The Nevada Humanities Exhibition Series, opens a new exhibition, Dry Wit, on August 1, 2019 in partnership with the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art. The exhibition, which will be on display at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery in Las Vegas from August 1– September 25, 2019, is co-curated by the Barrick staff. Bringing together painting, sculpture, illustration,...

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art presents Human Contact, a pop-up research exhibition curated by Samantha Castle. Human Contact addresses the current conditions of environmental concern through selected artworks from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection utilizing works by Audrey Barcio, Elizabeth Blau, and Rachel Stiff. Human Contact is on view in the West Gallery of the Marjorie...

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. An exhibition of work by a collaborative network of over 50 LA-based queer Chicanx artists produced through the 1960s to 1990s Curated By  C. Ondine Chavoya, David Evans Frantz  Tour Organized By  Independent Curators International (ICI)  Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is a traveling exhibition that explores the intersections among a network...

Sound builds and shapes our environment, influencing everything from the organisms we recognize to the non-biological objects we handle, and the artifacts we create. Soundscapes explores the sounds we use — both deliberately and unconsciously — to connect ourselves to the people around us. How did ancient cultures communicate? How have new forms of noise changed the way we interact? How does...

Fusing museum space with the dynamic energy of streets and skate parks, Andrew Schoultz makes art that asks questions about the reality of contemporary life and global power. His installations and murals juxtapose ideas from illuminated manuscripts, ancient cartography, and the flattened space of Persian miniatures. Images of beasts, bricks, trees, and eyes surge across the walls, bringing...

Vessel explores the relationship between form and function through ancient West Mexican ceramics. The exhibition is organized by shape, and visitors are invited to contemplate how the form of each vessel informs both practical use and communicates ideas of power, identity, and belief. Curated by UNLV alumni and Museum staff, Paige Bockman, M.A. Anthropology 2015.

To be "liminal" means to be at the threshold or border of something-- a physical space, an ideology or concept, or even between categories of identity. The works in this exhibition invite viewers to ponder the ways in which they are "in between" and what this liminal state truly means. Curated by Shelly Volsche, Visiting Lecturer COLA 100E; Doctoral Student, Dept. of Anthropology.