Residencies bring professional performing and visual artists, composers, creative writers, and filmmakers to the UCA campus for one or more days for the purpose of expanding student learning experiences. They offer the general student body exhibits, lectures, performances, readings, and screenings that enlarge awareness and appreciation of the arts, and provide students participating in the arts with master classes, presentations/discussions, and workshops that enhance understanding and professionalism.
The UCA Artist in Residence program is funded by the UCA Student Arts Fee. At UCA, we believe that a rich and vibrant arts culture is valuable and necessary to the education of all students, regardless of major or background. All events are located on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway, AR 72035, unless otherwise specified. All events are free to UCA students and open to the public (no reservations/tickets are required unless otherwise specified).
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Dr. Gayle Seymour at gayles@uca.edu or (501)-450-3295.
SPRING 2024
KIMBERLY COLE LUEVANO | clarinet | JAN 16
Kimberly Cole Luevano fulfills multiple callings in life: clarinet performer, chamber music collaborator, teacher/educator/advisor, university administrator, wife, mom, and daughter, amongst many other roles. With reviews such as “a most skillful artist” (Fanfare Magazine), “breathtaking…” (The Clarinet), “virtuosic tone and technique”(Tampa Bay Times), “exceptionally sensitive and introspective rendition” (The Clarinet), she has presented acclaimed solo and chamber performances, adjudicated, taught at festivals, and presented masterclasses on four continents. Former students have been prize-winners in international competitions and occupy performing, teaching, and music industry positions throughout North America. Currently Professor of Clarinet and Chair of the Division of Instrumental Studies in the College of Music at the University of North Texas, Luevano relishes her work with UNT’s diverse, talented students and colleagues. Luevano joined the UNT faculty in 2011, taught at the Interlochen Arts Camp for nine years, and has served the International Clarinet Association as Pedagogy Chair and coordinator of their High School Competition. With pianist Midori Koga and soprano Lindsay Kesselman, she forms the trio, Haven (www.haventrio.com), and her numerous recordings can be found on most streaming platforms. Luevano plays and endorses Selmer Paris instruments and is a D’Addario and Company Performing Artist. She resides in Corinth, Texas with her husband and savors time spent with her two college-aged sons and her spirited border collie.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Kelly Johnson, Department of Music
Arkansas Clarinet Day – Public Panel Discussion: “Diversity in Music”
Jan. 16, 2024 | 9:45-10:45 am | Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts
Arkansas Clarinet Day – Public Performance: Kimberly Cole Luevano Clarinet Recital
Jan. 16, 2024 | 1:40-2:30 pm | Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts
Arkansas Clarinet Day – Clarinet Master Class
Jan. 16, 2024 | 1:40-2:30 pm | Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER | blues, jazz, music advocacy | FEB 7
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Matt Taylor, Department of Music
Master Class with Jazz at Lincoln Center Musicians
Feb. 7, 2024 | TBD | , Concert Hall, Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts
Public Concert: Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents Songs We Love
Feb. 7, 2024 | 7:30 pm | Reynolds Performance Hall. Ticket information TBD.
EUGENE HERNANDEZ | film direction and Sundance Film Festival direction | MAR 5-6
Faculty Sponsor: Mark Thiedeman, Department of Film, Theatre, and Creative Writing
Public Event: Dialogue with Eugene Hernandez: “Negotiating Film Festivals in a Changing Independent Landscape” with screening of selected Sundance Shorts, curated by Hernandez
Mar. 5, 2024 | TBD | Bridges-Larson Theatre, Snow Fine Arts Center
Student-focused Public Workshop: “Reaching your Film Audience”
Mar. 6, 2024 | TBD | Stanley Russ Hall 103
Student-focused Public Workshop: “Being Original in Filmmaking”
Mar. 6, 2024 | TBD | Stanley Russ Hall 103
NATHAN RABALAIS | Cajun filmmaking, francophone poetry, musicologist, guitar | MAR 11-12
Part of “Our Louisiana Heritage in Arkansas”
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. K. Adele Okoli, School of Language and Literature
Class Visit and Q&A with FREN 3315 Students (The Creole Atlantic)
TBD | TBD | TBD
Class Visit with Music Students: Guitar demo and Q & A on Cajun and Creole musical traditions of Louisiana folk culture
TBD | TBD | TBD
Welcome Reception for Nathan Rabalais with poetry reading in French
Mar. 11, 2024 | TBD | Historic Arkansas Museum
Public Lecture with Guitar Performance and Poetry Reading in French
Mar. 12, 2024 | 1:40-2:30 pm | Windgate Center Lecture Hall 167
Documentary Film Screening: Finding Cajun (dir. Nathan Rabalais; 52 min.), talk-back with UCA French faculty, and reception
Mar. 12, 2024 | 7:30 pm | Windgate Center Concert Hall
SUE SCHROEDER | dance, arts activism and CHRISTIAN MEYER | video projection, installation, film | MAR 21-28
Part of the Eclipse Festival Series
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Gayle Seymour, CAHSS
1830EST: Artists Talk (Live Stream) a brief moment of alignment with Sue Schroeder, Wanda Eason, Hannah Hanshaw, Aida Quinterro Kuettle, and Nakeya Palmer
Mar. 21, 2024 | 6:30 pm (CST)
Open Dress Rehearsal: a brief moment of alignment, a new dancework by Sue Schroeder in collaboration with filmmaker and composer Christian Meyer, with Conway performers Wanda Eason, Hannah Hanshaw, Aida Quinterro Kuettle, and Nakeya Palmer
March 27, 2024 | 7:30 pm | Reynolds Performance Hall
Pre-Performance Reception and Public Performance: a brief moment of alignment, a new dancework by Sue Schroeder in collaboration with filmmaker and composer Christian Meyer, with Conway performers Wanda Eason, Hannah Hanshaw, Aida Quinterro Kuettle, and Nakeya Palmer
March 28, 2024 | 7 pm | Reynolds Performance Hall
RUSSELL CROTTY | drawing | MAR 28-APR 6
Part of the Eclipse Festival series
Faculty Sponsors: Brian Young and Nakeya Palmer, Department of Art and Design
On View: Russell Crotty, The Art and Science of Astronomy
Mar. 28-April 26, 2024 | Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts Art Gallery
Russell Crotty Gallery Talk
Apr. 4, 2024 | 3:30 pm | Windgate Gallery
Russell Crotty Gallery Talk
Apr. 6, 2024 | 3 pm | Windgate Gallery
MORTON BROWN | public art consultation/management | APR 1-4
Part of the Eclipse Festival Series
Faculty Sponsor and Grant Writer: Gayle Seymour, CAHSS
STEAM Workshop for English Language Learners with Morton Brown and Math/Physics faculty
Apr. 1, 2024 | TBD | Morrilton Intermediate School
STEAM Workshop for students with speech-language impairment with Morton Brown and UCA Art/Math/Physics faculty
Apr. 2, 2024 | TBD | Carolyn Lewis Elementary School
Class Visit: Contemporary Media
Apr. 3, 2024 | TBD | TBD
Public Lecture: “Inflatable Public Art, LUNA the Eclipse Superhero,” by Morton Brown
Apr. 3, 2024 | 7 pm | Windgate Center Lecture Hall
Eclipse Kick-off Event with Sean Ardoin and LUNA the Eclipse Superhero, designed by Morton Brown
Apr. 4, 2024 | 1:40-2:30 pm | Estes Stadium
SEAN ARDOIN AND THE KREOLE ROCK AND SOUL BAND | Creole and Zydeco music | Apr. 2-4
Part of the “Our Louisiana Heritage in Arkansas” Series
Part of the Eclipse Festival Series
Part of the Windgate Collection Concert Series
Faculty Sponsors: Paige Rose, CAHSS and Amanda Horton, Windgate
Public Presentation: Redefining Traditional Zydeco Music
Apr. 2, 2024 | 1:40-2:30 pm | Windgate Center Concert Hall
Class Visit and Q&A with FREN 3315 Students (The Creole Atlantic)
Apr. 3, 2024 | 1-1:50 pm | TBD
Community Zydefit Extravaganza
Apr. 4, 2024 | 1:40-2:30 pm | Estes Stadium
Public Concert: Sean Ardoin and the Kreole Rock and Soul Band
Apr. 4, 2024 | 7:30 pm | Windgate Center Concert Hall
MICHAEL DAUGHERTY | music composition | APR 21-24
Multiple GRAMMY Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty has achieved international recognition as one of the ten most performed American composers of concert music, according to the League of American Orchestras. His orchestral music, recorded by Naxos over the last two decades, has received six GRAMMY Awards, including Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2011 for Deus ex Machina for piano and orchestra and in 2017 for Tales of Hemingway for cello and orchestra. Current commissions for 2020 include new orchestral works for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Omaha Symphony and a concerto for violinist Anne Akiko Meyers who will give the world premiere with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center in 2021.
Michael Daugherty was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1954 and is the son of a dance-band drummer and the oldest of five brothers, all professional musicians. As a young man, Daugherty studied composition with many of the preeminent composers of the 20th century including Pierre Boulez at IRCAM in Paris (1979), Jacob Druckman, Earle Brown, Bernard Rands and Roger Reynolds at Yale (1980-82), and György Ligeti in Hamburg (1982-84). Daugherty was also an assistant to jazz arranger Gil Evans in New York from 1980-82. In 1991, Daugherty joined the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance as Professor of Composition, where he is a mentor to many of today’s most talented young composers. He is also a frequent guest of professional orchestras, festivals, universities and conservatories around the world.
Daugherty’s music is published by Peermusic Classical/Faber Music, Boosey & Hawkes and Michael Daugherty Music. For more information on Michael Daugherty and his music, see his publisher’s websites.
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Michael Hancock, Department of Music
Dress Rehearsal: This Land Sings, Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
April 21, 2024 | 7-9 pm | Windgate Center Concert Hall
Presentation/Discussion: The Chamber Music of Michael Dougherty
April 22, 2024 | 1:40-2:30 | Snow Fine Arts Recital Hall
Public Concert: This Land Sings, Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
April 23, 2024 | 7:30 pm | Windgate Center Concert Hall
Wind Ensemble Concert
April 24, 2024 | 7:30 pm | Windgate Center Concert Hall