Artists are chosen to collaborate with two Parks and Recreation facilities in Clark County. They conduct workshops for youth at the facilities, incorporating the art created during the Youth workshops into a temporary installation on-site. This initiative serves as a scholarship program, providing training for artists in workshop leadership, public art proposal creation, and art installation building.

Reception May 7, 2026, 5:30-7:30pm

This exhibition brings together the FY26 Spring cohort of the Temporary Public Art Projects program. Each artist engaged the community and createda temporary project based on the work they did with the youth.

This cohort was tasked with drawing inspiration from the history and/or environment of the site, or from a variety of themes including imaginary friends, springtime, digital spaces/lives, triangles, angles, and weird geometry. The artists each took one or more of these prompts and transformed them through their unique lens.

On display at Winchester Dondero Cultural Center May 5 - 30, 2026
3130 McLeod Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89121

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.

This playful desert tortoise sculpture was created through a hands-on youth art workshop focused on transforming recycled garage door parts into art. Inspired by the simple strength and flexibility of the triangle, student artists explored how this fundamental geometric shape can become a powerful building block. By bending metal and assembling triangles into tetrahedrons and one pyramid, they constructed individual sections that come together to form the tortoise’s shell and body.

On display at Bob Price Recreation Center April 14-30, 2026
2050 Bonnie Ln, Las Vegas, NV 89156

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.

The three sculptures show some of the children and young adults who attended a workshop in March. It’s a simple idea that draws on identity and promotes a sense of belonging in our public spaces. The sculptures are near life sized 3D composites made using photography and digital editing. Some facets of the sculptures look real and lifelike while others are progressively pixelated to give the impression that individual people are appearing and disappearing in the way they occupy space. The sculpture questions the right we have to take up space in public spaces and raises questions about identity, and what makes us real and human, in a technology and data driven world.

On display at Hollywood Recreation Center April 16-28, 2026
1650 S Hollywood Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89142

This interactive sculpture highlights two threatened bird species: the yellowbilled cuckoo and the southwestern willow flycatcher. Blooming willow forms drape over layered fabric, which is painted with images of the birds and the native riparian plants that they rely on, including cottonwood, mesquite and willow trees. Restoration efforts at the Las Vegas Wash, centered on the reestablishment of native plants, support the return of these species to the Wetlands. Nature monoprints, created by visitors during the 2026 Wetlands Art Day, hang together and represent our connection to the natural world and one another. Guests are invited to engage with the piece by selecting and hanging a colored seed that represents an action they will take to support the environment.

On display at the Wetlands Lizard Lounge April 9-30, 2026
7050 Wetlands Park Ln, Las Vegas, NV 89122