Alumni in the News

With her Fulbright, Poggio (M.F.A., Design, 2006) will head to Guayaquil, Ecuador — a port city known as a gateway to the Galapagos Islands — where she will be working with students at the Universidad de las Artes. Her dream is to empower students and community members to become informed environmental advocates.

Villarreal (B.M., Music and Human Learning, 2016; M.M., Music Education, 2018), Orchestra Director at Berkner High School in Richardson, TX, started planning the program in the fall of 2021 and began the program in Spring 2022. During this first semester, Mariachi Orgullo received a first division rating at the Grand Prairie Mariachi Festival and has performed at various events in the community. The incredible interest from students and the success of Mariachi Orgullo has led mariachi to be offered as a class for the 2022-2023 school year.

Playwrights' Center also announced Tu (M.F.A., Playwriting, 2020) as a 2022-21 Jerome Fellow.

Starbuck (M.F.A., Studio Art, 2017) and Muelhaupt (M.F.A., Studio Art, 2017) are sculptors, materials experts, and educators. Cline (M.F.A., Design, 2016) practices and teaches design. They exhibit furniture, functional objects and art objects.

Letscher (B.F.A., Studio Art, 1985; M.F.A., Studio Art, 1989) is much regarded for his meticulously constructed collages. He sources material from a range of antique papers, discarded notebooks, magazines, photographs, schoolbooks, vintage technical publications, postcards, and record covers

Bellflower's (M.F.A., Playwriting) new play imagines contemporary high school students considering the classic work through the lens of the #MeToo movement.

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).

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.

Fun Home will run from April 22 to May 8, 2022. The production also features scenic design by Iman Corbani (M.F.A. 2019)