Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: Students for a Free Tibet is pleased to announce the 9th annual Art for Tibet benefit auction and exhibition, taking place in New York in November 2019. Art for Tibet brings together artists and activists to celebrate, commemorate, and support the Tibetan peoples’ nonviolent freedom struggle against occupation. Read More

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: Las Vegas digital artist James Stanford will be donating his monumental work ‘Budding Buddha’ to Art For Tibet for their 9th annual auction and exhibition in support of the Tibetan peoples’ nonviolent freedom struggle against occupation. Founded in 2009, Art for Tibet will be taking place in New York on Thursday November 7 2019, and will

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: What’s iconic about Las Vegas? Ask anyone and they are likely to say the Strip with its world-renowned casinos, music venues and the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada” sign at the south end of the famous (or infamous depending on who you ask) boulevard. Betty Willis — the artist behind the neon sign that has

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: Sensi Magazine September 2019 - Las Vegas Digital Edition. Read More

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The iconic Blue Angel statue, that used to tower above its namesake motel on Fremont Street, has been honored by a new mural at the 705 building, located not far from the Neon Museum on Las Vegas Boulevard north of Bonanza Road. The statue was removed from its familiar perch at the

Article Excerpt: A NEW MURAL IN DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS FEATURES THE FAMOUS BLUE ANGEL MOTEL SIGN. — A new mural in downtown Las Vegas features the famous Blue Angel motel sign. The mural is named "Phalanx of Angels Ascending" and is on a building across from the Neon Museum on Las Vegas Boulevard. EARLIER STORY: Blue Angel Motel sign exhibit brings back

Article Excerpt: In the 1960s, Las Vegas seemed like the brightest place on Earth. Las Vegas native and artist James Stanford remembers convening at the five-points intersection east of downtown before hopping in a friend’s car, blasting the Rolling Stones and cruising down Fremont Street. “It was like the all-American dream but with neon and rock ‘n’ roll,” Stanford says. “And the

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: Native Las Vegas artist and photographer James Stanford has designed a monumental site-specific mural to commemorate the iconic Blue Angel statue that watched over Downtown Las Vegas for 61 years from its mid-century perch at the Blue Angel Motel. The art installation A Phalanx of Angels Ascending was commissioned by Alison Chambers, the owner of The

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: For over six decades, she watched over downtown Las Vegas. Now, the Blue Angel is ascending to heights higher than ever. The 16-foot tall figure who once stood perched on the Blue Angel Motel was taken down in 2017 for renovations. Now Las Vegas artist James Stanford is commemorating her with “A Phalanx of Angels Ascending,”

Your Content Goes Here Article Excerpt: James Stanford’s work inspires contemplation. And while his kaleidoscopic mandalas foster a sense of wonder, they also capture the essence of Las Vegas, using photographs of the city’s neon landscape to transcend the city’s shimmering facade. If neon optical illusions distract people from the desert’s inherent brutality, then Stanford’s mandalas magnify that illusion, creating intensified visual