Accomplishments: College of Fine Arts
On October 26, Stefano Boselli (Theatre) presented the paper, “The Balcony, The Pope, and The Screens: Jean Genet’s Unsettling Perspectives on the Society of the Spectacle,for the “Drama and Society I” session at the PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) Conference “Shifting Perspectives” in Portland, Oregon. In his plays The…
Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) published a review article in College Music Symposium 63, no. 2, the journal of the College Music Society, a "consortium of college, conservatory, university, and independent musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines of music." Lee's article reviews Discovering the Classical String Trio, a…
Voice professor Andre Chiang (Music) sings Escamillo with Opera Western Reserve in their production of Carmen on November 17. This season celebrates Opera Western Reserve’s twentieth season in Youngstown, Ohio, providing mainstage opera and outreach performances for the community.
Chiang was also invited to give a master class during the…
Amy Brown (Music) was nominated and selected as Nevada Society of Innovators and Digital Educators (NVSIDE) Outstanding Teacher of the Year!
The Outstanding Teacher of the Year award "recognizes a classroom teacher and Computer Using Educator (CUE) member who has made a noteworthy contribution to educational technology in a classroom…
Stephen Caplan's (Music) two part article, "Ninety Percent Mental, the Other Half is Physical! Perspectives on Teaching Movement to Musicians" has been published in The Double Reed, Vol. 46, #2 and #3. The Double Reed is the journal of the International Double Reed Society. Caplan's article explains research about attentional focus cues by UNLV's…
Joshua Thomas (Music-Voice), first-year Artist Diploma candidate, was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition - Utah District on Nov. 4, 2023. He will next compete at the Regional level in Denver, Colorado, in February 2024. This competition was established to identify early career opera singers and provide development funding and…
Associate professor John McMurtery (Music) performed in the 2023 U.N. Day Concert as part of United Nations Day. The program took place at the General Assembly Hall at the United Nations building in New York City. Under the theme of "The Frontlines of Climate Action," the concert presented the power of the human spirit to combat the…
Hikmet Loe (Art History) presented a lecture on Oct 24 for writer-in-residence Terry Tempest William's Harvard Divinity School seminar, "Walking the Inland Sea: Desert Contemplation and Great Salt Lake." The lake's current decline and degradation due to long-term drought was discussed through the lens of the earthworks "Spiral Jetty" (1970) and "…
Amy Brown (Music) presented a session at the Fall Computer Using Educators (CUE) conference in Stockton, California, (October 21-22, 2023). The session was titled, "Keep"ing Your Sanity and focused on how to use Google Keep to encourage active listening and notetaking skills for 2nd-12 grade students. Participants listened, responded, and…
Emily Budd (Art) has published a creative essay titled, “Cruising the Monuments of the Outskirts of Las Vegas,” for the ecoartspace publication, The New Geologic Epoch. Budd’s essay reimagines Robert Smithson’s seminal work, “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey,” to explore the possibilities of Queer Renewal among a set of environmental…
Marta Plominska and Dawid Mzyk (both Music) have been chosen as recipients of the prestigious UNLV Doctoral Graduate to Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Program, making them the first recipients from the College of Fine Arts in the program's history.
Plominska is a Polish flutist who completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in music performance at…
Dak Kopec (Interior Architecture and Design) presented at Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart (Germany) on the topic of Trauma Informed Design on October 16.
We live in a divided world where violence, in one form or another, dominates the daily news. With this global trend, Interior design is being called upon to provide environments that…