Susanna Newbury (Art) has published "Playtime," an essay exploring studio sets and the physical meditation of process at the heart of artist Barbara Kasten's photographic practice, in X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly (Summer 2016). "Barbara Kasten: Stages," a major retrospective of the artist's work, is on view at the…

Linda Lister (Music) is co-author of the newly published book Voice Secrets: 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Singer (Rowman & Littlefield). 

Brett Caroline Levner (Film) directed The Track, which is having its world premiere June 12 at the Dances with Films festival in Los Angeles.  The Track is an independent feature film about underage sex trafficking in Las Vegas. It stars Missy Yager (Mad Men), Sam Trammell (True Blood, The Fault in Our Stars), Michael Muhney (Veronica Mars,…

Deborah Oakley (Architecture)  is the new co-author of Salvadori’s Structure in Architecture, The Building of Buildings (4th edition). In addition to updating the text and introducing new example structures, this new edition overhauls the entire graphic presentation for the first time. Oakley created nearly 500 new, full-color 3D computer-…

Janis McKay (Music) has just published a book with the University of Nevada Press,  Played Out on the Strip: The Rise and Fall of Las Vegas Casino Bands. From 1940 to 1989, nearly every hotel on the Las Vegas Strip employed a full-time band or orchestra. After the late 1980s, when control of the casinos changed hands from independent…

Susanna Newbury (Art) and Maria del C Vera (Architecture) recently published their joint study "Arbitrage Las Vegas: A Portrait of Urban Games" in Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and Extraurban Studies. The article considers the roles of arbitrage, risk, and theories of gaming in the redevelopment of downtown Las Vegas.

Brett Caroline Levner (Film) won the 2015 Charles Vanda Award for Excellence in the Arts for her work on The Track, a feature film about underage sex trafficking in Las Vegas.  It stars Missy Yager (Mad Men), Sam Trammell (True Blood, The Fault in Our Stars), Michael Muhney (Veronica Mars, The Young and the Restless), Clarence Gilyard (Die…

Margot Mink Colbert (Dance) was honored to have been invited to participate in UNLV’s first annual Summer Proposal Writing Institute, which took place in June. Five workshop sessions culminated in a grant submission to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a project in the dance department. “100 Years and Beyond: Contemporary Ballet in the…

Margot Mink Colbert and Dolly Kelepecz Momot (both Dance) toured “Echoes and Tales,” a program of original dance works performed in Copenhagen, Denmark,  at the Dansekapellet Theatre in June.  The performing company included UNLV Dance major graduates Kaileigh O’Neill, Shannon Redfield, and Hailey Wood; New York  choreographer…

Paul Bordenkircher (Music) recently contributed an article to Music Connection, a leading monthly national publication related to music industry. Titled "Top 12 Mobile Apps for Music Businesses," the article was published in the magazine's monthly Tip Jar column in the July issue. A 30-year veteran of the music industry, focusing the last 18 years…

Hannah Fluitt (Architecture) was named student chapter Leader of the Year for 2015 by the American Society of Interior Designers. She is president of UNLV's student chapter.

The UNLV Jazz Program took home several awards at the 2015 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival in March. UNLV Jazz Ensemble I, conducted by Dave Loeb and Nathan Tanouye, received second place in the College Big Band Division, competing among some of the finest university jazz ensembles in the nation. The UNLV Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by…