Creative Activity
Faculty who created, performed or produced works in the fine and performing arts and architecture, literature, television and film, or digital/software design, July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025. Submitted by faculty, chairs/heads or deans.
Carolyn Barber
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Concert Band, Composer/Conductor Collaborative Residency. Sun Prairie East & West High School Wind Ensembles with composers Kimberly Archer and Will Healy. Sun Prairie, WI.
Conductor, Group Music Performance. Concert Band, International Music Camp Youth Band Residency and Concert. Dunseith, ND.
Diane Barger
Musician, Solo Music Performance. Clarinet, Five Bagatelles by Scott McAllister. International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest®. Omni Ballroom, Fort Worth, TX.
Mary Alice Casto
Curator (with Anna Kuhlman Erdmann)/Planner/Writer. Historic Dress Exhibition, Making an Entrance: Magnifying the Details of 20th Century Design. Robert Hillestad Gallery, Lincoln, NE.
Curator (with Alexis Pappas and Taiwo Bamidele)/Planner/Writer. Historic Dress Exhibition, Apron Tales: Patterns of Resilience and Creativity. TMFD Hallway Display Cases, Lincoln, NE.
Jeffrey Day
Designer, Architecture Project. Conceptual Architectural Design, St. Mary’s Campus Expansion. Actual Architecture Company. Lincoln, NE.
Designer, Architecture Project. Custom House Design, Montana Ranch House: Pinwheel Cross Plan, 3,260 s.f. Actual Architecture Company. Gallatin Gateway, MT.
Designer, Architecture Project. Conceptual Design, Duplex + — An Adaptable Prototype Duplex Home Designed for Aging in Place. Actual Architecture Company. Omaha, NE.
Robert Derr
Artist, Visual Arts Exhibition. Video, Hoi Polloi. Profusion of Colors, A.E. Corner Galleria di Tirano, Tirano, Italy.
Artist, Visual Arts Exhibition. Video, Truth Comes Out. Ibrida Festival, Bologna, Italy.
Artist, Visual Arts Exhibition. Video, Truth Comes Out. SerformanceP – International Performance Art Showcase, São Paulo, Brazil.
Artist, Visual Arts Exhibition. Video, Take My Breath Away. Boundaries, Outhouse Gallery, London, England.
Artist, Visual Arts Exhibition. Video, Tangled. Dear2050: Entangled Forests, Zeughausareal Uster, Uster, Switzerland.
Richard Endacott
Director/Writer/Producer, Film Production. Short Narrative Film, Turn Over. PrairieFest Film Showcase, Grand Prairie, TX; Great Plains Film Festival, Yukon, OK; Depth of Field Film Festival, Sioux City, IA; Vermillion, SD; Vortex Film Festival; Flatwater Film Festival, Seward, NE; Raleigh Film & Art Festival, Raleigh, NC; Louisville Intl Film Festival; Salt City Film Fest, Hutchinson, KS; Rockport Film Festival, Rockport, TX; Skiptown Playhouse Film Festival, Los Angeles; Tennessee Int’l Indie Film Festival, Franklin, TN; Siouxland Inspirational and Historic Short Film Festival, Sioux City, IA; Eastern Europe Film Festival, Craiova, Romania; Ekurhuleni International Film Festival, South Africa; The Festival of Short Film, Manchester, UK; Glowflare Short Film Festival, Yorkshire, UK; Oneota Film Festival, Decorah, IA; Omaha Film Festival, Omaha; StoryMode Independent Short Film Festival, Pueblo, CO; Bare Bones Virtual Film Festival, Muskogee, OK; Southern Oasis Film Festival, Sevierville, TN; More Than Decent Film Fest, Newberry, SC; Snake Alley Festival of Film, Burlington, IA; Pune International Short Film Fest, Pune, India,
Jeffrey Falkinburg
Designer/Director/Producer, Software/Mobile App Development. Engineering Apps, Husker Scope. School of Computing Senior Design Husker Scope 4.0 team. https://www.huskerscope.com.
Dana Fritz
Artist, Solo Visual Arts Exhibition. Photography, Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape. Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS.
Suna Gunther
Performer, Theatrical Production. Operatic role of Susanna, Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). Soo Opera. Sault Ste. Marie and Mackinac Island, MI.
Michelle Harvey
Lighting Designer, Theatrical Production. Play, Broke-ology. Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Copaken Stage, Kansas City, MO.
Sarah Karle
Designer/Writer, Digital Creativity. Archival Data Base, Prairie States Forestry Project Digital Archive. Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. https://prairiestatesforestry.unl.edu.
Brian Kelly
Designer, Digital Arts Exhibition. Digital Visualization, several works created with AI. Month of Modern, Architecture After AI. Boulder, CO.
Designer, Digital Arts Exhibition. Digital Visualization, several works created with AI. Detroit Month of Design, Constructing Futures AI. Woodward Building, Detroit, MI.
Designer, Digital Arts Exhibition. Digital Visualization, several works created with AI. Pratt Institute, Transductions. Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Christina Kirk
Director/Writer, Theatrical Production. Play (World Premiere), A House Divided. The Lied Center for Performing Arts, Lincoln, NE.
Barney McCoy
Director, Television Production. Documentary, Running Towards the Fire: A War Correspondent’s Story. Five Continents International Film Festival, Venezuela; LA Film & Documentary Awards, Los Angeles; New York Film & Cinematography Awards, New York; Crown Point International Film Festival, Chicago; Literature in Cinema, Arte Vivo, Buenos Aires; Beyond Border International Film Festival, Kolkata, India; Symbiotic Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine; Cinematic European Film Festival, Bania, Transylvania; Director’s Screening, Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, KS; Marina del Rey Film Festival, Los Angeles; Frozen River Film Festival, Winona, MN; Beaufort International Film Festival, Beaufort, SC; OneVet OneVoice Veterans Film Festival, Los Angeles; Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Lincoln, NE
Producer, Mixed Media. Radio and Internet, A Reporter from Lincoln Was the Only American Correspondent Executed by Nazis During World War II. Nebraska Public Media. Lincoln, NE.
Alessio Olivieri
Musician and Presenter, Lecture-Recital. Guitar, Valencian Voices: Matilde Salvador’s Art Song for Voice and Guitar. With Elisa Ramon, Soprano. College Music Society Central Chapter Conference. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Alex Renbarger
Artist, Solo Visual Arts Exhibition. Oil Paintings, Artificial Interiors. The Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Richards Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE.
Milad Roohi
Developer, Community-engaged, Applied Resilience Design. Earthquake Resilience Planning for Salt Lake City. IN-CORE Community Partnership. Fix the Bricks Program. Salt Lake City, UT.
David von Kampen
Composer/Arranger, Group Music Performance. SATB Chorus, Every Night When the Sun Goes In. Festival Chamber Choir, Cincinnati May Festival. Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH.
Composer/Director/Musician, Film Score Recording. Chamber Music, You Have No Idea (Music from the Documentary). Apple Music.
Jessica Walsh
Designer/Director/Planner/Writer, Digital Creativity. Website, storytelling, analysis, graphics, Nebraska News Map. newsmap.unl.edu. Lincoln, NE.
Ava Winter
Writer, Literary Publication. Poetry, Transgenesis. Milkweed Editions. Minneapolis, MN.