Accomplishments: Department of Art

Geovany Uranda (Art) has designed a new coloring book, "The ABC’s of Latinidad,"  in collaboration with art department alumni Justin Favela and Emmanuel Ortega.  This book has more than 50 pages of black-and-white illustrations ready for coloring that alphabetically cover food, sports, and social situations special to Latinx…
Emily Sarten, Aundrea Frahm, Cida de Aragon, and Laurence Myers Reese (all Art) are featured in Long-Distance RADAR, episode four, as is recent graduate Dan Hernandez. This experimental performance feature is available on Youtube. Sarten, de Aragon, and Reese are graduate students.
Catherine Angel, Laura Brennan, Emily Budd, Yasmina Chavez, Kay Leigh Farley, Wendy Kveck, Jean Munson, Dave Rowe, and Jerry Schefcik (all Art) have created online exhibits and virtual happenings this semester to highlight the creativity, research, learning, growth, and big ideas of their undergraduate and graduate students. This effort took…
"MJ" Jung Min, Annie Lin (both Art), Chad Scott (Teaching and Learning), and Shahab Zargari (Fine Arts) all have work that will be displayed in the second annual "Use Other Door" juried art show that is set to open June 17 at the Core Contemporary gallery in Las Vegas. Sapira Cheuk (Art) and recent undergraduate alum Angie Saldana (Art) were part…
Aaron Cowan, Cida de Aragon, John McVay, Aundrea Frahm (all Art), and Shahab Zargari (Fine Arts), along with incoming art graduate student Keeva Lough, are featured in recent videos that are included in Long-Distance RADAR, a socially distanced YouTube presentation from RADAR, a Las Vegas-based platform for performance art. Cowan, de Aragon, and…
Melissa Christ (Art) has done research at the Barrick Museum of Art that is featured in the online Johns Hopkins University Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium. This annual symposium hosts students from across the nation interested in presenting their scholarship. Her presentation, "Considering 50 Years of Art…
Lauren Paljusaj (English), along with Anne Savage and Susanna Newbury (both Art) wrote an essay that was published in Nevada Humanities' inaugural Double Down post on distance — part of its COVID-response series on human connection. The essay considers how to interpret photographs as meaningful points of time-lapsed contact. Using UNLV Special…
Fawn Douglas (Art) has a video that is included in the Road Trip Nation documentary project with a series of interviews about her day-to-day life; the educational paths she's on; the hurdles she's faced along the way; what it means to be a leader; advice for aspiring artists; the importance of culture, activism, and education; and growing up as a…
Lauren Paljusaj (English) and Anne Savage (Art) have been jointly awarded the University Libraries Lance & Elena Calvert prize for "Intimate Nevada," their research in photography in the UNLV Special Collections. This research reflected on concepts of the vernacular and the everyday in Southern Nevada. Mentors in Special Collections…
Wendy Kveck (Art) has an interview online at The Art People podcast. She discusses her growth and development as a painter, performance artist, sculptor, and educator in Las Vegas with podcast host Justin Favela, '14 BA Art. Her work involves collaboration, found photographs, and non-traditional materials such as cake frosting…
Laurence Myers Reese (Art) was recently published in Concept, a catalog for a national art exhibition produced by the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. Reese's essay discusses the work of Micala Gingrich Gaylord of Wichita, Kansas, and the way personal stories can build a communal narrative. He is a graduate student.
Dave Rowe, Sapira Cheuk, and Cida de Aragon (all Art) are participating in a group exhibition, "Aesthetics Primary," at the Fifth Street School through May 30. This exhibition focuses on artists whose work could be defined as possessing aesthetic beauty or creating visual pleasure. de Aragon is a graduate student.