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UM Presents Honorary Doctorate Via Virtual Ceremony
June 12, 2020 – In a sign of the times, the University of Montana presented an honorary doctorate virtually for the first time in its 127-year history. The online honor went to William Yellow Robe Jr., a noted playwright, author, poet and educator.
Theatre and Dance Professor Lara Berich uses their skills to make masks for the community
June 11, 2020 – Lara Berich, Assistant Professor of Theatre, has been interested in performance art most of their life. Berich received a BA in Theatre Performance, Teacher Licensure from Greensboro College and an MFA in Theatre Production, Costume Technology from Boston University. Berich...
UM's Innovation Factory Leads Effort to Assist Montana Reservation with Pandemic Protective Equipment
June 9, 2020 – The tight-knit community that is Montana has pulled together during the pandemic. The University of Montana recently exemplified this by answering a call for personal protective equipment from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, where health care workers and first-responders...
UM grad Emily Graslie jumps from YouTube to PBS in new 3-part series
May 29, 2020 — Science communicator Emily Graslie jumped in a car, hit the road and made the transition from YouTube to PBS.
The University of Montana graduate, now the chief curiosity correspondent at the Field Museum in Chicago, will premiere a three-part series, "Prehistoric Road Trip," on...
Media Arts Alum and Filmmaker to Travel to Mexico on Fulbright Scholarship
May 22, 2020 – Documenting the lives of Mexicans impacted by immigration and teaching her subjects how to tell their own stories is a project University of Montana alumna and filmmaker Alyson Spery knows intimately.
University of Montana Journalism Students Earn Top National Awards
May 20, 2020 — Once again, University of Montana School of Journalism students showed the country what they can do, winning top prizes in regional and national competitions, including in the national Hearst Journalism Awards Program.
The Hearst Awards, sometimes called the college Pulitzer...
MMAC Reopens With Popular Monte Dolack Exhibition
May 19, 2020 – After a two-and-a-half-month closure due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the Montana Museum of Art and Culture at the University of Montana reopened its doors Tuesday, May 19, with strict adherence to safety protocols outlined by the governor’s office.
The museum reopened with its...
UM Journalism School Welcomes Fall Pollner Professor
May 12, 2020 – The University of Montana School of Journalism has named reporter and former attorney E. Tammy Kim the Distinguished T. Anthony Pollner Professor for fall 2020.
Kim will be in residence at the School of Journalism this fall, teaching about the history and institutions of the...
UM students address pandemic through photography classes
May 7, 2020 - University of Montana students are using their photography classes to document the isolation and uncertainty of living through a pandemic. The results surprised professor Matt Hamon, who recently posted the images to social media and watched the “likes” and “shares” roll...
Missoulian: UM's Zootown Cabaret virtual performance
April 30, 2020 – The show must go on” for the Zootown Cabaret, a University of Montana performing ensemble whose members have spent the past several weeks under stay-at-home orders due to the coronavirus transforming their in-person event into a one-of-a-kind virtual show...
Dance Up Close 2020 goes online
April 30, 2020 – Although the COVID-19 pandemic derailed the “Dance Up Close” production at the University of Montana, the School of Theatre and Dance will offer an online opening night for the event today, Thursday, April 30.
Instead of a live performance, join the Dance Program online to view...
Day of Connection Thank You and Wrap Up
April 26, 2020 – We are grateful to everyone who posted and interacted during our first Social Media Day of Connection. Watch our video to see highlights from the event!
Day of Connection Video Announcement
April 16, 2020 - Calling all Creatives to Innovate, Engage, Share. Let’s keep UM connected by flooding the internet with hope and positivity. Join us on April 22 for a Social Media Day of Connection. What is the day of connection? Dean John DeBoer explains in the following video.
Missoulian: UM theater, dance 'had to change everything' to move online
April 9, 2020 – Since the coronavirus pandemic shut down campuses across the country and University of Montana classes moved online, students and faculty have been navigating their new normal of remote college education.
But arguably no other academic cohort on campus has felt the impact from...
UM Dance Students Excel at Regional Conference
March 27, 2020 – The University of Montana School of Theatre and Dance bolstered its standing as one of the nation’s most decorated institutions with another extraordinary showing at the recent American College Dance Association Northwest Regional Conference in Spokane, Washington.
CAM COVID-19 Event Impacts - Message from the Dean
March 13, 2020 - The University of Montana has made the decision to immediately cancel all university sponsored public events for the foreseeable future. Under the guidance of the Governor and the Commissioner of Higher Education, all MUS campuses have been directed to limit the events hosted...
ASUM supports resolution for Music Building renovations
February 1, 2020 - Trumpets, trombones, saxophones and other instruments boomed in the small practice room as the jazz band struck up another tune. Although there were only 17 people playing in the room at that moment, the students had to shout to each other to be heard. Now, imagine 70...
MAM and UM Matrix Press get $100K for contemporary indigenous art
January 26, 2020 - The Missoula Art Museum's exhibitions of Indigenous contemporary art received a significant financial boost recently.
The MAM was awarded a $100,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to fund two years' worth of programming in its Lynda Frost Gallery,...
UM Journalism Student Wins National Recognition for Montana Ranch Documentary
January 22, 2020 -– A University of Montana journalism student received first place in the Hearst Journalism Awards – one of the most prestigious honors for college-level journalism – for his look into Montana ranching.
Jiakai Lou will receive a $3,000 scholarship as the first-place winner in...
Lookout for the latest Griz team at UM: Esports
Grizzly Esports team poses at the December Esports Exhibition, hosted by the Innovation Factory
January 7, 2019 - This fall Esports was officially recognized as a sport on the Universtiy of Montana campus. After advertising the new team at Welcome Feast, a stunning 60 students signed up to...
Journalism student Sara Diggins receives accolades for her work
December 12, 2019 - Raise the roof!! Our Sara Diggins has earned second place in the Hearst Journalism Awards Photojournalism I competition. Sara, the photo editor at the Montana Kaimin, took these photographs on assignment for the Kaimin or as part of her internship with the Missoulian....
Alumnus Seth Dahl named finalist at the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival
December 2, 2019 - High five to filmmaker and 2011 graduate of the University of Montana School of Journalism Seth Dahl, whose latest film, the The Long River Home, was named a finalist at the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival. Dahl came to the J-School after seven years serving in the...
Student work on display for the 2019 Juried Student Art Exhibition
November 14, 2019 - It was a great opening night at the Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition. Congratulations to the UM Art Collective, the artists selected for the exhibition, and all who won awards and honorable mentions. This includes graduate student, Stephanie Dishno, who won the Dean's...
UM Media Arts Grad Student LaNada “Lenny” Peppers Nominated for Nammy
October 31, 2019 - The National Association of Native American Music’s 19th annual Native American Music Awards (NAMA) has nominated University of Montana School of Media Arts MFA student LaNada “Lenny” Peppers for a prestigious Nammy award.
Peppers, from Lame Deer, Montana and a member of the...
Creative Pulse released a new promotional video!
October 10, 2019 - Are you looking for a transformative master's degree? Check out this video about the Creative Pulse Graduate Program in Integrated Arts and Education.
Payne Family Donates $5M for Montana Museum of Art and Culture
October 04, 2019 – From historical treasures of Europe to dramatic art of the American West, the Permanent Collection of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture at the University of Montana represents the deepest holdings of art in the state and is among the oldest in the...
State of the clay: A look into UM's dynamic ceramics program
September 19, 2019 - A voluptuous figure, in a tiny bikini, stood at a glorious 6 feet tall. Her thick skin was smooth and earthy in its tone, her curves rolled and flowed like banks of a river. The woman was something of a dream or maybe a fantasy. With over-the-top proportions, she teased...
Top ten. Again! The J-School makes the Hearst Journalism Awards Program's best-of list
June 6, 2019 - Top ten. Again! The J-School makes the Hearst Journalism Awards Program's best-of list based on outstanding work by our students over the course of the contest year. Congratulations to Eli Imadali, Matt Neuman, Jiakai Lou, and Rikki Devlin for your individual efforts that led to...
Journalism Professor Earns National Journalism Award
April 30, 2019 – Denise Dowling, longtime broadcast journalist, journalism professor and two-time interim dean of the University of Montana School of Journalism, has won a prestigious national award from the Society of Professional Journalists for her radio documentary “Alex, Not Amy: Growing...
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Michael Musick in South Korea
February, 2019 - Michael Musick was invited to participate in Neotopia: Data and Humanity, at the Art Center Nabi in Seoul, South Korea. The focus of the conference was Citygram, a project that captured, visualized, and analyzed soundscapes in order to create accurate, real-time, interactive...
Montana Holds First Arts Integration Conference
February, 2019 - UMArts is proud to serve as leaders in an on-going community partnership in an Arts and Education collective impact project. UMArts and the Creative Pulse, in partnership with SPARK! Arts Ignite Learning, Missoula County Public Schools, Arts Missoula and the Washington...
New West: Art and the Environment Certificate
January, 2019 - New West: Art and the Environment is a new certificate offered through the School of Art beginning spring semester 2020. This immersive experience is for undergraduates and graduates from art and other disciplines and includes learning strategies through research, creative...
University of Montana Dance Program Shines at American College Dance Association Northwest Regional Conference
January, 2019 - Tsiambwom Akuchuand and Noelle Huser participated in the National Festival of the American College Dance Association and the Institute for Dance Journalism Advocacy (IDJA) at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Tsiambwom’s performance was...
Vienna Study Abroad
January 2019 - Every night in Vienna about 10,000 music fans are treated to classical music performances — something unheard of in any other city in the world. We invite you to join us during our Vienna Study Abroad.
Vienna’s musical life is dominated by four monumental performance venues: the...
UM Dance Program Offers Creative Movement Classes for Kids
December 31, 2018 – Every fall and spring, the University of Montana Dance Program offers children’s dance classes for kids ages 3½ to 10.
The classes take place on UM’s main campus in the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center. Spring Session begins Jan. 17 and ends April 11, with March 22...
UM Receives High Honors at Collegiate Opera Competition
November 26, 2018 – The University of Montana Opera Theater and UM Symphony Orchestra continued their winning tradition at the National Opera Association Collegiate Opera Competition recently.
UM’s production of “Julius Caesar” won third place in Division III of the competition, which compared...
Emily Graslie featured for 2019 Odyssey of the Stars
October, 2018 - UM’s College of Visual and Performing Arts is proud to recognize Emily Graslie, Chief Curiosity Correspondent, Field Museum- Chicago, during its 19th annual scholarship event, Odyssey of the Stars—A Celebration of Artistic Journeys.
Emily Graslie, 2011 School of Art Alumna,...
UM Theatre and Dance Graduate Tsiambwom Akuchu Performs at the Kennedy Center
June 18, 2018 - Tsiambwom Akuchu's path to the stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., started with a little research.
Akuchu, who started break-dancing when he was a teenager, says "hip-hop's history is embedded in its movement." You can't separate that history from the moves...
Media Arts Professors Direct Music Video for Jeff Ament of Pearl jam
June 2018 - Media Art’s Professors Mark Shogren and Greg Twigg directed a solo video for Pearl Jam’s bassist Jeff Ament. “Safe in the Car,” features indie singer Angel Olsen and appears on the album Heaven/Hell. In the video, Ament escapes flooding, fires and other natural disasters.
Set...
Montana Rep brings classic 'Mockingbird' to China
May 9, 2017 - Since 1997, To Kill A Mockingbird has been the Montana Repertory Theatre's signature play.
The professional theater-in-residence at the University of Montana took it on a national tour that broke it into bigger markets and established its reputation as a company that specialized in...
CoMotion tackles climate change
July 30, 2016 - If someone suggested you watch artists perform an hour-long dance about climate change, you might shoot them your best “have-you-lost-your-mind” look.
But your curiosity level might be raised, too.
When Karen Kaufmann’s phone rang in February 2015 and the caller asked her about...
UMArts Alum, Arlynn Fishbaugh, recieves Distinguished Alumni Award
July 13, 2016 - One of the most prominent arts administrators in the country, Fishbaugh will retire in September as executive director of the Montana Arts Council, a role she’s held since 1992. Under her leadership, the agency excelled at promoting the arts in Montana by encouraging commerce and...
Lily Gladstone is a star on the rise, but her Blackfeet identity and UM roots keep her grounded
April 1, 2016 - Last February, Rene Haynes was standing in line at a Los Angeles Costco when her phone buzzed. She didn’t recognize the number, but as a Hollywood casting director, she’s used to urgent calls from strange numbers at all hours of the day. This one was from a fellow casting...
Sound inspires dedicated musician born with severe hearing impairment
April 23, 2016 - Emily Silks, a University of Montana percussion performance major, talks recently at her home in Missoula about her career as a musician and the paths that led her there. Silks was born with a rare condition that left her 95 percent hearing impaired, and she couldn't fully hear...
UM Media Arts Students Gain Professional Film Experience
March 30, 2016 - University of Montana School of Media Arts Professor Andrew Smith, working with his twin brother Alex Smith, recently completed principal photography on “Walking Out,” their third feature film set in Montana.
UM Student Documentary Wins Big at Utah Film Festival
January 25, 2016 – A short documentary produced by eight seniors in the filmmaking program at the University of Montana School of Media Arts recently won several awards after its premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
UM Professor Wins Annual Composers’ Competition
March 16, 2016 - Emilie LeBel, assistant professor of composition at the University of Montana School of Music, became the first woman to win the Land’s End Ensemble’s Composer Competition.
UM Professor Thinks Big with Quarter-ton Ceramic Sculptures
March 3, 2016 - University of Montana ceramics professor Trey Hill has been on sabbatical since May, taking the time to explore working on large-scale pieces in the medium. Here, Hill describes a piece in progress in his home near East Missoula.
Missoula Piano Trio Triumphs in MTNA Divisional Competition
January 19, 2016 - The “Missoula Piano Trio”, comprised of UM music majors Adam Sears, piano, and Sarah Harmsworth, violin, along with Hellgate High School cellist David Harmsworth, recently won the Music Teachers National Association’s Northwest Division Young Artist String Chamber Music...
Ivan Morrison: Giving from the Heart
Ivan Morrison (MFA ‘67) considers the community of inspiring friends and mentors he found as a graduate student in the School of Art to be one of the greatest gifts of his UM education. However, it’s a story he hadn’t shared that inspired his generous gift to establish a new scholarship for...
School of Theatre & Dance Alum Selected for Leadership Program
October 1, 2015 - Lily Gladstone, School of Theatre and Dance, BFA 2008, was selected to participate in the 2015 Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) Emerging Leaders of Color Professional Development Program to be held in Denver Colorado on October 26-28, 2015.
WESTAF is a regional...
UM Grad Takes Command of the U.S. Army Band
December 18, 2014 - Colonel Timothy J. Holtan recently became the 10th Leader and Commander of The United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” Washington, D.C. The change of command ceremony took place on December 12, 2014 at Brucker Hall, Fort Myer, Virginia, which is adjacent to Arlington...
Exhibit A: Amy Almquist
UM Theatre and Dance Alumn, Amy Almquist (MFA Directing ‘93), has the national distinction of being the only professional actor working full-time in a prosecutor’s office exclusively to train attorneys in courtroom presentation techniques and persuasive communication strategy. As the Training...
Beth Lo in Korea
Beth lo was one of four american artists invited to create work on the occasion of the 7th annual Gyeonggi International Ceramics Biennale in South Korea held 23 September – 17 November, 2013. The sculptural installation she created, Breath, includes porcelain figures and containers of standing...
Vienna – the City of Music
2014 - Every night in Vienna about 10,000 music fans are treated to classical music, something that is simply unheard of in any other city in the world! We invite you to join the fun during our 2015 Vienna Study Abroad, May 26-July 6.
Vienna’s musical life is dominated by four great monumental...
