkjet prints. Photo courtesy Krystal Ramirez.

Oct. 2, 2025

Artist Talk: Christine Wong Yap

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art auditorium
Tuesday, November 18
7 p.m.
Free
 
 
A new name has been added to our line-up of artist talks for fall 2025. Christine Wong Yap, whose installation “What I Love & Miss” is currently on view in Living Here will be speaking in our auditorium on Tuesday, November 18, at 7 p.m. Join us! Attendance is free.
 
You can find the full schedule of artist talks here: https://www.unlv.edu/announcement/marjorie-barrick-museum-art/fall-2025-artist-talks This artist talk series is organized in collaboration with UNLV’s Department of Art. Living Here is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is generously provided by Evan Louie, Bill Shihara, and the Lieutenant Erik Lloyd Family.
 
 

About Christine Wong Yap

Christine Wong Yap is a visual artist and social practitioner who works in community engagement, drawing, printmaking, publishing, textiles, and public art. Through her hyperlocal participatory research projects, she gathers and amplifies grassroots perspectives on belonging, resilience, and mental well being. She is a 2025 Creative Capital Awardee. She has served as Neighborhood Visiting Artist at Stanford University (Stanford, CA) and Creative Citizenship Fellow at the California College of the Arts (San Francisco, CA). She has developed projects with the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, For Freedoms, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, Times Square Arts, and the Wellcome Trust, among others. She holds a BFA and MFA in printmaking from the California College of the Arts. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has lived since spending a decade in New York City from 2010 to 2021.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
All of the museum’s galleries are accessible to wheelchair users and other visitors who cannot use stairs. Services such as sign language interpretation can be arranged. Please contact the museum to discuss your needs: barrick.museum@unlv.edu, 702-895-3381.
 
About the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art believes everyone deserves access to art that challenges our understanding of the present and inspires us to create a future that holds space for us all. Located on the campus of one of the most racially diverse universities in the U.S., we strive to create a nourishing environment for those who continue to be neglected by contemporary art museums. As the only art museum in the city of Las Vegas, we commit ourselves to leveling barriers that limit access to the arts. Our collection of artworks offers an opportunity for everyone to develop a deeper knowledge of contemporary art in Southern Nevada. The Barrick Museum is part of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
 
Find Us
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is located in the heart of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. The museum is easily accessed from the west side of campus at the intersection of Harmon Avenue and University Center Drive. Drive east on East Harmon Ave until the road enters the campus and terminates in a parking lot. The Museum will be on your right, next to a desert landscape garden. Directions here.
 
Parking
Visitors may park in metered, staff, and student spots free of charge after 7 pm on weekdays, 1 pm on Fridays, and all day Saturday.
Daily, weekly, or monthly permits can be purchased from Parking and Transportation Services.
Metered parking spaces for visitors can be found in the parking lot outside the Barrick’s entrance, along East Harmon Ave, and in the lot behind the Lied Library. Other metered green zones are available in the Cottage Grove Avenue Parking Garage and parking areas throughout campus. Download the “PayByPhone Parking” app from Google Play or the iTunes app store. 
 
Contact
702-895-3381