Accomplishments: Department of Art
Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) presented "Over the Horizon," drawn from her research on art and security space, at the 2024 Spatial Humanities conference at Otto-Freidrichs-Universität Bamberg (Germany). Spatial Humanities is concerned with geospatial technologies' contribution to humanities research. The main aim is to explore and demonstrate the…
Karla Lagunas (Art) authored the article "Emily Budd Breaks the Mold: Founder of the Foundry Project Aluminati" in Southwest Contemporary Magazine's Vol 10. Issue Radical Futures. The article is available free online and free print copies are available at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art on campus.
Hikmet Loe (Art) was interviewed and quoted in the article, "Michael Heizer began ‘City’ 50 years ago. Does it hold up today?," by reporter Savannah Strott. The article presents a myriad of responses to Nevada's newly accessible earthwork, City. The article was cross-published in The Nevada Independent (Sept. 1) and in High Country News, titled "…
Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) has been appointed to a three-year term as juror for the College Art Association's Millard Meiss Publication fund. CAA awards Meiss funds twice a year to support the publication of book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on…
Jerry Schefcik (Art), chair of the Nevada Arts Council Board, chaired the board review and approval of a total of $533,676 in grant funds to be awarded to various arts organizations and artists statewide. Approved grants include project grants for artists, organizations, and arts learning projects in support of a range of arts activities such as…
Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) presented the invited lecture "Forensics: The Cultural Power of Art & Real Estate" at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture in Los Angeles on June 27, 2024. Los Angeles has long invested in contemporary art and real estate development as a long-term strategy for cultural growth. More than 70 years into…
Jerry Schefcik (Art), chair of the Nevada Arts Council Board, chaired the panel review of 85 Project Grant for Artist applications requesting a total of $249,692 in support of the production and presentation of individual artist’s projects including art exhibitions, performances, readings, concerts, the creation of art, portfolio building, and…
Hikmet Loe (Art) met with American Institute for Conservation (AIC) conference attendees at artist Robert Smithson's earthwork, Spiral Jetty. Situated along the north shore of Great Salt Lake, the work engendered conversations regarding the upkeep that earthworks may require, and the ideas of entropy the artist espoused that leads its owner and…
Ty Suksangasophon (Art), has been invited to present at the 40th PsyArt conference of psychology and the arts. He will be attending the five day event in June 2024 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in which he will be discussing the "Synchronicity of the Painting Process" to the global attendees of professionals and academics in the field of art and…
On June 23, 2023, Hikmet Loe (Art History) participated in Critical Ground, hosted by Granary Art Center in Ephraim, Utah. The day-long exploration of arts criticism generated conversation to move dialogue outside the art centers of New York City and Los Angeles. Loe's performative talk, which was reinvisioned in a paper, posits how art criticism…
Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) presented "Over the Horizon," a paper drawn from her research on the concomitant rise of Las Vegas and military surveillance technology in the 1990s and 2000s at the Center for Communication and Culture, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon). The project seeks to examine theories of vision and urban growth…
Susanna Phillips Newbury's (Art) 2021 book, The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate and the Making of Global Los Angeles, was reviewed in the latest issue of Art Bulletin, published by the College Art Association (CAA). The book was previously a finalist for CAA's Charles Rufus Morey Award.