Joshua Chévere Cohen and Colette LaBouff (both Black Mountain Institute) were interviewed by the Las Vegas Weekly for the article, "Black Mountain Institute celebrates 20 years of making space for writers and thinkers." The article explores BMI's place in Las Vegas’ cultural landscape and the world of literature.

Colette LaBouff and Charlotte Wyatt (both Black Mountain Institute) presented the workshop, "Becoming Arts Leaders: Exploring Mentorship in Arts Administration," at the Third Annual Las Vegas Arts and Culture Summit, on Aug. 21 at the Historic Fifth Street School, Downtown Las Vegas.  The workshop was for arts organizations, and…

Andrew Nicholson (English), Jarret Keene (English), and Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellow Monica Macansantos served as judges for the 2025 Vegas PBS KIDS Writers Contest Presented by Janice Allen. The contest empowers children in grades K-5 to celebrate creativity and build literacy skills by writing and illustrating their very own stories.

Joshua Chévere Cohen (Black Mountain Institute) was selected by the English Department as their 2025 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Department Alumni. The 2025 Distinguished Department Alumni Cohort was recognized at the College of Liberal Arts Honors Convocation and presented with "COLA Keys to Success."

  The First-Gen Essay Competition is part of the annual campus-wide First-Generation Celebration held each year in November. The contest allows first-generation undergraduate and graduate students to share personal stories about their first-generation journeys at UNLV. Nearly 40 students participated in this year's…

Joshua Chévere Cohen (Black Mountain Institute) competed in the summer Flagstaff Epee Event fencing competition on Saturday, August 24, earning a bronze medal in the D and Under event and 7th place in Senior Mixed Open. These results renew Cohen's national D rating, previously earned in 2022.    

Joshua Chévere Cohen (Black Mountain Institute) qualified to compete in the 2024 USA Fencing National Championships and July Challenge taking place this summer in Columbus. OH. He will compete in Division III Men's Epee. With more than 4,500 fencers from nearly every state expected to participate, Summer Nationals is both the largest fencing…

Laurence Myers Reese (Black Mountain Institute) published an article titled, "Verdant Refuge / Desert Refugee," in Southwest Contemporary Magazine, Volume 7: "Finding Water in the West." His article profiles the artwork of Nanda Sharif-Pour (MFA, Art, 2019) and her use of artistic interventions that address immigration and climate change.

Jericho Brown (Black Mountain Institute) has been awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his poetry collection The Tradition. The collection was described as "masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and violence." Brown is the poetry editor of The…

Amanda Fortini (Journalism) recently won the prestigious Rabkin Prize. The fourth annual Rabkin Prize for Arts Writers, given by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, recognizes outstanding contributions by critics who write on visual arts. The prize was awarded to nine writers nationally. Each honoree will receive $50,000.…

The Believer, the flagship magazine of the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, is a finalist for the 2020 National Magazine Awards in three categories. “Cabramatta,” an interactive comic by Matt Huynh supported by the Tran Thi Oanh Black Mountain Institute Fund, was nominated in the Digital Innovation category…

Lillehammer Allen (BMI) and Susanna Newbury (Art) sat down to write about land art, mariscos, and Las Vegas for Nevada Humanities' Double Down blog. The essay, Double Down's first bilingual entry, looks at alums Justin Favela, '14 BA Art, and Mikayla Whitmore's, '10 BFA Art, tongue-in-cheek installation of a sculpture called Seven Magic Tires in…