College of Fine Arts News

Image of Juan Saldivar, Jr., DMA student in the University of Kentucky School of Music, is elevating opportunities for Mexican and Mexican American composers through a new initiative.

School of Music DMA Student Elevating Opportunities for Composers Through New Initiative

Juan Saldivar, Jr., DMA student in the University of Kentucky School of Music, is elevating opportunities for Mexican and Mexican American composers through a new initiative. Through Border Bones, Saldivar and Velarde aim to increase trombone duet repertoire.

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Music Alum Wins Gold Stevie Award in 2024 International Business Awards

UK School of Music Alum Renee Collins Cobb, M.Ed. of Room 17 Productions, Inc wins two Stevie® Awards in a ceremony held in New York City on November 10, 2023.

Tze-Ying Wu directs the Ionian University String Ensemble in Corfu, Greece.

School of Music Faculty Travel to Corfu, Greece

Published November 1, 2023

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UK Innovate's Launch Blue Highlights SAVS' Paul Rodgers in Tech Showcase

Launch Blue, under the Office of Technology Commercialization in UK Innovate, supports promising technology startup founders and university innovators in Kentucky and beyond. Launch Blue is creating Tech Showcases to highlight Launch Blue innovators, founders and teams. Paul Rodgers is one of the UK Innovators that has been spotlighted.

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UK Mega-Sax smelling success of new ‘Stink, Stank, FUNK!’ CD

Story originally appeared in UKNow, Sept. 29, 2023. By Whitney Hale.

UK Mega-Sax has released their latest album, "Stink, Stank, FUNK - 4.0," the follow up album to the "Stinkin'" series featuring UK students.

UK Creative Arts LLP to present benefit concert for Maui

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UK Arts Administration to host Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts Conference

Story originally appeared in UKNow, September 18, 2023.

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Theatre and Dance alum Taha Mandviwala makes Broadway debut in "Life of Pi"

Department of Theatre and Dance alumnus Taha Mandviwala recently made his Broadway debut in the play Life of Pi.

Image credit: Letitia Quesenberry, from the series little darlings, 2014–ongoing, panel, lacquer, photo, wax, resin, 6 x 5 x .25 in each, photo courtesy of the artist.

SAVS Associate Professor Miriam Kienle project receives Terra Foundation award $25,000 to support “Queer Art | Queer Archives”

Crystal Gregory bending over a field of marigolds, instructing a group of onlookers during the dye garden demonstration.

SA/VS professor Crystal Gregory collaborates on Dye Garden project with Horticulture Department

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University of Kentucky Alumnus Aaron Levi Garvey Becomes the New Chief Curator at the Andy Warhol Museum

August 14, 2023, by Tess Wampler, University of Kentucky student

Image of Dieter Hennings Yeomans performing with guitar onstage at the Singletary Center during a performance of Collage in 2022.

Dieter Hennings Yeomans honored as a 2023-24 University Research Professor

Dieter Hennings Yeomans, professor of music performance in the School of Music at University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts, is one of 16 University Research Professors for 2023-24.

John Yau and Tom Burckhardt, A Void Going Back, 2022, oil on panel. Courtesy of John Yau and Tom Burckhardt.

Art Museum Receives Grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art

By Stuart Horodner, Director, UK Art Museum.

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The UK Art Museum invites community members to participate in upcoming exhibition project.

Image of Wagnor Pastor wearing a dark grey suit and red shirt performing onstage in front of a grand piano.

UK grad perseveres on musical journey from Ecuador

By Jenny Wells-Hosley and Whitney Hale, originally published in UKNow on May 5, 2023

UKNow recently caught up with doctoral student Wagner Mauricio Pástor while he was performing in New York City to learn a bit more about his journey to his D.M.A. and his time at UK.

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UK alum Reginald Smith Jr. establishes scholarships to discover the opera stars of tomorrow

This article was originally published in UKNow March 2, 2023.

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UK arts administration students visit Berea Archives to study records from Grammy Award-winning musician

By Joy Chou, Arts Administration and Digital Media Design senior

Students of AAD 420: Practices, Policies, and Law in Arts Administration recently visited the Berea College Special Collections and Archives to view records from the collection of Janis Ian, an award-winning and world-renowned folk musician, social activist, and LGBTQ icon.

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“Lucidity: A New Musical” to premiere at Southeastern Theatre Convention Fringe Festival with a cast of UKY Theatre students

Published February 24, 2023

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Update from the 2023 KMEA Conference

From Dr. Elizabeth Arnold, Associate Professor in voice and Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts.

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Campbell Named a KMEA Teacher of the Year

Published February 17, 2023

James Campbell, Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Kentucky, was named the College/University Teacher of the Year, District 7, by the Kentucky Music Educators Association, for 2022-2023.