About Us
Left of Center Art Gallery is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, the vision of Director Vicki Richardson. It is located in North Las Vegas yet serves the entire Southern Nevada community.
With artwork showing a diversity of style and media, LOC is administered and supported by artists and educators who are committed to advancing the arts and providing a setting for cultural exchange.
LOC offers a wide spectrum of art experiences and events that reflect the diversity of the local community while also providing opportunities for artists from all over the country to share their work. Our goal is to make art more accessible to the surrounding neighborhoods by taking art to sites where it can enhance, educate, and bring a sense of local pride.
We are committed to encouraging art in public places and creating venues where the public can observe the steps of the creative process and encourage dialogue with individual artists. We represent an ethnically diverse group of members and resident artists. LOC holds the belief that the visual arts can serve as an education tool to help teach respect and understanding for all cultures.


What We Do
We provide exhibit and studio space for artists. We provide opportunities to grow professionally through seminars, classes, and workshops. We nurture emerging artists through mentoring and teaching. We serve as advocates for the arts in public education, working with community organizations, students and art educators to enhance their curriculum offerings. We provide networking and support opportunities for artists. We provide opportunities to showcase artwork outside at galleries throughout the country and internationally.
Staff & Board
Gallery Team
PRESIDENT / Vicki Richardson
GALLERY DIRECTOR / Marylou Parker
EVENTS COORDINATOR / LaQuita West-Hogan
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT / Vogue M. Robinson
GALLERY ASSISTANT & ARCHIVIST / Traci Virgen
Board of Directors
Alyson Day
Theodore Parker
Byron Jones
Erica Vital-Lazare
Jesus Orozco
Mark Purnell
Kenn Ruffin
John Zanoni
Advisory Council
EDUCATOR / Dr. Vivian Fully
GRAPHIC ARTIST / Adolfo Gonzalez
EDUCATOR & COMMUNITY ACTIVIST / Lois Mack
PHOTOGRAPHER / Helen Murphy
ARTIST/Harold Bradford
ARTIST / Dayo Adelaja
ARTIST / Sylvester Collier


Our History

1979
Vicki Richardson moves to Las Vegas to teach in the Clark County School District. She also works as the Gallery Director for Bennie Cassell Gallery on Lake Mead and Martin Luther King Boulevard.

1983
Vicki opens her own exhibition space, identifying and showing selected artists.

1987
Left of Center officially opens as a for profit art gallery. Artists Sylvester Collier and Harold Bradford join Vicki as co-founders.

1997
Left of Center becomes a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.

2014
The Downstairs Gallery Space opens. The permanent collection of African Art expands and becomes the Museum Collection of African Art. LOC voted “Best of the City” for best art gallery in North Las Vegas by Desert Companion Magazine..

2017
The Grand Re-Opening of the redesigned and expanded Museum Collection of African Art takes place.