The Desert Sculptors Association Records (1913-2015) contain agendas, minutes, reports, financial records, photographs of sculptures, and descriptions of community service projects. There is also a scrapbook that chronicles the organization's activities, members, and various sculptures.
The Desert Sculptors Association Records (1913-2015) contain agendas, minutes, reports, financial records, photographs of sculptures, and descriptions of community service projects. There is also a scrapbook that chronicles the organization's activities, members, and various sculptures.
Collection is open for research.
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Records are arranged alphabetically.
The Desert Sculptors Association of Las Vegas, Nevada was founded in 1986 by three local sculptors, John Kane, John Stockman, and John Benton. Their vision was to promote sculpture and create a venue where local artists could gather and share artistic ideas. The sculptors work in many different media including bronze, wood, metal, stone, clay, glass, porcelain, and plastic, as well as mixed media. The Desert Sculptors Association has many of their sculptures displayed at Hoover Dam, Nellis Air Force Base, on the streets of Boulder City, Nevada, the Southern Nevada Veterans' Cemetery in Boulder City, Firefigher's Memorial Park, and Lorenzi Park in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Source:
Desert Sculptors Association website, accessed November 13, 2015. http://www.desertsculptors.com/
Desert Sculptors Association Records, 1913-2015. MS-00779. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Material was donated in 2015 by Don Trippy; accession number 2015-104. Additional material was donated in 2016; accession number 2016-019.
Material was processed in 2015 and 2016 by Joyce Moore.