Arts & Culture
The Cato T. Laurencin Institute Healing Power of Music Sponsors Jazz on the Vineyard
Cool jazz and community outreach was the focus of the 14th Annual Jazz on the Vineyard event sponsored by The Cato T. Laurencin Institute for Regenerative Engineering.
October 3, 2025 | Jon D'Arpino
‘I Just Went for It’: Acclaimed Joni Mitchell Tribute Comes to Jorgensen
Actor and musician Rainee Blake takes a 'deep dive' into the life and work of the legendary artist
October 3, 2025 | Kenneth Best, for UConn Today
UConn Puppet Arts Alums Shine Bright as Diamonds in 60th Anniversary Exhibition
'Puppets can make us laugh and cause us to cry. They can inspire us to action and give us ideas to contemplate. Reality and fantasy are equally expressed through the puppet arts'
October 1, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips
Damsels, Femme Fatales, and Queens of Crime
Two UConn professors on the history of fictional female criminals and crime-fighters
September 8, 2025 | Mac Murray
MFA Acting Alum Makes Name for Himself as Cast Member on ‘The Chosen: Last Supper’
'Everything moved into place. It felt like prayers being answered'
July 14, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips
More Than Simple Sonification: Next Phase of ‘Harmony of Nature’ Seeks to Make Music
'One of our goals is to be able to reach the nonscientist with scientific concepts and communicate those, and music is … [a] medium where it’s incredibly accessible to people'
July 9, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips, and Sydney Herdle
Scene Summer: UConn Film Student Documenting Underground Music in Connecticut
'All the bands support each other, and all the crowds are respectful, and everyone just wants to have a good time'
July 7, 2025 | Jaclyn Severance
Beautiful Moments: SFA Alum Brings Smiles to Bridal Couples with Live Event Painting
When Erin Leigh Boughamer '94 (SFA) left UConn three decades ago with a degree in graphic design from the School of Fine Arts, event painting hadn’t yet become part of bridal vocabulary. To ask her back then if she foresaw herself with a wardrobe of dressy pantsuits, each with at least a little dollop of acrylic paint on them, she’d have said no way
June 30, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips
Picture This: Reflections of a Hospital Curator
Andre Rochester in his 3rd year as UConn Health’s Art Curator
June 17, 2025 | Andre Rochester
International Melville Conference at UConn Avery Point to Celebrate ‘Moby-Dick’ Author
About two dozen framed artworks on loan from The Melville Society are part of a concurrent exhibition at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art from now through June 19
June 10, 2025 | Kimberly Phillips