Accomplishments: College of Fine Arts
In collaboration with the Nevada Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (NVASLA), Jacel Zeres Avila and Jung-Hwa Kim (both Architecture) received recognition in the 15th Annual Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) Challenge. Their submission, focused on Cochran Ditch in Reno, NV, earned second place and will be added to the…
Gregory Koenig (Music) presented Transformative guitar education: Funds of knowledge, border crossing, and the guitar at the 2024 University of Buffalo International Guitar Research Conference.
A short film produced by May May Luong (Film), "Orange Vests and Cigarettes" has received an "Official Selection" from the Twin Cities Film Fest and will screen on October 23 in Minnesota.
Jung-Hwa Kim (Architecture) gave a virtual presentation on her research, "Elevated Utopias: The Rise of Roof Gardens in Early 20th-Century Department Stores," at the LAND/PLAN Site Planning Seminar Series, hosted by Prof. Sangyong Cho at the University of Cincinnati.
A short film produced by May May Luong (Film), "Orange Vests and Cigarettes" has received an "Official Selection" from the Chelsea Film Festival and will screen on October 19 in New York, NY.
Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" from the Bangkok Film Awards Festival for the short script "The Phatman."
Gregory Koenig (Music) presented Guitar class: An opportunity for transformative music education at the National Association for Music education 2024 biannual music research and teacher education conference.
Linda Lister (Music) had her song "Ariel Ambitions," from the song cycle Pleas to Famous Fairies, performed at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Soprano Hannah Winston sang the song on the concert Peabody Songbook Series: A Woman's Point of View.
Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" to the Lake Charles Film Festival for an original screenplay, The Phatman.
Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) presented "Over the Horizon," drawn from her research on art and security space, at the 2024 Spatial Humanities conference at Otto-Freidrichs-Universität Bamberg (Germany). Spatial Humanities is concerned with geospatial technologies' contribution to humanities research. The main aim is to explore and demonstrate the…
Dale Melgaard (Film) received the Best Short Script Award at the Sittannavasal International Film Festival.
Karla Lagunas (Art) authored the article "Emily Budd Breaks the Mold: Founder of the Foundry Project Aluminati" in Southwest Contemporary Magazine's Vol 10. Issue Radical Futures. The article is available free online and free print copies are available at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art on campus.