UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute debuted its first salon-type event in May 2024, and it went so well that another salon blesses this May’s calendar. Elevations is the name and the theme of this multidisciplinary congress. Its participating artists — covering every base of the creative baseball diamond — explore the ups and downs of living in the greater Las Vegas area. Film and play shorts, the Las Vegas High School mariachi band, a comedic ballerina, slam poets, student fashion — seemingly no one has been left out of this varied exploration of desert gradation, which goes down at the Clark County Library Theater.