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The College of Fine Arts provides an academic experience that heightens awareness of the physical, intellectual, and cultural world. We diligently prepare students for professional employment and/or post-graduate study in their artistic area.

Current Fine Arts News

A UNLV student studies with the Strip in the distance.
Campus News |

Headlines and highlights featuring the students and faculty of UNLV.

Stacy Shapin stands in an art gallery
People |

The College of Fine Arts advising director on the high value of arts degrees, quiet spaces, and being a late bloomer.

group photo of jazz ensemble
Arts and Culture |

In honor of Black History Month, this concert recognizes the memory of the great jazz and blues singer.

illustrated graphic of a snake wearing a Chinese dragon costume headpiece
Arts and Culture |

Directed by Tianxi Wen, the concert is presented in collaboration with community artists.

5 men holding different brass wind instruments
Arts and Culture |

Gateways Music Festival connects and supports professional classical musicians of African descent and enlightens and inspires communities through the power of performance.

stage at composers showroom
Arts and Culture |

See the first iteration of this multi-disciplinary show before it debuts at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August.

Fine Arts In The News

Week

Ornate, chandelier-encrusted railway stations may seem like a Gilded Age wonder. But many of these old buildings are earning second chances, as elderly railway stations across the United States continue to be repurposed. Some have even become unique tourist attractions in their own right.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Their Sphere residency was titled “U2 UV — Achtung Baby.” Now we have “U2 — UNLV.” In the wake of its trend-setting production, the superstar rockers have donated $300,000 to UNLV College of Fine Arts.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Their Sphere residency was titled “U2 UV — Achtung Baby.” Now we have “U2 — UNLV.” In the wake of its trend-setting production, the superstar rockers have donated $300,000 to UNLV College of Fine Arts.

BBC

Train stations were once the centrepieces of many US cities. After decades of neglect, many places are now reviving them in new, creative ways.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

The Vegas City Opera is celebrating 15 seasons! Executive Director, Ginger Land-Van Buuren and UNLV Professor of Voice Jawan Jenkins joined Las Vegas Now for a preview of what’s to come.

StirWorld.com

Examining the past, present and future of concrete structures, the exhibition also invites speculative designs by leading architecture firms, including Brooks+Scarpa, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Gensler, BLDUS along with students from the School of Architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) who envision future possibilities for the five buildings presented.

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Recent Fine Arts Accomplishments

Dale Melgaard (Film) has received a nomination for the script, The Phatman, at the New Delhi Film Festival.
Katrina Liu (Teaching and Learning) and Richard Miller (School of Music), together with their colleague Michael K. Thomas (Educational Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago), published a new book, Preparing White Teachers for Anti-Racist Education: Critical Reflection and Generativity for Transformative Praxis. This research-based guide from…
Stephen Caplan's (Music) "Concert Review" of the Lonarc Trio's two performances at the International Double Reed Society conference was published in the Fall/Winter issue of Double Reed News, the magazine of the British Double Reed Society.
Nick Carozza (Music) will compete as a national finalist in the MTNA Young Artist Woodwind Competition. He earned this opportunity after winning the Nevada State and Southwest Regional Division of the MTNA Young Artist Woodwind competition. A second-year D.M.A. student at UNLV, Carozza has been studying oboe for 14 years and is currently a…
Dale Melgaard (Film) received a nomination as a "Finalist" for the script The Phatman at the Best Script Awards London.
On Nov. 15, Stefano Boselli (Theatre) presented his paper, “Large Production, Big History: The Actor-Network Dramaturgy of Good Bye Mister Freud through Space and Time,” during the “Big Histories: Experimental Methods for Tracking Change Across Bodies, Generations, and Geographies in Performance” Working Session at the American Society for Theatre…