Associate professor Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) co-curated and exhibited work in "At the Heart of Basin and Range." This exhibit, sponsored by Nevada Humanities, an independent state humanities council affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and exhibited at its downtown program gallery, celebrates the 10th anniversary of Nevada’s Basin and Range National Monument. This region was protected as the result of a remarkable, highly productive process among multiple stakeholders who ranch, research, document, explore, and care about and for this region.
The exhibit is the result of a long-term collaboration of Kilker and co-curators Paula Jacoby-Garrett and Checko Salgado, who founded “Friends of Basin and Range.” For them, the monument serves as a research site for exploring, education, and honing their areas of expertise, whether it’s working with data, biodiversity, expanding photography techniques, or documenting regional history and culture through interviews, film and photography.
Among the variety of works in the exhibit are photographs contributed by Sarah Jones (Head, Technical Services, UNLV Special Collections) from the Glenn A. Davis collection.
The exhibit runs from Sept. 4 to Nov. 19, 2025, with a reception and curators' talk Oct. 8, 2025 from 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
