Vol. 4 Ed. 32 | April 27, 2017

Faculty and student kudos!

 Burke Staunton with her jewelry. Photo by Andrew Ross.

Congratulations to MFA photography student Langley Anderson and BFA studio major Burke Staunton for their inclusion in the Floyd Center for the Arts "New Voice" Exhibition. This show allows regional emerging artists to display a significant body of artworks. Anderson is showing her microscopy images and Staunton is showcasing her jewelry and metalsmithing work. The exhibition runs until June 3.

Faculty, along with graduate and undergraduate students, represented Radford University at the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Regional American Music Therapy Association Conference in Rochester, New York. Actively involved with the Town Hall meeting and the update of the Masters Level Entry for the profession was Professor Jim Borling. Assistant Professor Trish Winter was vice president for conference planning. Julie Neal, assistant professor of music, served as past president of the conference and was a panelist for a student session called “Ask a Professional.” Graduate students Wei Lo and Melinda Korte presented during the conference, and undergraduate music major Shelby Reynolds participated in a poster session.

Meredith Bowen, assistant professor of music, presented “Sacred Music from the Convents of Seventeenth-Century Italy: Restoration Practices for Contemporary Women’s Choruses” at the 2017 Women Composers Festival of Hartford in Hartford, Connecticut.

The Berklee College of Music accepted music major Missy Caton into their Global Entertainment and Music Business Program in Valencia, Spain. This former IBLA intern will spend a year studying the international view of the music business.
 
Z.L. Feng, professor of art, opened a new watercolor exhibition at the Beihang Art Museum, organized by the Beijing Institute of Culture and Art Communication. This international show in Beijing, China, features over 60 artworks by Feng.

Sheldon Johnson, assistant professor of music, successfully defended his Doctor of Musical Arts’ dissertation at the University of South Carolina on the political suppression of the saxophone. Congratulations, Dr. Johnson!

Sarah Michalec ‘17, MFA in Design Thinking graduate, recently had her research “The Built Environment in Cancer Treatment Facilities: Anxiety and the Patient Experience” accepted into the Design Principles and Practices Research Network's twelfth international conference held at the Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona, Spain in 2018.

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