Accomplishments: College of Fine Arts
Linder Lister's (Music) musical compositions were performed by the National First Ladies' Library and Museum on Oct. 15. The world premiere performance, titled, "East Wing Songs Volume II," featured a lecture-recital format. The premiere was made possible through a Missouri State University faculty research grant, and supported by the…
Hikmet Loe (Art) was published twice in the international, peer-reviewed journal, Weber: The Contemporary West (Fall 2023, vol. 40, no.1). Both appear in the journal's subfocus, Art of the American West. The first, "A Conversation in Water and in Ochre: Where Hope Lies," is multi-authored with Nan Seymour and Elpitha Tsoutsounakis. The second…
Emily Budd's (Art) sculptural work, Digging Feet (the Grinding Search), is on view with the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance exhibition, Of the Land, at the Lightwell Gallery at Oklahoma University. The exhibition, curated by Anna Tsouhlarakis, is dedicated to creative and visual expressions on the complex dialogue about land. Artworks for…
UNLV post-doctoral faculty Marta Plominska (Music) recently performed at the Chicago Flute Club Festival. Accompanied by UNLV faculty members John McMurtery and Dawid Mzyk(both Music), Plominska curated a program celebrating the remarkable contributions of female composers as part of her Post-Doc project. The festival showcased works by Jennifer…
Associate professor Kimberly G. James and assistant professor André Chiang (both Music) performed leading roles in the world premiere of the opera, Behold the Man (Fowler, Flack), with Opera Las Vegas on September 30 and October 1. Several current music students, alumni, College of Fine Arts administrator Ashley Stone, choral conductor…
Associate professor Kimberly G James, DM, (Music) presented a workshop titled, "From Small Straws to Big Singing: Moving Beyond Theory," which addressed a practical application of semi-occluded vocal tract tools (e.g. small coffee straws) in the field of classical singing. This workshop was presented at the hybrid Pan American Vocology Association…
Linda Lister (Music - Voice) was a guest speaker for the Awaken Your Voice Summit.
Andre Chiang, DMA, PAVA-RV (Music - Voice) presented a workshop at the Hybrid Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA) Symposium. The workshop was titled, "Opening the Lower Range for Voice Users Using the 'Moan'." The audience for the symposium is international in scope and appeals to all vocology adjacent fields such as speech-language…
Emily Budd (Art) published an essay titled, "Aluminati: Rekindling a Forgotten Future of Foundry," for Couch in the Desert. The essay describes the importance of growing an inclusive and expanded foundry project, Aluminati, and the impact of its work.
Emily Budd (Art) was interviewed in Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America, Season 2, Episode 1, on Discovery, about the queer history of Rhyolite, Nevada, and her public sculpture that memorializes it.
Andre Chiang, DMA, baritone (Music - Voice Faculty), is performing the role of Il Conte in Le nozze di Figaro in Landlocked Opera’s inaugural collaboration with the Missouri Symphony in Columbia, Missouri. The performances are on Sept. 9 and 10 in the historic Missouri Theatre.
During the rehearsal process of the opera, Chiang also gave a lecture…
Marta Plominska (Music) was recently awarded an Aspire2STEAM scholarship. Aspire2STEAM.org provides educational scholarships and mentoring to young women and girls who are working toward careers that require education in science, tech, engineering, the arts, or math (STEAM). Plominska is a post-doctoral fellow in flute performance at UNLV,…