Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts
25 Aug 2023
41 students selected for new Carson Center cohort
Lincoln, Neb.—Forty-one students, including 28 first-year students and 13 transfer students, have been selected to join the latest cohort of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.
This is the fifth cohort for the center, which opened in the fall of 2019. There will be a total of 136 emerging media arts majors this fall.
While 32 of the 41 students hail from Nebraska, this year’s cohort also includes students from Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, New York and South Dakota.
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25 Jul 2023 By Kristina Jackson, University Communication and Marketing
Carson EMA grads get opportunity of a lifetime through Lola partnership
Lincoln, Neb.--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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13 Jul 2023
Next Carson Center, Black Public Media fellows cohort announced
Lincoln, Neb.--The Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and Black Public Media (BPM) have announced the second cohort of their new residency program for creative technologists, called the Black Public Media Residency at the Carson Center.
The program just recently received a $40,000 award from the National Endowment for the Arts’ Grants for Arts Projects program.
This year’s recipients are Eboni Zamani, J. Bird Lathon and Conrad Burgos, who developed creative technology projects while they were in residence at the Carson Center July 10-21.
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22 Jun 2023
Black Public Media wins $40,000 NEA Grant to support Carson Center residency
Lincoln, Neb.-- The Harlem-based national media arts nonprofit Black Public Media (https://blackpublicmedia.org) (BPM) has received a $40,000 award from the National Endowment for the Arts’ Grants for Arts Projects program. The award will support its fellowship and residency program for new works in immersive, interactive and emerging media at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
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20 Jun 2023
Arizona’s Stratton named Carson School Director
Lincoln, Neb.--Hank Stratton, head of acting/musical theatre at the University of Arizona and the artistic director of the Arizona Repertory Theatre, has been named the director of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film and executive director of the Nebraska Repertory Theatre. He begins his appointment Aug. 1.
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25 May 2023
NCC’s Hollywood Salon returned home to Lincoln
Lincoln, Neb.--The Nebraska Coast Connection held The Hollywood Salon Comes Home event on May 8 at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. The event was part of a celebration of 30 years of the Nebraska Coast Connection and The Hollywood Salon.
The event featured a Q&A with two Nebraska friends who made their careers in Hollywood: Kearney native Jon Bokenkamp (creator, writer/producer of NBC’s “The Blacklist”) and UNL Theatre and Journalism alumnus Todd Nelson (CBS/Paramount producer and founder of the Nebraska Coast Connection).
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25 May 2023
EMA senior traveling to London for ‘Can You See How I See’
Lincoln, Neb.--Trystan Nord, a senior emerging media arts student from Gretna, Nebraska, is traveling to London in June for the opening of “Can You See How I See,” a graduate thesis project for Central St. Martens student Yoni Chepisheva. Nord has served as technical artist for the project.
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15 May 2023
First four-year EMA students graduate
Lincoln, Neb.--Among the 123 May graduates from the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts were 18 students receiving their Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Emerging Media Arts.
These graduates are the first to complete four years in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.
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05 May 2023
Hixson-Lied Faculty, Staff awards announced
The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts announced the 2023 recipients of the Hixson-Lied Faculty and Staff awards.
This ongoing awards program for faculty and staff recognizes outstanding performance and accomplishments in the areas of teaching; research and creative activity; faculty servce, outreach and engagement; outstanding lecturer; and staff service.
The following faculty and staff awards were presented at the college’s Honors Day celebration on May 5.
• College Distinguished Teaching Award:
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19 Apr 2023
Nebraska Coast Connection presents The Hollywood Salon Comes Home May 8
Lincoln, Neb.--The Nebraska Coast Connection presents The Hollywood Salon Comes Home on Monday, May 8 from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. The event is free and open to the public.
It will also be live streamed for viewers in California and worldwide. Visit https://nebraskacoast.com for streaming details. The event is part of the celebration of 30 years of Nebraska Coast Connection and The Hollywood Salon.
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