Due to the nature of the performing arts, all events/times/venues are subject to change. Tentative details below are confirmed as of December 5, 2024. Member of the press? Request more information from our director of communications: jennifer.vaughan@unlv.edu.
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Jan. 25, 2025, 7:30pm - Voctave: The Corner of Broadway & Main Street - Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall - $20-$60
Back by popular demand, enjoy an evening of Disney and Broadway tunes! With multiple #1 songs and albums on streaming services, Voctave has also ranked in the top 25 on Billboard Magazine’s charts. The voices that bring their artistic arrangements to life represent a wealth of diverse backgrounds and musical experiences.
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Jan. 31, 2025, 7:30pm - Raphaël Feuillâtre - Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall - $35
Born in the East African country of Djibouti, international artist Raphaël Feuillâtre broke into the classical scene at the Guitar Foundation of America competition in 2018. Selected as one of eight classical revelations by ADAMI in 2021, he is one of the few guitarists to be signed by legendary label Deutsche Grammophon.
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Feb. 5, 2025, 7:30pm - UNLV Arts in the Center – CFACoLab - The Composers Room
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Feb. 6, 2025, 7:30pm - UNLV Chamber Music Society: Gateways Brass Collective - Dr. Arturo Rando-Grillot Recital Hall - $30
The Gateways Brass Collective has presented dynamic performances and inspirational educational programs since 2018.
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Feb. 10, 2025, 7:30pm - Nextet Presents: Memory Palace - Dr. Arturo Rando-Grillot Recital Hall - Free and Open to the Public
Directed by Dr. Jennifer Bellor, NEXTET’s February concert will feature music by guest composer Christopher Cerrone, UNLV faculty composers Jennifer Bellor, Viet Cuong, and Diego Vega, along with Russell Wharton. Guest artists Annie Stevens (percussion) and John Irrera (violin) will also be in residence to perform music by Cerrone, Bellor, and Cuong, including a premiere of the violin and percussion version of Cerrone’s 'The Pleasure at Being the Cause.'
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Feb. 19, 2025, 7:30pm - UNLV Arts in the Center – Coloring Outside the Lines (Graduate Art Exhibit) - The Composers Room
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Feb. 20, 2025, 7:30pm - UNLV World Music Chamber Ensemble: 2025 Lunar New Year Concert - Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall - $15
Celebrate the Year of the Snake at the 2025 UNLV Lunar New Year Concert, a spectacular evening of music, culture, and artistry!
The third annual Lunar New Year Concert at UNLV, directed by Tianxi Wen, a doctoral candidate in orchestral conducting, features the UNLV World Music Chamber Ensemble in collaboration with talented community artists.
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Feb. 26, 2025, 7:30pm - UNLV Symphony Orchestra: Strauss's Alpine Symphony - Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall - $20
The UNLV Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the orchestra's artistic director Taras Krysa, performs Richard Strauss's tone poem, An Alpine Symphony.
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Feb. 27, 2025, 7:30pm - UNLV Choral Ensembles - Madrigals: Past and Present - Dr. Arturo Rando-Grillot Recital Hall - $10
The UNLV Chamber Choir and UNLV Singers perform in concert.
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February 28 – March 9, 2025 - Nevada Conservatory Theatre: Shorts - Climate Plays - Paul Harris Theatre - $30
The Shorts are back but this time, the 10-minute play festival will focuses on the climate emergency. We are bringing world premiere plays, written by some of the most important voices in American theatre. This evening promises to be funny and poignant as we tackle one of the most pressing issues of our time.
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Feb. 28 - March 1 - UNLV Dance: Syncopations - Judy Bayley Theatre - $20
Spring concerts begin with Syncopations which will feature works by faculty and guest artists including the classic work Lords of Persia (1965) by Erick Hawkins, a significant 20th century choreographer. Lords of Persia will be performed at UNLV and will then travel to New York City for performance as part of the University Partners Showcase of the prestigious Martha Graham Dance Company Joyce Theatre Season.
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Women's Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-Based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination - Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, WorkShop Gallery
January 17 - May 17, 2025
Opening Reception: January 24, 2025, 5-8 p.m.
Curated by Elizabeth Resnick (Professor Emerita, Graphic Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design), this exhibition draws on decades of design practice from around the globe to demand equity and dignity for all. Selected by curatorial organizers Sydney Galindo and Laura Solsona Plazaola, these posters incorporate intersectional human rights issues such as climate change, labor solidarity, and Indigenous sovereignty. They span a wide range of design styles, from humorous maximalist illustrations to streamlined icons and inventive typography.
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AL AMANECER - Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Window Gallery
January 17 - May 17, 2025
Opening Reception: January 24, 2025, 5-8 p.m.
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is proud to present AL AMANECER, an exhibition centered on a new painting by Gabriella Rodriguez. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Rodriguez has always enriched her art with a melange of local influences—the 702 area code, Mexican snack foods, idiosyncratic personal references to casinos on Las Vegas Boulevard—as well as her trademark round-headed figures, and references to Mesoamerican and Caribbean history. With AL AMANECER she advances her technique, realizing her self-recognized “complex vocabulary” through a fresh combination of painting and fabric.
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Color Made - Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art - West Gallery
January 17 - May 17, 2025
Opening Reception: January 24, 2025
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is proud to present Color Made, an exhibition of work by artists who use color to define and reshape the world. Manipulating bright shades of blue, red, pink, yellow, and green across different mediums such as painting, fabric sculpture, and cast glass, these artists establish spaces where they can create narratives and build community connections. By choosing to cover a surface with color—or by making the color and the surface indivisible—they experiment with the idea of painting, turning the traditional painters’ canvas into an independent, manipulable form and asking if other materials can play the same role.
This exhibition includes a special screening of Beck+Col’s Red Night, an independent feature film set in a colorful world where five monsters come together to defend their queer chosen family against a violent intruder.
Color Made includes art from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s permanent collection (Jason Adkins, Michael Batty, Tim Bavington, Chris Duncan, Jacqueline Ehlis, Ash Ferlito and Matt Taber, Harold Paris, Lyssa Park, Heidi Schwegler, Bettina Werner, and Thomas Ray Willis), as well as guest artworks by Yoko Kondo Konopik, Naes Pierott, and Beck+Col with Ching Ching Cheng, Sapira Cheuk, and Ofelia Marquez.
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"Honey, I'm Home!" Kayla Lockwood MFA Midway Exhibition - Grant Hall Gallery
Jan. 20 - Jan. 31
Kayla Lockwood's MFA Midway Exhibition "Honey, I'm Home!" will have a reception on January 31 from 5-8pm.
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"SON OF A BITCH" Bailey Anderson Thesis Reception - Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery
Feb. 10 - Feb. 21
Bailey Anderson's Thesis Exhibition SON OF A BITCH will have a reception on February 21 from 6-9pm.
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Look Don't Touch exhibition - UNLV Student Union Second Floor Gallery
"Have you ever seen something that you just really wanted to reach out and grab? This exhibition calls to the imagination to experience art through texture. Reignite your senses through many forms such as the roughness of sandpaper, unique visual patterns, or smooth glossy flatness. This mixed media exhibition features work that just makes you want to FEEL THEM. But please keep your distance and, Look, Don't Touch."
This show is Curated by Andre Lucas Polidoro and Maile Laporga.
Dec. 2, 2024 - Feb. 14, 2025
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Rita Deanin Abbey Exhibition - Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy Gallery - Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall Lobby
Special exhibition of works by late artist and beloved UNLV art professor, Rita Deanin Abbey. The exhibition is free and open to the public before performances, during intermissions, and immediately following performances, events, and concerts at the venue.
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Wayward Eye: Denise Scott Brown Exhibition - Paul B. Sogg Architecture Building
This solo exhibition features the photographs of Denise Scott Brown taken between 1956 - 1966. Wayward Eye delves into Scott Brown's exploration into urbanism, Pop Art, and the emerging architectural language of roadside America. Open during business hours.
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Fischer Gallery Exhibition - Judy Bayley Theatre Lobby
Showing in the Fischer Gallery at Judy Bayley Theatre is a selection of work that highlights a variety of interpretations of the natural world. Thanks to Joseph Raffael, Wulf Barsch, Chad Brown, Ray Jacobsen, and John Hogan for sharing their talent. All the works are from the Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery Collection. The exhibition is free and open to the public before performances, during intermissions, and immediately following performances, events, and concerts at the venue.
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