Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art News
The Barrick presents fine art exhibitions and programs of educational outreach. We are also southern Nevada’s most important collecting institution.
Current Barrick Museum News
These exhibitions place Las Vegas artists in conversation with their national peers as they investigate contemporary ideas about motherhood, design, and Latin American art history.
March 21 reading is part of Black Mountain Institute's Breakout Writers Series.
Six years after examining the fallout from the 1 October shooting, UNLV psychology professor Stephen Benning is studying the Dec. 6 shooting.
UNLV vice president's preschool revolt was the start of her career in government affairs. She presents at Grad College event Feb. 22.
UNLV’s literary center welcomes the public to in-person and virtual readings and conversations with acclaimed writers.
The event, which will be held at Fontainebleau Las Vegas, honors those who have made a significant impact in the areas of visual arts, performing arts, or architecture.
Barrick Museum In The News
The Marjorie Barrick Museum on the UNLV campus has always been a container for feeling. Every work of art it features holds multiple complex themes and ideations. The most recent exhibition, The Emotional Show, brings these already present factors to the forefront, a gambit of sentiment forming a panorama of emotional landscapes. In the panoply of sensations in attendance, fear and its corollaries present themselves boldly. The work in this show has become pronounced in relevance since the December 6 UNLV campus shooting that had the museum staff sheltering in place with terror and uncertainty.
You can learn a lot about a city in its museums — and just by the types of museums it has.
The Rebel Recovery Program will offer several scheduled and pop-up mental health events.
In 2012, the Las Vegas Art Museum’s collection — consisting of 200 pieces of mostly contemporary art — was moved to the newly renovated Barrick Museum at UNLV.
Art workshops are an essential component of UNLV's healing and unity initiatives. UNLV students, faculty, and staff can attend art-making workshops at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art. Participants can create paper dolls, collages, and attend crochet lessons. These workshops are part of the broader UNLV recovery program, aimed at supporting those affected by the campus shooting on December 6.
Close to 1,000 people utilized crisis counseling in the days following the December 6 shooting. Thousands more are expected to need resources.
