Dakota Renteria: actor, musicianSinging His Heart Out or Pouring Himself into a Character, He’s Always FearlessRecent Las Vegas Academy graduate Dakota Renteria is literally one to watch as I write this. He’s in New York City competing in the Jimmys, a choir-camp-meets-Broadway affair officially called the National High School Theater Awards, and I’m compulsively checking Instagram to see if he wins. Ninety-two high school students from around the country have been selected by participating theaters in their region ours is The Smith Center to spend eight days being groomed and trained by Broadway professionals before vying for scholarships and, perhaps more importantly in their presumed line of work, recognition.“Obviously, I would love to win,” Renteria says. “That would be amazing. But honestly, if I can just learn a bunch and make some great connections with people in this industry, no matter what the outcome is, the opportunity is the most amazing thing I could have
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“Can You See What I See?” by Mikayla Whitmore
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Wade Vandervort
For Core Contemporary gallery’s
On Board, curator and artist Nancy Good has summoned the creative talents of the Goldwell Open Air Museum’s board members and their partners. In essence, the show is a family reunion, bringing together the extraordinary community of artists that has made the desert museum a must-see for all true Nevadans.
“It’s a remarkable show, as I knew it would be,” Good says. “There’s all different types of art. Somehow, it all ties back to the desert that surrounds us, and it even [gives] little nods to Goldwell here and there.”
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Adriana Chavez and Heidi Rider’s “So, You Want to Buy a Monument”
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Last spring, Wendy Kveck taught an art class at UNLV called Finding America in Las Vegas. “I considered how the landscape and cultures of Southern Nevada have influenced artists’ work over the decades,” she wrote in a blog post for Nevada Humanities.
Teaching the course, which included field trips to the Neon Museum and Fremont Street, led her to ponder the meaning of a monument: “Is it an object, an artwork, a painting, a sculpture, a landscape, a billboard, a gesture, a poem, a podcast, an arts center, a community?” she wrote.