Accomplishments: College of Fine Arts
Department of Art members Hikmet Loe (Visiting Assistant Professor), Alina Lindquist (MFA 2028), and Andre Polidoro (BA Art History and BA Computer Science 2025) presented at the ExplOER Nevada Symposium. Their session, "Beyond Books: Open Education Brings Art History to Life," shared teaching practices and student engagement in the course Art 478鈥
Dale Melgaard (Film) has received the "Best Script" award for "The Phatman" at the Medellin International Film Festival.
Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" for the screenplay, The Phatman, at the Medellin (Colombia) International Film Festival.
Dale Melgaard (Film) has received an "Official Selection" for the screenplay, The Phatman, at the Indo Dubai Film Festival.
Stefano Boselli (Theatre) presented his paper, 鈥淐riss-Crossing the Atlantic: Argentine Diasporic Stage Directors Returning to Buenos Aires,鈥 on Dec. 12, 2025 at PSi #30, the Performance Studies international conference 鈥淴XX Cruzo, Cruising, Crossroads,鈥 held in Fortaleza, Brazil. Boselli examined the transnational careers of Argentine directors鈥
Kristen Keach (Art) presented the paper, "Re-imagining Language Pedagogy: Critical Perspectives on AI Integration," at the 2026 Modern Language Association Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada.
Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) and Yvonne Houy (Fine Arts) presented at the University of Amsterdam鈥檚 December 2025 GenAI & Creative Practices: Past, Present, and Future conference, as part of that university鈥檚 innovative "Responsible Digital Transformations" initiative. The research panel focused on international partnerships to鈥
Linda Lister (Music) published "Mindful Breathing for Music Performance Anxiety" in the Journal of Singing (January/February 2026). This is her first Mindful Voice column as associate editor of the journal.
Hikmet Loe (Art) was recognized in Nevadans for Cultural Preservation December Activities Newsletter by executive director Rayette Martin (MA Anthropology, 2010). Martin was a guest speaker in Loe's course ART 478/678: Great Basin Art and Artifacts. Martin wrote: This course serves as an excellent bridge between the arts and archaeology,鈥
Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) gave an invited talk to the North American British Music Studies Association. NABMSA "aims to promote the study of British Music from all time periods on the North American Continent; to provide a collegial and supportive forum for discussion through electronic and other means; to provide a clearinghouse of information鈥
Amy Brown (Music) had a book signing at the American Orff Schulwerk Association National Conference in Lexington, Kentucky, to promote her K-5 resource for elementary music teachers, Magical Moments Through the Eyes of the Diverse Learner.
A team of faculty, students, and alumni from the 性视界传媒 School of Music joined Vegas City Opera and the Las Vegas Sinfonietta for a performance of Handel's Semele. Handel composed this work as an oratorio, to be performed in a concert format, but its story of seduction, betrayal, and tragedy has proved popular throughout the twentieth and鈥