School of Fine Arts
John Bell Honored with NEFA Rebecca Blunk Fund Award
The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) is pleased to present John Bell, Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and Associate Professor of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut, and Trudi Cohen of Cambridge, MA as awardees of the 2017 Rebecca Blunk Fund. Recipients receive awards of $2,500 in unrestricted support […]
Finding Common Ground: Opera and Baseball
The UConn baseball team and UConn's opera company spent some time on each other's turf this year, and found they have much in common.
An Art Museum’s Role on Campus
The William Benton Museum of Art, has a permanent collection of 6,500 works of art, and serves not only as UConn’s campus art museum but as Connecticut’s State Art Museum. The Benton hosts talks, campus art walks, academic and non-academic discussions, musical performances, family programs, and many special exhibitions throughout the year. The Museum was […]
Exhibit Opening: Obstreperous Puppets at The Ballard
The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry will present the grand opening of its new exhibition Obstreperous Puppets: The Puppeteers Cooperative on Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. “We are very happy that Sara Peattie has curated this exhibition for the Ballard Institute,” Ballard Director John Bell said, “and excited to see all these amazing […]
Nutmeg Summer Series Opens with Broadway Veteran as Director
The series opens at Harriet Jorgensen Theatre June 1 with '1776,' the musical version of events leading up to the American Revolution.
Sights and Sounds of Commencement 2017
More than 9,000 degrees – both undergraduate and graduate – will be awarded this year, which is the highest number of degrees conferred at UConn in the University's 136-year history.
Student Artists, Athletes Find They Have a Lot in Common
'They call it rehearsal, we call it practice. ... I think there's a lot more similarities than differences.'
Dramatic Arts has Big Showing at USITT Conference
Brighid Deangelis ‘17, a UConn SFA Dramatic Arts student studying Technical Theater and Design with a concentration in Costume Design, attended the The United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) conference and returned with 2nd place in Costuming and 6th place Best Overall Technician in the Tech Olympics after competing against 45 other teams! We […]
‘Star Crossed Lovers’ to be Final Symphony Performance
The UConn Symphony Orchestra’s final concert of the year will be this Thursday, April 27th at 8:00pm in von der Mehden Recital Hall. The concert is called “Star Crossed Lovers,” and features music by Bernstein, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Chopin. We sat down with special guest artist Dr. Angelina Gadeliya, a first year piano professor at […]
Connecticut Repertory Theatre adds “Cabaret Late Night” Event to Nutmeg Summer Series
Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) Artistic Director Terrence Mann and Executive Producer Matthew J. Pugliese announce “Terry’s Cabaret Late Nite.” A special event added to the Nutmeg Summer Series schedule of programming, which will be held on Saturday June 24, 2017 following the performance of “Noises Off”. “This is the first step towards offering more kinds […]