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2023 Great Teacher Award winners: School of Music's Martina Vasil
The Great Teacher Award, launched in 1961, is the longest-running UK award that recognizes teaching.
Image of Matt Gibson onstage at the Singletary Center in a black suit against a blue backdrop holding a microphone
Alum making dreams come true at helm of Singletary Center for the Arts
Arts administration alumnus Matt Gibson took on the director position at Singletary Center for the Arts last fall.
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Americans for the Arts welcomes CFA alum Theo Edmonds to Board of Directors
Theo Edmonds received his MFA in Art Studio in 2013 from UK and is originally from Jackson, KY.
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Dr. ToniMarie Marchioni releases first commercial album
Dr. Marchioni recorded 10 French works for oboe and piano with Kevin Murphy, many of which have never been professionally recorded.
The arts administration students pose with Whitaker outside The Lyric entrance. Photo provided.
UK Arts Administration, The Lyric team up on lessons in event management
A University of Kentucky arts administration partnership with The Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center is giving students experience in event planning and management. 
Illustration of Sal and Herbie in front of trees, exploring a box.
UK Art Museum launches 'Nitelite,' UK Appalachian alum's new comic book
Treyton Blackburn's work follows the life of an aimless park ranger turned superhero who loses a grandparent and must protect the family's land.
Bob Rauschenberg "Urban Bourbon"
Rauschenberg gifts to CI alum lead to traveling exhibition, UK Art Museum donation
At the conclusion of the traveling exhibition, UK Art Museum will receive the painting “Shore Hole (Urban Bourbon)” in honor of Jeffries.
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DownBeat names UK’s Miles Osland nation’s best jazz educator
Osland is recognized for his work as a jazz educator in the November issue of DownBeat magazine.
Hallmark's "Jolly Good Christmas" finds Reshma Shetty and Will Kemp's characters holiday shopping in London. Photo by Hallmark Channel.
‘Countdown to Christmas’: UK Opera alum stars in Hallmark holiday movie
Reshma Shetty will star opposite Hallmark leading man Will Kemp in “Jolly Good Christmas” premiering 8 p.m. Oct. 29 as part of the channel’s Countdown to Christmas campaign.
Self portrait photograph of Rob Southard holding photography equipment, in backyard, looking through picture window,
Portrait Series by UK Faculty Featured in Ace Magazine
James Robert Southard captured a series of portraits of creatives for Ace Magazine.