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Marta Sanchez celebrates the 30th year of Cascarones Por La Vida, a grassroots organization that has created handprinted confetti filled eggs with the community to assist families affected by HIV/AIDS

April 27, 2022 | NBC Philadelphia

Sanchez (B.F.A., 1981) also shares the art and philanthropy through the folkloric Mexican Cascarones offers an example of how important art is to the fabric of our society. 

Marta Sanchez celebrates the 30th year of Cascarones Por La Vida, a grassroots organization that has created handprinted confetti filled eggs with the community to assist families affected by HIVAIDS

The world premiere of Dwight Bigler's (D.M.A., Conducting, 2006) new composition for choir and orchestra, "Mosaic for Earth," took place at Virginia Tech Moss Arts Center

April 27, 2022

The recording will be released on the Tonsehen label in both audio and video formats. "Mosaic for Earth" weaves together music, literature, visual arts, and science into a celebration of nature and exploration of humanity's impact on it. 

The world premiere of Dwight Biglers D.M.A., Conducting, 2006 new composition for choir and orchestra, Mosaic for Earth, took place at Virginia Tech Moss Arts Center

Ariel René Jackson's "A Welcoming Place" will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art

April 27, 2022 | MoMA

The film premiered at Women & Their Work in January 2022. MoMA will present the video in New York along with other single-channel works by Jackson (M.F.A., Studio Art, 2017), Bentonville Forecast: In the Square (2019) and Descendance (2021).

Ariel Ren Jacksons A Welcoming Place will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art

Thomas Dempster appointed to Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts (ASMSA)

April 27, 2022

Dempster (M.M., Composition, 2004; D.M.A, 2010) previously founded the music program at ASMSA in 2018 and has since brought the program to regional recognition and acclaim for its innovative curriculum and student achievements. He also had a work premiered by members of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra at an ASO River Rhapsodies chamber concert. The work, Canticle of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, premiered on March 1, 2022 at the Bill Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, AR. The piece was commissioned by the Arkansas Symphony and its principal bassoonist.

Thomas Dempster appointed to Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts ASMSA

Designing New Futures

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Building Better Facilities

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Simone Leigh (b. 1967). Sentinel IV, 2020. Bronze. 128 x 25 x 15 inches. Photo by Paul Bardagjy

Engaging the Senses

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

A couple standing outdoors looks into the camera smiling