DENTON (UNT), Texas -- More than 20 University of North Texas students recently won awards at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Conference.
TIPA originated in 1909 and has become one of the nation's oldest and largest collegiate press associations. The association offers awards for more than 25 on-site contests at its annual conference, and also gives awards to pre-submitted entries in the categories of general magazine, radio, television, online media, yearbook, literary magazine and newspaper.
UNT had a total of 11 first place,...
DENTON, Texas (UNT) -- One of the literary world's most acclaimed writers will serve as artist-in-residence for 2014-2015 for the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts at the University of North Texas.
Aleksandar Hemon, whose 2008 novel The Lazarus Project was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle award and National Book Award, will visit the campus five times...
DENTON, Texas (UNT) – Registration is open for the University of North Texas Early Childhood Music Program, a program for children from birth through 5 years to experience music through play, setting the stage for later music instruction.
During the six-week session, parents and guardians come with their children once a week to the UNT College of Music, where the children move to engaging beats, jump on trampolines, sing or play simple instruments. Parents...
What: Aspiring and current directors of high school and collegiate ensembles cultivate the art of conducting at the University of North Texas Conductors Collegium.
When: Workshops will be held June 9-20 (Monday – Friday).
Collegium concerts will be from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. June 11 (Wednesday), June 14 (Saturday), June 17 (Tuesday) and June 20 (Friday).
Where:...
DENTON (UNT), Texas – Two UNT College of Music doctoral students will be traveling abroad after earning prestigious research awards this year.
Jason Pockrus, who is studying saxophone performance, received a Fulbright grant to study in China. He travels to China in July to take a language course offered by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program this summer and will begin his research in October. Kimary Fick, who is studying musicology, received a fellowship from The Deutscher...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- College and university students may apply for several awards to attend the 2014 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, which will be held July 18-20 (Friday-Sunday) at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, Texas. Several of the awards are also open to non-students. Applications are being accepted for the awards through June 20 (Friday).
Hosted by the...
What: 2014 MFA Showcase, which includes the works of seven graduate students from UNT's College of Visual Arts and Design
When and Where: June 12 (Thursday) - Aug. 23 (Saturday) at UNT Art Gallery, 1201 W. Mulberry St. in Denton and June 12 (Thursday) - Sept. 13 (Saturday) UNT ArtSpace Dallas, 1901 Main St. in Dallas
Cost: Free
What else: A reception will take place from noon to 2 p.m. June 14 (Saturday) at UNT ArtSpace Dallas in conjunction with East Dallas Gallery Day.
Contact:...
DENTON, Texas (UNT) – Jonathan A. Molina-Garcia, who graduated in May from the University of North Texas with a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography and art history, has won a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Arts Award worth up to $150,000.
The scholarship, given to only 20 college seniors this year, is considered the most prestigious award for students pursuing postgraduate work in the creative arts field.
"Going into graduate school with that kind of...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Miroslav Penkov, assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program of the University of North Texas' Department of English, has been chosen as the literature protégé for the 2014-2015 Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
Penkov's mentor will be Canadian novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje, best known as the author of ...
What: Diane Williams: Life on the Blackland Prairie, an exhibition of photographs of rural life in the agricultural region that runs from San Antonio to the Texas-Oklahoma border, and Bankston, Shugart and Stryker: Horse Country Photographers, an exhibition of photos that depict the Quarter Horse ranching industry in North Texas
When: June 16 (Monday) - July 19 (Saturday)
Where: UNT on the Square, 109 N. Elm St., Denton
Cost:...