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SMU's National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) Releases a Report on Fundraising Trends in the field of Arts & Culture

Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship Report shows overall growth in unrestricted contributions, which outpaced both growth in expenses and inflation

September 07, 2016

SMU's Pollock Gallery Presents "The Triple Carbs Society (The Built-in Kitchen of M. Duchamp)," September 10 - October 22, 2-16

Art Opening reception on Sept. 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Pollock Gallery

August 23, 2016

Best Road Trip Ever For SMU Alums Marielle ’10 & Alex McGregor ’10

Alumni Advertising Corporate Communication and Public Affairs Dance Meadows couple met on a bus ride to Mustang Corral

August 23, 2016

Meadows Music Alumna’s Quartet Named Official Fox Artists

Alumni Music Entrepreneurial Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet is first chamber music ensemble endorsed by Fox Products Corporation

August 18, 2016

From South Africa to SMU Meadows: 16 Years of Successes

Music SMU Meadows Professor of Voice Barbara Hill Moore has been traveling to South Africa since 2000 to recruit voice students to SMU Meadows. Over the years she has helped many dreams come true – including her own.

August 11, 2016

Second Annual “From Dijon to Dallas” Exhibition To Feature Andrew Davis (M.F.A. ’16) and Alice Bidault at Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas, August 23 – September 3, 2016

Alumni Art Both Artists Chosen Through Exchange Between SMU Meadows Division of Art and École Nationale Supérieure d’Art (ENSA) of Dijon, France

August 03, 2016

Meadows Alums Help Turn “Creative Solutions” Dreams Into Realities

Tiana Johnson and Jeffery Moffitt are among the Meadows participants in Creative Solutions, helping to empower youths and instill valuable life skills

July 28, 2016

SMU's National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) Launches KIPI Dashboard

Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship New Tool Allows Arts Organizations to Measure Performance Against Peers

July 21, 2016

Meadows Advertising Professor Willie Baronet to Exhibit "We Are All Homeless" Installation at Cleveland Public Library During Republican National Convention

Advertising Exhibition presented by HELP USA to feature homeless signs Baronet purchased from across the country over the past 23 years

July 18, 2016

Meadows Music Education Major Receives 2016 Malcolm Helm Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Music Award to be presented by Texas Bandmasters Association at July convention

July 05, 2016

Musical Chairs: Meadows Trombone Students Win Orchestral Positions

Alumni Music Longtime Dallas Symphony Orchestra principal trombonist and Meadows Adjunct Professor of Trombone John Kitzman prepares students for the symphony life

June 17, 2016

Dallas Theater Center Collaborating with Meadows' Ignite/Arts Dallas to Bring "The Tempest" to Dallas

First project of new Public Works Dallas initiative, developed with Meadows Prize winner Lear deBessonet, will involve community members as actors

June 02, 2016

Karen Brooks Hopkins Named Fellow of National Center for Arts Research at SMU

Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship Former President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music to Serve as Ambassador for Research Center to Arts Organizations Around the Country

June 01, 2016

SMU Meadows To Host "Teaching Jazz Dance" Symposium in Dallas, June 13-15

Dance The symposium will include three days of classes and presentations

May 18, 2016

SMU Grad/Vocalist Maya Jones Gives Voice to Power of Faith, Confidence and Helping Others

Music In her four years at SMU, Jones has made a name for herself not only as a vocalist and dancer but also as a motivational speaker.

May 13, 2016

Meadows Guitar Performance Major Wins National Award from Alpha Chi

Music Benjamin Munson ’16 receives Johnny and Frances Williams Prize in Performing Arts

May 10, 2016

Alumna Michelle Merrill Wins 2016 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award

Music Winners circle includes conductors from New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, among others

May 03, 2016

2016 End-of-Year Awards Given to Outstanding Meadows Students and Faculty

Recipients selected for awards from the University and from the Meadows School

May 02, 2016

SMU Meadows School of the Arts To Present Two Premieres at "Meadows at the Winspear" Benefit Concert, May 11

Dance Music Newly choreographed version of Stravinsky’s "Firebird" and new version of Copland score for "Appalachian Spring" to debut; event to honor community leader Donna Wilhelm

May 02, 2016

Studying Art History On Site in Berlin, Warsaw, Treblinka

Art History SMU Meadows art history grad students travel to historic sites thanks to support from SantanderBank, N.A.

April 28, 2016

Dennis Wees, Senior Voice Performance Major at SMU Meadows School of the Arts, Wins $10,000 Second Prize at International Lotte Lenya Competition

Music Judges call him "a phenomenon"

April 22, 2016

5 Tips on How to Double Major

Can you double major and keep everything in balance? Four Meadows students share their advice

April 20, 2016

Jennifer Armstrong of the Illinois Arts Council Agency Appointed New Associate Director of SMU’s National Center for Arts Research

Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship Armstrong will connect NCAR research findings to the national arts field

April 18, 2016

Creative Computing, 900lbs and the G.I. Bill

Creative Computation David Smith enrolled at SMU after 20 years in the military. With undergrad and graduate degrees in aeronautical science already in hand, the former helicopter pilot is now pursuing art and creative computing degrees at SMU Meadows, thanks to the G.I. Bill.

April 11, 2016

2016 SMU Fashion Week, April 20-22

Journalism Free event features talks by WhoWhatWear co-founder Hillary Kerr and former Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Kate Betts plus annual spring fashion show

April 08, 2016

SMU's ExxonMobil Lecture Series Presents "Madmen to Soulmen – Spirituality in Advertising and the Shift of a Paradigm" Featuring Dr. Galit Marmor-Lavie

Advertising Lecture examines emerging phenomenon of spirituality (not religion) in advertising

April 06, 2016

SMU Debate Takes Top Honors in Tourneys

Corporate Communication and Public Affairs Junior Jaden Warren named top varsity debater in the U.S.

April 04, 2016

SMU's National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) Releases Second Annual Arts Vibrancy Index

Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship Six New Cities Added to the Top 20 Lists of Arts-Vibrant Cities in the U.S.

March 29, 2016

"Above And Below The Surface", Exhibition of Works by Graduating M.F.A. Students in SMU Meadows Division of Art, to be Presented at SMU's Pollock Gallery, April 4-16, 2016

Art Reception with the artists on Friday, April 8, 6-8 p.m. at Pollock Gallery

March 24, 2016

Meadows Community Series Presents the Meadows Jazz Orchestra & Friends at Dallas City Performance Hall

Music Big band and contemporary jazz numbers swing with standout musicians Sato, Horne and Butler

March 24, 2016

Unusual Blend of Baroque and Avant-Garde Results in Commission for Two Meadows Music Students

Music Proposal for classical-contemporary prelude and fugue lands award from the American Guild of Organists

March 22, 2016

SMU's National Center for Arts Research Announces Gifts Totaling $1 Million in 2015

Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship $500,000 challenge grant provided by Donna Wilhelm is matched by individual donors and foundations

March 16, 2016

From Hobbyists to Competition Winners: Young Pianists Grades K-12 Thrive with SMU Piano Preparatory Dept. Training

Music Over the past five decades, the SMU Piano Preparatory Dept. has attracted hundreds of young pianists to its rigorous program. Whether for cultural growth or for competition awards, the program for students in grades K-12 is gaining an international reputation.

March 15, 2016

SMU Meadows Dance Ensemble Presents 2016 Spring Dance Concert, March 31 - April 3

Dance Featuring world premiere of new choreography for Stravinsky’s "The Firebird" by noted Mexican choreographers Claudia Lavista and Victor Manuel Ruiz of Delfos Danza Contemporanea in Mazatlán, and works by Martha Graham and George Balanchine

March 14, 2016

Sofia Bastidas Receives the 2016 Pollock Curatorial Fellowship

Art Experienced cultural producer will curate several exhibitions at Pollock Gallery over coming year

March 09, 2016

SMU's Meadows Awards Annual Meadows Prize To "New Cities, Future Ruins"

New Cities, Future Ruins is an art and design initiative re-imagining the explosive urbanism of Western Sun Belt cities

March 08, 2016

SMU Music Therapy Students Host Weekly Therapy Sessions For Seniors At Presbyterian Village North

Music Music Increases Engagement and Socialization Among Participants with Dementia and Other Illnesses

March 07, 2016

Dallas Chamber Symphony and Meadows School Host Fourth Annual Dallas International Piano Competition at SMU, March 9-12

Music Event includes public master classes by Carol Leone, associate professor of piano at SMU Meadows, and John Perry, professor of music at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto

March 02, 2016

SMU Meadows School of the Arts Students Win Local American Advertising Awards (formerly the ADDYS)

Advertising Senior Mackenzie Cimala wins three gold and two bronze awards, the most of any university student in the competition

February 25, 2016

Book on Pizarro and the Incas by Associate Professor of Art History Adam Herring receives National Honors

Art History "Art and Vision in the Inca Empire" named one of four best art history books published in 2015

February 23, 2016

Internationally Acclaimed Escher String Quartet Returns for Workshops, Concerts

Music Meadows 2015-16 Ensemble-in-Residence to premiere new composition by Meadows student; concerts March 17 & 18 free to the public

February 22, 2016

Meadows Faculty, Staff, Alumni and Students To Give Presentations at Second Annual Dallas Festival of Ideas, Feb. 19-20

Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship Event, themed “The United City,” hopes to map out progressive new future for Dallas

February 16, 2016

"St. Matthew Passion," Bach's Monumental work for Chorus and Orchestra, to be Presented March 6 as part of Meadows Community Series

Music Free performance of “one of the pillars of sacred music” at Highland Park United Methodist Church will feature the SMU Meadows Chorale with the Conservatory Singers and Conservatory Orchestra of the University of Missouri-Kansas City

February 16, 2016

Meadows Receives $10,000 Grant from TACA, the Arts Community Alliance

Awards ceremony on Jan. 25 featured dance alum Parisa Khobdeh as guest speaker

January 26, 2016

National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) releases white paper examining Arts Organizations of color

Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship NCAR study identifies the key differences between culturally specific organizations and their mainstream peers and calls for a more equitable measurement of performance

January 20, 2016