Linda Lister (Music) received Honorable Mention for the Richard Sjoerdsma Excellence in Writing Award. Named in honor of editor in chief emeritus Richard Sjoerdsma, who helmed the journal from 2001 to 2023, this biennial award honors the best feature article written for the Journal of Singing over the most recent two-year cycle. The…

Kristen Keach (Art) presented the paper, "Beyond the Plague: Intermedial Allegories of Death as Tools for Collective Liberation" at the 2026 American Association for Italian Studies in Sassari, Sardinia.

Dale Melgaard (Cinematic Arts) has received an "Official Selection" from the Janjira International Film Festival for the short film "Sin City Tales" and the script "The Phatman."

UNLV OAsis journal Tradition-Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education, published in partnership between the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) and the UNLV College of Fine Arts, surpassed 10,000 downloads across 118 countries for its themed issue, “Artificial Intelligence and Possible Futures for the Arts,”…

Linda Lister (Music) published "Non dimenticar: Memory, Music, and Singers" in the May/June issue of the Journal of Singing, the official journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Hikmet Loe (Art) recently published the article "Can International Art Star Olafur Eliasson Provoke Urgency to Restore Great Salt Lake?" online with Southwest Contemporary. It asks additional questions based upon an interview with the artist. Eliasson's work, "A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake" was created as part of the…

Kristen Keach (Art) was invited to speak at UC Merced’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Speaker Series. Her talk, “Between Research and Teaching: Navigating Academia through Interdisciplinarity,” addressed graduate students in the interdisciplinary humanities program as they consider the role of interdisciplinary work in their teaching, research, and…

Nadia Pomirleanu, Ph.D., (Marketing and International Business) and Shahab Zargari (Fine Arts) were awarded the iRDA Creative Media, Entertainment, and Cultural Industries grant to support interdisciplinary initiatives examining how experiential marketing strategies shape engagement within the creative industries. This interdisciplinary grant…

Jennifer Bellor and Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) curated a concert at the Rita Deanin Abbey Museum in Las Vegas. Presented as part of the RDA Performs series, the concert combined contemporary compositions by Bellor and music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by L. Couperin, G. Gabrielli, G.P. Telemann, and A. Vivaldi. The music was…

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) performed twice in this year's Arizona Bach Festival. Lee appeared as soloist in the season's inaugural concert, presenting Bach's famous Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Lee also served as continuo harpsichordist with the Festival Orchestra and Chorus in the rarely performance oratorio Esther by Giuseppe Cristiano…

After 18 months of rigorous study and leadership development, Liliana Garcia (Music) has been awarded the Certified Public Manager® (CPM) designation. This marks the first time a member of the College of Fine Arts has reached this professional milestone. Distinct from a standard academic certificate, this national designation involves an 18-month…

Amy Brown (Music) has been elected as the Region II Representative on the National Board of Trustees for the American Orff Schulwerk Association (AOSA) beginning July 1, 2026. During her three year term, she will represent and work with members from 7 states, which include Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico, Nevada and…