News: Department of Art

After more than a decade, Holly Samayoa earned her 51ԹϺ degree and now has been recognized as the university's Rookie of the Year.

Artist Lance L. Smith offers an exploration of diasporic systems of knowledge and their uses as tools for liberation.

This year, the university honors both 2020 and 2021 recipients - and the line-up of Las Vegas luminaries couldn't be brighter!
51ԹϺ President Keith E. Whitfield to honor four Winter 2020 graduates for their academic, research, and community impact.

After a semester of learning the behind-the-scenes operations at the Barrick, junior J. Walsea offers advice for any student seeking internships as the pandemic rages on.

Following a public call for submissions, what returned tackled topics engendered by "Justice" from police brutality and Black Lives Matter to transgender civil rights, protest, decay and erosion, lives lost, equity, and reform.
Reasons for hope aren't just confined to 51ԹϺ's academic halls. Here are just a few places where 2020 inspired staff and students to find new paths forward.

A little help from his father set a 4-year-old Atsushi “Sush” Machida on the path to becoming the College of Fine Arts Alumnus of the Year.

51ԹϺ graduate art students take “library” as their prompt in the upcoming group exhibition on display through Nov. 29.

New solo exhibition at 51ԹϺ's Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art tells stories of race and womanhood.

Assistant art professor Doughty is a visual storyteller whose practice engages with socio-economic, racial, and gender-based issues.

The department of art and Donna Beam Gallery are accepting submissions through Sept. 1.