School of Fine Arts

Head baseball coach Jim Penders ’94 (CLAS), ’98 MA, speaks with undergraduate and graduate music students who performed in “H.M.S. Pinafore” following the Huskies’ win over Cincinnati on April 30. (Kenneth Best/UConn Photo)

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 […]

DMD Student to Premiere Comedy TV Pilot, BuyTown

Ivan and Theo are employees in a small grocery store in Eastern Connecticut surviving what appears to be another mundane shift (unruly customers, power failure, wild animals, bathroom duty, etc.) until they discover that the newly hired cashier is not as innocent as he seems to be. BuyTown is a half hour comedic television pilot episode […]

Final Parts of the Complete Beethoven Cycle to Be Performed

UConn’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts announces the return of the award-winning Dover Quartet to perform Parts 5 and 6 of the 6-part complete Beethoven Quartet Cycle, comprising all 18 of the composer’s works for string quartet spread throughout Jorgensen’s 2016/2017 concert season.  Having completed Parts 1 through 4 in previous Jorgensen appearances, the […]

Tyler Daddio '18 (ENG,CLAS) at the Wilbur Cross South Reading Room on April 11, 2017. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Junior Named 2017 Goldwater Scholar

Tyler Daddio '18 (CLAS, ENG) is one of four students UConn nominated for the honor. Two others earned honorable mentions in this year's competition.

First-Ever Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival at the Ballard

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry will present its first-ever Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival on April 14 and 15, 2017 in conjunction with its current exhibit Banners and Cranks: Paintings and Scrolls in Performance. The Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival will present cranky and cantastoria performances created by puppeteers, musicians, and artists from throughout the […]

‘100 Birds’ to Descend on the Ballard

A magical and whimsical, if not slightly chaotic, group of birds have flocked to the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry! 100 Birds follows Jada Jones, captain of her middle school’s basketball team, who finds out that her school doesn’t have the money to get the team to their playoff game. The 100 Birds, an […]

UConn Art+Art History Hosts International Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Event

UConn Art & Art History stands in solidarity with the upcoming Art+Feminism Wiki Edit-a-thon. The disparity between males and females participating in media is shocking. Alarming statistics, such as less than 10% of Wikipedia contributors identify as female, show us that we must continue the struggle to have our voices and contributions heard. Let’s do […]