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Veterans Emergency Resources

Posted on by Lynn Goya

Dear John,

I am attaching some links for emergency assistance.  I’m going to call these tomorrow and do a story on it because you are not the only veteran who has contacted me in the past few days because they are about to lose their home.  I know that there is supposed to be emergency assistance to prevent veteran homelessness.  Please keep in touch. Here is a list of resources I have been able to find.

with great affection,

Lynn

Housing Assistance

“Those who have served this nation as Veterans should never find themselves on the streets, living without care and without hope.”
– VA Secretary Eric Shinseki

Housing Assistance For Veterans

Housing assistance for homeless Veterans and their families is available through several federal programs.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and VA Supportive Housing Program (HUD-VASH) partner to provide permanent, supportive housing and treatment services for homeless Veterans.

“HUD-VASH is a collaborative program between HUD and VA combines HUD housing vouchers with VA supportive services to help Veterans who are homeless and their families find and sustain permanent housing.

Through public housing authorities, HUD provides rental assistance vouchers for privately owned housing to Veterans who are experiencing homelessness. VA case managers may connect these Veterans with support services such as health care, mental health treatment and substance use counseling to help them in their recovery process and with their ability to maintain housing in the community. Among VA homeless continuum of care programs, HUD-VASH enrolls the largest number and largest percentage of Veterans who have experienced long-term or repeated homelessness. At the end of FY 2021, over 105,000 subsidized housing vouchers were allocated to HUD-VASH with more than 80,000 formerly homeless Veterans living in their own permanent housing as a result of this partnership between HUD and VA.”

Learn more about the HUD-VASH Program.

Information For the Community

If you know a Veteran who is homeless or at risk of homelessness, you can make a difference. VA provides extensive resources and support for Veterans through community partners and directly to Veterans facing homelessness. Everyone should know VA helps find housing for homeless Veterans.

Be a hero and help connect Veterans with the services they have earned.

More Information

Resources

Ending Veteran Homelessness on Tribal Lands: A Tribal HUD-VASH Grants Guide | Spring 2016

Download Tribal HUD-VASH Grants Guide

Developed by VA and HUD, this guide is designed to familiarize VA medical centers, tribes, tribally designated housing entities and community providers with a new program to permanently house American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans.

The Grant and Per Diem (GPD) Program

The Grant and Per Diem (GPD) Program funds community-based agencies providing transitional housing or service centers for homeless Veterans. Through the program, each year (as funding is available) VA offers grants that may fund up to 65 percent of the project for the construction, acquisition or renovation of facilities or to purchase vans to provide outreach and services to homeless Veterans.

View the Grant/Per Diem Webpage

Is a Veteran You Know at Risk of Losing Housing?

Is a Veteran You Know at Risk of Losing Housing? Call VA Now. VA has comprehensive programs to prevent and eliminate Veteran homelessness. Contact VA’s National Call Center for Homeless Veterans at  1-877-4AID-VET . You will reach a trained VA responder who can connect you with the resources VA offers through these and many other programs.

 

New Pools Make a Big Backyard Splash

Posted on by Lynn Goya

If a kitchen is the heart of a home, today’s pools might be the soul.  Top pool designers say that pools are more than just a place to splash with the kids.  Great pools serve as meditation room and entertainment focal point — an idealized reflection of nature that combines sight, sound, light and movement  into a Zen-like space that can help a homeowner when he wants to either focus inward or reflect outward to see his place in the world.

Over-the-top island retreats with sauna caves, 20-foot waterfalls and televisions in the swim up bars have given way to vanishing edges and zero-entry pools that blur the line between the pool, the horizon and the architecture of the house.  The pool design is often integral to the design of the home with architects, landscape architects and pool designers working together to create seamless integrated design that enhances the overall shape of the property.

According to Ed Kahn, editor of Pool and Spa Living and Luxury Pools, water features are more important than ever.  “Most people used to think in terms of fountains,” he says, “but I see an increasing use of jets, sheet falls and waterfalls and various takes on moving water.”  Another trend Kahn sees is a more subtle use of play equipment.  Instead of a diving board or slide, modern design uses shoots and diving rocks that integrate into the design while still creating a safer playing area for the kids.

The best designers, he says, can do it all.  Many use CAD design tools to show what your back yard will look like with various designs and configurations, integrating outdoor kitchen and play areas, the reflection pool, the integrated wiring package and the lights that show everything off to advantage.  That means that it is more important than ever, he says, to get a great pool designer who knows how to pull it all together.

Skip Phillips owner of the internationally award-winning Questar Pools and Spas from Escondido California, agrees.  Sixty percent of his business, he says, is tearing out poorly designed and constructed pools, many that are less than five years old.

It is the package, not just the design that is important, he says.  Make sure that your pool builder has the background and education in construction and engineering that can assure that your beautiful design isn’t ravaged by the design element you most love.  An overflow design that can’t hold water will quickly lose its aesthetic appeal.

Clients are better-educated and more well-traveled than ever, and that is influencing design.  “The U.S. isn’t driving pool design; we are well behind the curve,” he says.  “The Indonesians and Europeans have been designing water vessels for at least 3000 years.”  Phillips designs pools that owners will love whether or not they ever get wet.  “The utilitarian goals of a pool are really second or even third down the line.  With good design, the space itself should be so wonderful with audible and reflective qualities that if you never get in you still won’t regret putting in a pool.”

He advises clients to look for an “intellectual package” that coordinates with the home’s architecture on color continuity, balance, scale and structure.  A good pool designer can switch gears, he advises.  Most architects have a theme, but a pool designer has to be able to go from working with an antebellum mansion to a French château.

Many pool designers emphasize the importance of finding a contractor who is an expert in your soil and climate conditions.  Joe Vassallo with Las Vegas-based Paragon Pools is an expert  in his region as well as in all the bells and whistles that glitzy Las Vegans demand.  Situated in one of the fastest growing housing markets in the country, in his 14 pool-building years he has watched the pool design scene transform.

He loves playing with new technologies that allow him to offer greater safety and convenience or more sophisticated design. New lighting effects, for instance, let a homeowner change the color of the pool at whim;  “wet flame” water features can add a dramatic third element to pool design.

Vassallo often installs Fiberstars Jazz Light ™ that uses the same lamp technology found in many luxury cars today.  Brighter, whiter light enhances colors creating a brilliant glow throughout the pool.  It is also the most energy efficient pool light available with bulbs that offer a 10,000-hour life, adding beauty while saving money.

Safety is always designed into every pool he designs, says Vassallo, who joined with the City of Las Vegas and the Red Cross to sponsor an annual Pool Safety Fair.  He would love to see all pools take advantage of the new laser technology that is invisible to the eye, sets off an alarm whenever it is crossed.  “It works for burglars as well as little kids,” he laughs.

The alarm system can be retrofitted to an existing pool as well as easily be incorporated into the new integrated wiring packages that many new homeowners are installing both indoors and out.  The Jandy AquaLink Control system lets homeowners heat up the spa, turn on water features, control the backyard lighting, see if the cleaner is running and check on their pool equipment from inside the home or from a cell phone or remote computer.

Vassallo has become a leader in salt-water pools, as well, and loves how gentle these pools are on the skin – as well as on the finish materials of the pool.  Clients absolutely love the effect when combined with an ultraviolet ozone generator and top-of-the-line filtration system.  “It just feels wonderful!” he says.

With all of this technology, advises Vassallo, follow-up service is mandatory and should be performed by the company, not the product manufacturer.  “You want equipment and service where if something goes wrong, a technician shows up and you aren’t stuck with a call center who walks you through diagnostics over the phone.”

Scottsdale-based Mike Ferraro of Phoenecian Pools also emphasizes the importance of selecting a pool company that will be with you long term.  Like other leading pool designers across the West, his clients want clean, architectural lines that expand their outdoor space.

A specialist in hill design, one of his favorite pools cantilevers over the edge of a cliff in a vanishing edge design that disappears into the horizon.  The last 12-feet of the pool are actually suspended in air, he says.

He recommends looking for someone who is familiar with your area so that they can design to your lot and location.  “We design, build and maintain our pools and I think doing all three means we understand the workings of a particular system like no one else.”

His clients are requesting pools that incorporate either natural materials like quartzite, travertine and flagstone or glass tiles that reflect the desert light.  Zero-edge pools, classic, clean linear design that has a timeless feel is also hot, he says.

Water features are as varied and inventive as possible.  Ferraro is using a lot of copper and bronze sculptures with water running from pouring vessels or from hand-carved scuppers that come directly out of the pool wall.

He also likes to integrate big granite boulders that blend in with the surrounding landscape.  Stacked stone walls that mimic Anasazi structures can stay dry or become “wet walls” that allow water to subtly trickle through the cracks to imitate a natural stone seep.

“People love old-world looking pools,” he says, “but with a modern twist.”

 

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designers are using tile increasingly creative ways

There’s Something about Tile

Posted on by Lynn Goya

12-31-2003

There is something about tile that is timeless and personal in a way that no other home finish can match.  It can fit the interior of a remodeled house built in the last century or a post-modern loft that looks as if it were plucked from the future.  If tile is anything – and it is anything today – it is the most personal of all finishes available to today’s luxury homeowner.

Deedee Gundberg, senior designer for tile and stone for Ann Sacks, says tile can achieve almost any design you can imagine.  “You can go modern, traditional, transitional — anything is possible.”  Founder Ann Sacks retired in 2003, after building a company that features quality hand made tiles from a variety of exclusive artists.  They currently have between 40 – 50 artists who design exclusively for Ann Sacks and whose work is featured throughout their 17 showrooms around the country.

There are more options in types of materials available than ever before.  “It is fun for designers to come up with new and creative ways to use these materials,” she says.  She sees designers mixing colors and shapes together, combining striking decorative metal or glass accent tiles with stone or ceramic tiles to create a very personal style for their clients.  “Different mediums look beautiful together,” she says.

But tile isn’t just for the kitchen, bath and floor anymore, says Gundberg.  Tile is more and more seen throughout the house.  Rich leather tiles can warm up a study or add elegance to an elevator.  Stainless steel tiles add drama to a modern kitchen.

Glass tiles have gone from an exciting trend to a design staple over the past five years.  The iridescent Loom, manufactured from an antique mold by the acclaimed Bisazza factory of Italy, uses hand weaving to create a texture that appears to soften and warm the glass.  The Erin Adam collection is another popular glass tile that has been featured in everything from kitchen backsplashes to framing a fireplace.

Antique stone tiles may be the ultimate luxury.  Culled from ancient streets, public buildings and houses in France and Spain, the terra cotta tiles can be anywhere from 200 to 1000 years old.  The Biblical tiles, thick limestone slabs from Israel, can be up to 2000 years old.   The tiles are reclaimed, cleaned and labeled to show where and when they were originally laid.  “It is very beautiful,” says Gundberg. “They have developed a patina over time so they have a really beautiful surface.“

Jennifer Capasso, head of sales for Walker Zanger, agrees homeowners are progressively more sophisticated consumers.  Many visit the showroom time after time to make sure that they find exactly what they want. “They go to our showroom and to all of our competitors before they make their decision,” says Capasso.

“Our clients go for a look without being concerned with the cost,” says Capasso.  “They might use a neutral limestone or slate and then add a little kick of glass as an accent piece or to carve out a space,” says Capasso.  They feel pretty safe [without a designer] because they have gone to the websites, the magazines, the showrooms.

For more than 50 years Walker Zanger has specialized in Old World stone culled from quarries around the world and tile lines produced by domestic and international artisans that combine traditional tile-making techniques with modern sensibilities.

Homeowners are buying ceramic tiles with smaller and more interesting shapes,” she says.  People can’t seem to get enough of the “subway tile,” a clean brick-shaped tile that is stunning in white and is often used in backsplashes or tiled walls.

Capasso loves the floors that combine different shapes or sized of tiles to create a random pattern.  To be effective, she warns, that kind of treatment is best when it is used in a large space.

“Patine is the hottest metal tile we have right now and we can’t keep it in stock,” she says. This embossed copper tile is usually used as an accent in the kitchen.  Glass is also very hot right now, adds Capasso who loves when clients install glass tiles along the water line in pools.

But at the end of the day, we are selling stone,” she admits.  The last two years has seen their stone lines expand from one to five lines.  Wine connoisseurs love to create a wine cellar encased in natural stone.  The natural insulating abilities keep the temperature and humidity constant, but it is the beauty of the room that is the real draw.  “Stone is authentic; it has been around for thousands of years,” says Capasso.  “It makes your house look like it has been there since the 12th century.”

Leigh O’Dell, marketing director for Pratt & Larson Ceramics, loves the versatility of ceramic tiles.  The twenty-five year old company started out with two people in a basement and has grown to encompass 100 employees, 120 showrooms and a reputation that is second to none.  Aside from the designs generated by the owner and the designers, any employee can produce a design and if adopted will get a royalty every time it is purchased.  “We release new tiles every other month,” says O’Dell.  The Portland showroom is as much a market research center as a showroom.  “We always try to keep our ear to the ground and respond to what our dealers tell us customers are saying.”

Their classic line still sells like hotcakes and includes traditional images of fruits, vegetables, animals and flowers.  The last two years, however, has seen the company add an historical line of egg and dart tiles and glass tiles designed by tile makers from Seattle and California.

Their more recent lines, however, are also very popular and include timeless designs like harlequin tiles and 2-inch hexagon and 2-inch diamond tiles primarily used in bathroom flooring, counters and surrounds. “We have seen a move back to the retro bathrooms,” says O’Dell.

“Almost every order is custom made,” says O’Dell. Pratt & Larson has 1000 different tiles with a library of 300 standard color options, “but if you can’t find the right pink,” says O’Dell, “we will match it for you.  We can truly customize the order.  There are very few dos and don’ts in our line.”

Any style can be ordered in any of their four distinctive glaze lines:  R-gloss, Parchment matte, Watercolor and Craftsman, as well as several specialty glazes.  “We can make a black bear, a brown bear or a polar bear with a red eye,” says O’Dell, who has been with the company for 12 years.  For the Oregon museum of Science and Industry they created bas relief tiles that included a cog and wheel, insects and a human skull.  “You don’t often get projects like that,” she laughs.

by Lynn Goya

Published in Estates West

12-31-2003

What Lies Beneath

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What Lies Beneath

The Las Vegas façade is so well known for its bright lights and spangles that even locals sometimes have to blink twice before they can see the real-life vibrancy that lies beneath.  If the classic Strip isn’t the definition of kitsch, who knows what is?  The newest trend in Vegas, however, is far from cheesy.  Its most recent love affair is a breathless passion for culture, big-time Vegas-style.

This new appreciation of all things cultural isn’t just superficial, either.  Real Picassos line the wall of the upscale restaurant, Picasso.  The Gallery at the Bellagio recently featured a Faberge exhibition while old world masters from Reuben to Jan van Eyck graced the walls of the Guggenheim Hermitage museum.  The Winn Collection is housed in the deserted Desert Inn and even the local Las Vegas Art Museum attracted record visitors with its Portrait of Washington.

Vegas-based MRC Group Research Institute estimates that of the 36-million visitors who come here each year, over seven million plan to include a visit to an art museum or gallery.  “Bringing in big shows and established museums created an awareness of fine art [in Las Vegas] and showed how entertaining art is,” says Tim Quillan, president of Nevada Arts Advocates.

Perhaps even more encouraging for local and visiting arts lovers, more modest strides are also being made.  Local artists and galleries are gaining a steady local clientele.  That means artists can afford to produce art and galleries can stay in business.

A Las Vegas arts tour should start with a first-class pair of walking shoes and a high-quality map of the city.  While you can gallery hop to your heart’s content right on the strip, to capture the exciting emerging artists scene, plan to do a little driving.  Then, as long as you have that car anyway, take in the 1,000-year old petroglyphs at the Valley of Fire or Red Rock Canyon before driving the strip at night to see pop art at its most flamboyant.

Start your walk at Desert Passage at the Aladdin (702-736-7114), where multi-talented musicians display their wares at The GRAMMY’s Art of Music (702-313-7664).  Original art, limited editions, collectables and memorabilia by luminaries in the music world including Jerry Garcia, Paul McCartney, Grace Slick, David Bowie, John Lennon.  Explore environmentally-themed paintings, prints, photography, sculpture and glass at the Wyland Galleries of Las Vegas (702-699-9970), then stop by for a piece of edible art at Teuscher Chocolates of Switzerland (702-866-6624).  If you are ready for a full meal don’t miss Commander’s Palace’s (702-892-8272) heavenly Creole and Cajun seafood that is flown in fresh daily.  Come back before bedtime for heavenly jazz at the Blue Note Jazz Club (702-862-8307) on the corner of Harmon and Las Vegas Blvd.

Le Boulevard at Paris (3655 Las Vegas Blvd. South; 702-946-7000) is hard to beat as a lunch stop.   Take advantage of the pastry or streetside crepes shops along the cobblestone path, then duck over to Re Galleries/Atelier (702-792-2278) to watch an antique 8-ton, Marioni flatbed lithography printing press make gorgeous turn-of-the-century style posters. Le Paradis Fine Jewelery (702-892-8220) carries fine jewelry and crystal bangles;  L’Art De Paris (702-946-7000) features original and reproductions of paintings and dolls.  If this is one of your last stops, don’t forgo Mon Ami Gabi (702-944-4224) the absolute best place to enjoy an evening open-air meal.  The French onion soup is fabulous and the view across the street of the dancing waters of the Bellagio makes this one of the most romantic places in town.

VIA Bellagio (3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South; (702-693-7111) scatters art everywhere.  d. Fine Men’s Store (702-693-7927) carries glass art by international artists as well as fine men’s clothes.  When Dale Chihuly decided to open a retail shop, he picked Vegas.  Although small, Chihuly at Bellagio (702-693-7995), located at the far end of the spectacular garden Conservatory, features studio and original edition pieces, lithographs, original drawings by Chihuly, and vitreographs.  “It is incredible,” says gallery manager Gary Lunn, “We are doing double what we thought we would be doing.  People from all over  the world come here and we have shipped to almost every country that I can think of.”  Next door, the Botanical Garden (702-693-7950) tin toys, pressed-flower picture frames, glass flowers and hummingbird feeders.

The Appian Way at Caesars Palace (3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South; 702-731-7110) sports a full-size replica of Michelangelo’s masterpiece, David, who watches over the imported marble corridors.  Visit Cottura (702-731-7110) for hand-painted Italian ceramics, china, pottery, busts and pasta-sized bowls.  Then step into Gallerie Michelangelo (702-796-5001) to saunter amongst  life-size contemporary and art deco sculpture, original paintings, porcelain dogs, bronze eagles other decorative masterpieces produced by 54 artists.

Forum Shops at Caesars Palace (3500 Las Vegas Blvd. South; 702-893-4800) is the reigning queen of the Las Vegas mega-malls and still tops for people watching and ambiance.  Filled with breathtaking reproductions of some of Italy’s most spectacular art, the store facades replicate the materials, textures and designs of an ancient Roman street circa 300 BC to AD 1700. By now, you must be get hungry.  Grab an outside table at Bertolini’s (702-869-1540), located beside the Fountain of the Gods, to watch everyone in the world go by.

Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian (3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South; 702-414-4500)  lets you follow a singing gondolier as he poles along the canal through cobblestone streets.  Wandering minstrels, Italian opera singers, comedians, stilt-walkers and living statues are among the Artisti del Arte’ performers at St. Mark’s Square. Don’t miss the Bernard K Passman Galleries (702-791-3376) to discover black coral work in everything from fine jewelry to exquisite miniature sculptures.  Ripa De Monti (702-733-1004) offers imported glass from Venice.  Il Prato (702) 733-1201) presents in items imported from Venice including Venetian masks, porcelain dolls, period costumes, and miniatures pieces of furniture, collectible automobile miniatures and oil paintings. They also carry French music boxes and fine paper goods.  Regis Galerie (702-414-3637) offers bronze pieces and Faberge eggs.

Off the strip, the Masquerade Village at the Rio (3700 West Flamingo Rd.; 702-252-7777)  lets visitors get in costume to help create a floating carnival.  The real draw for art lovers is the Markman Gallery (702-240-8513), the brainchild of a local artist who has paints in the back room.  The gallery also features sculptures, glass, pottery, bronze and paintings.  If you haven’t eaten in a while, don’t miss Rosemary’s, about four doors down, a critically acclaimed restaurant with taste sensations that you won’t find anywhere else.

Now that you are off the strip, you might was well check out the nearby artist studios.  Most of these are by appointment only, so call ahead to make sure the artists are in and please, get directions.  Domsky Glass Studios and Design Effects (3720 W. Oquendo Road, Suite 104, 702-616-2830) is a husband and wife team that specializes in fusion and painted glass and metal sculpture.  You may not have heard of Leslie Rankin, yet, but you soon will.  Rankin was recently featured in the “Modern Masters” series on Home and Garden Relevision.  Rankin and her custom tiles, tabletops, sculptures and bowls can be found at Glassic Art Gallery (5850 Polaris Ave.; 702-658-7588). Former Parisian Claude Roy began Forme D’art gallery to showcase his bronze, clay and plaster sculptures, but he has begun to add artists whose work also intrigues him.  Vignettes (5460 Desert Point Drive; (702-221-8350)  features original paintings and custom glass work.

The Art Encounter (3979 Spring Mountain Road; 702-227-0220) features sculpture, jewelry, pottery, bronze cast “critters” from Oregon, relief, deco women and sophisticated Picasso-esque portraits from local artist Jennifer Main and 100 other artists including Loppo Martines.

Romanza Garden Living (3545 South Decatur Blvd.; 702-596-1601) specializes in unique and fabulous outdoor art including antiques and reproductions of folk art from around the world, Grecian and Chinese terra cotta pottery and, at one point, an actual Romanian hay wagon.

Ryan Gallery  (2972 S. Rainbow Blvd.; 702-368-0545) offers a wide variety of styles of international and national two- and three-dimensional works from artists from as far away as Australia and Israel.

Carrara Fine Art (1236 S. Rainbow; 702-877-4299) carries contemporary marble, alabaster, bronze and stone sculpture and art from over 100 artists including emerging and established artists such as Art Wells, Kim Barrison, Dray, Picasso and Dali.

Go to Gallery P (982 American Pacific Drive, Ste 204, Henderson, 702-568-5429) for owner/artist Joeseph Palermo’s personal favorite post modern art from his own studio as well as paintings, sculpture, drawings by15 international and local artists.  “The synergy is here and artists are pouring in,” he says.

Artist and author Roy Purcell is looking for the feminine within in a series of 7×9-feet etchings tracing female mythology.  Purcell Studio & Gallery (2000 Pinto Road, Henderson; 702-564-9565).  One of the newest galleries is in downtown Henderson.  Old Town Gallery (10 West Pacific Street, Henderson; 702.568.5655) features watercolors, photorealism, sculpture, photography, glass and jewelry from 29 local artists.

Keep up the art theme with Pasta Shop Ristorante (2495 E. Tropicana Ave.; 702-451-1893) where metalworks, wireworks, mosaics, jeweled glassware and silverware by locals artists Ann Alenik and Erin Moss are displayed.  Iowa Café 300 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite 101 (702-366-1882) is a downtown eatery that offers a local sanctuary for artists and their friends as well as a Wednesday “Games Night,” and music on Friday and Saturday nights.  Bootlegger Bistro, 7700 Las Vegas Blvd. South (702-736-4939) is old-time Vegas as art where the owner is a former crooner who knows how to make a lounge act classy.  Local entertainers, celebrities and politicians all call this place home. What Lies Beneath

If You Go

Whether coming by plane or by car, most people think of the 5-miles of Las Vegas Blvd. as Vegas.  Most local guidebooks include a basic map of the casino strip that shows where each resort is in relation to the other.  To venture off the strip, get a good map but realize that the city is laid out in a fairly logical manner.  Las Vegas Blvd. runs north and south crossed by major roads that run for miles in either direction.  Since the big roads are named after casinos, Tropicana, Flamingo, Sahara, use those to orient yourself when calling a gallery for directions.

There are dozens of websites including Vegas.com, citysearchlasvegas.com, and lv.com that carries information on places to see, but make sure you call before trekking to a gallery;  websites are notoriously out of date when it comes to this kind of listing.  For generic travel information contact the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau (800-332-5333) or the Las Vegas Welcome Center (800-821-6624).  But perhaps the easiest way is to pick up any of the free magazines and newspapers that carry comprehensive art listings such as Where Las Vegas or Neon.

Fun museums to squeeze in your visit are the Liberace Museum (1775 E. Tropicana Ave.; 702-798-5595); the Las Vegas Art Museum; (9600 W. Sahara Ave.; 702-360-8000); The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum (Venetian 702-414-2440) and the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art (702-693-7871).  Donna Beam Fine Arts Gallery (University of Nevada, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway; 702-895-3893)  is the gallery for local arts students that has seen a steady stream of bright young artists who are rapidly gaining international acclaim.

If you still haven’t gotten your fill of arts, try the Annual Invitational Native American Arts Festival (702-455-7955), a 3-day program in April of arts, crafts an Native American culture. May is Lei Day (702-251-5793) celebrating the Hawaiian culture with arts, crafts, food and entertainment.   The holiday season brings The Evening with the Artists (702-227-0220).   The first Art Las Vegas (312-587-3300), bringing in dealers and collectors from around the world, is scheduled for October.

by Lynn Goya

11-7-2003

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