Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts
15 Oct 2020
Actress Marg Helgenberger to present Zoom Q&A for Carson Center’s IGNITE Oct. 16
Lincoln, Neb.--Award-winning actress Marg Helgenberger (All Rise; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; China Beach) will present a question and answer session for the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts’ IGNITE series titled “Creativity in the Age of COVID-19,” where she will discuss what it is like to pioneer live-action television production in Hollywood during the global pandemic.
12 Oct 2020
Carson Center's Twomey organizes workshop for ISEA 2020
Lincoln, Neb.—Robert Twomey, assistant professor of emerging media arts in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, is one of three organizers for a workshop at ISEA 2020, one of the most significant electronics arts conferences in the world.
The 26thInternational Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) will be held virtually Oct. 13-18 with a theme of “Why Sentience.” ISEA is a long-running international non-profit with a yearly conference that includes arts, scientists and technology.
01 Oct 2020
Hixson-Lied College seeks apps for Nebraska Young Artist Awards
Lincoln, Neb.--The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts is seeking applications for the 24th annual Nebraska Young Artist Awards.
The Nebraska Young Artist Awards annually recognize 11th grade students from Nebraska who are gifted and talented in the areas of visual art, dance, music, theatre, and emerging media arts. These students exemplify the pinnacles of creativity in one of the fine and performing arts.
30 Sep 2020
Carson Center’s Smith part of Exhibit Columbus Symposium New Middles
Lincoln, Neb.--University of Nebraska–Lincoln Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Ash E. Smith is part of the Exhibit Columbus Symposium New Middles, which kicks off Sept. 15 and runs through Oct. 27.
15 Sep 2020
Register now for the Fall Three-Week Session
Lincoln, Neb.--The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts is offering four courses during the Fall Three-Week Session from Nov. 30 to Dec. 18.
Enroll in an online class during the fall Three-Week Session to make progress toward your degree, enhance your professional credentials or tackle a grand challenge.
Register now in MyRed. Availability is limited, so sign up today! Scholarships and financial aid options are available to qualifying students.
25 Aug 2020
36 students selected for new Carson Center cohort
Lincoln, Nebraska—Thirty-six students—26 high school students and 10 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 second cohort for the center, which opened last fall.
09 Jul 2020
2 Carson Center faculty receive ORED seed funding
Lincoln, Neb.--Two Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts faculty were among three University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty who have been selected for seed funding from the Office of Research and Economic Development's Arts and Humanities Research Enhancement Program.
The goal of the program is to foster excellence in research, scholarship and creative activity in the arts and humanities, and to increase recipients’ competitiveness for external funding or enhance the societal impact of their work.
The receipients are:
27 May 2020 By Kathe C. Andersen
Carson Center’s Open Studios event a virtual success
Lincoln, Neb.--Students from the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts shared their work from the spring semester StoryLab and Visual Expression Studio classes in a virtual Open Studios event on Mozilla Hubs inside a 3D virtual model of the Carson Center on May 1.
13 May 2020 By Troy Fedderson, University Communication
Feedback sought on first sustainability, resilience master plan
Lincoln, Neb.--A proposed master plan that links sustainability practices, teaching curricula, research expertise and wellbeing programming is charting new ground for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
24 Apr 2020
Honors Day 2020 recipients announced
Lincoln, Neb.--The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts has announced the 2020 recipients of our Honors Day awards. While we are unable to gather in person for our annual Honors Day Dinner, we want to recognize all of these outstanding students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Note: The Glenn Korff School of Music's Vreeland Awards and Porter Award in Dance will be announced at the Korff School's virtual Honors Convocation on April 30.
Congratulations to all of this year's recipients: