STEAM Family Fest: Signs & Skylines
Learn from Las Vegas’s most famous and unforgettable structures, designed by creative architects, brilliant engineers, and skilled technicians. Explore how architects and designers contribute to the city’s unique look, through expressive building shapes, design styles, bold carpet patterns, iconic outdoor features like the late Mirage volcano, and the evolution of casino spaces. This event brings architecture to life with scavenger hunts through the Neon Boneyard, interactive demonstrations, creative crafts, and activities led by The Neon Museum staff and community partners.
Check out these exciting activities:
- Decorate your own mini building and learn about the difference between duck and shed architecture
- Mold an air-dry clay building to take home
- Build a Bug Hotel with the Las Vegas Science & Natural History Museum
- Play Eye Spy with local artist Josh Blaney
- Create a secret blacklight message with nonprofit One Drop, Big Ripple
- View a Las Vegas LEGO replica and free-build with members of LUGVegas
- Grab snacks from local food vendors Treats by KK and Atomic Goodies
- Enjoy live performances
Complimentary Tickets to STEAM Family Fest
New this year – skip the line by reserving your tickets ahead of time! Fill out the form with your library or Museum for All information to secure your tickets.
Ticket Information
Location:
Neon Boneyard – The Neon Museum Las Vegas
Parking
Parking is available next door from The Neon Museum, at Cashman Center. On-site parking is not available. The Neon Museum entrance, off Las Vegas Blvd, will be closed. The only exception are guests who require accessible parking spaces and have the appropriate tag on their vehicle.
Directions
If you’re coming north on Las Vegas Blvd, drive past The Neon Museum entrance. Just beyond our entrance, take the next right at Cashman Center to access the overflow parking lot. The turn comes up quickly – there will be signs and staff to guide you.
Running time:
Important Information:
Thanks to the generous support of Speedway Children’s Charities, library card holders can attend STEAM Family Fest for free! Library cards from the Clark County, North Las Vegas, and Henderson Library Districts can be redeemed for up to four free tickets on the day of the event. Simply present your library card at the door to claim your tickets. Please note that tickets are limited and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
Prices
| Adults & Children (7 years & older) | $5.00 |
| Child (6 and Under) | Free |
| Members | Free |
| Library Card & Museum for All Passes | Free entry, up to 4 tickets |
FEATURED ARTISTS
Josh Blaney
Josh Blaney’s art captures the past, present, and future of Las Vegas, tracing its transformation from a desert landscape of cacti, wildlife, and prospectors for golden nuggets made way for the power of imagination, money and fantasy. Josh Blaney spends three to four months creating each painting, beginning with extensive research and concept development. Once his vision is refined, he sketches the design on canvas, builds the artwork in layers of acrylic paint, and finishes it with intricate fine-line details.
Josh will bring a mini gallery of his Las Vegas-inspired artwork for guests to play ‘I Spy’ featuring hidden details within his paintings. As a special bonus, attendees can enter a raffle for a chance to win one of Josh’s works, valued at $1,000.
Lightwriters Neon: Explore Bending with Artist Samantha Reed
Samatha is a Chicago based sculptor that uses light to create both abstract and familiar forms. Alongside their passion for bending neon, Samantha is also a neon educator well versed in the history of neon as an experimental craft and as a modern artistic language. Samantha is currently working at Lightwriters Neon, a second-generation, community based neon studio in Chicago. Learn about neon and the design process using blueprints!