20 Jul 2023
Doyle playing for National Repertory Orchestra
Lincoln, Neb.--Alec Doyle, a senior cello performance major in the Glenn Korff School of Music, is spending the summer playing in the National Repertory Orchestra (NRO), a training orchestra for young professionals and college students.
19 Jul 2023
Beck selected as 2023 Emerging Artist
Lincoln, Neb.--Casey Beck, a third-year Master of Fine Arts student in ceramics in the School of Art, Art History & Design, is among 21 ceramic artists nationally chosen as 2023 Emerging Artists by “Ceramics Monthly” magazine.
There were more than 760 applicants to this year’s annual Emerging Artist competition.
18 Jul 2023
Lied Center Piano Academy student performances are July 21
Lincoln, Neb.--The Lied Center for Performing Arts is hosting the fifth annual Lied Center Piano Academy July 17-21, led by Marguerite Scribante Professor of Piano Paul Barnes, who serves as artistic director.
The academy is designed for students entering grades 9 through their first year of college and is tailored to serious intermediate and advanced students interested in gaining professional-level instruction and guidance to raise their performance level and understanding of piano music.
13 Jul 2023 By Scott Schrage, University Communication and Marketing
Award-winning furniture-maker finds fit, freedom in school of art
Lincoln, Neb.--Joseph Holmes is very much the dovetail joint he casually references in conversation: timeless throwback, angular, utilitarian and urbane in equal measure, built-to-purpose but in search of a fit. Eschewer of nails and bolts and screws, purveyor of connection via chisel and wood.
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.
28 Jun 2023
Korff School student completes ‘Composing in the Wilderness’
Trevor Frost, a second-year D.M.A. student in wind band conducting with a related area in composition, was one of six composers selected for the “Composing in the Wilderness” program in Alaska in June. During his adventure, he experienced 10 days in the inspiring backcountry of Lake Clark National Park and will now compose a new band work to be performed around the country.
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.
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.
25 May 2023
Richards appointed interim programmer at The Ross
Lincoln, Neb.--Laurie Richards, who retired last year from her role as state film officer through the Nebraska Department of Economic Development, has been named the interim programmer at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center effective June 1.
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).