Racheal Braley
Silverado Ranch Recreation Center
Wetlands Park
Racheal Braley is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work explores the intersection of personal experience, ecological concerns, and creative expression. Originally from Texas, Racheal moved to Florida to pursue a bachelor’s degree in studio art from Florida State University, where she experimented with ceramics, bookmaking, painting, and sculpture. In her sculptural practice, she recycles sentimental objects to reflect on emotional attachment and environmental impact.
Racheal’s work is deeply influenced by her time as an art educator, having taught youth in various programs, including Outloud Dallas. Through teaching and mentoring, she fosters creativity and collaboration, emphasizing the power of art to connect communities.
Now based in Clark County, Racheal is eager to engage with the local art scene and explore new opportunities for public art installations. With a passion for dynamic, interactive projects, she aims to encourage connection and reflection within the community while continuing her own artistic and professional growth.
Haide Calle
Spirit Mountain Activity Center
Winchester Dondero Cultural Center
I make artwork on my reflective experiences growing up through a childlike perspective and the use of fantasy to create comfort in navigating home. Being informed by my Otomi heritage I currently create soft sculptures that deal with displacement and the discomfort I feel living in the US, given I was born in Mexico. By creating these morphing bodies, they become my shields as I navigate being ok with place. With the use of repurposed material, I aim to recontextualize waste in today’s society and create a space for people to connect and create their own narratives and an evolved public memory of what culture is in the US.
David Lampel
Desert Breeze Recreation Center
Hollywood Recreation Center
David Lampel was born and raised in Harlem New York. As a young adult he became one of the prominent voices on various radio stations and broadcast networks. He has been a teacher of communications arts and science for a community school district in the south Bronx and a visiting professor at a University in New Jersey. He has presented and staged shows at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. After 20 years in front of the cameras and microphones, David moved behind-the-scenes as a Broadcast executive. He later built a company headquartered in Las Vegas that today owns and operates TV stations reaching audiences in the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. David also has a passion for music and art including ceramics, charcoal, oil painting, watercolor, and hand coloring black-and-white photographs. He has been a featured artist in many art gallery exhibitions curated by professional artists. He is a musical arranger for a band while also playing keyboard, harp, synthesizer, organ, guitar and accordion. He also plays piano with a big band in Las Vegas.
Vezun
Whitney Recreation Center
Paradise Recreation Center
The son of immigrant parents, Vezun grew up with a culture clash present in his thoughts. A self-taught Las Vegas based visual artist, Vezun's career path has been outside of the mainstream. He has self-published, exhibited in shows, been published, shown in film festivals, done art workshops with local youth (2021-present), and volunteered for other artist's projects including their public art. In 2009 he began painting murals locally and in 2019 he was awarded his first public art commission for Clark County. Later doing the same for the City of Las Vegas and the City of Reno. He received the Artist Relief Fund, the American Rescue Plan Grant (NAC), and the Project Grant for Artists (NAC). With his work, he experiments with formats, styles, techniques, and organizing color palettes but his work is about him going inward.
FALL ARTISTS
Kaylee Barnett
Walnut Recreation Center
Cambridge Recreation Center
Kaylee Barnett is a Las Vegas native with a multifaceted background in art, design, and education. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Portland State University, a Master’s in Teaching from UNLV, and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Architecture at UNLV. As a public school educator, she has inspired creativity and critical thinking in young minds while actively contributing to the Las Vegas public arts community. Her participation in local events includes a temporary sculptural installation at the Clark County Wetlands Park and gallery features throughout the city. Focused on creating meaningful, community-centered projects, Kaylee is passionate about the intersection of modernity, history, and the desert landscape. She is dedicated to designing and developing thoughtful projects that enhance the cultural fabric of Downtown Las Vegas, and the Las Vegas community as a whole.
Rebecca Goodman
Helen Meyer Community Center
Melvin Ennis Recreation Center
Becca is a working artist in the concrete desert of Las Vegas, NV. She has always enjoyed working in various traditional and digital media. Canvas, paper, murals, sculpture, ceramics, and textiles. She enjoys working with photo reference in the studio, and from life including figure drawing, still life, and plein air.
Beyond art, she is passionate about education and technology. She holds a B.S. in IT from Western Governors University with minors in education and art. Past notable projects include children’s book illustrations for Hope Springs Water non-profit and bookmarks/promotional material for Avant Pop Books.
Originally from Texas, she has shown her work in galleries in both California and Nevada. She is currently an art instructor for adults and children, creates artwork to be taught in small studio classes nationwide, and is active in local art non-profits most recently with mural installations. She regularly shows in local galleries and participates in live painting events downtown and in the Arts District.
“I enjoy working with a broad range of materials and projects. My style is constantly evolving, and I like a challenge.”
Julia Hall
Moapa Valley Community Center
Rotunda Gallery at the Government Center
Julia Gonzalez Hall is of Guatemalan and Mexican heritage. She grew up in Los Angeles, California to 1st and 3rd generation immigrant parents. She was classically trained in oils at an early age under a private instructor for five years. At the age of 13, Julia attended the Associates in Arts school, located in Sherman Oaks, California. Her current work represents Abstract Expressionism. Julia emulates her culture's appreciation of intense color and defined images. Whether she includes music, feminism, or dance, no subject is off limits.
She has exhibited around Las Vegas. Julia’s artwork was also featured in the LA Voyage Magazine in Los Angeles. She also has worked with the public arts in the City of Las Vegas and Clark County. With the relentless desire to further her advancement in art and expand her professional skills, Julia is currently in her junior year at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to earn her degrees in Art and Art History.
Erika Muecke
Parkdale Recreation Center
Bob Price Recreation Center
Erika resides, works, and indulges her passion for all things art in Henderson, Nevada. Originally hailing from the Pacific Northwest, she made the move to the vibrant Vegas valley in 2014. Since her arrival in Las Vegas, Erika has dedicated herself to teaching art at various local studios. Her primary passion lies in crafting a unique blend of art that explores the intersection of classical and ancestral roots within a contemporary, street art-like space. She strives to be an artist who seamlessly blends time-honored techniques of classical painting and the rebellious spirit of street art creating a dynamic fusion that captivates the viewer. Merging these separate styles of art creates new perspectives of traditional and modern ideals that affect and invoke memory, emotion, and deep connection. Seeking to visually express those sensibilities in a way that is accessible, conversational and open hearted.
There She Is (Sage)
Clark County Museum
Pearson Community Center
There She Is doesn’t know who she is, and that’s a good thing. With years of participation in multiple exhibits, as well as contributing to the street art scene since the early 2010’s, she has done enough to establish herself without defining herself. With a passion for painting intertwined with a deep love for construction and collage, she often creates multidimensional works that reflect both craft and creativity. Studying art from an early age, she managed to remain a Jane of all mediums, and an expert of none. She has built cardboard cities and sculpted fried eggs enjoying both the whimsical and goofy. Street art has played a major part in her artistic expression, wheatpasting with her art partner You Killed Me First, the two first established themselves in Los Angeles and continue to take time to get up guerilla style. Their art collective Cult 33 has been the hive minded headquarters for both individual and joint ventures. There She Is continues to expand on her portfolio with one consistency in her work - that you never know what she will paint next, and, frankly, neither does she.
SPRING ARTISTS
Clark County is seeking four artists to complete projects in Spring 2025. Call for artist will be posted on the Public Arts newsletter and on the
public arts calls page.Sites in Spring:
Spirit Mountain / Searchlight
Hollywood Recreation Center
Paradise Community Center
Desert Breeze Community Center
Whitney Recreation Center
Wetlands Park
Winchester Dondero Cultural Center
Silverado Ranch Community Center
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