May's Art in America features " If Walls Could Speak" by Art History & Theory Professor Kirsten Swenson.
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Graduate Student Bekah Just's Midway Exhibition featured in pdnedu magazine (spring 2008 issue)
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Art History & Theory Professor Kirsten Swenson has written a feature article in February's Art in America magazine on the recent exhibition of UNLV art department alums at the Las Vegas Art Museum. The text of the article, "Report From Las Vegas: Sin City Slickers," is available online.
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Catherine Angel
Helen Nadine and Bessie
1997
Photo Professor Catherine Angel's work is featured in the recently-published "Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children."
The featured photographers are: Ansel Adams, Shelby Lee Adams, Catherine Angel, Diane Arbus, Ilse Bing, Julie Blackmon, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson , Mike Brodie, Leslee Broersma, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Chan Chao, Michal Chelbin, Clark + Pougnaud (Christophe Clark and Virginie Pougnaud), Mark Cohen, Paul D’Amato , Bruce Davidson , Rineke Dijkstra , Alfred Eisenstaedt, Martin Elkort, Elliot Erwitt , Lalla Essaydi, Larry Fink, Martine Franck, Andrea Frank, Robert Frank, Tierney Gearon, Margi Geerlinks, Gour (Kids with Cameras), Emmet Gowin, Robin Graubard, Anne Hall, David Hilliard, Lewis Hine, Julie Holcombe, Pieter Hugo , Simen Johan, Kenneth Josephson, Anastasia Khoroshilova, William Klein, Ingar Krauss , Heinrich K ü hn, Dorothea Lange, Gillian Laub , Jocelyn Lee, Arthur Leipzig, Leon Levinstein, Helen Levitt , Elmar Ludwig, Loretta Lux, Robert Lyons, Sally Mann, Constantine Manos, Mary Ellen Mark, McDermott and McGough, Laura McPhee, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Andrea Modica, Tina Modotti, Abelardo Morell, Rachelle Mozman, Bob Natkin, Jehad Nga, Nicholas Nixon, Luis Gonz á lez Palma, Polixeni Papapetrou, Martin Parr, Gösta Peterson, Melissa Ann Pinney, Nicholas Prior, Sebastião Salgado, Frederick Sommer , Erika Stone, Angela Strassheim, Helen M. Stummer, Jock Sturges, Antanas Sutkus , Joseph Szabo, Guy Tillim, Katherine Turczan, Doris Ulmann, Brian Ulrich, Roman Vishniac, Alex Webb, Weegee, and Liu Zheng.
Justin Crabtree received a fiercely competitive full scholarship to Pilchuck Glass School this summer. There were over 350 applicants worldwide. Justin was one of the approximately 75 fortunate recipients chosen for a scholarship due to his impressive jury score. He has chosen to take UNLV instructor Brent Sommerhouser's course -The Glass Sandwich - this July.
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The Las Vegas Artist & UNLV Instructor Danielle Kelly
Solo Exhibition "Fear is the Mind Killer"
March 5, 2008 through April 15, 2008
Cascade Gallery at PCC Cascade • 705 N. Killingsworth St., Terrell Hall, Portland, Oregon
PCC's Cascade Gallery is featuring Danielle Kelly's Fear is the Mind Killer. The Las Vegas artists describes her work as being "evidence of and for hope... From the moment our mark exists in the world it is optimistic, purposeful and is an opportunity for change."
Stephen Hendee exhibits at Scope Miami Via Ada Gallery December 6-9 2007, with a solo exhibition at DA Gallery Richmond, Virginia, beginning February 26, 2008.
Another upcoming exhibition for Professor Hendee will be at the Las Vegas Art Museum: 702 Series/Stephen Hendee, Be My Suicide February 20-April 27, 2008.
Congratulations to SAGA, the Student Association of Graphic Designers, which held its inaugural meeting in November. The President, Tom Speak, introduced the board and described the goals of SAGA. The meeting was attended by a large and enthusiastic group.
Mary Warner, Associate Professor in Painting, has been awarded a residency at the Bemis Foundation in Omaha, Nebraska. Professor Warner also has a solo exhibition of recent paintings at Jay Jay Gallery which runs November 7th through December 22nd, 2007. http://www.jayjayart.com/
Art students Alicia Bridgewater, Leah Craig, and Catherine Cruse were selected to represent the Department of Art at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in Adelaide, Australia.
