University of Arkansas at Little Rock

UA Little Rock student Stephen Graham participated in the Atlantic Music Festival this summer at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine. Stephen Graham, a piano performance major from Benton, started his junior year on a high note after spending his summer completing a highly competitive contemporary and classical music program.

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock student completed a highly competitive six-week summer theater program where participants create new work while training with professionals and emerging artists.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has unveiled a colorful and fun new student-led mural that is meant to bring inspiration to the university's art students. The mural was revealed to the public May 6. It is located in the artWING living and learning community, an area of West Hall that houses art majors.

A group of 13 music and music education majors from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock competed at the National Association of Teachers of Singers student auditions Feb. 24 and 25 at Arkansas State University.

Nicole Stewart, a junior studio art major at UA Little Rock, had a rare opportunity to work on a public sculpture that will be placed in the U.S. Capitol Building after interning with Johnny Cash sculptor Kevin Kresse this summer.

UA Little Rock art students have designed an art mural in the Donaghey Student Center gaming lounge.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host an exhibit that explores William Blake's, the English poet, painter, and printmaker, views on femininity and masculinity. The exhibit, "Jordan Hancock: William Blake and the Fallen Binary," will be on display from Monday, May 16, to Thursday, May 26, the Maners/Pappas Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art and Design.

A UA Little Rock student was one of six undergraduate student conductors selected from seven states to participate in a prestigious undergraduate masterclass at the 2022 Southwestern American Choral Directors Association. Carmen Ramirez, a senior from Columbia, Missouri, was chosen out of a large pool of applicants for the Student Conducting Masterclass, which took place March 1 at the Little Rock Marriott.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has unveiled a beautiful new art mural designed to bring inspiration to the students living in UA Little Rock's newest living and learning community for art students. The new mural, "Hive Mosaic," was unveiled May 2. It is located at the entrance of the artWING living and learning community in West Hall and is meant to serve as inspiration for the art students who live there. The mural was created by Painting Professor Ricky Sikes and six artWING residents: Madison Heiderscheidt, Cecilia Ilg, Sunny Jenkins, Antonio Keyes, Gabriel Watson, and Hollee Wadley.

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock student spent his Thanksgiving break having an exciting and unforgettable experience.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock student and others hosted Dance Harvest-Renaissance on Nov. 12-14.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock dedicated a new student mural in the lobby of Ottenheimer Library during a ceremony on May 11. The new mural, entitled "Koi," is eight feet wide and 16 feet long. Emma Chambers, the student artist who created the mural, hopes the peaceful painting of fish swimming in a koi pond will bring a sense of calm and tranquility to all who see it.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock students competed in the John Cauble One Act Play Reading Series, performing a play called, "Prisoners," at Abilene Texas Convention Center on Feb. 24. The Kerry Kennedy Aspiring Playwright Foundation Fund paid for the students' travel to the festival.

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock playwright was selected for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock students put on a successful Dance Harvest 2019 show Nov. 14-17, which featured choreography by five undergraduate Bachelor of Fine Arts students who are completing the required two-year choreography sequence.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock displayed the work of 11 of the university's graduating art students in the the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Art Capstone Exhibit from Nov. 22 to Dec. 10 in the Windgate Center of Art and Design.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Theatre Arts and Dance showcased its fall production of "Eurydice" Oct. 16-20 in the Haislip Theatre in the Center for Performing Arts. "Eurydice" is a postmodern retelling of the classical myth of the legendary Greek hero, Orpheus, from the perspective of his beloved Eurydice. The young couple's time together is cut short when Eurydice is killed on their wedding day. Her journey to the Underworld and Orpheus' subsequent pursuit to reclaim her has been celebrated in art and music for centuries.

UA Little Rock theater major Selena Gordon has performed in musicals, plays, and even national films, but this semester she worked to create a performance of a different kind - one meant to awaken her audiences' unexpressed emotions. Gordon spent this semester creating "Wake-up!" - a performance that uses overbearing sensory aspects, such as lights, sound, and gestures to stir emotions. "I wanted to make the audience confront issues that society tends to shy away from or ignore because they're too difficult to talk about," she said. "Such things include racism, sexual assault, gun control, mental illness, abuse, discrimination in all of its forms, and the political state of the country today."

The University of Arkansas Little Rock Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and Ballet Arkansas held its first-ever combined dance concert April 25-28. This event is the launch of the partnership between the UA Little Rock dance program and Ballet Arkansas. The university's annual spring Bodyworks concert showcases choreography by dance faculty and Ballet Arkansas company member Deanna Stanton. A special highlight of the concert was the premiere of "Collision," choreographed by Ballet Arkansas Executive Director Michael Fothergill and performed by UA Little Rock students and Ballet Arkansas company members.

UA Little Rock theater major Keith Harper has learned that an acting career requires both talent and extensive networking. Through the UA Little Rock Department of Theatre Arts, he has developed both. This summer, Harper heads to Silver Lake, New York, where he will spend six weeks performing in Shake on the Lake's production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It." The acting company performs classic Shakespeare throughout western New York.

The art work of several University of Arkansas at Little Rock students is being spotlighted in a debut pop-up show, "Twenty-somethings," at South Main Creative from March 1 to April 30.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Community Orchestra presented its fall concert on Dec. 2 in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the UA Little Rock Fine Arts Building. The Community Orchestra, directed by Dr. Victor Ellsworth, performed "Overture to Rouslane and Ludmila" by Mikhail Glinka, Franz Schubert's Unfinished Symphony No. 8 in B minor, Sinfonia in D for two Horns and Strings by Leopold Mozart, Concerto Grosso No. 8 by Arangelo Corelli, and Symphony No. 104 by Joseph Haydin.

Student musicians at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock presented the Jazz Ensemble's fall concert on Nov. 28 in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the UA Little Rock Fine Arts Building. The Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Michael Underwood, played "Follow Me," "Told You So," "Blue Bossa," and "Daddy's House Party."

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Wind Ensemble presented its fall concert, "Under Cover of Night," Nov. 30 in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the UA Little Rock Fine Arts Building. Dr. Ken Goff directs the Wind Ensemble, while David Burkhalter served as the concert's student conductor. The Wind Ensemble performed "Antithigram for Band" by Jack Stamp, "Salvation is Created" by Tschesnokoff, "The Thunderer" by John Philip Sousa, and "Under Cover of Night... Into the Light of Day" by Stephen Mtlillo.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock students put on a successfull Dance Harvest 2018 show Nov. 8-11, which featured choreography by dance faculty member Robin Neveu Brown and eight undergraduate Bachelor of Fine Arts students who are completing the required two-year choreography sequence.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock students put on a successfull production of William Shakespeare's comedy "As You Like It" Oct. 10-14 in the Center for Performing Arts' Haislip Theatre.

A group of University of Arkansas at Little Rock employees, students, and alumni who created a space-western storytelling card game - dubbed Galactic Scoundrels - have reached their online fundraising goal to raise enough money to have the game manufactured, breaking their fundraising goal by more than $10,000.

A group of University of Arkansas at Little Rock employees, students, and alumni have joined forces to create a game to bring out the space scoundrels in all of us. The space-western storytelling card game - dubbed Galactic Scoundrels - is inspired by beloved fictional scoundrels like Han Solo from "Star Wars" and Malcolm Reynolds from "Firefly."

Miss Greater Jacksonville Brooke Cornelius, a second-year student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, was among the Top 10 finalists for the 2018 Miss Arkansas Pageant, winning $6,500 in scholarships.

Six University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Music students participated in the National Association of Teachers of Singing 2018 spring conference on February 23-24 at the University of Central Arkansas.