05 Mar 2021
Join us online for Afternoon of Choirs on March 14
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Afternoon of Choirs concert, featuring the All-Collegiate Choir and the Varsity Chorus, will take place on Sunday, March 14. Due to COVID procedures, the performance will be split into two concerts with the All-Collegiate Choir starting at 3 p.m. and the Varsity Chorus starting at 4 p.m. live from Kimball Recital Hall. No in-person audiences are allowed this semester at the Glenn Korff School of Music, but the performance will be available via live webcast.
05 Mar 2021
Creative technologist McMillian to speak at IGNITE March 12
Lincoln, Neb.--New media artist and creative technologist LaJuné McMillian will speak at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts’ IGNITE colloquium on Friday, March 12.
IGNITE begins at 12:30 p.m. CT via Zoom. It is a colloquium for all Carson Center students, which involves guest lectures, workshops and seminars around creative and professional development. The event is free and open to the public and accessible at https://go.unl.edu/ignitespring.
04 Mar 2021
Panel: Serious Play: Radical Publications and Their Histories is March 11
Lincoln, Neb.—An art history panel discussion titled “Serious Play: Radical Publications and Their Histories” will take place virtually on Thursday, March 11 at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. The panel is presented by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Lecture Series.
The panel discussion is free and open to the public. Access the panel at https://unl.zoom.us/j/91088525799.
03 Mar 2021 By Kathe C. Andersen
Carson School launches Professional Development Series for performers
Lincoln, Neb.--The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film has launched a Professional Development Series to bring guest artists in monthly who focus on professional development for performance students.
01 Mar 2021 By Kathe C. Andersen
Leggent awarded 2nd place in 2021 Young Painters Competition
Julia Leggent, a third-year Master of Fine Arts graduate student in the School of Art, Art History & Design, has been awarded 2nd place in the 2021 Young Painters Competition by the Miami University (Ohio) College of Creative Arts and the Department of Art.
“I was extremely excited to even be a part of this show,” Leggent said. “To actually get an award was surreal.”
26 Feb 2021 By Kathe C. Andersen
Ceramics alumna Willers is president-elect of NCECA
Lincoln, Neb.--School of Art, Art History & Design alumna Rhonda Willers (M.F.A. 2007) is the president-elect of the board of directors for NCECA (National Council on the Education for the Ceramic Arts).
NCECA is the largest ceramics organization in the world and one of the largest visual arts organizations in the U.S. with around 6,000 members attending the national conference each year.
26 Feb 2021 By Kathe C. Andersen
Husker alumna Meier honored as Jerome Hill Artist Fellow
Lincoln, Neb.--School of Art, Art History & Design alumna Catherine Meier (B.F.A. 2005) has been honored as a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. The Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship awards 60 artist fellowships to early career artists in Minnesota and New York City annually.
Meier is one of 10 who received the fellowships in visual arts. Fellows receive $50,000 over two consecutive years to support self-determined activities for creation of new work, artistic development and/or professional artistic career development.
26 Feb 2021 By Kathe C. Andersen
Carson Center’s Twomey receives NSF grant for Augmented Reality research
Lincoln, Neb.—Robert Twomey, assistant professor of emerging media arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant as co-principal investigator on a $750,000 project titled “An Embodied, Augmented Reality Coding Platform for Pair Programming.”
26 Feb 2021
Photographer Tarrah Krajnak to present Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture March 3
Lincoln, Neb.—Photographer Tarrah Krajnak will present the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture on Wednesday, March 3 at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. Her lecture is presented by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s School of Art, Art History & Design.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Access the lecture at https://unl.zoom.us/j/92360930703.
25 Feb 2021 By Kathe C. Andersen
Reimer CD features The Last Songs of Robert Owens
Lincoln, Neb.--Associate Professor of Voice Jamie Reimer’s CD “The Last Songs of Robert Owens” will be released on March 19 by Centaur Records.
The CD is available for pre-order on Amazon at https://go.unl.edu/348o.
“This CD is a culmination of the songs for voice and piano and the chamber music for voice and strings (viola, cello and piano) that Robert Owens wrote at the end of his life,” Reimer said.