Hixson-Lied Endowment Three-Year Report 2008-2011

Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts University of Nebraska–Lincoln Hixson-Lied Endowment Three-Year Report • 2008-2011

Table of Contents

From the Dean...... 4

Introduction...... 5

University Core Values...... 6

Summary...... 7

Program Support...... 8

Faculty Support...... 19

Student Support...... 40

Hixson-Lied Advisory Board Deon Bahr Terry Fairfield, University of Nebraska Foundation Vice Chair Christina M. Hixson Heather Jones Christin J. Mamiya, Interim Dean Harvey S. Perlman, Chancellor James W. Strand Dr. Frank Tirro Susan Varner Wilkins From the Dean

This report marks the completion of the third three-year period of funding from the Hixson-Lied Endowment to support the College’s academic units and affiliate organizations. I am proud to present it to you at this time, as it offers a comprehensive summary and overview of the various programs and special projects that have been implemented, along with the financial benefits the Endowment has made possible. This support has literally transformed the College, in terms of the depth and quality of its programs, its position and stature at UNL, and its reputation and visibility nationally and internationally.

During the nine years of Hixson-Lied Endowment funding, the funds have supported more than $5 million in initiatives with a total impact of more than $10.4 million. The funds have supported more than 300 initiatives for faculty and more than 200 initiatives for students, in the form of grants for research and creative activity, travel to present creative and scholarly work, faculty professorships, faculty and staff awards, graduate fellowships, undergraduate student scholarships and student arts internships, among many other projects. The Endowment has also provided funding for more than 40 special programs and projects for the College and its affiliated units. These include the recruitment of the Chiara String Quartet, exhibitions at the Sheldon Museum of Art, performing artists at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, visiting filmmakers for the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, the production of a feature film in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film and the creation of the interdisciplinary Digital Arts Initiative, among many others.

On behalf of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Miss Christina M. Hixson and the Lied Foundation Trust for making the Endowment funding possible and to all of our Hixson-Lied Advisory Board members for their assistance and guidance in shaping and implementing the various funding opportunities that have been developed.

As we begin the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s tenure in the Big Ten Conference this year, there is no doubt the Hixson-Lied Endowment will continue to help the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts make a Big Impact as a leader in the arts.

Christin J. Mamiya Interim Dean and Hixson-Lied Professor of Art History

4 Introduction

Miss Christina Hixson, the sole trustee of the Lied Foundation Trust, announced a gift of $18 million to the University of Nebraska Foundation to support UNL’s College of Fine and Performing Arts in January 2000. The endowment, named the Christina M. Hixson- Lied Foundation Trust Endowment for the College of Fine and Performing Arts, benefits all areas of the College. Half of the fund’s income provides support for programs in the College and the College’s affiliated organizations, including the Lied Center for Performing Arts, Sheldon Museum of Art, Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, Lentz Center for Asian Culture and the Nebraska Repertory Theatre. The remaining funds are divided equally to support faculty and students.

The Hixson-Lied Advisory Board was created to review and react to proposals for funding support from the Hixson-Lied Endowment to benefit the College and its affiliated organizations. The board encourages proposals that will truly advance excellence in the College and enhance its national reputation. Additionally, the board is involved in overseeing the investment of the endowed funds in cooperation with the University of Nebraska Foundation’s Finance Committee.

What follows is a three-year summary (Fall 2008-Summer 2011) of Hixson-Lied Endowment support for programs in the College and its affiliated units, along with additional matching funds from various other sources. The dates listed in the report are the dates the funding was originally allocated. The total funding amounts listed include multiple-year grants that may not yet be fully completed.

Every attempt was made to verify accuracy and completeness of submissions. We apologize for any omissions or errors in this report.

5 University of Nebraska–Lincoln Core Values

We value. . .

• The uncompromising pursuit of excellence

• A diversity of ideas and people

• A learning environment that prepares students for success and leadership in their lives and their careers

• Research and creative activity that informs teaching, fosters discovery and contributes to the economic prosperity and quality of life of Nebraskans

• Engagement with academic, business and civic communities throughout Nebraska and the world

• An institutional climate that challenges every member of the University community to advance these core values and that celebrates their successes.

6 Summary of Hixson-Lied Endowment 2008-2011

Hixson-Lied Program Support: $1,547,400 Hixson-Lied Faculty Support: $713,230 Hixson-Lied Student Support: $245,771

Total Hixson-Lied Endowment Support: $2,506,401

Matching Funding to Hixson-Lied Endowment: Program Support $711,140 Faculty Support $136,317 Student Support $19,210 Matching Support from University for Hixson-Lied Graduate Fellowships $246,500

Total Matching Funding: $1,113,167

Total Impact (2008-2011): $3,619,568

Total Impact (2002-2011): $10,431,677

7 PROGRAM SUPPORT Total: $1,547,400 (Includes multiple-year grants which may not yet be fully completed)

These projects have earned an additional $711,140 from other sources, for a total impact of $2,258,540

8 • The College/Lied Artist Outreach Project Lied Center for Performing Arts $300,000 over three years ($100,000 per year) April 2009

As the Lied Center enters its third decade, the Center continues to support its mission by presenting world-renowned artists, enlightening audiences across the state and providing outreach programs serving all ages, including the entire student body of the University. While the Lied Center has always embraced this founding mission of outreach, it is the goal of this proposed College/Lied Project to go beyond these current efforts and to directly impact both Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts students and faculty by significantly increasing opportunities to develop educational relationships and learn from the world- renowned performing artists gracing the Lied World-renowned Cellist Yo-Yo Ma (center) gave a mas- terclass to two School of Music chamber ensembles Center ‘s stages each performance season. on March 22, 2010, following his performance at the With help from the Hixson-Lied Endowment Lied Center for Performing Arts with students (left to Fund, the College/Lied Project directly benefits right) Lily Spader, piano; Kristi Jenkins, violin; Jessica our students by pairing Lied Center performing Dussault, cello; and Lexi Woodard, viola. Photo by artists with disciplinary or cross-disciplinary Mike Edholm. faculty/classrooms. Working together, faculty member(s) and performing artist(s) provide our students with meaningful interactions and intensive learning experiences integrating the arts into the curriculum.

• Collaborative Exhibition Series Sheldon Museum of Art $30,000 April 2009

The Sheldon Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Department of Art & Art History, sought partial funding support for two Sheldon-organized exhibitions in 2010—Sheldon’s signature Invitational

9 Survey and a first-time study of the paintings and sculpture of Jun Kaneko—and their respective educational programs and publications. The purpose of the Invitational Survey is to bring the work of a select group of important and emerging contemporary artists to the Museum for presentation, study and acquisition consideration and to invite a few prominent artists to visit our campus, engage our University students and address academic and community audiences on issues of contemporary art. Nebraska is a ceramics-rich state. Jun Kaneko is internationally renowned and Nebraska’s best known artist. Studies of his ceramic sculptural work and his opera sets and costumes have been published. There has been no study or exhibition, however, on the relationship between his painting and sculpture. This exhibition undertakes that study from formal aesthetic and philosophical perspectives. The title of the exhibition is “The Play’s the Thing: The Paintings and Objects of Jun Kaneko.” The subject of this exhibition is the relationship between play and thing—between painting and object making—in Kaneko’s work.

• Matching Support for College Publications Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts $45,000 over three years ($15,000 per year) April 2009

Since the College has begun awarding funding from the Hixson-Lied Endowment, one of our goals has been to develop more sophisticated means of celebrating and publicizing on a national basis the work of the College, and in particular, the numerous and various awards that have been made from the Endowment to individual students and faculty, as well as to the College’s three academic units and affiliate organizations. In this regard, the College has produced an award-winning DVD (2003 & 2007), has expanded its annual newsletters to include a special section dedicated solely to the activities supported by the Hixson-Lied Endowment, has created a professional-level, award-winning Alumni Magazine (2004, 2006, 2008 & 2010), and has published two three- year special reports (2005 & 2008) on grants and financial awards. In addition, the College has made significant improvements to its website. Endowment support for publications help the Col- lege produce our Fine and Performing Arts Alumni Magazine.

10 • Digital Arts Initiative Phase II Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts $250,000 over five years ($50,000 per year) April 2009

This funding is being used to match Phase II of the UNL Program of Excellence Digital Arts Initiative Seed Grant of a like amount. Initial funding in the amount of $100,000 for facilities renovation was allocated by the Senior Vice Chancellor in 2007 and matched by the Endowment over a two-year period at the same time. This initial funding supported the purchase of equipment and furniture for the new Digital Arts Lab in Richards Hall. This request was for matching funding for Phase II of the program, specifically an additional commitment in the (left to right) Tony Nguyen, Jesse Kudron and Greg Florence in As- amount of $250,000 from the Senior sistant Professor of Composition and Digital Arts Damon Thomas Vice Chancellor for three faculty lines Lee’s digital audio class. Photo by Michael Reinmiller. and one full-time staff position. The requested Endowment matching funding was used to support student and part-time staff assistance and the purchase of additional equipment relative to the two new facilities that were created for this program—the Digital Music Compsition Lab in Westbrook Music Building and the Multi-Media Digital Lab in Richards Hall. The College’s Digital Arts Initiative is unique in its structure from those found at most other colleges and universities. For example, universities in the Midwest offering programs in digital design treat those programs as studies separate from all other programs. Our program, on the other hand, centers around a core of new undergraduate courses in digital applications and processes, with projections for advanced courses and activities that may be integrated into several different degree programs in the Arts, as well as in Journalism and Mass Communications, Architecture, Computer Science & Engineering and Education, and in other areas in the sciences and the humanities. The Initiative is structured so that faculty in our College can work together in a variety of ways with

11 faculty from partner units, for example, to develop and/or teach courses, to mentor collaborative student projects and perhaps at some point, to engage in collaborative research initiatives, in particular, those that have the potential to attract outside funding and other resources.

• Shared website model development Lied Center for Performing Arts and Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts $55,000 over four years ($40,000 in year one and $5,000 a year for an additional three years) April 2010

Every arts organization associated with the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts provides programs to Nebraska and promotes them using a website. Most of the organizations have calendars, photos/media of arts activities, ticket information, donation opportunities and information about services. The technology and design of websites continue to change every year, and the cost to keep arts organization websites at the cutting edge is significant. The Lied Center for Performing Arts is partnering with the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts to develop a cutting edge, top quality web site, which internally has the structure to provide the ultimate website presence for our arts organizations at UNL and as such will enable the College and its other affiliates to share content in fresh and effective ways. This website could be used by the Lied Center, Hixson-Lied College and associated organizations so that everyone is not paying to invent the same wheel independently. Each organization could use the website as a model to create its own unique look and content for its organizational website. This proposal covers the cost for development and some individualization for the initial partners. Each organization would pay to customize the content for its respective organization, hosting expenses and individual updates for a period of three to four years.

• Fiber Art Exhibitions Sheldon Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Department of Art and Art History, Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium, Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design and the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery $30,000 April 2010

In October 2010 the UNL campus hosted the biennial national conference of the Textile Society of America, “Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyber Space.” This conference provided a focal point to a number of campus programs including the International Quilt Study Center, the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery and the Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design, as well as Sheldon. In campus-wide collaboration with the conference and above listed UNL programs,

12 the Sheldon Museum organized two fiber art exhibitions, creating student and faculty program partnerships across East and City Campus. This funding supported two exhibitions at Sheldon and the related educational programs: 1) “New Material World: Rethreading Technology” and 2) “ORLAN: The Harlequin Coat.” “New Material World” was an exhibition of contemporary fiber arts that examined the new multifaceted ways in which artists combine materials and technology to explore connections between science, nature, and culture. “ORLAN: The Harlequin Coat” installation was designed to raise questions about multiculturalism, collaboration, recycling and social hybridity.

• Provide reduced-price tickets for students in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts to attend the Met Opera broadcasts at the Ross Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, in collaboration with the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts $5,000 per year April 2010 and renewed in April 2011

When equipment was purchased for the projection booth prior to the opening of the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center in 2003, the Ross was able to purchase state-of-the-art digital projectors and sound processors for both theaters. With the addition of a satellite dish on the roof and in partnership with the UNL Friends of Opera, the Ross began offering a series of broadcasts of performances from the Metropolitan Opera, live and in high definition in 2006. During 2009-2010, the Ross has also been able to offer, utilizing the same equipment, a series of live broadcasts of plays performed at the National Theatre in London. While attendance has been good for these events, students have not attended in large numbers, probably due to the costs of the tickets. The admission costs are set by the company that hosts the broadcasts on its satellite system. Student tickets cost $15 for each performance, a somewhat prohibitive amount for the average student, resulting in a paucity of student attendance. This funding support enables the Ross to offer students tickets to these spectacular and superb performances at $5 each. At that price, student attendance to these events has increased dramatically, resulting in a tremendous benefit for all those who take advantage of the reduction. The program was renewed in 2011. In the first year of the reduced ticket prices, student attendance at these events jumped from 194 to 454. Total attendance increased from 1,127 to 1,856.

13 • Visual Arts Community Service Learning Program Department of Art and Art History $45,000 over three years ($15,000 per year) April 2010

In this program, both undergraduate and graduate art and art history students work in collaboration with the Lincoln Public Schools, and other local service agencies such as The Children’s Museum, social services and convalescent centers, to create art projects that serve community needs. They work with the school/agency students and residents to create artworks and projects such as classes, murals, exhibitions, websites, etc. In addition to student site projects, UNL provides visiting professional artists who conduct presentations at LPS classes and campuses; and current students, who develop community arts projects as part of their coursework. This program provides (left to right) Jordan Oddo, Marisa Esch and Joelle special services to underserved groups in the Meaney present their design ideas to renovate community, teaches our students good civic the Teaching and Learning with Children or TLC responsibility and integrates applied hand-on room at Cedars Youth Services in Lincoln as part of learning experiences for our students. the “Shelter from the Storm” project taken on by Associate Professor Sandra Williams’ speculative • Support for Student Exhibitions Program drawing class in 2009. Department of Art and Art History $30,000 over three years ($10,000 per year) April 2010

Every year, the Eisentrager-Howard Art Gallery in the Department of Art and Art History presents six to seven exhibitions of student artwork. These exhibitions serve many requirements in the department and university academic programs, such as Senior Capstone requirements, Graduate Thesis requirements, and undergraduate competitive exhibitions. Students also complete undergraduate course credits for internship work in the gallery. In addition to these student exhibitions, the gallery also presents three to four professional exhibitions each year that complement the academic

14 instructional program. Recent examples of these exhibitions included the Nebraska Art Teachers Association Conference and a quilt exhibition presented in conjunction with the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at UNL. This gallery program is therefore a critical element for university students’ study and degree completion, as well as a vital professional institution in the university and the larger community. This request seeks to broaden services of the Gallery to accommodate the increasing number of students that are seeking to use the Gallery each year.

• Renew Funding for Chamber Music Institute to facilitate incorporation of the Meadowlark Music Festival into the program. School of Music $45,000 over three years ($15,000 per year) April 2010

The Chamber Music Institute (CMI), a one-week summer instructional experience of college-age chamber musicians from across North America, has produced a six-year record of impressive successes. Originally structured as an experimental partnership program with the Meadowlark Music Festival and the Nebraska Entrepreneurship Center, this instructional program focuses on chamber music lessons and performance, chamber music composition and arts entrepreneurship. This funding continues support for an additional three years, the primary goal of which is to establish A saxophone quartet from the School of Music’s a permanent relationship with the Meadowlark Chamber Music Institute performs at the Maxwell Music Festival. Arboretum during Meadowlark Invasion! on East Campus in June 2011. Photo by Sarah Smith. • Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts $460,000 over four years April 2010

In light of the strong success of the Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium in 2009, along with the Symposium’s potential for increasing interdisciplinary opportunities for Hixson-Lied College students and faculty, for expanding opportunities for additional collaboration between the College

15 and the Lied Center for Performing Arts and for bringing increased national visibility to the College and to the University in general, this support expands the program, while at the same time, structuring a plan for bringing in revenue to provide partial support. Additional funds are being requested to provide for artists’ fees and expenses; additional advertising and promotion; the addition of a part-time Associate Director and a student assistant for support; the partial support for establishing a book series that will complement the Symposium activities; the creation of a new web page for the Symposium; and funding for the Director’s travel and research relative to creating the Symposium program. The University of • Student Outreach Internships Nebraska book Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Fabulous Harlequin: $60,000 over three years ($20,000 per year) ORLAN and the April 2010 Patchwork Self, the first book in the Interdisciplinary This project seeks to create and support paid internships for Hixson-Lied Arts Symposium College students to work with community arts organizations that present or Series produced in support the creation, presentation and exhibition of the visual and performing collaboration with arts. This could include organizations such as the Lincoln Arts Council, the Sheldon Museum of Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, the Meadowlark Music Festival, the Lincoln Art, won first prize Community Theatre, the LUX Gallery and other similar organizations. This in the 2011 American program places students in active, work settings where they can gain valuable Association of experience working with community members and arts professionals who Museum’s Museum Publications Design strive to build and maintain a vibrant cultural environment in the Lincoln Competition in 2011. community and throughout the state.

• Renovate and replace the lighting dimmer system in the Howell and Lab Theatres Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film $100,000 April 2011

The proposed Dimmer System is on par with the new system in the recently renovated Studio Theatre. Our research and experience shows that the new system will: • Address modern lighting, sound and show-control technology; • Work with existing operating boards/programs; • Eliminate the current safety issues and costs of maintenance; 16 • The new system will troubleshoot malfunctions at the dimmer (they will be able to tell us if a lamp is out, or if there is a malfunction in our cable run) which will help us to efficiently detect a problem and go right to the source (such as a blown lamp) as opposed to physically trouble shooting with ladders/fall arrest harness and the live electricity; • Provide greater long-term flexibility and use; and • Provide significant savings in electricity. Additional funding for this project came from the Johnny Carson Film and Broadcast Fund and UNL Facilities, Management and Planning.

Ongoing Support:

• Johnny Carson Film Series Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film $87,400 over six years April 2008

The Johnny Carson School Film Series’ objective is to provide the opportunity for students to work directly with faculty and outside professionals to create a professional production that is larger and broader in scope than can reasonably be expected of students working independently. Since the spring of 2008 the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film faculty and staff have worked with outside professionals to create Project #1, entitled Vipers in the Grass. The Director of the Carson School, in concert with Carson School faculty, worked with School of Music and faculty member Dr. Eric Richards to provide the needed musical score for the film. The project has incorporated more than 100 students across the units in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. Students in the Film and New Media program also edited the “Making of…” documentary. The School premiered Vipers in the Grass at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center in November 2010, followed by a question/answer session with faculty, Harley Jane Kozak (actress), Bob Heine (camera), and Ivan Fonseca (first assistant director). The response on the film was overwhelmingly positive. Subsequently, the Carson School has submitted the film to 28 film festivals. This spring the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film held a comedy screenwriting competition for the next project and received 48 script entries from throughout the NU system. The entries included faculty, students and staff at the University of Nebraska campuses in Kearney, Lincoln and Omaha. A group of students vetted the screenplays over a six-week period and selected five possible scripts that met all of the requirements. A select group of Carson School faculty selected

17 the three finalists. With support from the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, each of these finalists will receive a $500 award and are currently working with a former head of the Writers Guild on their scripts. The Grand Prize winner will have their screenplay produced by the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film as part of the Carson School Film Series. The School will announce the winner in early Fall 2011 and will start pre-production immediately following this announcement.

Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film student Aaron Nix (left, 1st Assistant Camera) receives instruc- tions from Camera Assistant Bob Heine during filming of “Vipers in the Grass” in Ashland, Neb., in May 2009.

18 FACULTY SUPPORT Total Faculty Support: $713,230 with matching funding of $136,317 for a total impact of $849,547

Hixson-Lied Faculty Presentation of Scholarly and Creative Activity Grants: These grants are awarded on a competitive basis to offer partial support to faculty members who are invited to present their creative and scholarly work in regional, national and international settings.

Hixson-Lied Faculty Research/Creative Activity Grants: These grants are awarded on a competitive basis to support projects that assist faculty with their research or creative activity in ways that bring national and international attention to the College and the creative and scholarly work of the faculty.

Hixson-Lied Faculty Development Travel Grants: These grants are designed to provide partial support for faculty travel associated with faculty professional development activities.

Hixson-Lied Professorships: Eligibility for consideration of these prestigious fellowships is limited to tenured faculty in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the rank of Associate or Full Professor who do not already hold a named professorship, who have demonstrated exceptional overall performance over an extended timeframe, and whose accomplishments have gained significant recognition beyond the University. The Hixson-Lied Professorships carry a $3,000 annual stipend that can be used to augment the recipient’s salary or to support the recipient’s creative or scholarly work.

19 Hixson-Lied Faculty Presentation of Scholarly and Creative Activity Grants Total: $150,591

July 2008 at the Oxbridge 2008 Conference with the John Bailey C.S. Lewis Summer Institute in Oxford and $727 Cambridge, England. School of Music Conduct the High Winds Flute Orchestra at a Mark Clinton 2008 National Flute Association concert in Kansas $478 City, Mo. School of Music Perform a solo piano recital at the Steinway Hall Paul Barnes sponsored by Steinway and Sons in New York. $783 School of Music Gretchen Foley Present a lecture-recital on Joan Tower’s solo $1,392 piano music at the College Music Society School of Music Conference in Atlanta. Present audition methods research in a poster session at International Society for Music Paul Barnes Education World Conference in Bologna, Italy. $1,392 School of Music Gretchen Foley Present performances at the Oxbridge 2008 $783 Conference with the C.S. Lewis Summer Institute School of Music in Oxford and Cambridge, England. Present a lecture-demonstration on audiation method at the College Music Society’s national Dale Bazan conference in Atlanta. $1,392 School of Music Rhonda Fuelberth Make presentations on music education topics for $1,392 the Alberta Music Conference in Alberta, Canada. School of Music Present on degree requirements in music Kate Butler education at the International Society for Music $1,392 Education World Conference in Bologna, Italy. School of Music Present solo performances and a master class

20 Kevin Hanrahan William McMullen $1,392 $707 School of Music School of Music Present a paper on Sensory Targeted Instruction Perform works with narration by Prof. Donna at the International Society for Music Education Harler-Smith at the International Double Reed World Conference in Bologna, Italy. Society annual conference at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Stanley Kleppinger $804 Glenn Nierman School of Music $1,392 Present research on post-tonal, pitch-centric School of Music Western music at the Cardiff University Music Present research on assessing music instrument Analysis Conference in Cardiff, United Kingdom. compatibility at the International Society of Music Education World Conference in Bologna, Stan Kleppinger and the Moran Woodwind Italy. Quintet (Jeffrey McCray, Diane Barger John Bailey, Alan Mattingly and William McMullen) Robert Woody $4,040 $1,392 School of Music School of Music Prof. Kleppinger presents a lecture-recital on two Present research on incorporating popular music Elliott Carter quintet works at the College Music into school music education at the International Society national conference in Atlanta. Society of Music Education World Conference in Bologna, Italy. Karen Kunc $1,305 Brenda Wristen Department of Art and Art History $1,392 Present workshop “The Contemporary School of Music Woodcut” in an international seminar at El Present a paper on adult recreational musicians Minya University in Egypt. at the International Society of Music Education World Conference in Bologna, Italy. Jeffrey McCray $707 November 2008 School of Music Kate Butler Perform “Canto XII” for solo bassoon at the $665 International Double Reed Society annual School of Music conference at Brigham Young University in Presentation on the music of Gian Carol Menotti Provo, Utah. 21 at the forum on Music and Christian Scholarship Glass at the Society for American Music National at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Conference in Denver.

Dana Fritz Dale Bazan $3,024 $1,350 Department of Art and Art History School of Music Exhibit photographs in the biennial “Art on Presentation of two papers at the American Paper” exhibition with the Morishita Art Institute Educational Research Association National at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art in Japan. Conference in San Diego.

Gail Kendall Karen Becker $655 $1,100 Department of Art and Art History School of Music Organized and took part in an Artist-Invites- Presentation on rarely performed cello works Artist Residency at the Red Lodge Clay Center in at the American String Teachers Association Montana. National Conference in Atlanta.

Scott Parker Alisa Belflower $3,600 $1,500 Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film School of Music Presented his lighting design for The Cradle Presentation on the art and science of gesture Will Rock at the Michael Schimmel Center for at the Phenomenon of Singing International Performing Arts in New York. Symposium VII in St. Johns, Newfoundland.

Alison Stewart Anthony Bushard $900 $3,600 Department of Art and Art History School of Music Presentation “Women Drink Sometimes Too” on Lecture recital on Duke Ellington’s “Far East 16th Century art at the Early Modern Cultural Suite” at the College Music Society International Studies Conference in Philadelphia. Meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

March 2009 Dana Fritz Paul Barnes $930 $760 Department of Art and Art History School of Music Chairing a discussion on Foundations Program Lecture-recital on his collaboration with Philip Coordination at the “Foundations in Art: Theory and Education” Conference in Portland, Ore. 22 Rhonda Garelick Glenn Nierman $1,140 $980 Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts School of Music Present paper on Coco Chanel at the American Present research topic at the Second International Comparative Literature Association annual Symposium on Assessment in Music in convention at Harvard University in Cambridge, Gainesville, Fla. Mass. Pete Pinnell Kevin Hanrahan $600 $1,500 Department of Art and Art History School of Music Moderate and organize two panels at the Present paper on Sensory Motor Learning National Council on Education in the Ceramic at the Phenomenon of Singing International Arts Conference in Phoenix. Symposium VII in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Francisco Souto Michael Hoff $2,300 $420 Department of Art and Art History Department of Art and Art History Exhibit art in the exhibition “Latin American Present paper on interpreting the temple at Contemporary Printmaking Masters” as part Antiocheia ad Cragum at the 8th Roman of the VI International Biennial of Engraving in Archaeology Conference at the University of Cremona, Italy. Michigan in Lansing. Robert Woody Stanley Kleppinger $1,350 $620 School of Music School of Music Present research paper on ear-playing at the Presentation on Copland’s “Quiet City” at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Annual Conference of Music Theory Midwest at Research Association in San Diego. the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. July 2009 Peter Lefferts John Bailey $700 $1,770 School of Music School of Music Present research topic at the Society for American Perform two new pieces and chair a panel Music 35th Annual Conference in Denver. discussion at the National Flute Association Conference in New York.

23 Ian Borden Paul Haar $950 $1,180 Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film School of Music Present “You Wound Me” at Blackfriars Premier performance of Randall Snyder’s Conference of the American Shakespeare Center “Sonata No. 2” at the biennial meeting of the in Staunton, Va. North American Sax Alliance in Athens, Ga.

Kevin Hanrahan Wendy Katz $2,100 $830 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Present papers in poster format at the Presentation of “Politics of Art Criticism and International Congress of Voice Teachers in Consumption” at the annual meeting of the Paris, France. College Art Association in Chicago.

David Neely March 2010 $2,700 University of Nebraska Brass Quintet School of Music (Scott Anderson, Darryl White, K. Craig Bircher, Perform in four of the faculty recitals at the 2009 Craig Fuller and Alan Mattingly) International Schlern Summer Music Festival in $5,600 Voels am Schlern, Italy. School of Music European premiere performance of “Copernicus” Brenda Wristen for Brass Quintet and Wind Ensemble with the $600 Prague Castle Guard Band in Prague, Czech School of Music Republic. Chair and present in two sessions of the Wellness Pre-Conference at the National Conference on Paul Barnes Piano Pedagogy in Lombard, Ill. $700 School of Music November 2009 Perform with the Chiara String Quartet the Anthony Bushard premiere of “Nocturne of Light” as part of the $1,300 Cutting Edge Concert Series in New York. School of Music Present “The Curious Case of Paseo Hall” at the Anthony Bushard Mediating Jazz Conference at the University of $1,400 Salford in Manchester, England. School of Music Present research on Aaron Copland at the Society for American Music National annual meeting in 24 Ottawa, Ontario. Dana Fritz Dale Bazan $2,800 $800 Department of Art and Art History School of Music Present “Terraria Gigantica” photographs at Present “Perspectives on Teaching Through the Emerging Landscapes Conference at the Popular Music” at the Ontario Music Educators University of Westminster in London, England. Conference in Canada.

Michael Hoff Karen Becker $800 $850 Department of Art and Art History School of Music Present “Excavation of the Roman Imperial Solo recital performances at the University Temple” at the annual Turkish Archaeology of Idaho (Moscow, Ind.), Eastern Washington Symposium in Izmir, Turkey. University (Cheney, Wash.), and the Steinway Gallery (Spokane, Wash.). David Neely $4,000 Anthony Bushard School of Music $970 Perform in four of the faculty recitals at the 2010 School of Music International Schlern Summer Music Festival in Present papers on Aaron Copland and the Vols am Schlern, Italy. historical Kansas City jazz scene at the College Music Society national meeting in Minneapolis. Darryl White $400 Ann Chang School of Music $930 Perform in the “Working Artists Series” and give School of Music a residency presentation at Whittier College in Present lecture-performance “Classics 101” and Los Angeles. lead a student master class with Portland Piano International in Oregon. July 2010 John Bailey Dana Fritz $1,275 $800 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Conduct the Honors High School Flute Choir at Present photographs from “Terraria Gigantica” the National Flute Association annual national in joint exhibition at the Society for Photographic convention in Anaheim, Calif. Education Southeast Conference in Tallahassee, Fla.

25 Rhonda Fuelberth Beijing and the ISME Commission Seminar in $2,590 Shenyang, China. School of Music Present “iPods in the Choral Classroom” and November 2010 participate in a symposium at the International Paul Barnes Society for Music Education 29th World $775 Conference in Beijing, China. School of Music Premiere performance at the American Liszt Elizabeth Ingraham Society Bicentennial Conference in Athens, Ga. $330 Department of Art and Art History Ian Borden Present “Mapping Textile Space” at the Textile $980 Society of America 12th Biennial Symposium in Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Lincoln. Present research in a seminar session at the American Society for Theatre Research Alan Mattingly Conference 2010 in Seattle. $3,120 School of Music Paul Haar Give the Australian premiere of Paul Basler’s $900 “Majaliwa” at the International Horn Society School of Music Conference in Brisbana, Australia. Present “Building a Better Jazz Ensemble” at the International Conference of the Jazz Education Moran Woodwind Quintet Network in New Orleans. (Jeffrey McCray, Diane Barger, John Bailey, Alan Mattingly, William McMullen) Karen Kunc $3,650 $2,500 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Present a lecture-demonstration at the 53rd Present in an exhibition as resident Guest Master National Conference of the College Music Society Printmaker at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking in Minneapolis. Workshop at the Blackburn 20/20 Gallery in New York. Glenn Nierman $2,850 Glenn Nierman School of Music $2,200 Present at the International Society for Music School of Music Education (ISME) 29th World Conference in Present “Making the Case for High-Stakes Assessment in Music” at 3rd International 26 Symposium on Assessment in American Music Shakespeare master classes at Vassar College in Education in Bremen, Germany. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Eric Richards Kate Butler $825 $1,685 School of Music School of Music Conduct premiere of “Fantasy for Trumpet and Premiere a song-cycle in the recital “Let Beauty Jazz Orchestra” at the 2010 Midwest Band and Awake” at Biola University, Westmont College, Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. and Azusa Pacific University in Southern California. Jeff Thompson $1,120 Jeffry Eckels Department of Art and Art History $1,330 Chair the panel discussion titled “Data as School of Music Medium” at the 2011 College Art Association Perform concert “The Music of Charlie Parker: National Conference in New York. A Duo Bass Concert” at San Francisco State University in California. March 2011 John Bailey Paul Haar $3,690 $315 School of Music School of Music Present lecture-recital on John La Montaine’s Perform a solo and present a master class at the flute sonata at the College Music Society 2011 North American Saxophone Alliance Region 3 International Conference in Seoul and Gyeongju, Convention in Indianola, Ind. Korea. Kevin Hanrahan Dale Bazan $2,425 $1,515 School of Music School of Music Present a paper at Phenomenon of Singing Present research comparing string and wind International Symposium in Newfoundland, music majors at the American Education Canada. Research Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Gail Kendall $3,045 Stan Brown Department of Art and Art History $990 Solo exhibition at Koa Gallery at the Kapi’olani Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Community College in Honolulu. Host two forums, mentor a student, and lead 27 Bill McMullen and Jeffrey McCray Sandra Williams $2,445 $795 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Perform the recital “Lyrical Bookends of the Present “Building Creative Communities” at 20th Century” at the International Double Reed “Foundations in Art: Theory and Education” Society annual conference in Tempe, Ariz. conference in St. Louis.

Pete Pinnell Robert Woody $1,335 $925 Department of Art and Art History School of Music Present “The Art of Drinking” at the National Present “Music Listening in the Lives of College Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts in Music Majors” at the Society for Research Tampa, Fla. in Music Education Summer Symposium in Washington, D.C.. Pamela Starr $505 July 2011 School of Music John Bailey Present “The Final Frontier: James Horner & $1,625 Apollo 13” at the Forum for Music and Christian School of Music Scholarship in Wheaton, Ill. Playing and teaching the Hindemith Sonata at the National Flute Association Annual National Alison Stewart Convention in Charlotte, N.C. $1,355 Department of Art and Art History Diane Barger Present “Origins of Genre Imagery” at the $900 Renaissance Society of America meeting in School of Music Montreal, Canada. Solo performance at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest 2011 in Los Angeles. Tyler White $2,620 Ian Borden School of Music $1,600 Serve as composer-in-residence and present Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film research at the 4th International Walt Whitman Present “Roman Actors: Meta-Theatre as Moral Week in São Paulo, Brazil. Compass” at the Blackfriars Conference at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va.

28 Kevin Hanrahan Glenn Nierman $2,030 $850 School of Music School of Music Present recital and master class on American Present “Moving the Music Education Ph.D. art song at the University of Western Sydney from Education to Music” at the Society for in Sydney, Australia. He will also present “Use Music Teacher Education Symposium in of the Voice Range in Profile in Assigning Greensboro, N.C. Repertoire: An Evaluation” at the Conjoint Annual Conference of Australian Society of Alison Stewart Performing Arts Healthcare and Australian Voice $1,430 Association, also in Sydney. Department of Art and Art History Present “Changing Bruegel: Removing clothing Aaron Holz & adding height” at 16th Century Studies $890 Conference in Ft. Worth, Texas. Department of Art and Art History Alumni exhibition at the University Art Museum Marissa Vigneault at the State University of New York in Albany, $930 N.Y. Department of Art and Art History Presenting “Reconsidering ‘Womanhouse’ in Moran Woodwind Quintet the 21st Century” at a feminist conference at the (Jeffrey McCray, Diane Barger, John Bailey, Alan American University in Washington, D.C. Mattingly and William McMullen) $6,640 Brenda Wristen School of Music $1,150 Performance of new woodwind quintets by School of Music College Music Society composers at the 54th Present research on musician coping mechanism Annual Conference in Richmond, Va. at the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in Lombard, Ill. David Neely $2,420 School of Music Perform at the Orfeo International Music Festival in Vipiteno, Italy.

29 Hixson-Lied Faculty Research/Creative Activity Grants Total: $90,986

2009 Politics of Art Criticism in the Penny Press, 1833- University of Nebraska Brass Quintet 1861.” (Scott Anderson, K. Craig Bircher, Craig Fuller, Alan Mattingly and Darryl White) Pete Pinnell $1,800 $5,000 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Prepare orchestrations for the commissioned Materials for building a new kiln. piece “Copernicus” for Brass Quintet and Wind Ensemble. Francisco Souto $5,000 Dana Fritz Department of Art and Art History $5,000 Mounting solo exhibitions at the Nebraska Department of Art and Art History Museum of Art and the Kiechel Fine Art Gallery. Support travel and equipment for the photography project “Terraria Gigantica: The 2010 World Under Glass.” Diane Barger $5,000 William Grange School of Music $4,000 Recording the clarinet works of Scott McAllister Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film for CD production. Travel to sites in Marbach and Berlin, Germany, to conduct research for the “Historical Dictionary Paul Barnes and the Chiara String Quartet of German Pre-war Literature.” (Jonah Sirota, Julie Yoon, Gregory Beaver, Rebecca Fischer) Michael Hoff $5,000 $4,970 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Commission a piece by composer Ivan Moody Funding for the 2009 season of the Antiocheia ad for piano and string quartet to be performed in Cragum Imperial Temple Project in Turkey. New York.

Wendy Katz Eddie Dominguez $1,700 $4,960 Department of Art and Art History Department of Art and Art History Support for the book manuscript project: “The Creation of a giant head sculpture for the 30 “Exploring the Torn Man” project. 2011 Anthony Bushard Rick Endacott $2,188 $5,000 School of Music Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Research for his projects “On the Waterfront: Creation of instructional video “Technical Theatre A Film Score Guide,” and an interview with for the Non-professional” in Indianapolis, Ind. film-score composer Thomas Newman in Los Angeles. Elizabeth Ingraham $2,500 Eddie Dominguez Department of Art and Art History $4,650 Phase 2 of the “Mapping Nebraska” project for Department of Art and Art History creation of a website and continuing development Creation of a sculptural public performance of the related artwork. piece “Burning Head” for the opening of the Modern Arts Midwest Gallery in Omaha. Christopher Marks $1,360 Dana Fritz School of Music $5,000 Undertake a CD recording project of the organ Department of Art and Art History music of Seth Bingham. Create and mount a traveling photo exhibition of the project “Terraria Gigantica.” Francisco Souto $5,000 William Grange Department of Art and Art History $5,000 Continue visual investigation into multilayered Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film prints for three solo exhibitions in Mexico and Research in Berlin for a book-length film Lincoln. study titled “Eastern Westerns of the German Democratic Republic.” Alison Stewart $5,000 Aaron Holz Department of Art and Art History $3,594 Research Breugel’s “Detroit Wedding Dance” Department of Art and Art History painting in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Present his third Solo Exhibtion at the RARE Gallery in New York.

31 David Neely Jeff Thompson $4,264 $5,000 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Complete the recording of three violin sonatas to Continue ongoing research project “Data as later be produced on CD. Medium” for the creation of artwork and a publicly-available data website.

Hixson-Lied Faculty Development Travel Grants Total: $26,653

January 2009 Aaron Holz Dale Bazan $800 $500 Department of Art and Art History School of Music Attend the annual meeting of the College Art Attend Instrumental Music Teacher Education Association in Los Angeles. Colloquium in Columbus, Ohio. Wendy Katz Kate Butler $300 $700 Department of Art and Art History School of Music Attend the annual meeting of the College Art Residency with master teacher Shirley Emmons in Association in Los Angeles. New York. Christin Mamiya Dana Fritz $800 $300 Department of Art and Art History Department of Art and Art History Attend the annual meeting of the College Art Artist residency at Biosphere 2 for “Terraria Association in Los Angeles. Gigantica” project in Tucson, Ariz. Scott Parker Michael Hoff $1,000 $500 Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Department of Art and Art History Attend United States Institute for Theatre Attend annual meeting of the Archeological Technology National Conference and electrical Institute of America in Philadelphia. workshop in Cincinnati, Ohio.

32 Brenda Wristen Conference in Chicago. $900 School of Music Rick Endacott Attend the annual Music Teachers National $850 Association meeting in Atlanta. Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Attend the 2010 National Association of July 2009 Broadcasters Conference in Las Vegas. Aaron Holz $460 Dana Fritz Department of Art and Art History $800 Travel to the RARE Gallery to prepare for a future Department of Art and Art History exhibition in New York. Attend the Society for Photographic Education National Conference in Philadelphia. David Neely $900 Michael Hoff School of Music $600 Attend national meeting of the American String Department of Art and Art History Teachers Association in Atlanta. Attend the Archaeological Institute of America National Conference in Anaheim, Calif. Francisco Souto $900 Aaron Holz Department of Art and Art History $600 Serve in residency at the Museograbado in Department of Art and Art History Zacatecas, Mexico. Attend the College Art Association National Conference in Chicago. Alison Stewart $400 Francisco Souto Department of Art and Art History $600 Participate in National Endowment for the Department of Art and Art History Humanities Summer Institute at Stanford Attend the Southern Graphics International University in Stanford, Calif. Conference in Philadelphia.

January 2010 July 2010 Santiago Cal Wendy Katz $600 $683 Department of Art and Art History Department of Art and Art History Attend the College Art Association National Visit the Shaanxi History Museum in Xi An, China. 33 Gail Kendall July 2011 $1,100 Dale Bazan Department of Art and Art History $680 Attend the Attingham Trust Royal Collection School of Music Studies Program in London. Attend the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Music Education Conference January 2011 at Michigan State University in Lansing. Dale Bazan $500 Rhonda Fuelberth School of Music $680 Attend the Instrumental Music Teacher Educators School of Music Biennial Conference in Sterling, Ohio. Attend the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Music Education Conference Steve Kolbe at Michigan State University in Lansing. $500 Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Stan Kleppinger Visit three film studios to research large-scale $360 rendering solutions in Southern California. School of Music Attend the annual conference of the Society for Karen Kunc Music Theory Minneapolis. $2,000 Department of Art and Art History Damon Lee Servce as artist-in-residence at the Venice $1,200 Printmaking Studio in Italy. School of Music Participate in a live-film scoring opportunity with Laurel Shoemaker ensemble “amorpha” in London. $700 Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Brian Moore Attend a Broadway master class on projections in $680 New York. School of Music Attend the Committee on Institutional Alison Stewart Cooperation (CIC) Music Education Conference $1,000 at Michigan State University in Lansing. Department of Art and Art History Attend the Print Council of American Conference in Chapel Hill, N.C.

34 Glenn Nierman Robert Woody $680 $680 School of Music School of Music Attend the Committee on Institutional Attend the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Music Education Conference Cooperation (CIC) Music Education Conference at Michigan State University in Lansing. at Michigan State University in Lansing.

Jeff Thompson Brenda Wristen $1,500 $1,200 Department of Art and Art History School of Music Attend Rhinoceros software CAD workshops in Attend the annual conference of the Performing Los Angeles. Arts Medicine Association in Aspen, Colo.

Additional Faculty Programs Total: $394,000

• Visiting Artists and Scholar Program • Performing Arts Master Class Series Department of Art and Art History Lied Center for Performing Arts $105,000 over three years ($35,000 per year) $165,000 over three years ($55,000 per year) April 2010 April 2011

Funding supports one full-semester artist/scholar Funding supports a strategic, consistent in residence and three visiting artists/scholars of residency program for Hixson-Lied College of a shorter duration for the Department of Art and Fine and Performing Arts students and faculty. Art History. • Hixson-Lied Artist in Residence Stipends (4) • Hixson-Lied Faculty/Staff Awards Program for the members of the Chiara String Quartet Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts School of Music Increase funding by $4,000 to $24,000 per year $60,000 over three years ($20,000 per year for April 2010 three years) April 2011 This funding support increases the funding to establish two additional recognitions for staff Funding supports Hixson-Lied Artists in (three awards total). The annual program also Residence stipends for the Chiara String Quartet includes seven faculty awards. to match the permanent funding that was provided for the Quartet from the Office of the Chancellor beginning in July 2011. 35 Hixson-Lied Professorships 2008-2011 Total: $51,000

The Hixson-Lied Professorship program recognizes the work of our most outstanding faculty. Eligibility for consideration of these professorships is limited to tenured faculty at the rank of Associate or Full Professor who do not already hold a named professorship, who have demonstrated exceptional overall performance over an extended time frame, and whose accomplishments have gained significant recognition beyond the University.

Paul Barnes, Hixson-Lied Bösendorfer International Piano Academy in Professor of Piano. Barnes has Vienna and also coaches the students of Menahem electrified audiences with his Pressler, Barnes’ own teacher, at Indiana intensely expressive playing University where Barnes received his doctorate and cutting-edge programming. in Piano Performance. He was named “Teacher He has performed in England, of the Year” by the Nebraska Music Teachers China, Korea, Russia, Czech Association at their 2006 state convention. Republic, Austria, and Greece and in all major cities throughout Barnes William Grange, Hixson-Lied the U.S. Professor of Theatre. Grange Deeply inspired by the aesthetic challenge is the author of five books, of minimalism, Barnes gave the world premier along with numerous scholarly performance of Philip Glass’s Piano Concerto articles, essays, book chapters, No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark) with the Omaha reviews, and encyclopedia Symphony Orchestra under Victor Yampolsky. entries. He was awarded the Orange Mountain Music also released Barnes’ Fulbright Distinguished Chair Grange solo recording of his transcriptions from the in Humanities and Cultural operas of Philip Glass, including both the Trilogy Studies at the University of Vienna for 2007 and Sonata and the Orphée Suite for Piano. With has held other Fulbright guest professorships performances throughout Europe, the Near in Germany. His numerous awards for research East, the Far East, and the U.S., Barnes’ unique and scholarship include the Dorot Fellowship, lecture/recitals have received international the Mellon Family Prize, fellowships from acclaim. “Liszt and the Cross: Music as the German Academic Exchange Service, the Sacrament in the B Minor Sonata” explores the National Endowment for the Humanities, the fascinating relationship between music, theology, Nebraska Research Council, grants from the and the Orthodox icon. Arts and Humanities Enhancement Fund, the He teaches during the summer at the Jane Robertson Layman Fund, the Hixson-Lied 36 Endowment, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Peter Lefferts, Hixson-Lied Research Center at the University of Texas. Professor of Music. Music Grange teaches academic and performance historian Lefferts’ teaching courses and is head of the Graduate Committee responsibilities span the broad in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and range from introductory courses Film. He has been an Equity actor for more in listening for freshman than 30 years, appearing in several professional non-majors, and courses in productions in New York and throughout the music history and theory for Lefferts United States. undergraduate majors, to doctoral seminars. In the summer of 2006 Gail Kendall, Hixson-Lied he stepped down as head of the Division of Professor of Art. Kendall is a History/Theory/Composition after serving in ceramic artist and dedicated that role for 17 years, and he has also served teacher, who has shown her a term as the Director of the Medieval and work in more than 22 solo Renaissance Studies Program at UNL. and two-person exhibitions Lefferts was appointed in Fall 2007 to be and more than 150 group the Chief Adviser for UNL music majors on the exhibitions, including the BA and BM degrees. In 2010 he received the Sheldon Memorial Art Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Gallery and Sculpture Kendall Achievement Award in Academic Advising. Garden, the John Michael Lefferts has lectured and published Kohler Art Center in Wisconsin, the Clay Studio extensively in North America and Europe. in Philadelphia and the Fusions Gallery in As an author and editor, Lefferts‘s areas of Australia. Her ceramic work is included as part research specialization include medieval and of the collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Renaissance English music, the medieval motet, Art and the General Mills Corporation in New early music notation, early music theory in York City. Latin and English, the tonal behavior of 14th Kendall has presented more than 80 and 15th century songs, and the relationship workshops and lectures nationally and between church architecture and liturgy. He is internationally. She was selected to present a a member of the international advisory board Nebraska Lecture on her work as part of the 2006 of the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series. based at Oxford University, and a member of In 2009, Kendall received the National the Advisory Board of the Center for the History Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts’ of Music Theory and Literature at Indiana Excellence in Teaching Award. University. Lefferts holds the B.A., M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. degrees, all from Columbia University. 37 Christin Mamiya, Hixson- books, Clay Times magazine, Ceramics Monthly, Lied Professor of Art History Studio Potter, and Purple Sand, a Taiwanese and Interim Dean of the ceramics journal. An in-depth article about his Hixson-Lied College of work appeared in Ceramics: Art and Perception, Fine and Performing Arts. a noted Australian Magazine, in 2001. In March Mamiya is an authoritative of 2001 he was a featured artist at the NCECA voice on contemporary (National Council on Education in the Ceramic art. Her book, Pop Art Arts) national conference, where he spoke and and Consumer Culture: Mamiya demonstrated. American Supermarket led to In addition to his teaching and exhibition invitations nationally and internationally to write career, Pinnell has been an active writer on and speak about artists of the later 20th Century. ceramic art, with articles in American and She also wrote “Renaissance to Postmodern Australian ceramic journals, and a regular Art” for Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, an column, “As far as I know. . .,” which appears in award-winning textbook that has introduced a Clay Times Magazine. generation of students to the issues and works of modern aesthetics. William Shomos, Hixson-Lied Mamiya was selected for membership in Professor of Voice and Director the Academy of Distinguished Teaching at UNL of Opera. At UNL, he has staged in 2005 and has received an Annis Chaikin a wide variety of productions Sorensen Award for Distinguished Teaching in the ranging from traditional fare (The Humanities in 2001. Marriage of Figaro, La Bohème) to world premieres and new works Peter Pinnell, Hixson-Lied (O Pioneers!, Dead Man Walking). Professor of Art and Interim His staging of Tyler White’s O Shomos Chair of the Department of Art Pioneers! received regional and and Art History. Pinnell made national acclaim and was aired on Nebraska his living as a potter for 12 years Educational Television (NETV). His productions before moving to the University of Così fan tutte and Street Scene won first of Nebraska–Lincoln. In place in the National Opera Association’s Opera addition to his teaching, he has Pinnell Production Competition. continued to exhibit widely, Shomos makes frequent guest directing with more than 120 exhibitions since 1995. His appearances throughout the country. Shomos work has appeared throughout the U.S., and has also directed outreach programs for both the in the Netherlands, South Africa, Japan, China, Des Moines Metro Opera and Opera Omaha. As New Zealand and Australia. Images of his work a singer, he has performed numerous leading have appeared in a number of noted ceramic baritone roles. In 2006, Shomos appeared as a 38 faculty artist with UNL Opera’s production of The Most Happy Fella featured at the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera in Waterford, Ireland, where Shomos was awarded “Best Male Singer” for his portrayal of Tony Esposito. Shomos holds degrees from the University of Illinois (DMA), Northwestern University (MM), and Knox College (BA).

39 STUDENT SUPPORT Total: $245,771 with matching support of $19,210 for a total impact of $264,981

Hixson-Lied Graduate Fellowships: Special stipends ranging from $3,500-$4,500 that are added to already existing graduate assistantship funding provided by the University. Funding for up to 32 fellowships over eight years has been allocated by the Hixson-Lied Advisory Board.

Student Presentation of Scholarly/Creative Activity Grants: Partial funding support for students who are selected to compete, perform, make presentations or present exhibitions in regional, national or international venues and programs.

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grants: Support for research, exploration and development of an idea or set of ideas in which a student is thoroughly engaged and actively pursuing. Provides partial support for students who wish to produce work otherwise difficult to accomplish due to cost. The program is intended to encourage students to think of their chosen field of study as a discipline, rather than a series of courses, better preparing them for life in that discipline.

Student Study (Domestic or International) Grants: Partial support on a competitive basis for students who are selected to study either in the U.S. or abroad. Funding is intended to help defray costs such as travel and lodging that are associated with such study.

Student International Course Travel Grants: These grants provide a limited, fixed number of travel grants to students enrolled in an international course organized and delivered by a faculty member from one of the units within the Hixson-Lied College.

40 Hixson-Lied Graduate Fellows Total: $114,500 (allocated between 2008-2011) Hixson-Lied Graduate Fellows 2008-2011 residency at Mudflat, taught adult classes and worked on their technical staff. She also had Stavros Laparidis opportunities to study at Haystack Mountain School of Music, D.M.A. School of Crafts, to be a summer resident at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts Stavros Laparidis was born and to travel for three months in Europe. She in Drama, Greece, where he was commissioned to create an installation for also started receiving piano the Boston Children’s Museum in 2006, which lessons at the conservatory included objects from the museum’s permanent of his hometown in collection, along with sculptures she built in 1991. After graduation response to these objects. She studied at the from the conservatory, University of Florida as a post-baccalaureate he continued studies at student prior to coming to UNL. the Musikhochschule Laparidis in Mannheim and later Jason Tanner Young in Frankfurt, where he received the piano Department of Art and Art History, M.F.A. diploma of the artistic educational program in February 2006. He continued piano studies on Jason received his Bachelor the last German degree “Konzertexamen” at the of Fine Arts degree from Musikhochschule in Trossingen, Germany, where the University of Texas at he obtained the soloistic degree in June 2008. Tyler in 2008. His recent exhibitions include an Meghan Sullivan exhibition of work at Department of Art and Art History, M.F.A. The Cowan Center at the University of Texas at Tyler Young Since graduating from the in 2007-2008, “Out of the Massachusetts College of Woods and Onto the Prairie” at Gilrose Studios Art eight years ago with a in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 2007, and the Annual Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Juried Student Exhibition at the University of Meghan has actively pursued Texas at Tyler in 2007, where he won Best of a life in clay. From 2001-2007, Show. He presented his work during the Art she was a member of the Matters Program “Thinking about (Artistic) Mudflat Studio in Somerville, Creation” at the University of Texas at Tyler in Mass. She had her first Sullivan 2007, and he participated in the Texas Sculpture Symposium in both 2006 and in 2007. 41 Hixson-Lied Graduate Fellows 2009-2012 Exhibition at the University of Wyoming Art Museum, where she received the David Reif Beth Deutmeyer Sculpture Award and the National Advisory School of Music, D.M.A. Board Award, and the 2nd Annual BFA/BA Juried Exhibition at the University of South Beth is pursuing her Doctor of Florida in Tampa. Musical Arts degree at UNL. She received her Master of Golden Lund Music here in 2009, and she School of Music, D.M.A. received her Bachelor of Music from Iowa State in 2006. She Golden is pursuing his Doctor was a regional finalist in 2009 of Musical Arts degree from at the Metropolitan Opera Deutmeyer UNL in tuba performance. He National Council Auditions. received his Master of Music She was a regional winner in 2008 and a district in tuba performance from winner in 2007 at the National Association Indiana University in 2009 and of Teachers of Singing Competitions, West- his Bachelor of Arts in tuba Lund Central region and Nebraska district. She has performance from the University performed as “Helena” in the 2008 UNL Opera A of Utah in 2006. Golden was the Midsummer Night’s Dream by Benjamin Britten principal tubist for the Louisiana Philharmonic and as “Sister Catherine” in Jake Heggie’s Dead in 2006-2007. He has also performed with the Man Walking for UNL Opera in 2008. Utah Symphony, Orchestra at Temple Square, Utah Premiere Brass and the Indiana University Jamie Fritz Graduate Quintet. He participated in the Aspen Department of Art and Art History, M.F.A. Music Festival in 2006 and 2009.

Jamie is pursuing her Master Lauren Mabry of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Department of Art and Art History, M.F.A. UNL. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in art from the Lauren is pursuing her Master University of Wyoming in 2009. of Fine Arts in ceramics at UNL. Her recent solo exhibitions She received her Bachelor of include “Precarious Refuge” at Fritz Fine Arts in ceramics from the the ASUW Gallery in Laramie, Kansas City Art Institute and Wyo., and “Dichotomy of Self” at the UP completed post-baccalaureate Gallery in Laramie. Her recent group exhibitions studies in pottery at Colorado have included the 34th Annual Juried Student State University in Fort Collins. Mabry 42 She studied abroad at the International Ceramics his Bachelor of Arts in vocal Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary. Her recent performance and English from exhibitions include “Vase Invitational,” “Nine the University of Notre Dame Month Residents: New Work,” and “Cream and in 2007. He has performed in Sugar Invitational” at the Carbondale Clay Center the UNL Opera productions of (Colo.), where she was an artist-in-residence. Amahl and the Night Visitors Mabry won first place for her piece, “Cylinder,” (King Melchior), A Midsummer Soebbing in The Eighth Annual Marge Brown Kalodner Night’s Dream (Peter Quince), Graduate Student Exhibition at The Clay Studio Dead Man Walking (Prison in Philadelphia, Pa., in 2011. Garden #1) and Cosi fan tutte (Guglilmo). He also performed as “Bartolo” in Le Nozze di Figaro Kimberly Minor at La Musica Lirica in Novafeltria, Italy in July Department of Art and Art History, M.A. 2008. He also performed in Notre Dame opera productions, as well as with the Notre Dame Kimberly is pursuing her Chorale. Master of Arts in Art History at UNL. She received her Hixson-Lied Graduate Fellows 2010-2013 Bachelor of Arts in art history and religious studies from Sam Berner Wesleyan College in Macon, Department of Art and Art History, M.F.A. Ga., in 2009. She was an intern at Hay House Museum in Minor Samuel is pursing his Master of Macon from 2007-2009, where Fine Arts in ceramics at UNL. He she was a weekly docent and researcher for was born in Indianapolis, Ind., the traveling exhibitions. Kimberly serves as a but grew up in the Washington, Hixson-Lied Fellow at the Sheldon Museum of D.C., metropolitan area. In high Art at UNL, where she will promote exhibitions school he found his love for and facilitate relationships between students, ceramic sculpture. He received faculty and the Sheldon’s collection and staff. a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Berner a focus in ceramics from the Steven Soebbing Pennsylvania State University School of Music, D.M.A. in 2009. He focuses on creating large ceramic sculpture. He is interested in incorporating his Steven is pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts sculpture into staged performances and creating in vocal performance at UNL. He received art communities in the future. his Master of Music in 2009 from UNL and

43 Susan Cogdill Pinewood Bowl and the Lincoln Community School of Music, Ph.D. Playhouse. She has also been a piano teacher at Blue Raven Music Studios in Lincoln. Susan is pursuing her Ph.D. in Music Education in the School of Sean Larson Music, where she also received her Department of Art and Art History, M.F.A. Master of Music Education in 2003. She received her Bachelor of Music Sean is pursuing his Master Education from the University of of Fine Arts in ceramics in the Wyoming in 1996. Susan taught Department of Art and Art choral music from 2003-2010 at Cogdill History. He received his Bachelor Laramie Junior High School in of Fine Arts in ceramics from Laramie, Wyo., where she also directed several the University of Wisconsin- musicals and produced school-wide variety Stout. In 2010, he participated shows. Susan was also the choral director for the in the National Council on Larson University of Wyoming Civic Chorale from 2007- Education for the Ceramic Arts 2009. (NCECA) national juried student exhibition in Philadelphia. His work has also been exhibited Julie Douglass in national juried shows at Bradley University Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, Galleries in Peoria, Ill., and at Terra Incognito M.F.A. Studios and Galleries in La Grange, Ill. His work was also exhibited at the First Annual National Julie is pursuing her Master of Cup Show at the Lux Center for the Arts in Fine Arts in costume design in the Lincoln in 2009. Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film. She received her Andrew Last Bachelor of Arts in psychology School of Music, D.M.A. from UNL in 1984. Julie served as costume designer for Belvoir Andrew is pursuing his Doctor of Terrace in Lenox, Mass., during Douglass Musical Arts in choral conducting the summers of 2009 and 2010, in the School of Music, where where she designed costumes for dozens of he will conduct the Big Red productions. She has worked as a seamstress Singers. He received his Master for more than three years at Fringe & Tassel of Music from Northern Arizona Costumes in Lincoln. She has worked on the University, and he received his Bachelor of Arts in music costume crew, as a set dresser and stage manager Last for productions at Lincoln Northeast High School, education from Luther College 44 in Decorah, Iowa. He was Director of Choral drama with an emphasis in Activities at Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, costume design from Vassar Iowa from 2004-2010. He served as Director College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. of Music at St. Stephens Lutheran Church in After college, Beth completed Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from 2006-2010. From 1997- an 8-month internship with 2002, he was Director of Choral Activities at Pacific Conservatory of the Tipton High School in Tipton, Iowa. In 2010, he Performing Arts in Santa Maria, served as a guest conductor for the Iowa Choral Calif. Since September 2009, Beth Skinner Directors Association Honor Choir Festival. has been working as costume designer for the Shorewood Regina O’Rear High School drama department in Shorewood, Department of Art and Art History, M.A. Wis., considered to be one of the best high school drama programs in the U.S. She also did Regina is pursuing her Master freelance work for several other area schools. of Arts in Art History in the Department of Art and Art Richard Viglucci History, where her areas of School of Music, D.M.A. specialization are modern and contemporary art. Regina will Richard is pursuing his serve as a Hixson-Lied Fellow Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Sheldon Museum of Art. from the School of Music O’Rear She received her Bachelor of Fine in clarinet performance. He Arts from Nebraska Wesleyan received his Master of Music University, where she was the gallery preparator in instrumental conducting for Wesleyan’s Elder Gallery from 2008-2010 and from Northern Arizona a gallery assistant from 2003-2005. She has also University, Master of Music Viglucci served as an Americorps Volunteer at the F Street in clarinet performance from Community Center in Lincoln. Northwestern University and his Bachelor of Music in clarinet performance from the Crane Bethany Skinner School of Music. Richard has served as principal Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, clarinetist with the Evanston Symphony M.F.A. Orchestra and Minot Symphony Orchestra and second clarinetist with the Flagstaff Beth is pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in Symphony Orchestra. He has also taught at costume design from the Johnny Carson School Minot State University as the Director of Bands of Theatre and Film. Originally from Savannah, and Woodwinds and Northland Preparatory Ga., she received her Bachelor of Science in Academy of Flagstaff, Ariz., serving as the Director of Bands and Instructional Guitar. 45 Student Presentation of Scholarly/Creative Activity Grants: Total: $9,930

Spring 2009 Spring 2010 Jen-Kuang Chang Lindsay Carr $500 $700 School of Music School of Music Presentation of composition at the Society of Participation in Regional Competition of Music Composers Conference in Santa Fe, N.M. Teacher National Association in Columbia, Mo.

Nicholas Kenney Summer/Fall 2010 $700 Laryssa Davis School of Music $1,200 Participate in the Music Teachers National School of Music Association’s (MTNA) Regional and National Participate in 17th International Johannes Brahms Brass Competitions in Northfield, Minn., and Competition in Portschach, Austria. Atlanta. Kimberly Minor Summer/Fall 2009 $550 Joseph Mann Department of Art and Art History $600 Present a paper at the Native American and School of Music Indigenous Studies Association Conference in Present at the Music and Moving Image Tucson, Ariz. Conference in New York. Gabriela Praetzel Nettie Locke Rogers $1,700 $1,000 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Present a paper on jazz history at the International Exhibit a ceramic sculpture in the Marge Brown Society for Musid Education World Conference in Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition at the Clay Beijing, China. Studio in Philadelphia.

46 Spring 2011 Meredith Ramsey, Michael Glur- Zoucha and Timothy Paek $1,200 School of Music Undertake a concert tour throughout Nebraska as members of the Ezinma Piano Trio.

Clifford Towner $500 School of Music Present a symposium session and conduct a short work at the College Band Directors National Association in Seattle.

Summer/Fall 2011 The Ezinma Trio outside Sandhills Public Schools in January. Left to right: Michael Glur-Zoucha, Meredith Ramsay and Nels Drue Daily Timothy Paek. Photo courtesy of The Ezinma Trio. $480 School of Music Attend a performance of his composition “5 Poetics” in San Francisco.

Audrey Stommes $800 Department of Art and Art History Participate in the Tel-Art-Show exhibition at the Beacon Art Building in Los Angeles.

47 Undergraduate and Graduate Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grants: Total: $34,171

2009 Edward Sharp John Albrecht $1,895 $1,000 Department of Art and Art History Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Create a video sculpture project using projections, Design and build a set for his senior film project deconstructed televisions, web cameras, and “No Orange.” video effects.

Rosemary Burk Trudie Teijink $1,050 $911 Department of Art and Art History Department of Art and Art History Curate an exhibition of three contemporary Purchase the materials needed for using multiple photographers titled “Vacant Spaces” with an printmaking techniques, including intaglio included catalog and scholarly essay. printing.

Jonathan Goodding Ashley Thiems $1,000 $790 Department of Art and Art History Department of Art and Art History Materials to create art for his thesis project Create an installtion by layering moveable, “Landscape as a communicator of human mood suspended paintings and photographs to and emotion.” represent a disassembled memory.

Michael Huston 2010 $350 Rebecca Aiken Department of Art and Art History $1,600 Research ceramic glazes and hump mold Department of Art and Art History creation, then exhibit the resulting works as part Travel for research and print a photography blurb of a senior capstone. book exploring the idea of nature reclaiming human structures. Josh Johnson $3,500 Allison Frenzel Department of Art and Art History $2,000 Creat and mount a solo exhibition at the Third School of Music Street Gallery on Kittson in Grand Forks, N.D. Present and perform a leading role in the musical 48 “The Last Five Years” in the Sheldon Museum of Yinghua Zhu Art. $4,000 Department of Art and Art History Katelyn Isom Create a large-scale labyrinth created from $850 “walls” made of cut-out words found in the Department of Art and Art History Longman’s Dictionary of English Language. Purchase the materials needed to create a large- scale, multi-canvas painting. 2011 Michaela Bradley Shaun Kiel $675 $2,000 Department of Art and Art History Department of Art and Art History Materials needed to create four to five large-scale Explore perceptions of time through a multi- drawings and small Art-O-Mat pieces. channel digital video installation titled “Five Second Test.” Kyren Conley $900 Amanda Suzanne Levy Department of Art and Art History $1,200 Creation of four to six large-scale paintings and a Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film similar number of small canvases on the “Illusion Rent a Fisher dolly as acting cinematographer on of Flight.” the student film “Savage Sucker Boy.” Jonathan Crosmer Charles Mitchell $1,200 $1,000 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Utilize spectrogram analysis to research variances Produce works in sculpture, printmaking and in viola strings based on string composition and painting to create an exhibition in the Nebraska brand. Union Rotunda Gallery. Rudy Jansen Trent Stork $1,200 $1,000 Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Rent a car mount and different lenses to shoot the Support the set construction and use of short film Kids. Restoration style costumes for the Theatrix production of “Compleat Female Stage Beauty.” Christopher Lyons $600 School of Music 49 Research the life and organ works of Dr. Benjamin three-fourths size, interacting figures. Jepson in the archives of Yale University. Zach Vreeman Meredith Ramsey, Michael Glur-Zoucha and $2,500 Timothy Paek School of Music $510 Examine and catalog the holdings of Randall School of Music Thompson material at the Houghton Library of Record a professional quality CD and submit Harvard University. it along with competition applications for the Ezinma Piano Trio. Patrick Zatloukal $1,000 Meghan Sullivan Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film $1,440 Support the purchase of rights and materials Department of Art and Art History needed in producing the play “Sordid Lives: A Hire models to build three sculptures of multiple, Story in Four Chapters.” Student Study (Domestic or International) Grants: Total: $43,250 Spring 2009 Jessie Cotton Roxanne Reiland $1,500 $2,000 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Study opera at La Musica Lirica in Novafeltria, Study Italian and art history at the American Italy. University in Rome for a semester. Jordan Ellis Summer/Fall 2009 $900 David Boese School of Music $2,000 Receive viola instruction in the Rocky Ridge School of Music Young Artist Seminar in Estes Park, Colo. Study at the Madeline Island Music Camp in Wisconsin on Lake Superior. Sakura Ewer $1,150 Lindsay Carr School of Music $1,000 Study orchestral performance at the Eastern School of Music Music Festival in Greensboro, N.C. Intern in Arts Management at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. 50 Allison Harvey David Boese $1,500 $800 School of Music School of Music Study opear at La Musica Lirica in Novafeltria, Study orchestral performance at the Round Top Italy. Festival Institute in Texas.

Tobin Stewart Adria Caffaro $2,000 $1,500 School of Music School of Music Study in the Advanced Conducting Academy Study opera at the American Institute of Music at the International Institute for Conductors in Studies in Graz, Austria. Bacau, Romania. Elizabeth Deutmeyer Meghan Sullivan $800 $600 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Study in the Opera Works Advanced Artist Serve as studio assistant to three ceramic artists Program in Northridge, Calif. at the Pennland School of Arts and Crafts in Asheville, N.C. Kathryn Hibbard $1,500 Spring 2010 School of Music Corinne Wardian Study dance at the Laban Center for $3,000 Contemporary Dance in London. Department of Art and Art History Participate in the International Student Exchange Melanie Holm Program at the University of Stellenbosch in $1,500 South Africa. School of Music Study opera at the American Institute of Music Summer/Fall 2010 Studies in Graz, Austria. Elizabeth Baquet $500 Jeni Houser Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film $800 Study the film industry at the Summer School of Music Producer’s Institute of the University of Study in the OperaWorks Advanced Artist California, Los Angeles. Program in Northridge, Calif.

51 Steve Kaup Audrey Koch $450 $1,600 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Study at a Music Theory Workshop at the Semester study of art at the Université Paul University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Valéry in Montpellier, France.

Nellie Rivera Chailey Young $1,200 $1,600 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Study music for a year at the University of Semester study of art and Italian in Cortona, Italy. Birmingham in England. Summer/Fall 2011 Michael Schuster Karina Brazas $1,700 $1,500 Department of Art and Art History School of Music Study Christian and Islamic Art and Architecture Study German Lieder and language at the Lied in Damascus, Syria. Austria International in Graz, Austria.

Steven Soebbing Lindsey Clausen $1,500 $600 School of Music Department of Art and Art History Study opera at the American Institute of Music Study slip casting and plaster mold techniques Studies in Graz, Austria. at the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass, Colo. Tobin Stewart $450 Bobby Fuson II School of Music $1,000 Study in the Omaha Symphony Conductor School of Music Symposium. Study Jeff Coffin’s “Big Five” music fundamentals in Nashville, Tenn. Spring 2011 Sarah Anthony Allison Harvey $1,000 $600 School of Music School of Music Semester study of music at the National Study at a Crittenden Opera Studio workshop in University of Ireland at Maynooth. Boston.

52 Melanie Holm Stephanie Schmidt $1,500 $600 School of Music School of Music Study opera at the American Institute of Musical Study at the Summer Academy of the Westfield Studies in Graz, Austria. Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, an outgrowth of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Janny Joo $600 Cristina Ana Vlad School of Music $1,500 Study at the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. School of Music Study music performance and network at the Reagan Lopez SoundSCAPE Program in Maccagno, Italy. $1,500 Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Kirsten Wissink Study at Florida State Theatre Studies Program in $700 London. School of Music Receive teacher training at the Greater Kendall Reimer Washington Suzuki Institute in Falls Church, Va. $600 School of Music Study at a Crittenden Opera Studio workshop in Boston.

Student International Course Travel Grants: Total: $5,700

2011 Allison Holdsworth Geraldine Dobos $1,400 $1,700 Department of Art and Art History Department of Art and Art History Study visual arts in Paris and London with Study in Turkey with Professor Michael Hoff on Associate Professor Sandra Williams. his Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project.

53 Matthew Schaich Audrey Stommes $1,200 $1,400 Department of Art and Art History Department of Art and Art History Study piano performance in Vienna with Hixson- Study visual arts in Paris and London with Lied Professor Paul Barnes. Associate Professor Sandra Williams.

Additional Student Support Total: $38,220 Nebraska Young Artist Awards The Board approved in April 2008 funding of $5,000 annually to augment funding received from the Pepsi Student Endowment and the Senior Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the Nebraska Young Artist Awards (NYAA). The NYAA annually recognize high school juniors from across Nebraska who are talented in the areas of art, music, theatre, dance and film.

Sheldon Graduate Fellowship The Board approved in April 2009 In 2011, the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts funding of $28,200 over three years recognized 70 high school juniors from more than 40 high schools across Nebraska as part of the Nebraska Young Artist Awards. Photo by to fund a graduate assistantship at Greg Nathan, University Communications. Sheldon Museum of Art.

Hixson-Lied Undergraduate Scholarships The Board approved in April 2010 funding of $75,000-$100,000 per year to fund up to 20 awards for in- state students ($1,500 each) and up to 10 awards for out-of-state students ($4,500 each). Recruiting for these scholarships occurred in 2010-2011. The first scholarships will be awarded to students entering in the Fall of 2011 and will be included in the next Hixson-Lied Endowment Three-Year Report.

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