Arts & Culture

A UConn student and a recent grad are developing a mobile app that will use music to help reduce stress

Clinton Global Initiative Selects Student Proposal to Develop Music Therapy App for Stress Management

'The Clinton Global Initiative encourages projects with a commitment to action and not just wishful thinking'

The UConn Foundation on October 8, 2020.

Professor Emeritus Gives Back to Students with Africana Studies Scholarship

The professor and playwright's bequest will help UConn students for years to come

Roccoberton working with Hua Hua Zhang '00 MFA, a puppeteer he met during his trip in China who he recruited to UConn's Puppet Arts program.

UNIMA Cites Roccoberton as ‘Chancellor of Puppetry Education’ for Global Influence

From China to Storrs, recognizing the international scope of Roccoberton's influence

Tash Archibald ’21 SFA, whose concentration in art was in illustration/animation, designed a calendar themed assemblage as her senior project. She used party hats, snowflakes and a portrait she drew of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to illustrate January. Assemblage Design by Tash Archibald.

Moving BFA Exhibit Online Illustrates Post-Graduate Life for Art Majors

'If you missed this deadline, you wouldn't be in this catalog. There were more real-world consequences'

Men on Boats cast

Connecticut Repertory Theatre Pivots to Livestream Shows Thanks to Donors

Even the pandemic couldn't keep the show from going on

A scene from “Ensemble,” the MFA thesis project by Hongju (Hannah) Lim, part of the 2021 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition online at The William Benton Museum of Art.

MFA Exhibits at Benton Showcase Work by DMD, Studio Art Students

Work that celebrates the collaboration that can take place in the arts

A dancer’s image from the animation of “Prélude en Berceuse,” the first movement of “Au Gré Des Ondes (Along the Waves) “ composed by Henri Dutilleux. The music in the first movement was performed by Morgan Lee ’22 SFA, a doctoral candidate in piano, and animated by Jonathan Goodrich ’21 SFA.

‘Along the Waves’ Puts Music in Motion Through Animation

'Along the Waves' premieres April 21 at 6 p.m. online

Chris Thile holding a mandolin in a posed photograph. He will perform virtually for a UConn audience on April 17.

Chris Thile Returns to Jorgensen Center for Solo Performance on Digital Stage

The Grammy winner will perform for a virtual audience on April 17 at 8 p.m.

UConn School of Fine Arts Conference Celebrates 50 Years of Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’

The conference will feature discussions of her work and performances of her music

One of Kollwitz's characteristically stark etchings, this depicts workers mourning the German Communist Karl Liebknecht, who was murdered by state forces in 1919.

Benton Exhibition Explores Work of Käthe Kollwitz, Who Used Art as Platform for Activism

This is the first solo exhibition of the artist's work at UConn since 2007