High standards
The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts provides a challenging and supportive environment to help prepare you for your career goals. To expand beyond the university, students are encouraged to apply for Hixson-Lied Endowment funding for travel, conferences and special projects.
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Classes that Create You
Through innovative curriculum and hands-on experiences, you will gain valuable skills in your classes to prepare you for your chosen career.
Students participate in global world-build
Students in Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Ash E. Smith’s Innovation Studio course participated in a global world-build that deals with the environmental consequences of our present moment.
Read the full story on ISSUU![Cropped, detail of a digital artwork created by an Emerging Media Arts student of a person looking out a window in a speculative world with a rendering of campus with a stadium view.](https://arts.unl.edu/styles/primary_support_photo/public/images/mindset/sections/featured/innovation-studio-students-participate-in-global-world-build-planet-junk.jpg?itok=0IoAAyM9)
Conduct Research and Creative Activities
Students have the opportunity to work on research and creative activities alongside faculty members or on their own.
Art students work with artists on murals
School of Art, Art History & Design students, faculty and alumni worked with artists to create murals in the University Place neighborhood as part of the LUX Center for the Arts’ Emerge LNK: Mural + Street Festival
Read the full story on Hixson-Lied College News![School of Art students outdoors painting a mural in the University Place neighborhood.](https://arts.unl.edu/styles/primary_support_photo/public/images/mindset/sections/featured/art-students-work-with-artists-on-murals-1600x900.jpg?itok=VdkVroyW)
Hixson-Lied College@UNL Newsletter
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Connect with Faculty and Advisors
Faculty and staff foster a positive environment to help students align their passions with their career.
Carson School students assist with rigging at Eric Church concert with Assistant Professor of Practice Bryce Allen
Five Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film design/tech students traveled to Boise, Idaho, in May with Assistant Professor of Practice Bryce Allen to get hands-on rigging training and professional experience while working a load-in and load-out for the Eric Church concert at the Extra Mile Arena.
Read the full story on Hixson-Lied College@UNL Newsletter![Five Carson School students pose with Assistant Professor of Practice Bryce Allen for a picture in front of a outdoor landscape in Boise, Idaho.](https://arts.unl.edu/styles/primary_support_photo/public/images/mindset/sections/featured/carson-school-students-assist-with-rigging-at-concert-in-boise_0.jpg?itok=sI-baqQz)
Gain Real-World Experience through Internships
Internships are important experiences to have in college to get a taste of your potential career journey.
5 Emerging Media Arts students intern with branching narrative film project
Five students studying emerging media arts in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts worked as interns on a new branching narrative film project in Lincoln and Boston.
Read the full story on Carson Center News![Three Carson Center students interning on a narrative film project pose for a photo with an Emerging Media Arts professor.](https://arts.unl.edu/styles/primary_support_photo/public/images/mindset/sections/featured/emerging-media-arts-students-intern-with-narrative-film-project_0.jpg?itok=sVKruNIO)
Take your Academic Experience Further through Clubs
With more than 500 Registered Student Organizations, including several in each school in the Hixson-Lied College, you are bound to find your fit somewhere. Student organizations can connect you to like-minded students, as well as help you gain valuable experience in your own unique career path.
@creativecommonsunl on Instagram
![Two Creative Commons members posing for a photo at a table in an art classroom with fiber craft supplies in front of them.](https://arts.unl.edu/styles/secondary_support_card/public/images/mindset/sections/secondary/creative-commons-members-hold-craft-and-study-night-before-finals.jpg?itok=feuOmtb6)
@cinema16unl on Instagram
![A white board with prompts written out for a 72-hour film an animation challenge.](https://arts.unl.edu/styles/secondary_support_card/public/images/mindset/sections/secondary/cinema-16-hosts-72-hour-film-festival.jpg?itok=XcfDfkcN)
@unl_theatrix on Instagram
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Contact Us
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Chris Watson
Director of Recruitment
402-472-0897
chris.watson@unl.edu