Fawn Douglas (Art) wrote about Las Vegas as part of the homelands to the Nuwuvi and related art activities in the region. The writing, which was done for Indigenous People's Day, is posted on the "Meow Wolf" website and is titled "Acknowledging and Celebrating Indigenous People Today and Everyday." Douglas is a community associate at "Meow Wolf"…

Ashley Hariston Doughty (Art) is included an online group exhibition titled "Resiliency: A Blooming Diaspora," curated by Brent Holmes. This exhibit takes resilience as a theme, as exemplified by life in the desert and also by Black artists in Nevada.

Tiffany Lin (Art) has a solo exhibit at Spring Valley Library until Dec. 20. Her project, "24 VIEWS, " is a drawing series and social practice project that investigates the United States Census and its impact on American identity. Through drawings based on publicly available Census data, the project demonstrates how shifting definitions of race,…

Emily Budd (Art) is included in "Future-Ready: Survival Now + Next," a virtual exhibition hosted by the Anchorage Museum in Alaska. "Future Ready" was an open call for images, ideas, words, and inventions as well as survival manuals or proposals for constructions and installations — all for future readiness, whether practical, imaginative, or…

Francisco Menendez (Film) recently won the CILECT Teaching Award for 2020. The inauguration will be held online at the organization's general assembly Nov. 13. The non-profit association known as the Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision (CILECT) was formed at Cannes in May 1955, with the participation of…

Tiffany Lin (Art) is featured in Issue 11 of Maake Magazine, an independent, artist-run print publication. The issue, curated by Tanya Gayer, includes 19 featured artists, each with a two-page spread. The magazine's goal is to share innovative and experimental contemporary artwork and support the expansion and reinvention of traditional…

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art (Fine Arts) was the original venue for an exhibition, “Sorry for the Mess,” that now is traveling to the New Mexico State University Art Museum (UAM). It features work by artists Justin Favela ('10 Art) and Ramiro Gomez. It is the second show to originate at the Barrick Museum of Art to travel. …

Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez (Architecture) and his involvement with CarbonPositive RESET! have led to the UNLV School of Architecture being the only academic institution to be a partner, along with the American Institute of Architects and more than 15 of the top global architecture and construction firms, being part of a global teach-in to showcase…

Fawn Douglas and Tiffany Lin (both Art) have work that is part of the exhibit, "A Claiming, Which Cannot Be Tamed." The exhibit will be on view at Holland Project Gallery in Reno through Oct. 9. It is a curatorial collaboration between Art BFA alumna Krystal Ramirez and Alberto Garcia R. The artwork created by Douglas and Lin (Art) considers…

Ashley Doughty (Art) is interviewed on the "Art People" podcast. She talks about her latest exhibition, “Kept to Myself,” at the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art and the concepts behind this work. Listen in as we learn about her history, her love for teaching, and how she shares her experience as a Black woman through the art that she creates.

Sapira Cheuk (Art) will present a solo exhibition, "Dyads: Altered Bodies, Converging Forms," at Vision Gallery in Chandler, Arizona, scheduled to open Aug. 29. Included in the show are 'Pas de Deux in the Time of Quarantine,' a project in collaboration with 40 dancers from around the world and "Aligned Parallel," a painting installation that…

Emily Budd (Art) has published "Memorial for Queer Rhyolite, a Temporary Monument to Dreams in the Dust" in Engaging Collections, volume 1. Her essay unpacks the inspiration behind, and archival research supporting her reformative monument project in Rhyolite dedicated to Stonewall Park, a queer utopian effort in the 1980s. Engaging…