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Urban Arts Initiatives
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Urban Arts Initiatives is a program that promotes and develops the arts as a meaningful and creative part of downtown by developing a downtown cultural tourism initiative and creating innovative approaches to bringing the urban environment. This includes projects and events as well as cultural planning initiatives; a focus on "place making" i.e., using the arts to enhance and define public/commercial spaces whether a neighborhood (like the Arts District) or specific site like the Lewis Avenue Corridor.
This unit of the Office of Cultural Affairs branded the burgeoning downtown arts district located in a twenty block area around Charleston and Main – “18b”. It is the hub of the arts scene in Las Vegas, with 75 or so art galleries/studios/shops, restaurants, bars and other businesses. It is home to First Friday, the most popular local arts event in Las Vegas that can draw as many as 10,000 people to the neighborhood in one night.
The unit is responsible for the Aerial Gallery on Las Vegas Blvd and the Centennial Mural Project, which completed 100 murals throughout the city of Las Vegas.
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Office of Cultural Affairs, 495 S. Main St., Las Vegas, NV 89101
Monday - Thursday 229-6511 / Friday - Saturday 229-5256 |
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