Artist Profiles
Ixela Gutierrez
As a young girl growing up in Mexico City, Ixela Gutierrez watched her older sisters dance and dreamed that she would do the same one day.
Chelsea Hackett
Nevada native Chelsea Hackett seeks to bring her skills to her home state and to use her theatre facilitation and creative skills to celebrate the voices, ideas, and development of Nevada residents of all ages.
Suzanne Hackett-Morgan
Suzanne F. Hackett-Morgan earned a Master's Degree in Art (Painting) at California State University Northridge in 2003 and a Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing from Western Washington University.
Susan Handau
Susan Handau is a mixed media artist drawn to the textures and abstract qualities of the world around us.
Shelley McCrosky Hartmann
Shelley McCrosky Hartmann grew up on a ranch in Rose Valley near Pioche, Nevada. She grew up with ranching farming and hours spent riding the desert of Nevada on her horse.
Mark Helton
Actor/Direct with over 20 years of experience and 35+ productions ranging from high school to professional.
Stephanie Hogen
Stephanie Vos Hogen was born into a military family that moved frequently across western america And Europe. Always adjusting to foreign people and places cultivated her inherent curiosity in creating new connection and accentuated her sensitivity to others.
Adrian Holley
As an artist and educator Adrian’s goal is to plant the seed of understanding and appreciation for the art form of dance.
China Hudson
Ms. China’s teaching style could best be described as creative passion through West African dance, creative writing and performance theatre.
China Hudson
Ms. China’s teaching style could best be described as creative passion through West African dance, creative writing and performance theatre.
Karla Huntsman
Making meaning through story and theater activities has been Karla Huntsman’s life’s work.
Kent Jackman
Kent Jackman is a graduate of Howard University with more than 30 years of drama teaching experience.
Mica Johnson
Mica Johnson has been making jewelry for the past nine years under the tutelage of Gail Rappa. She has been an amateur rock hound her entire life and found becoming a silversmith was a great way to use her love of minerals in a real world application.
Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson earned a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture and drawing from the University of Iowa, and has resided in Jerome, Arizona (population 450) since 1980. He lives in a sculptural house of his own design.
Nicholas-Martin Kearney
Nicholas-Martin Kearney has worn many hats under the performing arts umbrella: dancer, choreographer, director, arts administrator, arts educator and producer.
Jocelyn Kelly
A graduate of the intensive six-week Science Fiction and Fantasy program, Clarion West, Kelly's short stories and poems have appeared in Evergreen Review, Forge Journal, Cadillac Cicatrix, Willard & Maple, Sanskrit, Dos Passos Review, Louisiana Review and Red Wheelbarrow.
Whitney Kay Killian
Hailing from Texas with a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Oklahoma, Whitney Kay Killian has over 15 years of training in theatre and voice. She has performed professionally and semi-professionally, and fronted a touring casino band for a year and a half.
Carolyn Kollegger
At a young age Carolyn Kollegger had the great opportunity to study oil painting at the world renowned Butler Institute of American Art. During her school years, her work was entered in various local art competitions where she was always among the award winners.
Wendy Kveck
Wendy Kveck, originally from the Chicago area, is a visual artist who lives and works in Las Vegas. She examines images of women from art history and contemporary media as cultural signifiers through her work in painting, performance, video, and installation.
LaVonne La Tulip Vasick
La Vonne La Tulip Vasick lives with her husband, David, over the ridge from Lake Tahoe, nestled beneath the towering Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Mick laBriola
Mick’s residency is called “Rhythm Roots Workshop” a study of traditional/cultural drumming techniques conducted in a tone of cultural sensitivity and respect.
Carrie Lahain
Carrie Ann Lahain moved to Las Vegas from Long Island in 2003. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and went on to earn an M.A. from Rutgers.
Our Las Vegas
Artists Ginger Bruner & Jon Winet collaborate on "Our Las Vegas," a cultural animation public art project that celebrates the fierce and passionate connection that artists, fiction writers, photographers, musicians, journalists, dancers, designers and other creatives make with “The
Felice Lesser
Felice envisions her role as an artist-in-residence to be that of a working professional with a lifelong commitment to the art of dance, sharing her knowledge with a school and a community, hopefully motivating people to seek out further experiences once she is gone.
Lynne Liebelt
Lynne Liebelt was born in Reno, and lived in Sparks until her family moved to Southern California when she was still a young child. Her grandmother did lots of crochet and fabric creation, and mother was wildly into anything new and creative -- mostly crafts, rather than fine arts.