Arts and Music
Thursday, April 11, 2013
UNT holds faculty dance concert with student, alumni and acclaimed guest dance educator
What: Celebrating the Power of Dance, annual Department of Dance and Theatre faculty dance concert with students, alumni and acclaimed dance educator Daniel Lewis
When: 8 p.m. April 25 and 26, 7 p.m. April 27, 2 p.m. April 28
Where: University Theatre, in the RTFP Building
Tickets: $10 adults; $7.50 UNT faculty and staff, UNT students with valid ID and seniors. Tickets can be ordered with a...
Friday, April 5, 2013
Art history professor awarded Fulbright grant
UNT professor of Art History, Dr. Lisa N. Owen, has received a Fulbright-Nehru Research Award to conduct fieldwork on medieval rock-cut temples in India.
The Fulbright-Nehru award is a highly competitive grant open to all disciplines in the study of India. For 2013-14, approximately 25 grants were awarded strictly for research. Owen, a faculty member with the College of Visual Arts and Design, received one of five serial grants from this pool of research grantees that funds...
Friday, April 5, 2013
Internationally recognized art educator to speak
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What: Sixth Annual D. Jack Davis Endowed Lecture in Art Education
When: 6 p.m. April 15 (Monday)
Where: Room 223 in the UNT Art Building, 1201 W. Mulberry St., Denton
Additional event: There will be a reception prior to the lecture at 5 p.m. in the Lightwell Gallery on the first floor of the Art Building.
Cost: Free
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
UNT professor organizes first Arab film festival in Texas
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What: First annual Arab Film Festival, the first and only of its kind in Texas, presented by the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute
When: 6:30 to 10 p.m. April 19 (Friday) and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. April 20 (Saturday) and April 21 (Sunday)
Where: Angelika Film Center, 5321 East Mockingbird Lane, Suite 230, Dallas
Tickets: Free for students with ID, $5 for one ticket or $8 for two tickets
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Guest lecturer to speak on Latino Theater April 9
What: A lecture at the University of North Texas by Jorge Huerta, Chancellor’s Associates Professor, Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego. Huerta will discuss and demonstrate the important role that Teatro Chicana/o, or the Chicano theater movement, has played in the struggles for social justice since 1965.
When: 3 p.m. April 9 (Tuesday)
Where: Forum on the first floor of UNT's...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
UNT on the Square exhibition offers visitors chance to create art
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What: Exhibition of new works by Austin Kleon, writer, artist, speaker and New York Times best-selling author.
When/Where: April 11 to May 6 at UNT on the Square, 109 N. Elm St., Denton. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with extended hours until 8 p.m. on Thursday, and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Cost: Free
Additional event: There...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
2013 UNT Rilke Prize winner to read from her work April 9
What: Poet Paisley Rekdal, winner of the 2013 UNT Rilke Prize sponsored by the University of North Texas Creative Writing Program, reads from her work in Animal Eye at UNT. Part of the UNT Department of English's Visiting Writers Series
When: 8 p.m April 9 (Tuesday)
Where: Golden Eagle Suite on the third level of UNT's University Union, located one block west of Welch and West Prairie streets (1155 Union Circle)...
Monday, April 1, 2013
UNT presents a weekend of early music April 18-21
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Collegium Singers and Baroque Orchestra concert |
UNT Opera and Baroque Orchestra perform Rousseau’s Le devin du village |
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8 p.m. April 18 (Thursday) |
8 p.m. April 19 (Friday), with “In The Know” pre-performance lecture... |
Friday, March 29, 2013
UNT Wind Symphony welcomes New York Philharmonic clarinetist and visiting composers
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What: UNT Wind Symphony, conducted by Eugene Migliaro Corporon, featuring guest clarinetist Mark Nuccio, acting principal of the New York Philharmonic, with visiting composers Kevin M. Walczyk, alumnus, and Scott McAllister
When: 7:30 p.m. April 11 (Thursday)
Where: Winspear Performance Hall in the Murchison Performing Arts Center, 2100 N. I-35E, Denton. The concert will also be streamed online at...
Friday, March 29, 2013
Three UNT faculty members named Institute for the Advancement of the Arts fellows
DENTON (UNT), Texas – Robert Jessup, professor of studio arts; Bonnie Friedman, assistant professor of English; and Claudia Howard Queen, assistant professor of dance and theatre, have been selected as faculty fellows in UNT's Institute for the Advancement of the Arts in the 2013-14 academic year.
As fellows, the three professors will be granted a semester off from teaching duties to work on their projects full time.
Robert Jessup
Professor of Studio Arts Robert Jessup, a UNT faculty member since fall 1991, will use the fellowship to challenge his...