Celebrating Life! 2012 entry submission drop-off
Tues.-Wed., April 24-25, 2012
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Friday, April 27 and Monday, April 30 call back notifications.

Awards Reception
May 25, 2012
6-7:30 p.m.

Main Juried Exhibit Ballroom Dates
May 25-July 11, 2012
July 12 from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. artists pick up their work from the exhibit.
Award-winning artwork travels to city hall gallery.

Celebrating Life Salon de Refusés
May 25-June 20, 2012
June 21 from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. artists pick up their work from the salon.

What Continues the Dream: Contemporary Arts and Crafts from the Powwow Tradition Nevada Arts Council Traveling Exhibit Nov. 4 - Dec. 21, 2011 Public Reception: Nov. 4, 6-8 p.m. With a performance by the Las Vegas Native Dancers from the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe beginning at 6:30 p.m.. They will be demonstrating the Grass, Jingle, Fancy and Traditional dances. This traveling exhibit from the Nevada Arts Council features colorful original arts and crafts that capture the spirit of the contemporary Native American Nevada-style powwow. Current dance regalia and accessories as well as handmade crafts that are sold at powwows are exhibited. For more information about this exhibit go to: http://nac.nevadaculture.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1275&Itemid=367.

Lindsay Hebberd, Fancy Shawl dancer, photograph

Short Stories Bobby Ross Jan. 6, 2012 - March 17, 2012 Homelessness, aging, religious intolerance and environmental degradation are at the heart of these didactic narratives. The graphite drawings are unplanned composites, highly detailed and filled with intricate patterns and textures.

Into Darkness

Virasat (Heritage) Mario S. Kiran March 22-May 6, 2012 My work is camouflaged with images of people I meet and places I have traveled. When we embark on a journey to a foreign land we meet new people, pass small towns and experience new cultures. Very rare do we notice and remember the architecture, clothing / costumes and the spoken language of the small towns that we pass through. As for a plain man like myself, I relate my discoveries in a visual tale that my audiences are free to interpret with their own experiences. This exhibit will include prints and mixed media constructions.

Celebrating Life! 2012 Salon de Refusés May 25-June 20, 2012 Gallery will be closed for installation between May 7-24, 2012 This exhibit is part of the annual juried art exhibit for artists age 50 and better. The work includes pieces not selected by the juror(s).

You are Here David Lindsay June 29-Aug. 30, 2012 "Stuck in the middle of miles and miles of cotton fields, a mud puddle of people and cars. But from the middle of my navel to the top of my head, up and over and down again, the sky arches over my body: forming a personal cathedral painted in blue and white."

Mountains and Valleys without End Daniel Gottsegen Sept. 7 - Nov. 22, 2012 Dan Gottsegen is a painter who lives and works in central Vermont. An avid hiker and naturalist his paintings explore his relationship with the landscape and the natural environment. Gottsegen often develops compositions that allow for combining of different moments, in the way that the mind wanders when walking. Much of his earlier work was influenced by his 12-year participation in a study of the raptor (bird of prey) migration in California.

Narratives of Progress Armin Mühsam Nov. 30, 2012 - Feb. 7, 2013 "My work focuses on the relationship between the natural and the human-built. I imagine the land after technology has rendered it nearly uninhabitable, despite its promises to create a better world. I paint the absence of humans but not of humanity: man-made, sterile landscapes after the disappearance of the natural."

Exhibit to be determined
Feb. 15 - March 16, 2013

Rainer Bertrams
March 21 - May 5, 2013

The images will focus on meditative subjects and themes that explore human kind's existential struggles for a universal understanding of human nature.

Celebrating Life! 2012 Salon de Refusés
May 24 - June 22, 2013
Gallery will be closed for installation between May 6-23, 2013

This exhibit is part of the annual juried art exhibit for artists age 50 and better. The work includes most pieces that were not selected by the juror(s).

Marylou Evans
July 19, 2013 - Sept. 28, 2013

The artwork in this exhibit will explore the concept of layered experiences discovered through the physical layering of paint, paper and mylar, sometimes transparent and sometimes opaque, which can be scraped and sanded through simultaneously revealing and concealing information. At times clear and at other times obscure, the imagery moves in and out of view just as life's experiences move in and out of awareness.

National Invitational Postcard Exhibit
Although the postcard exhibit is over, we have left the link up for you to see a digital version of the exhibit. An artist from each of the fifty states was asked to make a postcard size image about the place in which they live. They were also asked to recommend artists they know to participate from another state other than their own. Please Click Here To View The Postcard Exhibit

A Walk on the Wild Side
Nov. 10, 2011 - Jan. 26, 2012

City employees and other local artists bid farewell to City Hall in an exhibit that focuses on shoes.

This will be the last exhibit in the current City Hall gallery space.

Participating artists: City of Las Vegas Employees:
Lisa Fields Clark
Nancy Deaner
Margaret DeClerk
Noelle Garcia
Rose Garcia
Nancy Kennehan
Lisa Stamanis
Jeanne Voltura
Sandra Ward

Community Artists:
Marylou Evans
Stewart Freshwater
Anne Hoff
Merilee Hortt
Bobbie Ann Howell
Emily Kennerk
Jennifer Kleven
Joseph Watson

Rumor de Lobos Grandes: Endi Poskovic Selected Prints Oct. 31, 2011 - Jan. 9, 2012 The prints of Endi Poskovic invoke influences as disparate as devotional pictures, early cinema, classic Japanese woodcuts and Eastern European propaganda posters. Reminiscent of youthful whimsy and playful fantasy, hybridized narratives in Poskovic's prints imply stories from personal and social histories, referencing themes of displacement, shifting cultural identities, environmental transformation and alienation.

(Dragon) Exhibition (all ages)
Jan. 12-March 11. Artists' reception Jan. 12, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Artists reception is free and open to the public. Exhibition is free and by appointment.
Historic Fifth Street School Gallery, 401 S. Fourth St., (702) 229-1012.
An invitational exhibit where the artists have focused on the meaning and imagery behind the Chinese Year of the Dragon. Call (702) 229-1012 for more information.