In The News: College of Fine Arts
51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó is getting $5 million from the federal government as part of an effort to keep things a little bit cooler in one of the nation’s hottest cities.
51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó plans to plant about 3,000 trees in Southern Nevada over the next five years with a $5 million grant from the U.S. Forest Service.
The 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó-led 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp Urban Forest Center received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Forest Service to help counteract the growing impacts of extreme heat.
The funding is going toward the university's 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp Urban Forest Center and its project, which is scheduled to start in January next year.
It’s 9 p.m. on the Strip and 100 degrees out and I’m staring at a blue ball. It pulses and turns. It becomes purple. Then pink.
The 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó Performing Arts Center (PAC) is kicking off its 47th season with a local guitar duo.
It’s getting hotter. The nonprofit scientific research organization Climate Central reports that average summer temperatures in 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp have risen nearly six degrees since 1970, and Southern Nevada remains one of the fastest-warming metropolitan areas across the west—getting hotter faster than Phoenix, Salt Lake City and El Paso.
Let’s begin with what’s going right. If you want to see visual art created by locals, there are places to do that.
An outdoor kitchen with a mountainous backdrop, a floor-to-ceiling window in a penthouse apartment in New York, or maybe a Scandinavian-style home surrounded by lush forests? These are just a few ideas for a dream home, shared by the ‘Somewhere I would like to live’ Instagram account, which ought to make your imagination run wild.
Sin City landmarks where the King made his home, made movies, and made music history
A 2022 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-funded heat mapping study involved a group of 60 volunteers who spread out across Clark County to check the temperatures in different locations during the morning, afternoon and night. The map produced from that data shows that elevated temperatures are worst in North 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp, East 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp and downtown, which can get up to 11 degrees hotter than other parts of the city.
Southern Paiute artist/activist Fawn Douglas and 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó associate professor A.B. Wilkinson have made more than a gallery in Nuwu Art. They’ve made a space for women, indigenous folk and people of color to embrace and share their creativity and to be heard and understood. It’s a bridge to link us together.