Home About Us

Over the years The Meadows School, its faculty, and its students have been the recipients of numerous honors, prizes, and awards in recognition of the excellence that we always pursue and so often achieve.

We are now especially proud to announce a new form of recognition. "Across the Meadow," a fully-detailed, life-sized portrait sculpted in bronze by artist Roy Butler of Mrs. Carolyn Goldmark Goodman, the Founder of The Meadows School, has been selected, documented, and archived for its artistic and historical significance by The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Based on the first federal art collection begun in 1829 and placed under the jurisdiction of The Smithsonian Institute in 1846, the Museum has grown steadily to become a center for the study, enjoyment, and preservation of America's cultural heritage. Today it houses the world's most important American art collection, with representative works from
                                                        three centuries.

"Across the Meadow," which was dedicated on September 4, 2009, to commemorate the 25^th Anniversary of The Meadows School, depicts Mrs. Goodman seated on a bench and gazing out at the Mall of The Meadows Campus. She is holding one of her favorite works in American literature, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, with an additional stack of books beside her.

The sculpture was selected by the museum because it documents an important period in the educational history of southern Nevada.  Mrs. Goodman's vision and dedication throughout the twenty-five years it took to build The Meadows School represents a major contribution to the cultural maturation of the Las Vegas Valley.

The best way to see the sculpture, of course, is to visit the campus. For those not able to do so, the Museum has opened a Web link, documenting the sculpture's provenance and providing a series of photographic images which can be enlarged so as to appreciate the beauty of this significant public art work.

Now, if we could only convince the pigeons to behave...