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Kristen Peterson

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New sign installed for Las Vegas Arts District
Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
Installed this morning on Casino Center Boulevard near Coolidge Avenue, the yellow, red, blue and white sign reads "18b Arts District" and is an interpretation of a logo designed about four years ago by the Las Vegas Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
A 20th Century Experience
Conductor says Gershwin, Bartok works go together well
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
The pairing of George Gershwin and Bela Bartok might have some Las Vegas Philharmonic ticket holders scratching their heads.
A painter who explores nationalist symbols
A weekly snapshot of creative people living in the Las Vegas Valley
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009
Sean Russell is known mostly for his large-scale paintings and public art projects.
Historic, by local standards
Clark County Museum to celebrate reopening of chapel from the Strip
Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
It survived a tricky journey across town, required more than $250,000 in renovation, including a new steeple, scavenged furnishings and electrical rewiring.
Artist’s exhibit hits pause button on Vegas life
Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
Street photographer Ken Lamug is bent on capturing life’s moments and places, knowing full well that in Las Vegas everything is ephemeral. A fitting example of the ever-changing Las Vegas is a photograph in “Beyond the Neon: Street Exposures” in the Image Gallery of the College of Southern Nevada’s Telecommunications Building. The photograph taken by Lamug shows a woman sweeping the steps of her one-story cottage home in a deteriorating neighborhood in downtown Las Vegas. She’s bent over, focused on her task, wearing a short floral skirt and sleeveless top. Next to her door, propped against her crumbling home, is a painted sign that reads: “I was born this way.”
A place to buy a piece of CityCenter style
Design center will feature works of notable artists, architects
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
CityCenter officials announced this week that a design center will be created to stitch together the high-end architecture, design and public art program at the $8.5 billion project.
Noelle Garcia, visual artist: Art without faces
A weekly snapshot of creative people living in the Las Vegas Valley
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
In her studio Garcia has a handful of decaying photos, Polaroids taken in the prison yard for $1 when she was a child and would go to visit her father.
A new way to look at books
In this electronic-information age, artists’ focus on literary medium is timely
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
Two art exhibits held in conjunction with the Vegas Valley Book Festival present books as art in ways diverse enough that the works could appeal to those not normally fond of the usual “book art.” “Inscribed/Messages” features art that is created mostly in book form. “Altered States: Artists Re-imagine the Book” features art created by using the book as medium.

Vegas Valley Book Festival: Finding our own voice
Local writing scene is displayed in works of authors, professors and journalists
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
In its eighth year the Vegas Valley Book Festival is plucking from local waters for most of the five-day festival that begins today in downtown Las Vegas.
Local man has the instinct to dance
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
A weekly snapshot of creative people living in the Las Vegas Valley

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Recent Blog Posts (view all entries)

Las Vegas Art Museum makes it official: Will get 50 works from national gift program
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008
Las Vegas Art Museum gets 50 contemporary works from national gift program
Friday, Sept. 12, 2008
Las Vegas Philharmonic will back Placido Domingo
Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
Welcome back to (a cooler) First Friday
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008
Poet and author begin UNLV residencies
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Albanian poet Luljeta Lleshanaku and authors Mary Palevsky and Robert Rosenberg begin their nine-month residency at UNLV this semester where they will write new works and interact with students via the Diana L. Bennett Literary Arts Fellows Program of the Black Mountain Institute.
Herridge out at Las Vegas Phil
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Double Down gets its due on 'Today'
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Mayor Goodman gets national honor for supporting the arts
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
New book highlights Vegas displacement
Monday, June 23, 2008
Performing Arts Center group to move downtown
Friday, June 20, 2008

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