What: Rob Erdle, His Students, His Influence an exhibition of works by the late University of North Texas painting professor Rob Erdle and his former students.
When: April 23 (Wednesday) - May 21 (Wednesday). The gallery is open Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-noon, 1 p.m.-5 p.m., with extended hours until 8 p.m. on Thursdays, Saturdays from 11 a.m.- 3 p.m. and closed on Sundays.
Where: UNT on the Square, 109 N. Elm St., Denton
Cost: Free
What else: A reception for the exhibition...
What: UNT's Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute hosts "By the Pen: The Art of Writing in Islamic Art," a lecture by Sheila Blair, Boston College professor of Islamic and Asian art. The lecture discusses the ways artists and craftsmen of the Islamic cultures have used writing to decorate buildings and objects.
When: 4-5 p.m. April 24 (Thursday)
Where: The Forum at Willis Library, 1506 Highland Ave., Denton
Cost: Free
What else:...
What: The second annual Arab Film Festival Texas, presented by UNT's Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute, featuring the Texas premiere of award-winning short films, feature films and documentaries from Palestine, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.
When: 6:30-10 p.m. May 2 (Friday), and 1-10 p.m. on May 3 (Saturday) and May 4 (Sunday)
Where: Angelika Film Center, 5321 East Mockingbird Lane, Suite 230, Dallas
Cost:...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Chelsea Wagenaar, graduate student in the Department of English at the University of North Texas, earned the 2014 Voertman/Academy of American Poets Prize. The award was presented at the UNT Rilke Prize reading on April 8 (Tuesday).
The $200 prize was awarded to Wagenaar for her poem "August" in which she describes an X-ray of a...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Orders are being taken for The Best American Newspaper Narratives of 2012, an anthology of 10 newspaper articles that were honored during the 2013 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.
The 10 articles were the first-, second-, and third-place winners and seven runners-up of the first Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest...
DENTON (UNT), Texas — Edinburgh, Scotland, may be thousands of miles away from the University of North Texas, but the university will have its own piece of Scotland to mark its 125th anniversary in 2015.
Through April 23 (Wednesday), students, faculty, staff members, alumni and the general public will vote online to choose an official UNT tartan — a design for weaving that consists of two or more alternating colored stripes that intersect vertically and horizontally to form a repeated checkered pattern — from three designs. The designs...
DENTON, Texas (UNT) – Ensembles from UNT's acclaimed College of Music will be spotlighted on the University of North Texas Showcase Stage at the 34th annual Denton Arts and Jazz Festival.
Lab Band Madness, which features all nine lab bands and begins at 1 p.m. on April 26 (Saturday), is the highlight of the programming on the UNT Showcase stage. Jazz Singers, Latin Jazz Lab, Jazz Repertory Ensemble, and a variety of jazz small and large ensembles, plus the Mariachi Águilas and...
What: Following a donation of thousands of items by the estate of Dallas collector Joe M. Morris, the UNT Music Library will play selections from piano rolls, cylinders and 78 rpm discs. Among the most prominent items donated are a Model B Ampico Knabe Grand reproducing piano, along with 5,400 rolls for use with the piano, a Steinway Grand piano, several phonographic players and hundreds of other music media. In total, the donation includes roughly 22,000 items.
When: 5-7 p.m. April 30 (Wednesday)
...What: UNT Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Itkin, and Grand Chorus, directed by Jerry McCoy, present a concert featuring retiring Regents Professor of Voice Linda Di Fiore and Associate Professor of Voice Carol Wilson
When: 8 p.m. April 23 (Wednesday)
Where: Winspear Hall at the Murchison Performing Arts Center, 2100 Interstate 35 Frontage Road, Denton. The concert will also be streamed online.
Tickets: $10 for adults; $8 for seniors, non-UNT students,...
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has been named to the C.E. Shuford Hall of Honor at the University of North Texas' Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism.
The Shuford Hall of Honor Award recognizes individuals for professional and educational lifetime achievement and distinguished contributions to the journalism profession. Named for C.E. "Pops" Shuford, who started the journalism...