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College of Fine Arts News

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

UNLV's symphony orchestra
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Led by artistic director and conductor Taras Krysa, the program includes Brahms’s majestic Symphony No. 3, Ravel’s enchanting Mother Goose Suite, and Vaughan Williams’s Oboe Concerto.

Photo: Conrad Heil, The Deal, Cyanotype
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The exhibition captures the moments and emotions that shape students’ perspectives through photography.

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Over nearly two decades of performing throughout the United States and abroad, WindSync has proven itself “a major force in the American chamber music landscape” (Arts and Culture Texas).

various artworks on display inside a gallery
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Camelot is a special exhibition honoring former gallery director Jerry Schefcik and his 37 years of service to UNLV and the art community.

collage of a dozen musicians in various poses with their instruments.
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The contemporary chamber music series features 20th and 21st century works performed by faculty, students, and alumni.

A group of students and faculty stand next to the Dreamscape Learn signage in the Lied Library
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Created by a multidisciplinary team of UNLV students, R.2X Cosmic Expedition takes the campus community beyond the classroom and into the solar system.

Fine Arts In The News

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For 40 years, UNLV's Marjorie Barrick Museum has served as Southern Nevada's must-see destination for contemporary and local art. After a four-month closure for upgrades, the museum reopens on October 23 with four new exhibitions, just in time for that evening's UNLV ArtWalk, the College of Fine Arts' annual open house.

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The dean of UNLV's College of Fine Arts, Nancy Uscher, shares that the college will host Art Walk 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday night, October 23, inviting the whole Las Vegas community to a free evening celebrating arts and culture.

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University offers 22-credit minor as demand for mariachi educators grows.

Las Vegas Weekly

Hisonni Mustafa is on an unstoppable streak. This year alone, the UNLV student, filmmaker and veteran has earned multiple Pacific Southwest Student Emmys and Directors Guild of America honors for his short documentary, Legend Has It: The Remarkable Rise of Stephen McCain, and a Webby award for his assault rifle PSA, Bang Bang. H

KSNV-TV: News 3

The founder and creator of the UNLV Art Walk is sharing more about what's to come at the 9th annual event on the UNLV campus.

Deseret News

How Michael Heizer’s “City,” a work of land art about the size of the National Mall, transformed rural Garden Valley into a fine art destination.

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Recent Fine Arts Accomplishments

Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) and Yvonne Houy (Fine Arts) presented “Introducing QGIS effectively with learner-generated data” at the Oct 2026 QGIS User Conference, as part of that group’s focus on developing geospatial research tools and techniques for a wide range of users. The presentation introduced course design, pedagogical,…
Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) was an invited presenter at the National Association of Schools of Art and Design’s 82nd Annual Meeting in St. Louis October 15-17. Her session, “Designing and Implementing Innovative Curricular Programs,” shared how Art faculty rebuilt the B.A. in Art as an open-entry degree that holds its standards through course…
Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) published an article in the latest issue of the French peer-reviewed journal Émergences : Son, musique et medias audiovisuels. This special issue centers on the theme "Recomposer l'écran," considering the notions of intertextuality, intermusicality, transformation, borrowing, and, in the words of the issue's editor,…
Hikmet Loe (Art) served as juror for two art organizations this fall: she was invited to jury the new hybrid art form category for Friends of Great Salt Lake annual "Alfred Lambourne Prize" (Salt Lake City); and was curator and juror for the Clark County Public Arts exhibition "Desert Pools" held at Winchester Dondero Cultural Center in Las Vegas.
Amy Brown (Music) presented a session at the Silver State Technology Conference, titled "Data Driven In'formative' Assessment."  The session focused on strategies for developing formal assessments that promote engagement, real-time data, and feedback, with an emphasis on supporting diverse learners.
Assistant professor Thang Dao (Dance) premiered his new ballet The Seventh Night Sky with Ballet Austin TWO on Oct. 10 at Ballet Austin's AustinVentures StudioTheater. Commissioned by The Bancroft Initiative, the 45-minute work is the third chapter of Ballet Austin's Fables of the World series, which pairs a treasured story…