Accomplishments: College of Fine Arts

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.
Frederic Bonin Pissarro (Art) has joined the Clark County Public Art Committee. The committee consists of seven artists, art professionals, and other county residents with art expertise. The membership includes a faculty member of the UNLV department of art, a faculty member of the CSN art & art history program, a professional architect or…
Catherine Angel, Yasmina Chavez, Sapira Cheuk, Cara Cole, Alisha Kerlin, Wendy Kveck, Jung Min, Jean Munson, Jerry Schefcik, and Sean Slattery (all Art) have created exhibits this semester to highlight the creativity, research, learning, growth, and big ideas of their undergraduate and graduate students. More than 150 students have exhibited on…
Dafne Odette (Architecture) provided a presentation for the European Federation of Psychology Students Associations on the topic of experiential memory formation and retention through various measures that serve to trigger a memory. Her proposal went through a blind peer-review process, and there were more than 200 participants, including…
Zully Mejia (Art) has an exhibit, "Self PorTRAITS,"  on view at the East Las Vegas Library until Feb. 9. The exhibit features realistic paintings of women the artist admires. She is an undergraduate.
Dak Kopec (Architecture) just returned from Prague in the Czech Republic and Vilnius in Lithuania where he delivered invited presentations. In Prague he spoke to more than 200 people for the European Federation of Psychology Students Associations on the importance of design within the psychosocial therapeutic process. He then flew to Vilnius to…
Dave Rowe (Art) has taken the lead in the department of art this Fall to reinvent and reinvigorate the visiting artists program, sponsored by the College of Fine Arts. The department hosted or co-hosted 14 distinguished and award-winning visitors and speakers in a few short months. This programming brought the art community together in new ways.…
William Bauer (History) and Fawn Douglas (Art) were featured speakers with Jack Malotte, an accomplished visual artist who focuses on Great Basin landscape, contemporary political issues faced by Native people, and environmental activism. Bauer proposed some historical/political context for Malotte's work. Douglas provided readings of some of…
Emily Budd (Art) will exhibit her work in a group show of 12 artists at the University of Arizona School of Art Joseph Gross Gallery from Nov. 22 through Jan. 23. The exhibit, The Snake Eats Its Tail, explores the relationship of creation to destruction with a particular focus on consumption in contemporary life.
Tiffany Lin (Art) spoke at the University of San Francisco in the fine arts program with design fundamentals students learning about social practice and socially engaged art. Tiffany lectured on her new project 23 VIEWS with an emphasis on strategies for successful collaboration and community engagement. 23 Views is a drawing series and social…