Mana Azizsoltani talks with Architect and Associate Professor Glenn NP Nowak about the uniqueness of studying hospitality design in Las Vegas and why the art of architecture is so important… why having a School of Architecture within the College of Fine Arts should signal to creatives - the value of drawing out the emotive qualities of the built environment.  Dive into the world of…

Professor Dana Moran Williams has been awarded the Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award. He is the first recipient representing the Arts to have been awarded this honor in 23 years. The Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award recognizes faculty members who have established a record of distinguished research or demonstrated excellence in the area of creative activity. 

MFA candidate in Technical Direction Timothy Simon won the prestigious John Spiegel Theatrical Artist Award as well as the Design Competition Award for his work on NCT's The Cherry Orchard at the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) last week. SETC is the largest network of theatre practitioners in the nation.  The award was presented by UNLV alumna Liz Haynes (MFA 2020 in…

The UNLV Voice Area is excited to announce a series of Artist-in-Residence events bringing teachers and performers from around the country to Las Vegas. These clinicians have presented research and sung around the world and the events center around both our classical and jazz/commercial voice programs, and our aim is to expose our student body and community to high level researchers and…

The city of Las Vegas honored exceptional urban design through the Mayor’s Urban Design Awards (MUDA) at the 2024 Mayor’s Symposium on Urban Design Tuesday, March 5, at the Historic Fifth Street School. Mike Del Gatto, Principal and Vice President of Carpenter Sellers Del Gatto Architects, is a UNLV Architecture alumnus. His firm received two awards, and UNLV Art instructor Iandry…

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…

“You’re gonna need a bigger boat,” says Chief Martin Brody when he first catches a glimpse of the shark in Jaws (1975). It’s one of the most iconic lines in cinema history, and it’s also what the Universe said to the World when Francisco Alfredo Mejia Menéndez was born on January 4, 1962 in San Salvador, El Salvador—perhaps partly because Jaws would later become his favorite film, the movie that…

The Nevada Arts Council partnered with Americans for the Arts for a nationwide study of the arts and culture sector via the Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6) study. The data was collected from Summer 2022 to May 2023 to better understand the economic impact of the nonprofit arts and culture industry with two primary data collection efforts:​ An audience-intercept survey of…