ARLIS/MOUNTAIN WEST CHAPTER
2001 Annual Regional Conference

November 7-9, 2001
Las Vegas, Nevada

NOVEMBER 7

1:30pm - 2:00pm
 

2:00pm -

WEDNESDAY

Registration at Lied Library, Amargosa Room, 10-min. walk from hotels.

Las Vegas Tour. Bus will pick us up at the Lied Library.
Bus Tour:
Stops include Mandalay Bay Hotel and its famous restaurant row and The Venetian with its decorative arts and themed architecture. The bus will drop us off in downtown Las Vegas, where the walking part of the tour will begin.

Walking Tour:
Reminder: wear comfortable shoes ...
We will hear about the neon boneyard from Richard Hooker, Senior Cultural Specialist with the Cultural and Community Affairs Division of the City of Las Vegas. We will also see the public pieces of the open air "neon museum" guided by Eric Strain. 
The walking tour will end at the professional offices of Eric Strain, where we will have an opportunity to discuss Las Vegas life, culture, and arts. Eric Strain is past president of the Las Vegas AIA, past Executive Director of the Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, and promoter of the arts in Las Vegas.

Dinner
We will have dinner at a restaurant downtown, and taxi back to the hotels. [should be about $13 for a taxi].

NOVEMBER 8

9:00am-11:00am
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

THURSDAY

SESSION I:
Location: Lied Library Special Collections.

Las Vegas Showgirl Costumes: Library Collections and Costume Designs.

Peter Michel, Director of Special Collections will present an overview of Special Collections and its entertainment collections within the context of documenting the history of Las Vegas shows. 

Su Kim Chung, Manuscript Librarian will discuss the Donn Arden Collection. Donn Arden, preeminent showman and producer, whose last show Julilee is still running to sell-out crowds at Bally's, died in 1994. Arden's collection documents a remarkable career through photographs, costume and set designs, programs, business correspondence, contracts, budgets, music and scripts.

Ellis Pryce Jones, Professor of Theater at UNLV and a recognized theatrical designer (currently designing the new American Girl Review in Chicago) will show and discuss his own design work: how and why the material in theatrical collections is created, and why he has made efforts to preserve them.

Showgirl Nancy Hardy. Currently part of "Jubilee", Nancy has danced in the "Follies Bergere" show at the Tropicana and also in the "Lido" show at the Stardust.

There are several campus or near campus eateries to suit a variety of tastes (the Mediterranean Cafe, Carl's Junior, Sushi Boy Desu to name three).

Suggested options for walks and visits during the lunch break:
Irish artists exhibit at the Barrick Museum, Robert Beckmann exhibit at Hamm Hall {Beckmann is inspired by 19th century landscape traditions but blends in Las Vegas cityscapes}, Lied Library [architecture and technology], Art Department Visual Resources Collection, Donna Beam Fine Arts Gallery (campus gallery; Tim Gardner, Canadian artist is on exhibit), or the Clark County Library District Library building designed by Michael Graves (about a 20 minute walk).
Another suggestion - Take a taxi to the Venetian to see the new art collection from the Guggenheim and/or Hermitage. (10-15 min by taxi)

Las Vegas as a Design Laboratory.
UNLV College of Fine Arts faculty in art, dance, architecture and
landscape architecture will discuss how Las Vegas fuels their art and/or their research.
Jeffrey Koep, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, introduction.

Jose Gamez, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture,
"Re:Learning from Las Vegas?"

Mark Burns, Chair of the Art Department,UNLV.

Mark Hoversten, Coordinator UNLV Landscape Architecture Program, "Research, Design and Planning at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve".

"Dancing on the Green: Researching the Gladdening Influences of Harmonious Movements". 
Louis Kavouras, Head of the UNLV Dance Dept and recognized dancer [listed by critic Francis Mason of WQRX, New Yorks Classical Radio Station as the best dance soloist of 1997 and received rave reviews for his dancing with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company in March 1999] will perform [along with theater student Matthew Sandoval] a short dance piece they took to the Edinburgh Arts Festival this year.

BREAK
[long enough to go back to hotels, a 10-minute walk]

Reception in the Sogg Architecture Building sponsored by the School of Architecture and the Las Vegas AIA [AIA and students also invited]
Location: Sogg Architecture Building, Room 125.

Susan Nigra Snyder, faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.
Snyder's research concerns consumption, urban form, and the civic realm. She also has a private practice: Company for the Civic Arts, and teaches an elective seminar that investigates contemporary forces of material culture and consumer society on urban form.

George E. Thomas, faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas has directed a consulting practice that has supervised the restoration of many of the Philadelphia area landmarks including 30th Street Station, College Hall, and the Fisher Fine Arts Library, for which his firm received the President's Award from the Advisory Council for Historic Preservation. He has published widely on American architectural history.

Location: Architecture Studies Library.

NOVEMBER 9

FRIDAY

Farewell remarks by Dean Kenneth Marks, UNLV Libraries.

Group Thinking, NOT Group Think -- Sharing Problems and Solutions En Group, led by Mary Graham.

Presentation by Patricia McRae on Las Vegas attractions, and discussion of Vegas as a site for future national ARLIS conference.