Accomplishments: Department of Art

Pasha Rafat (Art) recently curated Still-life-s at A S A P which included national and international artists that have a community connection to Las Vegas, NV. Featured Artists were Ginger Bruner, Ash Ferlito, Maureen Halligan, Afsaneh Javanmard, Dylan Jones, Fay Ku, Yuino Nakabayashi, Kathleen Nathan, Lisa Rock, and Aaron Sheppard. …
Laurence Reese (Art), a graduate student, recently published in Southwest Contemporary a review of "Ah-wah-nee," an exhibition at the Donna Beam Gallery at UNLV.  
Kristin Hough (Art) recently opened her solo exhibition "Time Out For Tears" at the Whitney Library. Time Out For Tears is an exhibition of paintings based on still frames from consecutive seasons of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise. The work focuses on a ubiquitous trope in reality TV — female contestants crying…
Sapira Cheuk (Art) recently was featured on the Seeing Color Podcast with Zhiwan Cheung. She is an ink painter and installation artist interested in ways of knowing through the body and how these modes of knowledge reflect or internalize external experiences.
Tiffany Lin and Lyssa Park (both Art) contributed designs for new Zoom Zone Designed by Children's Discovery Museum, a kid-friendly area at the Mineta San Jose International Airport. Park is an MFA candidate. With its entrance decorated in the museum’s signature purple, the Zoom Zone will satisfy kids’ interest in things that fly — whether it…
Laurence Myers Reese (Art) wrote coverage for Southwest Contemporary on 2021 The Bullfrog Biennial in Beatty. He is an MFA candidate.
Hikmet Loe (Art) co-curated the exhibit "This Earth: Notes and Observations by Montello Foundation Artists," on view at Southern Utah Museum of Art through Dec. 23. The accompanying exhibition catalog includes images and essays by each artist, all focused on aspects of nature gleaned through their Montello Foundation residency in northern…
John Stoelting's (Art) exhibition “Miscellaneous Debris” will have its opening from 5-8 p.m. Oct. 26 at Available Space Art Projects, 900 Karen Ave C-214, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109. Available Space Art Projects is an exhibition space that welcomes a diverse group of artists from any career level to showcase new experimental works and installations…
Keeva Lough (Art), an MFA candidate had her short film, The New Institute for Sexual Technologies presents The Future of Life, selected for the Las Vegas Queer Arts Film Festival. The film will be available to stream online through the festival, Oct. 15-18. Lough is a media artist whose work explores gender, the body, and the…
Laurence Reese (Art) recently published a review of the exhibition "Free*" by Eridan at Catskills Gallery in New York. The exhibition was published on Settlers + Nomads, an online publication that features and includes work from Las Vegas artists and beyond.
Q'shaundra James (Art) had her artwork featured in Issue 154 of Reed Magazine:
Susanna Newbury (Art) will present "Frank Gehry's Creative Aesthetics" at the Glass House Monday, Sept. 20. The talk, drawn from her 2021 book The Speculative City, examines architect Frank Gehry's early designs for museums and artist's studios in Los Angeles. The Glass House, built by Philip Johnson between 1949 and 1995, is a National Trust…