Emily Budd (Art) will exhibit her work in a group show of 12 artists at the University of Arizona School of Art Joseph Gross Gallery from Nov. 22 through Jan. 23. The exhibit, The Snake Eats Its Tail, explores the relationship of creation to destruction with a particular focus on consumption in contemporary life.

Tiffany Lin (Art) spoke at the University of San Francisco in the fine arts program with design fundamentals students learning about social practice and socially engaged art. Tiffany lectured on her new project 23 VIEWS with an emphasis on strategies for successful collaboration and community engagement. 23 Views is a drawing series and social…

Susanna Newbury (Art) and Alana Fa'agai (English) presented their scholarship and teaching methods at the November 2019 National Humanities Conference in Honolulu. The panel, Localizing the Digital and Public Humanities, addressed the scaling of high-quality, humanities-based research to digital delivery methods for an audience of scholars, non-…

Jennifer Bellor (Music) releases her new album, Reflections at Dusk, on Nov. 15. This album of six chamber works emphasizes shining sonorities — think vibraphones, harp, and wind chimes. Words like cerulean, amethyst, and indigo infuse the works’ titles. Most of the pieces are performed by Las Vegas-based musicians, both…

Marcus Civin (Art) has two artist interviews up on Maake Magazine, an independent artist-run print publication featuring contemporary artists and artist-run projects. Read his interviews online with Cleveland artist Jonah Jacobs and Montreal-based Joani Tremblay. Maake Magazine showcases the work of emerging artists to promote innovative and…

Michael Jarett (Dance) received the Richmond Theater Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design - Musical for his design of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, produced by TheatreLAB in Richmond, Virginia, earlier this year. This was the second time Jarett has received the award, although he has been nominated…

Chad Scott (Teaching & Learning) is an art educator-in-residence at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art where he has created the program Accessing the Arts, a collaboration with the department of teaching and learning, The Smith Center, the Clark County School District's School-Community Partnership Program, and the Art Educators of Nevada that…

Aaron Cowan, Fawn Douglas, Erin K. Drew, John McVay, and Laurence Myers Reese (all Art) have created REVIVER, a new performance art event hosted on the UNLV campus. This recurring event will feature UNLV students and local performers in a university setting. Performance art, which is art that combines visual art with dramatic performance, has a…

Katrina Liu (Teaching & Learning) and Richard Miller (Music) gave an invited presentation at the Race, Inequality and Language conference at Stanford University earlier this month. Their presentation, titled "Reflection, Transformative Praxis & Generative Change: Critical Counter-Narrative in Preparing Future Teachers of Color," is part of…

Sapria Cheuk and Emily Budd (both Art) along with alumni Holly Lay, '19 MFA Art; Karin Miller, '13 BA Art; Mary Sabo, Art; Sierra Slentz, '01 MFA Art; and Mikayla Whitmore, '10 BFA Art, are participating in the first Bullfrog Biennial at the Goldwell Open Air Museum and Red Barn Art Center in Beatty, Oct. 25 - 27, curated by a panel of artists,…

Alberto de Salvatierra (Architecture), working in conjunction with undergraduate student Carley Pasqualotto (Architecture), was selected as a finalist in the 10th Non Architecture Competition: Dying. Their speculative design, "Project OSSuary," calls for the design and construction of Orbital Space Stations (OSS) in low-Earth orbit within the…

Sapira Cheuk (Art) is included in a group exhibition titled Femella, which will be on display Oct. 10 - Dec. 7 at Golden West College Art Gallery, the gallery associated with Golden West College in Huntington Beach, California. The exhibition focuses on female archetypes and feminine representations.