15 Apr 2013
Art historian excels with Hixson-Lied opportunities
Anne Rimmington, a junior from Wichita, Kan., was trying to decide between attending the University of Kansas and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The deciding factors were a Hixson-Lied College Freshman Scholarship and the opportunities in her area of study.
11 Apr 2013
Annual Evenings of Dance performs this weekend
The annual Evenings of Dance will be performed on April 11, 12, and 13 at 7:30 p.m., and again on Sunday, April 14 at 3:00 p.m. in the Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theatre.
General admission tickets are $12, faculty/staff $10, student/senior $7 and will be available approximately one hour before the performance at the door.
11 Apr 2013
College holds annual Honors Day dinner
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts will honor alumni, faculty, staff and student achievement at its annual Honors Day Dinner on Saturday, April 20 at 5 p.m. in the Lied Commons. The event is by invitation only.
The awards to be presented include seven recipients selected by our Fine and Performing Arts Alumni Board: the three Alumni Achievement Awards, the Award of Merit, the Faculty Service Award, and two Student Leadership awards.
11 Apr 2013
Heart & Hands national juried book art exhibition
“Heart & Hands 2013: A Fourth National Juried Book Art Exhibition for Students” is on display now through May 31 at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Love Library on the city campus.
The exhibition will also be on display Oct. 11-Nov. 14, 2013, at UNO’s Criss Library.
09 Apr 2013
Wilkins wins Fulbright to teach English in Bulgaria
Tim Wilkins, a senior music major at UNL, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. The music composition major will be traveling to Bulgaria for an English teaching assistantship after he graduates this spring.
09 Apr 2013
School of Music presents Verdi's Requiem
Around 350 members of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Symphony Orchestra and combined choruses will perform Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem on Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center for Performing Arts in honor of the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students/seniors and are available from the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231.
08 Apr 2013
UNL Ceramics Alum to present lecture April 19
Lincoln, Neb. - Michael Strand, the recipient of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts’ Alumni Achievement Award in Art this year who received his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1999 from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, will present a free public lecture on Friday, April 19 at 2:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 14.
Strand will receive his Alumni Achievement Award in Art on Saturday, April 20, as part of the College’s Honors Day celebrations.
08 Apr 2013
School of Music musicians to perform in China
The University of Nebraska has announced that five student musicians from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln School of Music in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts have been invited to perform next month in Xi'an, China, as a part of an official program of activities at the American Exchange Center on the Xi’an Jiaotong University campus. They also will perform at Zhejiang University City College (ZUCC), UNL's partner university in Hangzhou.
08 Apr 2013
Visiting artist James Siena to present free lecture
New York-based artist James Siena will present a free public lecture on Thursday, April 18 at 5:30 p.m. in the Sheldon Museum of Art's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium, 12th and R streets, on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln city campus. His visit is sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History and made possible through a grant from the Hixson-Lied Endowment.
04 Apr 2013
IAS hosts director's lecture and staged plays
The Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium at the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts celebrates its fourth annual season this spring with an exploration of “The Ancient World Seen Through Modern Eyes” looking at how the performing arts have returned consistently to classical antiquity and ancient mythologies to make sense of the contemporary.