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The benefits of our current offerings are significant. These programs offer a unique opportunity for CFA to give back to the Commonwealth community, whether it is from expanding knowledge to current teachers, providing arts-based learning for middle and high school students, or providing hands on work experience for our currently enrolled CFA students. There is an enrichment program for everyone who has a love of the arts.

Dr. Stan Pelkey, Director of the UK School of Music, received a copy of the official resolution in the mail from the Office of the Chief Clerk of the House, Melissa Bybee-Fields several days later.

The School, along with the UK College of Fine Arts and the UK Alumni Association, will be hosting a pre-concert reception for patrons, family members, supporters, and friends at Carnegie Hall, beginning at 6:30 p.m. prior to the concert at Carnegie Hall by the UK Wind Symphony and UK Symphony Orchestra.

Many areas throughout the university have targeted specific funds for One Day for UK. The College of Fine Arts is raising money for the Student Opportunities Fund to support student travel costs and fees related to quality experiences for them outside the classroom, which might not be available otherwise. The goal is $20,000. 

Acclaimed soprano Joanna Mongiardo will be on UK's campus as a visiting lecturer and guest artist in the UK Opera Theatre program February 4 through 9. She will offer a voice masterclass from 12:30 to 1:50 p.m. Thursday, February 7, in the Singletary Center Recital Hall. The masterclass is open to UK students who have signed up to sing.

Reuben Kadish: Witness at the University of Kentucky Art Museum

by Jill Conner

He has photographed landscapes encompassing prisons, jails and detention centers in all of America’s 50 states and territories, sharing a broad view of the geography and practice of mass incarceration.  There is a dichotomy between the sites that cannot be easily seen or recognized, versus their inhabitants who are constantly watched and whose identity is objectified.  Although the lives and conditions of prisoners are not immediately visible these compelling images, Hunt counters this through the narrative nature of the work — its text, storytelling and statistics, and dialogue with local

Imagine yourself huddled into a muddy trench on the western front with the rest of your bedraggled platoon. It’s been a long, grueling year fighting for your life in a war that seems to have no meaning, but you and your brothers are aiming to lift each other spirits tonight – and perhaps pester the Germans that can certainly hear you across the artillery-ploughed field.  With a bit of amateur conducting by a young officer, you all break into a chorus of Land of Hope and Glory to fill the night with song.

The Journal of Music Therapy is a forum of current music therapy research and theory, including book reviews and guest editorials. All papers for publication are selected on their quality and contribution to existing knowledge with around 30 percent of the submissions chosen for publication.