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2021 SA/VS Graduate Ambre Armstrong Completes Digital Media Design Degree Despite Challenges
UK HealthCare Employee Perseveres Through Pandemic, Cancer Diagnosis to Earn Art Degree.
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UK's Everett McCorvey Named Chair of Kentucky Arts Council
Gov. Andy Beshear named Everett McCorvey, D.M.A., professor of voice in the University of Kentucky School of Music and director of UK Opera Theatre, the new chair of the Kentucky Arts Council at his Team Kentucky news conference Nov. 18. McCorvey is the first person of color named chair of the council.
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Giving Back: Creative Arts LLP Students Organize Community Events
Creative Arts Living Learning Program returning students gain event planning experience while giving back to the local community.
UK alumna Audrey Belle Adams will take the Lexington Opera House stage as Mrs. Gloop (left of center, top row) in the national tour of "Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Photo by Jeremy Daniel.
Golden Ticket Brings UK Alum Back to Lexington on ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ National Tour
UK alumna Audrey Belle Adams takes to the Lexington Opera House stage as Mrs. Gloop in the national tour of "Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
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UK Theatre's Peter Allen Stone Enjoying Award-winning Film Festival Season
"Va Bene Così," a short film written and directed by Peter Allen Stone, assistant professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Theatre and Dance, is enjoying a busy and award-winning film festival season.
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Curatorial Studies Graduate Student Lands Competitive Summer Program
As the newly appointed Director of Galleries at Georgetown College, Aaron Reynolds, MFA Curatorial Studies Candidate for the class of 2022, has been quite busy while pursuing his degree.
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UK Alum Establishes Dorothy Dowling Fish Scholarship to Benefit College of Fine Arts Students
When Nancy Fish Hanna (’68 home economics, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment) was a child growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina and Milford, Pennsylvania, she had what some might call a magical childhood filled with travel — trips to art museums, the local ballet, music, and her personal favorite, the theatre.
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6 UK Opera Alumni Lend Their Voices to Metropolitan Opera's 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones'
University of Kentucky opera alumni are helping the Metropolitan Opera make history with the staging of its first opera by a Black composer.
Screenshot from "Get Rolling With Otis" artwork by Loren Long.
UK Alum's Book Character Gets Animated Apple TV Series
From the original story on UKNow, October 8, 2021.
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UK Grad Zindzi Harley is making an impact on the art world
Zindzi Harley (BA in Arts Administration, minor in Art History) recently completed an MA in Museum Studies at the University of the Arts while working as Program Coordinator for Past Present Projects in Philadelphia.