Dean Nancy Uscher is proud to announce the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Professor Award is Louis Kavouras, chair of the Department of Dance. For more than 30 years, under his extraordinary leadership and dedication, UNLV Dance has greatly enhanced the life of the College of Fine Arts and UNLV, and has been recognized as one of the top 10 dance programs in the country. The…
UNLV Dance recently returned from New York City where they once again performed with the famed Martha Graham Dance Company in the Joyce Theatre, presenting Erick Hawkins’ 1971 work Angels of the Inmost Heaven. In 2023, UNLV Dance also was invited to present an Erick Hawkins work in the University Partners Showcase as part of the Martha Graham Dance New York Season at the Joyce…
This year's College of Fine Art's graduation ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 18 in Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall. A small reception on the plaza will follow. We hope you will join us as we celebrate the accomplishments of our 2025 graduating class. Q: Where and when does the ceremony take place? A: The Graduation…
UNLV Dance attended the American College Dance Association Conference South-Central Region at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas and took three works to the festival. Two for the adjudicated concert: Jason Hortin and Hayley Meier’s co-choreographed, States of Form Reorganized (Faculty Work) Tiera Salas, Do You See Me? (Undergraduate Student Work) Each of…
Dear CFA Colleagues and Community Friends: Welcome back for the Spring 2025 semester! I hope all of you had wonderful and restorative holidays. The College of Fine Arts community has a very exciting spring semester on the horizon. Most importantly, we continue to value and encourage thinking about the concept of abundance in our educational and artistic work, and in the way we perceive life’s…
"Wow” exclaimed the child, after hearing his first concert. He said this right in the concert hall so that everyone could hear his voice in those quiet moments just after the music ended. The children’s book “The Boy Who Said WOW” (beautifully written by Todd Boss and exquisitely illustrated by Rashin Kheiriyeh) explains that the young man, Ronan, who uttered that exuberant word, actually seldom…
Fine Arts Graduation Ceremony FAQs Q: Where and when does the ceremony take place? A: The Graduation Ceremony for the College of Fine Arts will take place on Sunday, May 12th at 1:00 p.m. in Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall. Q: Does the CFA graduation ceremony replace the University Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, the 11th? A: …