College of Fine Arts, Clark County Announce New Arts Innovation Project Series: Arts in the Center.

Performances and refreshments in the Composers Room are free and open to the public. Show proof of your RSVP for access. 

You can read the February 11 press release in the news center, or find RSVP links in the list below.

March 20 at The Composers Room — The UNLV Joe Williams Trio featuring Adam Schroeder and Gary Fowler

A return engagement of the premiere Arts in the Center series, this brand-new jazz-based evening will spotlight even more talented members of UNLV’s Jazz and Commercial Music Department, along with dazzling new compositions and stunning selections from The Great American Songbook. RSVP

April 10 at The Composers Room — "Environment- Built/Natural" and Q&A

When we examine the physical spaces around us, they represent a dichotomy: natural and built. While built environments are constantly in a state of flux, shifts in the natural environment are often measured in millennia. This contrast, of temporary and permanent and of human-influenced and natural, is the topic of this compelling event. Experience a multitude of student-created works that reference this concept as a way of understanding our collective place in the world.  A Q&A session with the creators of the works is included as part of the evening. RSVP

April 21 in the County-Owned Commercial Center Parking Lot — Parking Lot Plays

A lot can happen in a parking lot. Keys can be lost. A car can break down. Relationships can begin, end, or take a dramatic turn.   Alliances can be forged or destroyed. Join UNLV’s Nevada Conservatory Theatre for the world premiere of Parking Lot Plays, a unique site-specific experience: five short plays told in and around cars will literally move you. 

May 1 at The Composers Room — UNLV FILM Comedy Showcase

As the culmination of a semester studying the curriculum of today’s most influential modern comedy school (the Upright Citizens Brigade), students will perform a live, one-night-only show of both works-in-progress written sketches and entirely improvised long-form comedy. RSVP

June 5 at The Composers Room — Commercial Center Reimagined Screening and Q&A

This program will feature the debut of a 15-minute documentary about the revitalization of Las Vegas’ Historic Commercial Center. Built in 1963 as Las Vegas’ first outdoor shopping center, this historical epicenter of Las Vegas culture experienced a downward decline beginning in the 1990s. Now, however, Clark County is embarking on a bold mission to reclaim Commercial Center’s heyday and re-establish it as Las Vegas’ exciting new Arts Innovation District. RSVP