
Las Vegas Curator Fawn Douglas On What It Takes to Build a Native Arts Center
From fundraising to ceiling patches, here's how artist and curator Fawn Douglas cofounded Nuwu Art in downtown Las Vegas.
January 23, 2025
From fundraising to ceiling patches, here's how artist and curator Fawn Douglas cofounded Nuwu Art in downtown Las Vegas.
Gabriella Angeleti • January 23, 2025
Las Vegas–raised painter eri king co-opts the persuasive powers of gambling hall interior design at Available Space Art Projects.
Alejandra Lara • December 10, 2024
ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Las Vegas-based artist Nancy Good blends AI-generated imagery with handcrafted process in a new series of cyborgian self-portraits.
Justin Duyao • September 06, 2024
ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures
JK Russ expresses a hopeful futurity by syncing natural, urban, and fantastical settings in densely layered, sci-fi-inflected collages.
Gina Pugliese • September 06, 2024
FeatureNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Emily Budd, founder of Aluminati, challenges the norms of monument-making, advocating for diversity and inclusion in public art.
Karla Lagunas • September 06, 2024
Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, which has closed after eight years, left its owner in debt—and doubting the viability of the Las Vegas Arts District.
Delaney Uronen • July 26, 2024
Nearly four years into Meow Wolf's unionized era, employees say things are looking up despite a recent round of staff cuts.
Delaney Hoffman • July 11, 2024
ReviewNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories
The Emotional Show's consideration of sentiment and inner sensation has become pronounced in relevance following the terrifying December 6 shooting on the UNLV campus.
Brent Holmes • March 01, 2024
Las Vegas artist Jeannie Hua conceptually illustrates the Tonopah tailings burial site and asks the viewer to ponder the historic neglect of Asian Americans who settled in the American West.
Gabriella Angeleti • February 08, 2024
Paul R. Williams, the first Black architect to be licensed to work in the Western United States, is the subject of a multi-venue exhibition of photographs by artist Janna Ireland.
Gabriella Angeleti • October 23, 2023
The Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum in Las Vegas, dedicated to the late artist, traces Abbey’s prolific but underappreciated career that remained cemented in Southern Nevada.
Gabriella Angeleti • September 15, 2023
Modern Desert Markings at the Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas showcases contemporary takes on classic Land Art works by Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria, and Jean Tinguely.
Steve Jansen • June 30, 2023
Studio VisitNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Nanda Sharif-pour discusses her use of living plants, soil, and video in her work from her Las Vegas, Nevada greenhouse.
Laurence Myers Reese • March 03, 2023
FeatureNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
The decline of the Colorado River through drought and other factors has prompted artists to call attention to this event. Does art have the power, though, to mitigate the crisis?
Hikmet Sidney Loe • March 03, 2023
Wendy Kveck’s Prompt: at ASAP in Las Vegas explored the ways we stage ourselves and our art while employing a feminist practice that confronts and amplifies women as cultural markers.
Hikmet Sidney Loe • November 08, 2022
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