Accomplishments: College of Fine Arts
Professor Stephen Caplan (Music) recently had a second, revised edition of his authored work, The Breathing Book for Oboe, published by Mountain Peak Music.
Dale Melgaard (Film) received an "Official Selection" from the Chicago Script Awards festival for the original script "The Phatman."
Stefano Boselli (Theatre) published the article “Deliberate Starvation: Hunger Artists in Kafka, Różewicz, and Sinking Ship” in Global Performance Studies 6, nos 1–2 (2023): Hunger. The article explowes how a negative action, the decision to abstain from food, can be enacted on stage. Examining hunger as a conscious choice to avoid food for…
On June 22, Stefano Boselli (Theatre) presented the paper “Invisible Assemblages Made Visible: Hostile Actors and Dis-Connected Shows in Paris, 1970-1993" at the PSi Performance Studies international Conference #29 “Assemble! in London, UK. French theorists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari describe the assemblage as follows: “a…
Susanna Phillips Newbury (Art) presented the invited lecture "Forensics: The Cultural Power of Art & Real Estate" at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture in Los Angeles on June 27, 2024. Los Angeles has long invested in contemporary art and real estate development as a long-term strategy for cultural growth. More than 70 years into…
Jerry Schefcik (Art), chair of the Nevada Arts Council Board, chaired the panel review of 85 Project Grant for Artist applications requesting a total of $249,692 in support of the production and presentation of individual artist’s projects including art exhibitions, performances, readings, concerts, the creation of art, portfolio building, and…
Stefano Boselli (Theatre) published the chapter on controversial French author Jean Genet in The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature, “the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature. As a field-defining volume, the editor [Michael Bennett] and the contributors are world leaders in this ever-exciting genre…
Stefano Boselli (Theatre) published the chapter “Latin America” in the collection Pirandello in Context, edited by Patricia Gaborik for Cambridge University Press. Boselli speaks about the introduction of Pirandello’s plays to Latin America, which started after the controversial Italian success of Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), then…
Stefano Boselli (Theatre) published the chapter, “Echoes of Theatre Past: Blasco Ibañez's El comediante Fonseca and Cozarinsky’s El rufián moldavo,” in the The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction edited by Graham Wolfe. Boselli’s chapter examines El comediante Fonseca (Fonseca, the Actor, 1924) by Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibañez (1867–1928…
Hikmet Loe (Art) met with American Institute for Conservation (AIC) conference attendees at artist Robert Smithson's earthwork, Spiral Jetty. Situated along the north shore of Great Salt Lake, the work engendered conversations regarding the upkeep that earthworks may require, and the ideas of entropy the artist espoused that leads its owner and…
Amy Brown (Music) published an article titled "The Progression of Technology Integration in the Music Classroom to Support Student Engagement: Part I-Using Google Keep" in the Journal of General Music Education. This article is part of the Musical Idea Series, highlighting unique topics for the general music classroom.
Assistant professor Adam Paul (Film) was interviewed for Fast Company magazine's article, "How 'Method Dressing' is Boosting Films at the Box Office."
The article examined the phenomenon of film stars appearing at red-carpet premieres dressed similarly to characters they play in those productions. Paul, who has expertise on the craft of acting…