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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

SantaTV
Arts and Culture |

Film expert Adam Paul guides our sleigh through the winter wonderland of holiday movies, and explains why they stand out in cinema.

nighttime photo of the Las Vegas Sphere and Strip
Arts and Culture |

Inductees include 10-year Linq headlining magician Mat Franco; entertainment luminary Cindy Doumani; and filmmaker and educator Francisco Menendez (posthumously).

Closeup of a graduation cap decorated with the phrase UNLV 2025
Campus News |

In longstanding tradition, UNLV president will recognize seven students whose academic and community achievements embody the Rebel spirit of the graduating class.

student collage
People |

Bite-sized stories of how friendship is a core element of the Rebel experience.

A collage graphic showing a shadow of a crowd viewing and outdoor movie showing an old western. In between the crowd and the screen is the Los Angeles cityscape, with the Hollywood sign on the right side.
Campus News |

Students get a behind-the-scenes look at how the movie industry really works.

UNLV jazz ensemble outside in dress clothes and holding instruments
Arts and Culture |

The performances feature a diverse range of student ensembles and a special scholarship concert.

Fine Arts In The News

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Behind a locked gate in the Maryland Parkway Corridor sits the closed Huntridge Circle Park, but the community-driven organization, Friends of Huntridge Park, is hoping to change that.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Future architects at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are set to showcase their innovative ideas for the redevelopment of Huntridge Circle Park.

The Independent

Friday’s release of Wicked: For Good is a reminder to many moviegoers that a trip to the big screen is anything but cheap.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

A free clinic on the campus of UNLV helps dance and music students get important care, all delivered through physical therapy students and their department.

Las Vegas Weekly

For 25 years, Nevada Conservatory Theatre has served as UNLV’s “lab” for theater arts. Executive Director Kirsten Brandt says the original mission of the training program was to create an intersection for research and professional practice.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

The vision for a park in Las Vegas is taking shape as part of a collaboration between community leaders and UNLV students. The showcase marks the first phase in a broader partnership bringing together Friends of Huntridge Park, UNLV, City Councilwoman Olivia Diaz, and the City of Las Vegas.

Fine Arts Experts

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Recent Fine Arts Accomplishments

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) gave an invited talk to the North American British Music Studies Association. NABMSA "aims to promote the study of British Music from all time periods on the North American Continent; to provide a collegial and supportive forum for discussion through electronic and other means; to provide a clearinghouse of information…
Amy Brown (Music) had a book signing at the American Orff Schulwerk Association National Conference in Lexington, Kentucky, to promote her K-5 resource for elementary music teachers, Magical Moments Through the Eyes of the Diverse Learner.
A team of faculty, students, and alumni from the UNLV School of Music joined Vegas City Opera and the Las Vegas Sinfonietta for a performance of Handel's Semele. Handel composed this work as an oratorio, to be performed in a concert format, but its story of seduction, betrayal, and tragedy has proved popular throughout the twentieth and…
Yvonne Houy (Fine Arts) and Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) gave a presentation at the Elsevier Impact Conference in Cascais, Portugal, on Nov. 6, 2025. The presentation, “Zero Budget by Design: Lessons learned engaging a global community without a budget," was based on their experiences editing the open-access journal Tradition-…
Kristen Keach (Art) presented the paper, "Ekphrastic Robots, Prophecy, and the Paragone in Canto XLII of l'Orlando furioso" at the 2025 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Architectural psychologist Dak Kopec (Architecture) has completed his third novel, Possessing Parker: Beyond Truth, the final installment in a trilogy examining the sociocultural forces that shape the lives of young gay men. Grounded in research on the challenges faced by this population, each book in the series explores distinct events…