SOUNDSATIONS SHOW
Dec. 3, 2018 - Feb. 1, 2019
Doc Randall Recital Gallery
 Beam Music Center
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
 

HARMONY ART SHOW
Dec. 4 , 2019 - Feb. 28, 2020
Doc Randall Recital Hall Lobby
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Bachelor of arts in art and art history student Olga Townsend organized Harmony to include students, alumni, and community members exploring music through the use of color. Participants: Todd Cramer, Thomas Ehlers, Marissa Gibson, Nancy Good, Martha Hall, Dan Hernandez, Christopher Mempin, Neil Merryweather, Jed Olsen, Chelsea Sorenson, Emily Thompson, Sonny Tsoi. Gallery Director: Jerry Schefcik.

The Art of Soup Contest
at the Warhol Museum

Is It Art Yet?
At the Warhol Museum, Campbell Soup
will ladle out prizes in a national contest
By Suzanne Martinson, Food Editor
Pittsburgh Post Gazette

When can meets commerce, art can happen.

The Campbell Soup Co. took a while to warm up to Andy Warhol, though he'd been heating up Campbell's Tomato Soup for lunch for 20 years before he ever took it to canvas. That was in 1962, and the worried soup company sent a bunch of its lawyers out to a pop art show in California to check out what this guy was up to, painting their beloved soup can.

Today Campbell has changed its conservative spots as well as some of its soups ("Healthy Request" and "All Natural" being the operative words in today's clime), and at 10am today the maker of the ultimate quick lunch will announce the $10,000 winner of its "Art of Soup" contest. The national unveiling will be on the North Side, at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh's legacy to its late, (many would say) great, expatriate artist, who dropped the A from the end of Warhola and became famous out of town.

After Warhol's soup can paintings had made Campbell famous, even in countries where their soup wasn't, the company commissioned Warhol to paint its new line of boxed dry soups in 1985. Warhol died in1987.

In marking its 100th anniversary the soup company sponsored a contest in which Americans were asked to express, through art or written form, what Campbell's Soup means to them.

Robert Neil Merryweather. The 51 year old musician and photographer from Playa Del Rey, California created a robot from soup cans, labels and spoons. A lover of science fiction, his vision was of a mother feeding her child soup and the cans "morphing" into a "souper hero".