Timothy Jones (Music) had the second edition of his book, Rock 'n' Roll Origins & Innovators, released in August 2016. The book is by Jones (lead author) and Jim McIntosh (co-author) and published by Kendall Hunt. Artwork for the cover was donated by Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones. This is a full-color edition with many…

Steven Clarke (Architecture) and the Downtown Design Center he directs have had their work in the historic Westside neighborhood of Las Vegas featured in an in-depth article in the August issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM). LAM is the monthly magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the magazine of record for the…

David Baird (Architecture) recently won the Gold Rose Design Award from the Baton Rouge American Institute of Architects for an office renovation/addition completed this summer. About the project: This project is situated in the Historic Old South Baton Rouge neighborhood once referred to as the “bottoms” — the area strategically located between…

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…