"Tsura (Face)" by Kiyokazu Itoh is part of the "Asian Art Now" exhibit... ...along with photographs of Canada by George Hunter. "Awa-dance" by Makoto Zeniya shows the diversity of Asian art in the annual exhibit at the Las Vegas Art Museum.

A wide variety of Asian art from nine countries is on view during the sixth annual "Asian Art Now" exhibition at the Las Vegas Art Museum.

In addition, the museum features the photo exhibit "George Hunter's Canada," which features images from the 1940s and '50s. Hunter's exhibit draws on photographs from his collections "Inuit of Canada's High Arctic -- 1946" and "Canada's 10 Provinces and 3 Territories -- 1950s."

More than 100 works of art by 70 artists from Japan, Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Mongolia and Hong Kong are on display.

The artists work in media such as sculpture, glass, printmaking and textiles, as well as paintings in oil, acrylic, and watercolor.

Coordinated by the nonprofit Asian Cultural Exchange Association, whose mission is to promote mutual understanding and international cultural exchange, the exhibition runs through July 24.

The museum's exhibits of Asian art began in 2000. Etsuko Abe, president of the Asian Cultural Exchange Association, came to Las Vegas a year earlier to check out the museum as a possible site for the exhibit. She also was looking at locations in Los Angeles and San Francisco, but Las Vegas won out because of its popularity with Asians and for the museum's space.

The 95-print collection of Hunter's black-and-white photographs of Canada include images of Inuit natives in the Canadian High Arctic, coal mining, aerials of Canadian cities, harvest fields and grain elevators.

A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Hunter has been photographing Canada for more than six decades. In 1950, he flew over Canada tp photograph from coast to coast. His award-winning photographs have been published in Time magazine and the Saturday Evening Post, and are part of permanent collections in banks, museums and galleries across Canada.