Tim Bavington (Art) is included in Energy and Motion: Abstraction 2020 at Mark Moore Fine Art, an ARTSY online group exhibition including 18 artists focused on abstraction as defined by the painter Jackson Pollock: "Abstraction is energy and motion made visible — memories arrested in space." The online show is on view now through Sept. 13. Other…

Bob Tracy (Art) and Louis Kavouras (Dance) created a performance art piece and video that is now posted on the Art in Society Conference website. This project was accepted to be performed live in Galway, Ireland, this month but the COVID-19 pandemic upended those plans. What you will see is a work in progress, with more layers to come.

Jung Min (Art), Chad Scott (Teaching and Learning), and Shahab Zargari (College of Fine Arts) were selected for the nationally juried art exhibition, Use Other Door at Core Contemporary Gallery. The exhibition is on display until Aug. 15 and is free and open to the public Wednesdays through Saturdays, from noon-6 p.m. Due to the current…

Emily Budd (Art) contributed Well Hung Up, a humorous cast aluminum sculpture to Queers Just Wanna Have Fun, an online exhibition juried by The Queerly Collective Team, an exhibition that hopes to bring levity to viewers and illustrate resilience.

Geovany Uranda (Art) has designed a new coloring book, "The ABC’s of Latinidad,"  in collaboration with art department alumni Justin Favela and Emmanuel Ortega.  This book has more than 50 pages of black-and-white illustrations ready for coloring that alphabetically cover food, sports, and social situations special to Latinx…

Emily Sarten, Aundrea Frahm, Cida de Aragon, and Laurence Myers Reese (all Art) are featured in Long-Distance RADAR, episode four, as is recent graduate Dan Hernandez. This experimental performance feature is available on Youtube. Sarten, de Aragon, and Reese are graduate students.

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) has just published an article in Music and Letters, an imprint of Oxford University Press and one of the leading international journals of musical scholarship. Lee's article, "Giulia Frasi: Singer of Sentiment," discusses the career of George Frideric Handel’s last leading lady, Giulia Frasi (fl. 1742–72). Lee…

Catherine Angel, Laura Brennan, Emily Budd, Yasmina Chavez, Kay Leigh Farley, Wendy Kveck, Jean Munson, Dave Rowe, and Jerry Schefcik (all Art) have created online exhibits and virtual happenings this semester to highlight the creativity, research, learning, growth, and big ideas of their undergraduate and graduate students. This effort took…

"MJ" Jung Min, Annie Lin (both Art), Chad Scott (Teaching and Learning), and Shahab Zargari (Fine Arts) all have work that will be displayed in the second annual "Use Other Door" juried art show that is set to open June 17 at the Core Contemporary gallery in Las Vegas. Sapira Cheuk (Art) and recent undergraduate alum Angie Saldana (Art) were part…

Marcus Civin (Art) has four short stories published in print and online in Issue 4 of Full Bleed, a journal of art and design published annually by the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. The inter-related short stories, part of a larger series called Perfection of the Life, and illustrated by Nan Cao, are portraits of a sort,…

Aaron Cowan, Cida de Aragon, John McVay, Aundrea Frahm (all Art), and Shahab Zargari (Fine Arts), along with incoming art graduate student Keeva Lough, are featured in recent videos that are included in Long-Distance RADAR, a socially distanced YouTube presentation from RADAR, a Las Vegas-based platform for performance art. Cowan, de Aragon, and…

Steffen Lehmann (Architecture) has been selected as one of the "Top 100 Leaders in Education" — an award to be conferred at the Global Forum For Education and Learning (GFEL) conference, which will take place in Las Vegas next month. The awardees were judged on the following five parameters: overall reach, industry impact, spirit of…