The winner of this package will receive 2 VIP front row seats to see Michael Govan, CEO and Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on April 7th presented by the Contemporary Arts Center. The winner will also receive a year's membership to the CAC and a CAC gift bag that includes I heart CAC socks, coffee mugs and a copy of Pirates and Farmers: Essays on Taste by Dave Hickey.

Michael Govan joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) as Chief Executive Officer and Wallis Annenberg Director in 2006. In this role, he oversees all activities of the museum, including art programming and the Transformation campaign, an ambitious, multi-faceted building project that is expanding, upgrading, and unifying the museum’s eight-building, twenty acre campus, most recently including the addition of the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion. Since Mr. Govan’s arrival at LACMA, he has realized his vision of contemporary artists interacting with the museum’s historic collections, as evidenced by John Baldessari’s installation of the exhibition Magritte and Contemporary Art; Jorge Pardo’s innovative gallery design for the museum’s permanent collection of ancient Latin American art; and Franz West’s installation design for an exhibition of the museum’s recently acquired collection of art of the Pacific Islands.

The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is a non-profit 501(c)3 arts organization in Las Vegas, Nevada whose mission is to develop and provide a central venue for artists and the general community to learn, network, share, and experience all varieties of artistic and cultural expression.

Almost 25 years ago, a group of inspired artists, students, and instructors for the UNLV Department of Fine Art started the Contemporary Arts Collective to provide a venue for emerging artists to share ideas and concepts. The simple goal back then was to share exhibition space for the members of the Collective whose work, at the time, proved too adventurous for the local galleries to show.

Today, the CAC has broadened its mission to a wider audience serving Las Vegas and Clark County, while still in the business of promoting new ideas, discourses, and trends in contemporary art. The focus has changed from being an artist-centric organization showing artwork by members of the Collective to a more strategic outlook to present the vast spectrum of media contemporary artists work in and with today.

The CAC is dedicated to presenting contemporary art, connecting and educating artists, patrons and the public by sponsoring exhibitions, installations, workshops, lectures, fine-art competitions, and various events. -

See more at: http://www.lasvegascac.org