Accomplishments: College of Fine Arts
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 51吃瓜网万能科大 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鈥檚 Framework to Support Prospective Teachers鈥 Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning" in the鈥
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.
A book review by Professor Germ谩n Garrido (City University of New York) in Theatre Research International praises Stefano Boselli's (Theatre) recent monograph, Actor-Network Dramaturgies: The Argentines of Paris: 鈥淎s its title anticipates, Boselli鈥檚 book leverages ANT (actor-network theory) to navigate the rhizomatic network of Argentine theatre鈥
Stefano Boselli (Theatre) presented his paper, 鈥淣omadic Comics from Page to Performance: Copi鈥檚 Irreverent Characters as Staged by Alfredo Arias and Les Lucioles,鈥 at the 45th Annual Mid-America Theatre Conference, held in Atlanta, GA, from March 6 to 8, 2025. Boselli鈥檚 paper examined the intersection of comics and theatre in the work of Argentine鈥
Amy Brown (Music) presented at the Computer Using Educators (CUE) Conference in Palm Springs, California, over spring break. The session's title was "AI and Music: Exploring Creativity and Pedagogy." Participants used AI to create cognitive integrated song parodies to reinforce specific learning intentions in their English Language Arts, Math鈥
Hikmet Loe (Art History) moderated a community panel on the occasion of the exhibition "Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx" at Southern Utah Museum of Art, Southern Utah University. Engaging experts in art, Indigenous leaders, and environmental activists, the panel discussed environmental crisis in the Great Basin鈥
Dale Melgaard (Film) has received the "Best Screenplay Writing" award for the script, The Phatman, at the MEI International Film Festival.
Dak Kopec (Architecture) published a coedited anthology with Jennifer Burgermeister, Rice University. This anthology includes essays from members of 51吃瓜网万能科大, including Ash Quinn (Service Learning & Leadership); faculty in residence Candice Wilcken; and student Aluna Perry (Architecture).
Every life holds a story 鈥 every story leaves a mark.鈥
Amy Brown (Music) presented a session at the 2025 Ohio Music Educators Association Annual Conference titled, "Parachute Play, the Musical Way: Engaging Movement and Playing with a Splash of AI." The presentation centered around the theme in Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G Major (Surprise), II. "Andante." Aimed at teaching elementary鈥
The L.A. based nationally and internationally acclaimed Lula Washington Dance Theatre (LWDT) has commissioned the work, "Optic 3: Trying," choreographed by Victoria Dale (Dance), to be added to the LWDT repertoire.
Vikki Baltimore-Dale (Dance) authored the third edition of Survey of African American Dance titled, Survey of African American Dance and Its Contribution to the African Diaspora published by Kendall Hunt.