Accomplishments: College of Fine Arts
Hikmet Loe's (Art) essay, "Composition/Decomposition: Great Salt Lake at the Crossroads" was recently published in the exhibition catalog Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, & the Saline Influx. Accompanying the eponymous exhibition held at Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUU) the essay provides an analysis of how two contemporary…
Kimberly G James (Music) was elected to the board of directors for the Pan American Vocology Association (PAVA) and will serve as the Western Region Governor. PAVA's mission is to advance the scientific and interdisciplinary study of vocalization across species. PAVA fosters vocology in all countries of the Western Hemisphere through research…
Hikmet Loe (Art) presented at Nevada Museum of Art in conjunction with their exhibition "Deep Time - Sea Dragons of Nevada." Her talk, "Robert Smithson's Dinosaurs - There Be Sea Monsters!" centered the artist's life-long fascination with deep time. From early dinosaur drawings influenced by Charles R. Knight to his later correlation of dinosaurs…
Dale Melgaard (Film) has received the Best Short Script award for "The Phatman" from the International Writer's Journey Film Festival, Istanbul.
The 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Jazz Ensemble I received Graduate College Large Jazz Ensemble Outstanding Performance in the 2025 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards. In addition, one of our students in the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Joe Williams Jazz Scholarship Quartet, bassist Ed Lacala, received a Graduate College Outstanding Soloist Award. This competition is considered among the…
Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" at the Istanbul International Short Film and Writer's Journey Festival for the screenplay, The Phatman.
DMA oboe student and P.T.I. Nicholas Carozza (Music) is heading to Colorado for a sold out performance at the Saddlehorn Amphitheater on the Colorado National Monument for National Parks week. Nick will perform with Justin G. Russell Jr. on double bass. The duo will perform music from the renaissance to modern day, including a world premiere by…
Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) delivered the keynote address at Baldwin Wallace University's 2025 Bach Festival, held in Berea, Ohio. This annual celebration of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries spans three-days, including concerts, lectures, symposia, and exhibitions of archival materials from the Riemenschneider Bach…
Javon Johnson (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies), associate professor of African American Studies and renowned poet, began coaching a slam poetry team in Las Vegas in January 2025 and, in March 2025, the team won its first major poetry slam tournament in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Dale Melgaard (Film) has received the "Best Script" award for The Phatman at the Kaliburagi International Film Festival.
Katrina Liu (Teaching & Learning) and Richard Miller (Music), together with 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ alumna Lei Ping (Ph.D., 2025) and Christopher R. Crowley from Wayne State University recently published "Testing the Limits of the Practical: Using van Manen’s Framework to Support Prospective Teachers’ Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning" in the…
Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) performed as a guest artist at the Arizona Bach Festival in Phoenix. Lee, a harpsichordist, joined soloists from across the country in a program of concertos in the Vivaldian tradition.