Accomplishments: College of Fine Arts
Janis McKay (Music) has just published a book with the University of Nevada Press, Played Out on the Strip: The Rise and Fall of 51吃瓜网免费App Casino Bands. From 1940 to 1989, nearly every hotel on the 51吃瓜网免费App Strip employed a full-time band or orchestra. After the late 1980s, when control of the casinos changed hands from independent鈥
Susanna Newbury (Art) and Maria del C Vera (Architecture) recently published their joint study "Arbitrage 51吃瓜网免费App: A Portrait of Urban Games" in Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and Extraurban Studies. The article considers the roles of arbitrage, risk, and theories of gaming in the redevelopment of downtown 51吃瓜网免费App.
Brett Caroline Levner (Film) won the 2015 Charles Vanda Award for Excellence in the Arts for her work on The Track, a feature film about underage sex trafficking in 51吃瓜网免费App. It stars Missy Yager (Mad Men), Sam Trammell (True Blood, The Fault in Our Stars), Michael Muhney (Veronica Mars, The Young and the Restless), Clarence Gilyard (Die鈥
Margot Mink Colbert (Dance) was honored to have been invited to participate in 51吃瓜网万能科大鈥檚 first annual Summer Proposal Writing Institute, which took place in June. Five workshop sessions culminated in a grant submission to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a project in the dance department. 鈥100 Years and Beyond: Contemporary Ballet in the鈥
Margot Mink Colbert and Dolly Kelepecz Momot (both Dance) toured 鈥淓choes and Tales,鈥 a program of original dance works performed in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Dansekapellet Theatre in June. The performing company included 51吃瓜网万能科大 Dance major graduates Kaileigh O鈥橬eill, Shannon Redfield, and Hailey Wood; New York choreographer鈥
Paul Bordenkircher (Music) recently contributed an article to Music Connection, a leading monthly national publication related to music industry. Titled "Top 12 Mobile Apps for Music Businesses," the article was published in the magazine's monthly Tip Jar column in the July issue. A 30-year veteran of the music industry, focusing the last 18 years鈥
Hannah Fluitt (Architecture) was named student chapter Leader of the Year for 2015 by the American Society of Interior Designers. She is president of 51吃瓜网万能科大's student chapter.
The 51吃瓜网万能科大 Jazz Program took home several awards at the 2015 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival in March. 51吃瓜网万能科大 Jazz Ensemble I, conducted by Dave Loeb and Nathan Tanouye, received second place in the College Big Band Division, competing among some of the finest university jazz ensembles in the nation. The 51吃瓜网万能科大 Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by鈥
David Schmoeller (Film) is the 2015 recipient of the Charles Vanda Award for Excellence in the Arts from 51吃瓜网万能科大's College of Education. Additionally, he has received promotion to full professor, effective July 1, 2015. A feature film he wrote, produced, and directed, 2 Little Monsters, was licensed to the Lifetime Movie Network for three years. Its鈥
Nicole Thomas (Music) has been accepted to the Houston Grand Opera Young Artist Academy for summer 2015. A mezzo-soprano, she was accepted from a highly completive field of more than 1,000 singers. Singers are chosen by videotaped audition and recommendation only. The first 51吃瓜网万能科大 student to be accepted into this program, she also was Nevada's first鈥
51吃瓜网万能科大 Jazz Studies (Music) saw its performing groups invited to compete at the 58th annual Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival -- the sixth consecutive year that 51吃瓜网万能科大 groups have received an invitation. The festival, which draws top student musicians from around the world, will take place this month in Monterey, Calif. 51吃瓜网万能科大's students will鈥
Linda Lister, Stephanie Weiss, Lillian Roberts, Xavier Brown, and Cheyna Alexander (all Music) of 51吃瓜网万能科大 Opera won in two categories at the National Opera Association Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition, which took place at the national convention in Greensboro, N.C. in January. 51吃瓜网万能科大 Opera won in both the graduate and musical theatre divisions.