# HAVarts Foundation

> Insights • Exhibitions • Education


## Posts

- [Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon (Frida Kahlo)](https://havarts.org/2025/magdalena-carmen-frieda-kahlo-y-calderon-frida-kahlo/): She conquered the barriers related to her physical disabilities, male bias, and her political affiliations.
- [Carl Owens](https://havarts.org/2025/carl-owens/): Carl Owens was an American artist born in Detroit, Michigan in 1929.
- [Toni Scott](https://havarts.org/2025/toni-scott/): Slave Ship (Remembering the Forgotten), by Toni Scott.
- [For Freedoms](https://havarts.org/2025/for-freedoms/): For Freedoms is an artist-led organization that centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse and direct action.
- [Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi](https://havarts.org/2025/dr-carolyn-mazloomi/): ~ Dr. Carolyn L.
- [Titus Kaphar: Art + Film](https://havarts.org/2025/titus-kaphar-art-film/): His 60" x 60" oil painting, titled Analogous Colors, features an African American mother holding her child.
- [Short Films About Artists](https://havarts.org/2025/short-films-about-artists/): AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange spotlights contemporary stories reflecting the spirit, ingenuity, and resilience found among people of the African diaspora.
- [In Open Contempt](https://havarts.org/2025/in-open-contempt/): A stirring journey into the soul of a fractured America that confronts the enduring specter of white supremacy in our art, monuments, and public spaces, from a captivating new literary voice.
- [Works on Display at the Desert Spring United Methodist Church](https://havarts.org/2025/works-on-display-at-the-desert-spring-united-methodist-church/): Honoring the gains made in recognizing the gifts and humanity of others.
- [Help Us Plan for 2025](https://havarts.org/2024/help-us-plan-for-2025/): As we venture into a new year, your ideas for exhibition themes are needed.
- [Exploration of Latin Art a Success](https://havarts.org/2024/exploration-of-latin-art-a-success/): Visitor response regarding the exhibition has been outstanding!
- [Exploración del Arte Latino Opens September 22, 2024](https://havarts.org/2024/exploracion-del-arte-latino-opens-september-22-2024/): An opening reception takes place from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, September 22, 2024 at the Summerlin Library in Las Vegas.
- [Elizabeth Catlett](https://havarts.org/2024/elizabeth-catlett-part2/): Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) was an African American Mexican artist and activist who resided in Mexico for over sixty years.
- [A Hopeful Vision of America](https://havarts.org/2024/a-hopeful-vision-of-america/): This month, HAVarts focuses on artists who create works about a welcoming and vibrant America.
- [Bas Uterwijk](https://havarts.org/2024/bas-uterwijk/): Bas Uterwijk is an Amsterdam-based artist using AI to create extremely lifelike photographs of historical figures and monuments such as Vincent van Gogh, George Washington, and the Statue of Liberty.
- [Childe Hassam](https://havarts.org/2024/childe-hassam/): For more than half a century, Childe Hassam was one of the most prolific impressionist painters from America.
- [Aaron Douglas](https://havarts.org/2024/aaron-douglas/): He developed his art career painting murals and creating illustrations that addressed social issues around race and segregation in the United States by utilizing African-centric imagery.
- [Artificial Intelligence and Art](https://havarts.org/2024/artificial-intelligence-and-art/): Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms are trained on common facial features and photographic qualities.
- [Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans](https://havarts.org/2024/jacques-guillaume-lucien-amans/): Amans was one of the most prolific and celebrated portrait artists in Louisiana during the 2nd half of the 19th century.
- [Peter Max Finkelstein](https://havarts.org/2024/peter-max-finkelstein/): Equality, respect, and LOVE were the code words for the 1960s-1970s.
- [The Mother of Exiles and a Beacon of Hope](https://havarts.org/2024/the-mother-of-exiles-and-a-beacon-of-hope/): The poem's most famous lines, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” are spoken by the statue, inviting the world to send her the tired, the poor, and the wretched, and promising to welcome them with her lamp.
- [His Name Was Bélizaire](https://havarts.org/2024/his-name-was-belizaire/): The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret.
- [The Statue of Liberty](https://havarts.org/2024/the-statue-of-liberty/): The head of the Statue of Liberty in Paris in 1884.
- [Marcus Jansen](https://havarts.org/2024/marcus-jansen-urban-expressionist/): “Creeping Obstacles in Kansas,” mixed media on canvas by Marcus Jansen.
- [Horace Pippin](https://havarts.org/2024/horace-pippin/): "Self-Portrait II," oil on canvas adhered to cardboard by Horace Pippin, 1944.
- [Winslow Homer](https://havarts.org/2024/winslow-homer/): Homer apprenticed as a graphic designer from the age of 19.
- [Memorial Day Weekend](https://havarts.org/2024/memorial-day-weekend/): David Blight, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, and history professor at Yale, marks the beginning of America’s remembrance day as May 1, 1865.
- [HAVarts Elects Board President](https://havarts.org/2024/havarts-elects-board-president/): My name is Simone Bouyer, and I am honored and humbled to have been selected as the new Board President of HAVarts.
- [Landscape Portraiture](https://havarts.org/2024/landscape-portraiture/): There's something about a well painted landscape that draws us in, quiets our minds, and brings us to a peaceful place.
- [The Brilliance of Richard Mayhew](https://havarts.org/2024/the-brilliance-of-richard-mayhew/): Landscape imagery has dominated Richard Mayhew’s long career, serving as a metaphor for his emotions and as a link to his Cherokee, Shinnecock, and African American heritage.
- [Richard Mayhew](https://havarts.org/2024/richard-mayhew/): Born in 1924, Richard Mayhew brought new ideas to landscape painting.
- [Ansel Adams](https://havarts.org/2024/ansel-adams/): Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is one of the most well know art photographers in the world.
- [Claude Monet](https://havarts.org/2024/claude-monet/): Claude Monet (1840-1926) was an established artist before he moved to the French countryside in Giverny; however, his productivity and the level of recognition for his work reached new heights while he lived there.
- [Robert Seldon Duncanson](https://havarts.org/2024/robert-seldon-duncanson/): Robert Duncanson (1821-1872) was a truly remarkable man and a remarkable talent. Mr.
- [The Englishmen – John Constable and JMW Turner](https://havarts.org/2024/the-englishmen-john-constable-and-jmw-turner/): John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner were both English, contemporaries, and members of the Royal Academy of Arts.
- [Women’s History Month - March 2024](https://havarts.org/2024/womens-history-month-march-2024/): This month we showcase six women who were willing to lean into their passion and expand the disciplines of visual arts.
- [Elizabeth Catlett](https://havarts.org/2024/elizabeth-catlett-part1/): Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) was an African American Mexican artist and activist who resided in Mexico for over sixty years.
- [Anna Mary Robertson Moses (Grandma Moses)](https://havarts.org/2024/anna-mary-robertson-moses-grandma-moses/): Born one year before the start of the civil war in 1860, Anna Mary Robertson Moses had a deep appreciation for life's small joys.
- [Frida Kahlo](https://havarts.org/2024/frida-kahlo/): The Tate Modern (famed modern and contemporary gallery in London) considers Frida Kahlo one of the most important artists of the 20th Century.
- [Camille Claudel](https://havarts.org/2024/camille-claudel/): Camille Rosalie Claudel, born in 1864, was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble.
- [Georgia O’Keeffe](https://havarts.org/2024/georgia-okeeffe/): The "Mother of American modernism" was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes.
- [Mary Edmonia Lewis](https://havarts.org/2024/mary-edmonia-lewis/): Worthy of inclusion in any and all surveys of fine western art!
- [Exploración del Arte Latino: Exploration of Latin Art](https://havarts.org/2024/exploracion-del-arte-latino-exploration-of-latin-art/): On display at the Summerlin Library from August 20 through November 3, 2024.
- [Mariachi Band Performance Postponed](https://havarts.org/2024/mariachi-band-performance-postponed/): The Knudson Middle School Mariachi Band performance, which was scheduled for Sunday, September 22, 2024 at the Summerlin Performing Arts Center, has been postponed.
- [Should Museum Admission Be Free?](https://havarts.org/2024/should-museum-admission-be-free/): There are pros and cons to the differing approaches for funding access to art institutions.
- [Carter G. Woodson](https://havarts.org/2024/carter-g-woodson/): Carter G. Woodson in his library. Source: The Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
- [Jacob Lawrence](https://havarts.org/2024/jacob-lawrence/): His art tells the story of his communities, the African American experience, and life in Harlem.
- [Introduction to the Icons](https://havarts.org/2024/introduction-to-the-icons/): Both Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence have extensive bodies of work that showcase Black history intertwined with art.
- [Left of Center: A 30 Year Legacy](https://havarts.org/2024/left-of-center-a-30-year-legacy/): The Left of Center Gallery is located in the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
- [Harold Bradford](https://havarts.org/2024/harold-bradford/): A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Bradford received his MFA From the University of Washington, focusing on both graphics and fine art.
- [Hope, Change, Vote, Progress](https://havarts.org/2024/hope-change-vote-progress/): The message is clear, succinct, and vitally relevant right now! Shepard Fairey created the 2008 campaign posters for Illinois Senator Barack H.
- [What Your Brain Does When You Look at Art](https://havarts.org/2024/what-your-brain-does-when-you-look-at-art/): Headsets that show the impact of art on human brainwaves will be available at museums and galleries around the UK.
- [Feeling Good](https://havarts.org/2024/feeling-good/): "Feeling Good" (also known as "Feelin' Good") is a song written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for the 1964 musical "The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd."
- [Jewelry is Art](https://havarts.org/2023/jewelry-is-art/): Jewelry design is art and science.
- [Victory for the Arts](https://havarts.org/2023/victory-for-the-arts/): There were two attempts to eliminate federal funding for the arts and humanities in the U.S. House of Representatives this session and both were defeated!
- [December 2023 Black Art Auction](https://havarts.org/2023/december-2023-black-art-auction/): Charly Palmer's "In Her Eyes III" (left); Lawrence Philp's "Yoruba."
- [Afrofuturism Installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://havarts.org/2023/afrofuturism-installation-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art/): “Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room” is a fabrication of a domestic space that assembles furnishings and objects to create a fiction of authenticity.
- [Remembering Radcliffe Bailey](https://havarts.org/2023/remembering-radcliffe-bailey/): Radcliffe Bailey’s prolific work developed unique narratives of the African American experience.
- [The Positive Impact of Art](https://havarts.org/2023/the-positive-impact-of-art/): With the preponderance of evidence showing the positive impact of the fine arts on people, it is baffling that our society does not invest more in creative institutions.
- [Has Culture Come to a Standstill?](https://havarts.org/2023/has-culture-come-to-a-standstill/): Colossal Head of Amenhotep III, British Museum, London England.
- [Tinted Ravens](https://havarts.org/2023/tinted-ravens/): A book of paintings by Dr. Venetta Whitaker. To be an artist is to have a story to tell.
- [The Ten Commandments of Art](https://havarts.org/2023/the-ten-commandments-of-art/): Art has profound healing and therapeutic powers.
- [African American Art Auction by Swann Auction House](https://havarts.org/2023/african-american-art-auction-by-swann-auction-house/): The October 19, 2023 sale of African American Art will feature exceptional modern and contemporary works of abstract and figurative art.
- [Congratulations Summerlin Piano Studio Pianists!](https://havarts.org/2023/congratulations-summerlin-piano-studio-pianists/): Seventeen students from Juliana Kuo’s Summerlin Piano Studio achieved top honors at the September 30, 2023 Jazz Festival.
- [Support the National Endowment for the Arts](https://havarts.org/2023/support-the-national-endowment-for-the-arts/): Please contact your US representative to let them know that no cuts should be made to funding for the arts.
- [The Black Art Library](https://havarts.org/2023/the-black-art-library/): Founded by Asmaa Walton in February 2020, the library consists of literary works about Black art and artists.
- [BLK ART: New Book by Zaria Ware](https://havarts.org/2023/blk-art-new-book-by-zaria-ware/): The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art. Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted. The foundations of the fine art world are shaking.
- [Art from Other Cultures](https://havarts.org/2023/art-from-other-cultures/): Instead of looking at art as a linear, one dimensional timeline, think of art history as a web.
- [Dr. Venetta Whitaker](https://havarts.org/2023/dr-venetta-whitaker/): Each of us is responsible for other people’s children -- street children in Chechnya, starving babies in Rwanda, refugee infants in Bosnia, gangs in the cities of America, or the abused children next door.
- [Art History Timeline](https://havarts.org/2023/art-history-timeline/): Cave paintings were a form of communication and creativity 40,000 years ago.
- [Introduction to Richard Mayhew](https://havarts.org/2023/introduction-to-richard-mayhew/): Richard Mayhew, "Serenade," color lithograph with hand coloring in pastel, 2008.
- [The Importance of Art Education](https://havarts.org/2023/the-importance-of-art-education/): Musician David Byrne and Neil deGrasse Tyson discuss the vital importance of arts education.
- [TAFA Paints Live](https://havarts.org/2023/tafa-paints-live/): Madison Square Garden, 2020.
- [TAFA](https://havarts.org/2023/tafa/): Peaceful Protestors on the left meld into a chaotic mass on the right. The energy of the painting shifts from peace to swirling mass of caution and anger.
- [Marcus Jansen](https://havarts.org/2023/marcus-jansen/): In 2003 Mr. Jansen was commissioned by Ford Motor Company to create works celebrating the company’s 100th Anniversary.
- [Romare Bearden](https://havarts.org/2023/romare-bearden/): Romare Howard Bearden (1911-1988) is known for creating colorful collages. His works include paintings, prints, and photographs. Mr.
- [Art & Sip at the West Las Vegas Library](https://havarts.org/2023/art-sip-at-the-west-las-vegas-library/): Join us for a lecture by collector Jacquelyn Hayes about the art and artists of the current gallery exhibit, "Inspirations from Hayes: The Jacquelyn Hayes Collection."
- [West Side Art History Discussion](https://havarts.org/2023/west-side-art-history-discussion/): Collector Jacquelyn Hayes was the guest speaker at the West Las Vegas Library on March 27, 2023. The topic was an introduction to art history.
- [The Jacquelyn Hayes Collection at the West Las Vegas Library](https://havarts.org/2023/the-jacquelyn-hayes-collection-at-the-west-las-vegas-library/): The genesis for this show was based on informal conversations between Jacquelyn Hayes and her family. Max Hunter (Ms.
- [Group Tours Led by Jacquelyn Hayes](https://havarts.org/2023/group-tours-led-by-jacquelyn-hayes/): Tour of "Inspirations from Hayes" at the Summerlin Library on Saturday, February 4, 2023.
- [Inspirations From Hayes Video Gallery Tour](https://havarts.org/2023/inspirations-from-hayes-video-gallery-tour/): Video tour of The Jacquelyn Hayes Collection, narrated by actor Reggie Hayes.
- [Inspirations from Hayes Opens](https://havarts.org/2023/inspirations-from-hayes-opens/): "Inspirations from Hayes: The Jacquelyn Hayes Collection" opens at the Summerlin Library.
- [African Art and Artifacts Display](https://havarts.org/2023/african-art-and-artifacts-display/)
- [Inspirations from Hayes at Summerlin Library](https://havarts.org/2022/inspirations-from-hayes-at-summerlin-library/): Inspirations from Hayes is an intimate, curated collection of works by noted artists including Romare Bearden, Paul Benjamin, Grace Kisa, TAFA, and Dr.

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