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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Jazmine Huertas (third from left) answers a question during a Q&A following a performance. Photo by Justin Mohling. Jean-David Bizimana shares his story during the performance. Photo by Justin Mohling.

26 Feb 2020    By Kathe C. Andersen

We Are Nebraska interns promote inclusivity

Lincoln, Neb.--A new internship program at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln titled “We Are Nebraska” uses applied improv and applied theatre techniques to explore the personal stories with social impact of its 14 interns from across the campus and present them in a theatre experience to inspire, educate and entertain both the university community and local community.

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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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Ted Schilowitz

20 Feb 2020    

Paramount Pictures Futurist Schilowitz returns for IGNITE Feb. 28

Lincoln, Neb.--Ted Schilowitz, the first-ever Futurist-in-Residence for Paramount Pictures, will present the IGNITE colloquium on Friday, Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts Rm. 101. The event is free and open to the public.

IGNITE is a weekly colloquium for all Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts students, which involve guest lectures, workshops and seminars around creative and professional development. The Center is located at 1300 Q St.

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Theatrix presents "Hand to God." Photo: Beck Damron.

07 Feb 2020    

Theatrix continues with 'Hand to God'

Lincoln, Neb.--Theatrix, the student-run theatre company within the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, continues its 2019-2020 season with Hand to God, written by Robert Askins and directed by University of Nebraska student, Christa Retka.

Performances are February 27-29 at 7:30 PM, and March 1 at 2:00 PM. All performances take place in the Lab Theatre in the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets.

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Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Ash E. Smith has co-curated the exhibition "STREAMING" on display through March 13 at the University of California San Diego's Qualcomm Institute. Courtesy photo. Co-curators Ash Smith, Robert Twomey and Stephanie Sherman at the "STREAMING" exhibition at the University of California San Diego's Qualcomm Institute. Courtesy photo.

06 Feb 2020    

Carson Center’s Smith co-curates ‘STREAMING’ exhibition

Lincoln, Neb.--Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Ash E. Smith has co-curated the exhibition “STREAMING” now on display through March 13 at the gallery@calit2 at the University of California San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute.

“STREAMING” is a research platform and exhibition that considers the ecological and social impacts of networked culture streams and the possibilities and limits for their calculation.

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The Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "A Thousand Words" Feb. 14-23.

22 Jan 2020    By Kathe C. Andersen

Nebraska Rep presents ‘A Thousand Words’

Lincoln, Neb.--The Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents the powerful and innovative world premiere of "A Thousand Words,” directed by Nebraska Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Andy Park.

Performances are Feb. 14-23 in the Temple Building's Howell Theatre. Preview performance are Feb. 12-13. For tickets and showtimes, visit http://www.nebraskarep.org.

When Jeremiah Wolcott is tasked with consolidating what matters most in life to a single box, a poetic and powerful world of images unfolds.

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Jacqueline Mattingly (left) and Christopher Marks

15 Jan 2020    

Mattingly named Associate Dean for Student Affairs

Lincoln, Neb.--Jacqueline Mattingly is the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts’ new Associate Dean for Student Affairs.

"I'm looking forward to having Jackie join the college administrative team," said Chuck O'Connor, endowed dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. "She will be instrumental, at least initially on an interim basis, in first defining this brand-new position and then figuring out how we can better serve students in the long term."

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The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film presents "Julius Caesar" Jan. 23-25 in the Lab Theatre.

15 Jan 2020    

Carson School presents Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'

Lincoln, Neb.--The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film announces a special production for the 2019-2020 season, “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare. Performances are Thursday and Friday, Jan. 23 and 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 25 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Performances are in the Lab Theatre, third floor, Temple Building, 12th & R streets.

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