Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) presented "Over the Horizon," a paper drawn from her research on the concomitant rise of Las Vegas and military surveillance technology in the 1990s and 2000s at the Center for Communication and Culture, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon). The project seeks to examine theories of vision and urban growth…

Susanna Phillips Newbury's (Art) 2021 book, The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate and the Making of Global Los Angeles, was reviewed in the latest issue of Art Bulletin, published by the College Art Association (CAA). The book was previously a finalist for CAA's Charles Rufus Morey Award.

Hikmet Loe (Art History) presented a lecture on Oct 24 for writer-in-residence Terry Tempest William's Harvard Divinity School seminar, "Walking the Inland Sea: Desert Contemplation and Great Salt Lake." The lake's current decline and degradation due to long-term drought was discussed through the lens of the earthworks "Spiral Jetty" (1970) and "…

Emily Budd (Art) has published a creative essay titled, “Cruising the Monuments of the Outskirts of Las Vegas,” for the ecoartspace publication, The New Geologic Epoch. Budd’s essay reimagines Robert Smithson’s seminal work, “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey,” to explore the possibilities of Queer Renewal among a set of environmental…

Hikmet Loe (Art) was published twice in the international, peer-reviewed journal, Weber: The Contemporary West (Fall 2023, vol. 40, no.1). Both appear in the journal's subfocus, Art of the American West. The first, "A Conversation in Water and in Ochre: Where Hope Lies," is multi-authored with Nan Seymour and Elpitha Tsoutsounakis. The second…

Emily Budd's (Art) sculptural work, Digging Feet (the Grinding Search), is on view with the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance exhibition, Of the Land, at the Lightwell Gallery at Oklahoma University. The exhibition, curated by Anna Tsouhlarakis, is dedicated to creative and visual expressions on the complex dialogue about land. Artworks for…

Emily Budd (Art) published an essay titled, "Aluminati: Rekindling a Forgotten Future of Foundry," for Couch in the Desert. The essay describes the importance of growing an inclusive and expanded foundry project, Aluminati, and the impact of its work.

Emily Budd (Art) was interviewed in Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America, Season 2, Episode 1, on Discovery, about the queer history of Rhyolite, Nevada, and her public sculpture that memorializes it.

Professor Ashley Hairston Doughty (Art) was named the Artist of the Month for August 2023 by the College Book Art Association (CBAA). She will be presenting her work as part of the association’s Book Arts Series on Saturday, August 19 at 10 a.m. (PST). The presentation, titled, “Sharing Personal Experiences through Visual Storytelling," will…

Hikmet Sidney Loe (Art) was an invited presenter for CRITICAL GROUND, an initiative created by Granary Arts in Ephraim, Utah, exploring how the dialogue of art critique might shift towards communities and artists working outside the frameworks of New York City and Los Angeles. Her in-the-field session explored ideas of center (geographical,…

Tiffany Lin (Art) is the recipient of Nevada Arts Council's Project Grant for Artists for fiscal year 2023. Funds will be used to produce two artist books featuring Lin's newest drawings. The books will be printed in collaboration with bearbear studio & press in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and are slated for release late 2023. 

Hikmet Loe (Art) participated in “Finding the Flow: A Virtual Symposium Considering Art and Water,” a public presentation by Southwest Contemporary in partnership with SITE Santa Fe on May 16, 2023, sharing information from her article "Viewing the Colorado River: Between Art and Actuality," published online and in print by Southwest Contemporary.