Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts

The draft Environment, Sustainability and Resilience Master Plan is available online for the campus community to review and provide feedback by May 29.

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.

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The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts congratulates the outstanding students, faculty, staff and alumni, who are recipients of our Honors Day awards this year.

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:

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Assistant Professors of Emerging Media Arts Ash Eliza Smith and Jesse Fleming meet inside the virtual Carson Center in Mozilla Hubs. Abby and Ally Hall’s Mozilla Hubs room is a virtual store where visitors can buy digital wearables with currency.

20 Apr 2020    

Open Studios event on May 1 to take place inside virtual Carson Center

Lincoln, Neb.--Students from the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts will share 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 Friday, May 1 from 5-7 p.m. CST.

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"The Woman Who Loved Giraffes" is one of the movies available for streaming through The Ross.

07 Apr 2020    

Ross offers streaming movies during temporary closure

Lincoln, Neb.--Although The Ross is temporarily closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, they are still offering high quality movies—not on their screens but streaming from their website.  

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Fifty-nine students from more than 40 high schools across the state were selected for the 2020 Nebraska Young Artist Awards.

03 Apr 2020    

Hixson-Lied College announces 2020 Nebraska Young Artist Awards recipients

Lincoln, Neb.--The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts has announced the winners of the 23rdannual Nebraska Young Artist Awards.

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16 Mar 2020    

JCSTF COVID-19 (coronavirus)

Learning Opportunites

Update (3/24/20)

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Dancer and actor Magdalena Kaczmarska stars in "Cleaner" by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy. Courtesy photo.

09 Mar 2020    

Canceled: Visiting artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy to present screenings at Carson Center, Fiendish Plots

Updated March 12, 2020: The guest artist residency of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, listed below, has been postponed to Fall 2020. (Date to be announced.) All events, including the film screening at the Carson Center, the film screening and exhibition at Fiendish Plots, and the residency by dancer Magda Kaczmarska scheduled for March 16-20 are canceled.

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UNL Dancers perform at last year's Arts Advocacy Day. This year's event is March 6 at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. Photo by Justin Mohling. Skyler Dykes and Emmalee Allen at a previous Arts Advocacy Day. This year's event is March 6. Courtesy photo.

26 Feb 2020    

Arts Advocacy Day March 6

Lincoln, Neb.--The third annual Arts Advocacy Day at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will be held on Friday, March 6 from 5-8 p.m. at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at 13th and Q streets. The events are free and open to the public.

The goal of the event is to celebrate student artwork and expose the university community to statewide arts advocacy effort.

There will be an arts advocacy station, offering information on Nebraskans for the Arts and materials to help participants write letters in support of the arts to their state representatives.

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Assistant Professor of Practice Ann Marie Pollard is offering free 50-minute weekly yoga sessions this spring for students and faculty/staff in the college at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.

26 Feb 2020    By Kathe C. Andersen

Student Advisory Boards coordinate wellness initiatives

Lincoln, Neb.--The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts undergraduate and graduate student advisory boards are coordinating a wellness initiative for students in the college.

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Clockwise from left: Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Ash Smith, Mitchell Guynan, Parker Reil and Ally Hall in Boston. Photo courtesy of Ally Hall. Left to right: Ryan Hovland, Mitchell Guynan, Parker Reil and Ally Hall in Boston. Photo courtesy of Ash Smith.

26 Feb 2020    By Kathe C. Andersen

5 Emerging Media Arts students intern with branching narrative film project

Lincoln, Neb.--Five students studying Emerging Media Arts in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts have worked as interns on a new branching narrative film project that will debut later this spring on major platform.

Non-disclosure agreements prevent details about the project from being released yet, but the project has received backing from Hollywood insiders.

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