Art Community Surveys

1961-06-04 “A Haunt for Vegas Beatniks”. The Nevadan. Las Vegas Review Journal. (Lady Buckley recites hipster prose at a coffee shop, The Red Barn, which later became a well-known gay bar.)

1987-03 Arts Alive. Allied Arts Council publication

1976-2002. Art community chronology, Self-published by Doug Jablin.

1980-2011. Detailed cultural overview. Self-published by Doug Jablin.

1992-01 “Yee-Haw! 99 cent breakfasts, half-hour comedy hours, fake volcanoes, and Fake tits.” Scope magazine. by Doug Jablin.

1993-02 "Desert Bloom, the visual arts in Vegas." Scope magazine. by Doug Jablin.

1992-04-21 “Beneath the glitter: the arts, With UNLV as the catalyst, a city beyond the Strip is developing a creative environment.” Los Angeles Times. by Terry Pristin.

1992-04-21 “An oasis in the desert for visual artists: Developing cultures across Nevada.” Los Angeles Times. by David Wharton.

1993-05-23 “Arts are suffering financial hemorrhage.” Las Vegas Review Journal. by D. Hopkins.

1993-12 “Faces of Vegas: 21 people influencing Vegas culture." Scope magazine. by Brian Weiss and Candace J. Chandler. (Michael Bohn, Dayvid Figler, Romney Smith, Karen Croxall, Alan Clancy, Patrick Gaffey, Tony Wells, Lenadams Dorris, Paul Summers Jr, Anthony Bondi, Kd Matheson, Marshall Fox, Lyn Pederson, Todd Sampson, Paul Pablo Schwartz, the Benway family, Sean Jones, Ginger Bruner, Sue Hahn, Mike Fouts, Wayne Coyner.)

1995-02 “Fremont Street Experience’s lights don’t burn brightly for these businesses.” New Times Las Vegas. by Andrew Kiraly. (The city recognized that the advent of Enigma Garden Café signaled that Fourth Street could soon be a Vegas version of LA’s Melrose, so the city closed Fourth Street for two years to widen its sidewalks. Too bad for Chicago Joe's restaurant and Enigma, the businesses which inspired the project. 25 years later, the wide sidewalks of 4^th Street remain mostly free of pedestrians.)

1995-06 “More than just a city of sin: Developing art culture.” Spinzo magazine. by Dr. Todd Jones.

1996-06 “Feasibility study for creating a downtown visual arts network.” City of Las Vegas. (Some years into the art district’s development, city consultants produced a plan to create an arts district. No funding was provided to support its recommendations. The only people who profited from the study were the people paid to produce it. Two years later, in 1998, the city cited the study as a reason to create a map of the unfunded district. Again, no funding accompanied the proclamation. Many years later, the hypothetical map was cited as the reason to re-name the arts district, “18b”. The inexplicable name calls for an explanation which involves saying, “the original 18 blocks of the district”, implying city interest in the district at a time when it was not present.)

1997-08-01 “Radiant City arts feasibility.” Scope magazine. by Gregory Crosby. (Critique of the “feasibility study for an arts district.”)

1998-08-06 “Downtown revitalization is already underway.” Las Vegas Review Journal. by Julie Brewer. (City proposals to develop an arts district neglect that the district already exists.)

1996-08 (no title) Detailed downtown arts survey.

1996-10-17 “The art of turning dreams into reality on Fourth Street.” Las Vegas City Life. by Christel Wheeler. (Contemporary Art Collective, Studio West, and Enigma Garden Café.)

1997- 06-13 “Arts Central: Creative types find new home in downtown scene.” Las Vegas Review Journal. by Ken White. (Grand opening of the Arts Factory.)

1997-07-13 “Making the Scene: Downtown Vegas slowly emerging as a happening place for artists.” Las Vegas Sun. by Scott Dickensheets. (Arts Factory, Mark Masuoka, Enigma Garden Café.)

2000-10-26 "Banner days for the north Strip." Las Vegas City Life. by H.R.E. Carter. (Aerial Gallery banners on Fifth Street.)

2002-02-07 “Goners: Vegas has scar tissue that I wish you’d see.” Las Vegas Weekly. by Geoff Carter. (The Huntridge Theater and the Underground and Benway Bop are closed.)

2002-06-11 “Slow Going: despite progress, a vibrant arts district is still a dream.” (incomplete) Las Vegas Review Journal. by Ken White.

2003-05-22 “The Natives aren’t restless: Las Vegas natives are sticking around and making a difference.” Las Vegas Mercury. by Andrew Kiraly. (Artists Angie Jackson, Vincent Frey, Debbie Dedmon, Patricia Vasquez, James Berg.)

2004-08-05 “The rebirth of cool.” Scope magazine. by James P. Reza. (Overview, 1992 to First Friday.)

2006-08-11 “The death of an art scene: angered artist paints over his own work in protest of eviction notices.” Las Vegas Sun. by Kristen Peterson. (Casino Center and Colorado apartments. Michael Kruis, Dray Dizzle, Heather Wetzel.)

2006-08-17 “Work of art: Vegas scene on the move.” Las Vegas Weekly. (Pat Gaffey, Brian Paco Alvarez. Valley-wide art tour.)

2007-02-01 “This is no longer Las Vegas art.” Las Vegas Weekly. by Liz Armstrong and Gilbert Ford. (The effort to define regionally distinct work.)

2007-10-04 “Art or commerce: how are economic needs affecting the art community?” Las Vegas Weekly. by Aaron Thompson.

2007-10-04 “First Friday night fight.” by David McKee. (Mayor Oscar Goodman permits three casinos on the west side of Main Street, between Charleston and Wyoming, developments likely to destroy the arts district.)

2008-09 “Women in the arts.” Las Vegas Weekly. by Danielle Kelly. (Mary Warner, Marty Walsh, Naomi Arin, Beate Kirmse, Cindy Funkhouser, Julie Brewer, Andreana Donahue, Jennifer Harrington, Michele Quinn, Tarissa Tiberti, Amy Schmidt, Nancy Deaner, Diane Bush, Jeanne Voltura, Catherine Borg, Lisa Stamanis, Libby Lumpkin, Kirsten Swenson.)

2009-01-29 “Why artists left Vegas.” Las Vegas City Life.

2011-11-03 “The history of the arts district.” Las Vegas Weekly. by Kristen Peterson.