Accomplishments: Department of Art

Ashley Doughty (Art) will present at the 108th annual College of Art Association Conference in Chicago this month. She will present on a panel called Black, Brown + Latinx Graphic Design Educators, chaired by Kelly A Walters from The New School, Parsons School of Design. Other participating designers are representing the College of New Jersey…
Erik Beehn (Art) is interviewed by the first department of art Transformation Fellow Amanda Browder on the podcast "Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk Without the Ego." Browder and Beehn discuss Beehn's work as an artist and printmaker and their takes on art scenes in Las Vegas.
Sapira Cheuk and Fawn Douglas (both Art) have work that is included in an exhibit, Margaret, Are You Grieving, that is on view at Nevada Humanities Program Gallery. Several UNLV alumni, including Montana Black, Lance Smith, Kim Garrison, and Steve Radosevich, also are part of the exhibit.
Sean Slattery (Art) is included in the Mojave Madness group exhibition at the Yucca Valley Visual & Performing Arts Center, Feb. 8 - April 12. This show, curated by Michael McCall, includes more than 40 artists responding to life in the desert.
Sapira Cheuk (Art), Chad Scott (Teaching and Learning), and Richard Zwiercan (Libraries) are participating in an exhibition titled Existing in Thought, which is on display through March 4 at Winchester Cultural Center gallery. The exhibit features 42 works of art by 34 selected artists. Russian-born guest curator Valentin Yordanov has exhibited…
Anne H. Stevens (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies), along with alumna Molly C. O'Donnell, '15 PhD English, have co-edited the collection The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture with Bloomsbury, released this month. Contributors to this collection of essays about highly specific cultural genres include Megan Becker,…
Krystal Ramirez (Art) is exhibiting at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts through Feb. The exhibit, Whose Diversity, draws upon histories of the Latinx community in Minneapolis. She was inspired by Whose Diversity?, a collective of undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Minnesota who challenge and transform the culture of…
Ashley Doughty (Art) is included in the College Book Arts Association Members' Juried Exhibition, Intersections: Book Arts as Convergence, at the Carroll Gallery at Tulane University through Feb. 6. It celebrates the crossroads, overlaps, conversations, and potential for shared experience and expansion. Her recent books are about procreation and…
Marcus Civin (Art) has a short Critic's Pick posted online at Artforum. He picks Ramiro Gomez's exhibit, "Here, for a Moment," at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles that brings a picture of the low-wage international workforce into dialogue with immigration control and the increasing criminalization of border crossing. Artforum is an…
Yasmina Chavez (Art) will be exhibiting at the East Las Vegas Library until April 21. Her exhibit, "The Suchness of Light,"  is a presentation of abstract images that are self-referential and non-representational. As opposed to the photography we are most familiar with, which is light bouncing off the surface of things, giving us a…
Steven Hrdlicka (Art) published "Letters of Jack B. Yeats to Joseph Hone, 1921-1955." in the New Hibernia Review, a journal which presents scholarship on all aspects of Irish civilization. Deeply engaged with modernism and also an athlete, Jack Butler Yates was brother to William Butler Yeats. Jack Yeats’s letters to the British writer Hone, as…
Krystal Ramirez (Art) has an exhibit,  I Was Happy Then, at the Whitney Library in Las Vegas. Her work moves from photography to text and engages themes of race, gender, identity, and labor.