alumni & engagement
Alumni of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts are building careers as dynamic and diverse as their educations, taking the knowledge they gained at Nebraska to create visual effects for some of Hollywood’s most successful blockbusters, imagine innovative new forms of gaming and garner acclaim for their work worldwide.
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Sam Lawton Bachelor of Fine Arts, May 2024
Creative at Google
Sam Lawton is an artist, designer, filmmaker and creative technologist at Google Creative Lab in New York City. He is focused on speculative and empathetic design, and his work explores technology and how it interacts with society through a critical and artistic lens.
Trystan Nord Bachelor of Fine Arts, December 2023
Creative at Epic Systems
Trystan Nord works at Epic Systems in Wisconsin. While a student in the Emerging Media Arts program, Nord served as a technical artist for the graduate thesis project “Can You See How I See?” of Central St. Martens graduate student Yoni Chepisheva in London. The project was an experimental multimedia experience that looked to spread awareness of the medical condition called Palinopsia.
Izzy Pineda Bachelor of Fine Arts, May 2023
Associate Director of Creative and Emerging Media
Izzy Pineda works for Husker Athletics creative media team. Pineda worked for CornCrib as a student, gaining the experience she needed to pivot into a full-time role with Husker Athletics after graduation.
recent achievements
Christensen selected for Television Academy internship
Kathryn Christensen, a senior emerging media arts and business administration major from Bennington, Nebraska, is one of 40 students selected for the prestigious Television Academy Foundation Internship program.
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First four-year Emerging Media Arts cohort to graduate
Among the 123 May graduates from the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts are 18 students receiving their Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Emerging Media Arts.
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Carson EMA grads get opportunity of a lifetime through Lola partnership
A team of Huskers helped bring “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” to the big screen, part of a growing partnership between the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and Lola Visual Effects.
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