Glenn NP Nowak, AIA joined Amber Renee Dixon and John Katsilometes on Vegas PBS Friday night to talk about the Sphere, the latest architectural marvel in the hospitality and entertainment design capital of the world.
Joshua Thomas, first year Artist Diploma candidate in the Voice Area of the School of Music, was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition - Utah District. He will next compete at the Regional level in Denver, CO in February 2024. This competition was established to identify early career opera singers and provide development funding and exposure to industry professionals. Along with…
The League of American Orchestras has formed a Student Leadership Council, the first in the organization’s 81 years, to provide a platform for the League to better understand and integrate the voices of young people into its work and support the growth of student engagement within the orchestra field. The new Council is part of a renewed commitment to grow participation by young people and…
UNLV College of Fine Arts postdoctoral scholar Ivan Ivanov and faculty member Richard Miller's book, Leonardo Balada and Surrealism in Music, has been published by Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. As the College of Fine Arts' first UNLV postdoctoral scholar, the Bulgarian-born Dr. Ivanov was engaged in research, teaching and creative activities; including grant writing,…
Dr. Marta Plominska and Dr. Dawid Mzyk have been chosen as recipients of the prestigious UNLV Doctoral Graduate to Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Program, making them the first recipients from the College of Fine Arts in the program's history. Dr. Marta Plominska is a Polish flutist who completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Performance at UNLV in Spring 2023. She is now a Postdoctoral…
Four student design projects from last year’s School of Architecture fourth-year studio are included in a new design exhibition at the Southern Utah Museum of Art titled Brutal DC. The exhibition reimagines new uses for DC’s aging brutalist buildings and includes work from Diller Scofidio and Renfro, Brooks and Scarpa, Gensler, and others. Read a review of the show on The Architect'…
Dean Nancy J. Uscher recently shared a presentation with the UNLV Foundation Board of Trustees unveiling an exciting vision for the College of Fine Arts building of the future, and how it will transform UNLV and the lives of our students and community. Also a part of the presentation were art department chair Dave Rowe and current BFA student McKenzie Easter. Below is a transcript of Dean…
The Violin/Viola 'Duo Novae' (associate professors Ambroise Aubrun and Kate Hamilton) were recently on a tour of New Zealand and Australia during which they gave recitals, masterclasses, and presented lectures in Dunedin, Sydney, and Melbourne. They worked with faculty and students from the University of Otago, the Sydney Conservatorium, and the Melbourne String Academy. In other news, Auburn’s…