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Disruptive by Design

The song you can’t get out of your head. That image burned into your memory. The scene that melts even the most hardened hearts.

Art is crafted to make an emotional impact. But beyond the emotions it inspires are the ideas it promotes, concepts that have the power to transform both artist and audience.

Through their unique brainchildren, artists introduce us to new ways of thinking and undermine our sense of complacency and certitude, forcing us to question, to rethink, to see ourselves anew.  

Four UNLV fine arts faculty are disrupting our perceptions of artists, the arts, and our world.

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