Photographer Alex Turner Featured in Lenscratch

July 9, 2020

MFA alumnus Alex Turner’s Blind River project is featured in Lenscratch.

A musical field experience in New York City

May 12, 2020

At the invitation of the New York Philharmonic Archives, several music graduate students researched the Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), who spent his final years in New York City.

What is research in the arts, exactly?

May 11, 2020

Ellen McMahon is often asked what arts research actually is. Turns out it’s complicated.

Dr. Jennie Gubner discusses new intercultural research program

March 26, 2020

An interview with Dr. Jennie Gubner, the new chair for the Applied Intercultural Arts Research program with the Graduate College.

The Neuroscience of Creativity

January 23, 2020

Andy Belser and Molly Gebrian have researched neuroscience, learning and creativity to discover how to improve how students learn and perform.

Art installation helps communities understand water quality

November 21, 2019

MFA artist Dorsey Kaufmann creates an interactive art installation, Ripple Effect, visualizes water quality data through sound, light and water. The installation was shown in rural mining communities across Arizona.

Composer aims to give audiences sounds with meaning

March 27, 2019

Feature on Daniel Asia, professor of composition, tells his story of musical theory that leads to a catalog of 60-100 compositions.

One dream leads to another for Tammy Dyke-Compton

February 19, 2018

Dyke-Compton is lifted during a rehearsal by former UA dance student Andrew DiGerolamo. (Photo by Ed Flores