Las Vegas Art Museum
The Las Vegas Art Museum (LVAM) is a 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) facility located Las Vegas, Nevada in a building shared with the Sahara West Library branch of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.
The Las Vegas Art Museum is "dedicated to engaging visitors in the international culture of contemporary art." The museum provided the public with publications, lectures, educational and outreach programs. It also developed a significant permanent collection of contemporary art.
LVAM was the first fine-arts museum in southern Nevada.
Like most 58-year-old organizations in Southern Nevada, what is now the Las Vegas Art Museum came from humble beginnings. In 1950, a group of visionaries created the Las Vegas Art League with the intention of bringing fine art to the city. The Art League moved into a portion of a ranch house at Lorenzi Park which was purchased by the City of Las Vegas in 1949.
In 1974, the Las Vegas Art League changed its name to Las Vegas Art Museum (LVAM) which made it the first fine arts museum in Nevada.
The museum was orphaned in the mid 1990s, when the City of Las Vegas announced it needed LVAM's space to make way for an expanded senior center to service the neighborhood surrounding the park. It was invited to share the yet-to-be-built Sahara Library and Fine Art Museum in the new Peccole Ranch subdivision, but it had to reside in a temporary space provided by the Earnest Becker Family until the building was finished in 1997.
When it first opened, it scheduled a variety of exhibitions from Dale Chihuly and Marc Chagall to Auguste Rodin while it was briefly affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution.
In 2006, the museum rededicated itself to exhibiting and collecting contemporary fine art and design under its Director Dr. Libby Lumpkin and its board of trustees.
Under Dr. Lumpkin, LVAM exhibited a survey of paintings by Michael Reafsnyder and work by important Southern California-based minimalists including Robert Irwin, Larry Bell and James Turrell. Cindy Wright and Martin Mull have also exhibited at LVAM along with architectural models by Frank Gehry and sculpture by Kaz Oshiro.
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