College of Arts and Media News Archive
The Marshall University Jazz Studies program will present the 51st Winter Jazz Festival Feb. 21-22 in Smith Music Hall, featuring guest performances by Monika Herzig and the fusion artists The Time Flies, along with local jazz bands and school ensembles.
The Marshall University School of Music and the Central City New Music Series will present Central City New Music #4, featuring the Norwegian jazz band Friends & Neighbors, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, at Smith Recital Hall on Marshall’s Huntington campus.
The Marshall University School of Art and Design presents its 9th Annual National Juried Exhibition, which will be on view Monday, Feb. 17, through Friday, March 13, in the Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery inside Marshall’s Visual Arts Center at 927 3rd Ave. The public is invited to attend an awards reception for this exhibition from 5-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, at the gallery. Awards will be announced at 5:30 p.m.
The Marshall University School of Music will present “Strings Attached,” featuring Marshall faculty members Dr. Elizabeth Reed Smith on violin, Dr. Şőlen Dikener on cello and Dr. Júlio Ribeiro Alves on guitar.
Marshall University’s W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications (SOJMC) is seeking nominations for its upcoming Hall of Fame class.
The Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum at Marshall University announced this week the winners of the 2020 Black History Poster Competition.
Vice Adm. Dr. Jerome M. Adams, Surgeon General of the United States, and Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, chair of the history department at Harvard University, will each headline one of more than a dozen major events in observance of the 2020 Black History Month at Marshall University and in the Tri-State area.
The Marshall University School of Music will host a visit from Metropolitan Opera singer Yohan Yi. He will give a master class to Marshall University voice students, which will be open to the public for viewing and a ticket-free event.
The Marshall University School of Music will continue its lecture series, MUsic Mondays, at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, at the Cellar Door, 905 3rd Ave. in Huntington. The 2019-2020 series, titled “The B List,” is exploring composers whose surnames begin with “B,” culminating in the fall of 2020 with an all-Beethoven series to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
The Patricia “Patty” Green Graduate Strings Scholarship has been created in honor of Green, a past violin faculty member at Marshall University and beloved teacher to generations of Huntington residents.