2019 College Report

College Report 2019 College of Fine Arts and Communication 4 33 32 a year in rev i ew august 2018 october 2018 december 2018 february 2019 apr i l 2019 june 2019 In the College of Fine Arts and Journalism and Mass Conducted by Grammy winner Te Count Basie Orchestra plays a Chuck Ney is second recipient of Music hosts 10th International Communication hosts their 29th Craig Hella Johnson, Music sold-out show as part of the 30th the Dean’s Seminar Distinguished Piano Festival, culminating with a Communication nearly 400 faculty annual Mass Comm Week, with presents the Texas State Chorale’s anniversary of the Hill Country Jazz Achievement Award, presenting a broadcast by National Public Radio’s and staf welcome 5014 majors and more than 50 industry leaders in performance of Brahms’ German Festival and the 15th anniversary of lecture on directing Shakespeare in From Te Top ; Music students 1594 minors to campus for the fall attendance; Teatre presents a near Requiem ; Eugene Lee performs on the Eddie Durham Jazz Celebration; America; Communication Studies hosts Lynne Alvarado, Jillian Brackett, semester; university enrollment is sold-out performance of Mr. Burns: Broadway in American Son ; the Teatre presents an all-female version its 31st annual COMMWeek; Daniel and Gabryella Carrelli perform 38,644, with students representing a post-electric play ; Dance’s Merge VocaLibre Holiday Concert and A of Shakespeare’s Te Tempest ; Melinda Miller wins the Musical Teatre Award at Germany’s InterHarmony all 50 states as well as 74 countries; Dance Company and Creation In Merry-Achi Christmas enjoy sold-out Villagran coordinates the third Health (for best student-written musical) at International Music Festival while Texas State remains a majority- Motion Touring Ensemble for Young performances; seven faculty earn Scholars Showcase on campus; for the the national Kennedy Center American Annisha Mackenzie is invited to minority campus, with student Audiences perform in Trinidad at Research Enhancement Grants, ffth straight year a faculty member College Teatre Festival, becoming Bulgaria’s Varna Opera Academy demographics of 45.3% white, the 2018 COCO Dance Festival, with the college being #3 in dollars from the college (Tricia Burke) wins theatre’s 16th national champion; and Ivy Cantu is invited to the 37.1% Hispanic, 11.2% African Ruthie Foster thrills a sold-out awarded this cycle; Advertising a Texas State online teaching award; Journalism hosts their 11th National American Institute of Musical American, 2.5% Asian, 1.9% Multi- Supple Music crowd; Lynzy Lab’s senior DeMornay Harper is named the Bobcat Marching Band and Wind Press Photographers Association Studies in Austria; academic units Racial, and 1.4% International; for song “A Scary Time” gets over 150 one of the 50 Most Promising Symphony perform at the College Advanced Storytelling Workshop; host 10 summer camps, attended the fourth straight year the Bobcat million views and she appears on the Multicultural Students for 2018 Band Directors National Association Eugene Lee inducted into the Texas by over 1500 grade school and high Marching Band begins practice with Jimmy Kimmel Live! show. by the American Advertising national conference. Institute of Letters. school students. nearly 350 members. september 2018 College hosts its 4th CoSearch Research Startup Weekend, with an interdisciplinary team capturing 1st prize for a project to bring TeleHealth to school districts to provide medical screenings; Teatre hosts 16th Annual Black and Latino Playwrights Conference and honors Richard Wesley; the Art Gallery hosts New Mexico artist Jill O’Bryan’s "Ground" and "Breath" Drawings; Music faculty on national tour with Conspirare’s Considering Matthew Shepard . november 2018 Teatre presents a sold-out production of Cabaret , which later earns two Top 10 of 2018 accolades; our third TEDx, hosted by Communication Studies, explores the theme of “ReXamine”; Te University Star earns top 10 recognition at the National College Media Convention; Music hosts the acclaimed Attacca String Quartet; National Communication Association selects our Communication Studies M.A. as the 2018 Outstanding/ Innovative Master’s Degree Program award winner. j anuary 2019 Bobcat Promotions conducts a week-long Professional Development tour in New York City; the University Performing Arts series and the School of Art and Design host My Barbarian’s Double Agency , a hybrid of theatre, art, and video; Roseann Mandziuk begins her Fulbright residency at Indraprastha College for Women in Delhi, India; Teatre hosts the Southwest regional conference of the United States Institute for Teatre Technology. march 2019 Journalism and Mass Communication faculty and students team up for SXTXState, their 12th year covering the SXSW Interactive conference; Marian Houser and Michael Burns lead Materials with Intelligence: Powered by CoSearch; Music presents a Star Wars-themed production of Mozart’s Te Magic Flute ; Merge presents Momento a Momento , their 11th annual dance concert; Communication Design alumna Sarah Dodds earns her 5th Grammy nomination for Best Package Design. may 2019 Nearly 60 graduate students earn their master’s degree and nearly 700 students earn their undergraduate degree; Music hosts their 20th annual Feria del Mariachi, premiering a stage show entitled Soy Mexicano ; Ana Baer’s Parakata wins the Mediawave Film and Music Festival Online Competition Award for Best Dance Film and Screens in Hungary; Eugene Lee wins the Helen Hayes Award for Best Lead Actor; Johnny McAllister’s flm Bull premieres at the Cannes Film Festival. july 2018 Nearly 170 students participate in Study Abroad programs in London/Stratford (Teatre), Bedford, England (Dance), Florence/Rome and Beijing (Art), Barcelona/Madrid, London/Dublin, andTokyo/Kyoto (Journalism), and London/Paris (Music/Communication Studies); undergraduate Katie Svatek and M.F.A. student Connor Pate selected for Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive; College caps season of record attendance and revenue with 186 performances attended by 40,727 people and over $278,000 in ticket sales.