Kristen Keach (Art) presented two papers, "Coloring Outside the Lines: Female Painters in the Bolognese School" and "Reframing Judith: Elisabetta Sirani and Commercial Politics of Female Violence," at the 2025 Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Hikmet Loe (Art) presented the paper "Situated Art and Knowledge: The Material Culture Surrounding Great Basin Land Art" at the biannual Great Basin Anthropological Conference, in Reno.

Hikmet Loe's (Art) was interviewed by The Post and Courier 's editor-at-large Autumn Phillips, then cited in Phillips's published article, "In the secluded Nevada desert, the largest piece of land art in the world offers a pilgrimage."   

Hikmet Loe (Art History) presented to graduate students in the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University. Her lecture, "Robert Smithson’s Nonhierarchical Approach to Knowledge," explored ways that discovery can be enhanced through employing nonlinear, nonhierarchical modes of research.

Two sculptures by assistant visiting professor Aaron Cowan (Art) were accepted to the juried exhibition Nice;03 at the Midwest Nice Art Gallery in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Nice;03 is the third annual national juried exhibition, a survey of contemporary artists exploring complex personal and social narratives. The exhibition assembles over thirty…

The City of Las Vegas purchased artworks from instructors Tim Bavington, Erik Beehn, Krystal Ramirez, and Sean Slattery (all Art) for the new Las Vegas City Civic Center Building and Plaza. Of the 18 new acquisitions, 11 were created by artists with ties to UNLV as instructors and alumni.

Hikmet Loe's (Art) essay, "Composition/Decomposition: Great Salt Lake at the Crossroads" was recently published in the exhibition catalog Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, & the Saline Influx. Accompanying the eponymous exhibition held at Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUU) the essay provides an analysis of how two contemporary…

Hikmet Loe (Art) presented at Nevada Museum of Art in conjunction with their exhibition "Deep Time - Sea Dragons of Nevada." Her talk, "Robert Smithson's Dinosaurs - There Be Sea Monsters!" centered the artist's life-long fascination with deep time. From early dinosaur drawings influenced by Charles R. Knight to his later correlation of dinosaurs…

Hikmet Loe (Art History) moderated a community panel on the occasion of the exhibition "Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx" at Southern Utah Museum of Art, Southern Utah University. Engaging experts in art, Indigenous leaders, and environmental activists, the panel discussed environmental crisis in the Great Basin…

Double Scoop: Arts in Nevada published an article by Brent Holmes on Couper Russ Studios that features the Ripper Jordan Redux show, an exhibition of the archives of the collaborative arts group Ripper Jordan, comprising Sean Slattery (Art) and UNLV alumni James Hough and David Ryan.

Sean Slattery (Art) has individual and collaborative art featured in "Ripper Jordan Redux" at Couper Russ Gallery, Las Vegas in an exhibition of the archives of the collaborative art group Ripper Jordan. Ripper Jordan also features UNLV alumni James Hough and David Ryan.

Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) has been appointed to a three-year term on the College Art Association's Professional Practices Committee, beginning February 2025. The Professional Practices Committee responds to specific concerns of the membership in relation to areas such as job placement and recruitment, tenure and promotion procedures,…