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Still frame of a film featuring a woman in white tank top drinking water from a stream
SA/VS 20th biannual Digital Media Blast
The School of Art and Visual Studies hosted the 20th biannual Digital Media Blast on April 30, allowing students to view their work for the first time on screen in the Gatton Student Center's Worsham Cinema.
Image of two students working together during a Creative Social Entrepreneurship course
Provost IMPACT Award supports more contextualized, inclusive education in social entrepreneurship
The Graduate Certificate in Creative Social Entrepreneurship offers a flexible and expansive curriculum in a 100% online and asynchronous learning environment. Creative social entrepreneurship is a transdisciplinary field connecting creative, social, and entrepreneurial practices to improve the economic, environmental, political, and social well-being of society.
UK doctoral graduate Rebecca Ferrell beside a podium speaking at a symposium for women leaders in arts administration
Department of Arts Administration celebrates first class of Ph.D. grads
The University of Kentucky celebrates an inaugural cohort of five graduates from its doctoral program in arts administration — the first of its kind at UK and in the nation.

Clockwise, from back left: Martina Vasil, Taylor Ayotte, Austin Robinson, David Dockan and Kailey Holmes. This group of educators helped coordinate the first all-state elementary modern band performance at the '24 KMEA conference. Photo provided.
Striking a chord: UK professor assembles Kentucky’s 1st all-state elementary modern band
Martina Vasil, associate professor of music education and director of graduate studies, helped coordinate the first all-state elementary modern band performance at the 2024 KMEA conference.
Kentucky horse farm
UK hosts Contemplative Practices for High Education Conference
The 11th Annual Conference on Contemplative Practices in Higher Education will take place at UK from February 29-March 2 on the UK Campus.
The UK Office of Land-Grant Engagement has awarded nine innovative projects, providing Kentucky with knowledge and skills to improve lives and communities
UK Arts Administration faculty among UK Land-Grant Engagement award recipients
Leah Hamilton, assistant professor in the Department of Arts Administration, is one of nine award recipients chosen by the UK Office of Land-Grant Engagement for innovative projects, providing Kentucky with knowledge and skills to improve lives and communities.
Art work by Tomasz Winiarski, from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. The piece is part of the current exhibition, “Tropiciele/Pathfinders,” running now through Feb. 23.
UK, Transy to present survey of work from Poland's Academy of Fine Arts
Several UK School of Art and Visual Studies faculty members and a faculty member from Transylvania University recently travelled to the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, (ASP-Krakow)
with support from a UKinSPIRE grant.
Dailey and Osland playing music at piano and saxophone on stage
School of Music's Dailey and Osland perform world premiere at World Sax Congress
Two University of Kentucky School of Music faculty premiered a new composition in the Canary Islands this December at the 19th World Saxophone Congress.
Department of Theatre and Dance Production Manager and Technical Director, Zack Stribling, joins students around a set piece onstage at the Guignol Theatre.
Department of Theatre and Dance Moves Towards Sustainability
The Department of Theatre and Dance is focused on a sustainable future, was recently awarded a matching Improvement Grant from the Office of the Vice President of Research to upgrade the lighting system in the Guignol Theatre.
UK's Yuha Jung (left) with Drexel University's Neville Vakharia (right), her coeditor, at the summer book launch party in Lexington. Photo by Mary Rollins Mathews, Rollins Studio.
Jung is lead editor of 1st Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management
Dr. Yuha Jung is the editor of the first-ever Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management.