Las Vegas Weekly
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.