Accomplishments: College of Fine Arts
Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) has just published a chapter in The Heroic in Music (Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press). This volume traces the intersection of the poetics of heroism and musical works from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Lee contributed the book’s chapter on the 18th century, a period that scholars have often deemed an "age…
Tiffany Lin (Art) delivered a lecture at UNR in the department of art in which she discussed recent works on American life, history, and ecology of the Mojave.
The Arnold Shaw Popular Music Center has a new website!
Launched this month, the completely revamped site contains information about the center's lecture series and events, a browsable (and ever growing) catalog of the manuscripts and other items in the collection, a news feed, ways to connect with the center, and much more. Check out the website.
Linda Lister (Music) was in residence earlier this month at the University of Mississippi (UM), presenting a vocal master class and leading yoga practices for both the music department and the Honors College. UM Opera Theatre commissioned a new chamber orchestration of Lister's opera State of Grace, which premiered at Ole Miss April 23 and 24…
Emily Budd (Art) has had her sculptural work selected for the group exhibition, Mixed Media, at Site:Brooklyn Gallery. The exhibition runs until May 22.
Laurence Myers Reese (Art) spoke at the 2022 Conney Conference for Jewish Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about his thesis work "In the Image of (Towards a Trans Talmud)," an interdisciplinary work investigating themes of intersex, trans, and genderqueer identity in Jewish texts. He is a graduate student.
Laurence Myers Reese (Art) presented his thesis work "In the Image of... (Towards a Trans Talmud)" at the Western Jewish Studies Association annual conference at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. His work was part of a panel on Modern Jewish Identities with scholars from Israel and the U.S. He is a graduate student.
Roberta Sabbath (English), Cathy Allen, (Dance), and Shahab Zargari (Fine Arts) will be speaking at the 2022 Conney Jews and the Arts about the interdisciplinary project Shoah Survivor Choreographic Collaboration: A Docudance Film Exploring the Memories of Four Holocaust Survivors.
The project represents the intersection…
Tiffany Lin (Art) is part of the Migrate, a temporary art installation in the Wetlands Park Nature Preserve with installments by local artists reflecting the theme of "Migration and Movement."
Hikmet Loe (Art History) published the article "Spirit of the Land: Art, Activism, and Collaboration in Southern Nevada" in Southwest Contemporary, vol. 5, Collectivity + Collaboration; and found online. One of three exhibitions honoring the lands of Southern Nevada, "Spirit of the Land" will be held at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, …
Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) reviewed the Nevada Museum of Art's fall exhibition "Land Art: Expanding the Atlas." The first of a yearlong series of shows on art and environment, "Land Art" identified new pathways in assessing social engagement and dispossession in landscape studies not only in the U.S. West, but also across the world.
Daniella Etel Courban (Art) was published in the Heart to Heart Nevada Humanities series this week.
"Humanities Heart to Heart" is a series of essays and multimedia presentations created by Nevadans that highlight diverse, personal perspectives from all corners of the Silver State, reflecting on life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us as we…