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Meet the 2025 - 2026 Artists
TEMPORARY PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
MEET THE FALL 2026 ARTISTS
Zoë Camper
Hollywood
Moapa Valley
Zoë Camper is a practicing artist and technologist. She is a London native based in Fabulous Las Vegas.
Zoë works at the intersection of art and technology, her creative practice combines labor-intensive, highly detailed drawings with technology to explore storytelling, pattern making and cryptography. She combines technologies to experiment with encryption, and the process required to encrypt, obscure, hide, and reveal messages in her work. Her intellectual work explores creativity, privacy, kinship, and trust in all its forms.
Cameron Cools
Cameron Cools, a proud Las Vegas resident for over two decades, discovered his passion for art through his mother's talent for painting and crafts. Self-taught, he began exploring various artistic disciplines, including custom framing, graphic design, and sign production, before diving into sculpting at age 27. His work blends sacred geometry, recreational math, and upcycled projects, experimenting with materials to create captivating art. Cameron’s recent pieces include lyrical abstract paintings, dynamic relief sculptures, kinetic optical art, temporary pop-up installations, and recycled metal art.
Meghan Dragon
Wetlands
Searchlight
Meghan Dragon is a Las Vegas-based artist and educator whose work highlights the patterns, textures, and interconnections of nature, with a particular focus on the native flora and fauna of the Mojave Desert.
Through murals, paintings, and drawings, she invites viewers to slow down and notice the often-overlooked details of their surroundings, sparking curiosity, appreciation, and ultimately, a deeper commitment to conserving the world’s wild spaces.
Her work has been exhibited nationally, with pieces currently on view in Las Vegas and Reno, NV; Sunrise City, FL; and Pacific City, OR. Meghan has participated in art residencies at Aviario Studio in Portugal, Great Basin National Park in Nevada, and the Hive in Spokane, WA.
Linda Shaffer
Silverado Ranch
Paradise
Linda Shaffer is an award winning, full time abstract artist working in collage, painting, mono printing and mixed media in Las Vegas, Nevada. She has a Graduate degree from Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, is a Registered Nurse, and after completing the Gemological Institute of America’s Graduate Jeweler program in Carlsbad, California in 2010, she created the Red Pearl Art brand to encompass both her jewelry designs and art works. Her work is inspired by travel, relationships and human connection. She uses abstract forms and color to explore the theme of journey, love and connection. Each piece of art is an experimentation with recycled materials and multiple mediums. When she travels, she collects paper from around the world and uses that paper in her art. She hand prints papers, incorporates recycled materials, all the while adding bits and pieces from her everyday life and travel to create works that are both personal and universal.
MEET THE FALL 2025 ARTISTS
Nicholas Denson
Pearson
Museum
Nicholas “Nick” Denson is a Las Vegas-based art therapist, educator, and ceramic artist whose practice is grounded in community engagement, trauma-informed care, and expressive arts research. With a background in counseling, arts-based scholarship, and socially engaged practice, Nick integrates clinical insight with a deep commitment to accessible creative expression. His creative practice is rooted in clay, storytelling, and visual metaphor. Many of his sculptural works engage themes of containment, identity, memory, and transformation. He is particularly drawn to the way material processes, such as shaping, firing, or mending, can parallel therapeutic change.
Chad Scott
Helen Meyer
Melvin Ennis
Chad Scott is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator living and working within Las Vegas, Nevada. Currently, Scott is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator for Art Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Within this role, Scott created two graduate programs in Art Education, designing curriculum for art teacher licensure and professional development tracks. Scott serves as an artist-in-residence for the Zeiter Literacy Development Center at UNLV, and is the President-Elect for the Nevada Visual Art Education Association.
Jamie Zepeda
Cambridge
Walnut
Jamie Zepeda is an artist from Huntington Park, California currently based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Jamie's work draws influence from her cultural background, particularly from the state of Michoacán, Mexico, and the Southwest region of the United States. Her current focus is on creating a fusion of Mexican folk art and Western art, depicting subjects such as vaqueros, folklórico dancers, mariachis, Día de los Muertos, and other folk traditions in Mexico.