Join us on Tuesday, November 18, for an inspiring evening with Christine Wong Yap, one of the artists currently on view in Living Here. This event is one of a series of artist talks that will take place at UNLV in fall 2025. The rest of the series features Carmen Winant, Audrey Barcio, Miguel Novelo, Danielle SeeWalker, Alexandra Magnuson, and Josephine Halvorson. For the details of those lectures, see
https://www.unlv.edu/announcement/marjorie-barrick-museum-art/fall-2025-artist-talks
This talk will take place in the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art auditorium on Tuesday, November 18, at 7 p.m. Attendance is free. Seating may be limited.
About Christine Wong Yap
Christine Wong Yap is a visual artist and social practitioner who works in community engagement, drawing, printmaking, publishing, textiles, and public art. Through her hyperlocal participatory research projects, she gathers and amplifies grassroots perspectives on belonging, resilience, and mental well being. She is a 2025 Creative Capital Awardee. She has served as Neighborhood Visiting Artist at Stanford University (Stanford, CA) and Creative Citizenship Fellow at the California College of the Arts (San Francisco, CA). She has developed projects with the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, For Freedoms, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, Times Square Arts, and the Wellcome Trust, among others. She holds a BFA and MFA in printmaking from the California College of the Arts. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has lived since spending a decade in New York City from 2010 to 2021.
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- This month, 24th October, 05:00 pm, UNLV Art Walk in Las Vegas
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