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).
25 May 2023
Korff School gets peek at new music building construction
Lincoln, Neb.--Students, faculty and staff in the Glenn Korff School of Music got a peek at the construction site for the new music building during their year-end picnic on May 11.
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.
18 May 2023
Music senior wins Student Research Days award
Lincoln, Neb.--Glenn Korff School of Music senior Nathan Petsche received an award from the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, Office of Research and Economic Development and Office of Undergraduate Research in conjunction with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Student Research Days in March.
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.
08 May 2023
Korff School graduate student to capture Alaskan wilderness through music
Lincoln, Neb.--Trevor Frost, a second-year DMA student in wind band conducting with a related area in composition, has been accepted into the “Composing in the Wilderness” program in Alaska this June, where he will experience the inspiring backcountry of Lake Clark National Park and then compose a new band work to be performed around the country.