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The cd "Red Skies" is currently #2 on the Roots Music Report national radio airplay jazz chart. “Red Skies” is the work of UNC School of Music faculty members: composer/bassist Erik Applegate, Dana Landry, piano; Jim White, drums and Steve Kovalcheck, guitar. More at http://www.rootsmusicreport.com
 UNC Masters Candidate Awarded Senior High Theatre Educator of the Year
Mark Kolokoff, Greeley Central High School’s arts magnet school coordinator, has been named the Senior High Theatre Educator of the Year by the Alliance for Colorado Theatre. With its senior high award, the Alliance has honored the state’s top theater educators for 17 years. Kolokoff is beginning his 14th year at GCHS and his 23rd year in District 6. He graduated from UNC in 1984, and is currently here working on his masters.
Paul Elwood on Tour
Paul Elwood, assistant professor of music, had a very busy summer. First, he played banjo with cellist Michael Kott at a May 4 art opening curated by artist/actor Dennis Hopper at the Harwood Museum of art in Taos, New Mexico. The end of May found Paul in Minneapolis/St. Paul playing a newly-commissioned work for Zeitgeist, a Minnesota-based new music ensemble. From Minneapolis, Paul flew to Marseille, France. He spent a week in a 1,000-year-old church in a medieval village in Provence, recording a CD with saxophonist Raphael Imbert, bassist Pierre Fenichel, and singer Marion Rampal. The recording includes compositions of Thelonious Monk and Albert Ayler, features originals by Elwood, and traditional Appalachian and bluegrass tunes. In July Paul was a featured solo performer at the 4th of July celebration at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in London, at the Consulate General’s residence in Marseille, and at the Festival de Martigues in France. At the end of July Paul joined UNC faculty member Juliet White-Smith and violist Tim Deighton in South Africa, for the premiere of Elwood’s “Capricious Apparitions” for two violas and bowed banjo, before returning to France. Read all about his summer at his website.
 Statewide Arts Education Advisory Network
The Statewide Arts Education Advisory Network will be held on Saturday, October 3rd from 11:00 a.m.– 3:00 p.m. at the Whitman Educational Center in Grand Junction, Colorado. Join regional leaders in arts, arts education and community service organizations for a day of information, discussion, and advocacy. Agenda items will include the 2009 Colorado Council on the Arts study on Colorado’s Creative Economy; Updates from the Colorado Department of Education on the Educational Standards Review; Ronna Lee Sharpe, Cultural Heritage Specialist from the Museum of Western Colorado, and “World Café” open discussion. The Center for Integrated Arts Education (CIAE) was established at the University of Northern Colorado in the Fall of 2006. The mission of the Center for Integrated Arts Education is to provide leadership in achieving quality, comprehensive arts education for all students in Colorado.For more information contact Connie Stewart, Executive Director, CIAE (pictured)
 Online Education with Todd Ehle
R. Todd Ehle, known as “ProfessorV “on Youtube, is an Associate Professor of Violin at Del Mar College, a junior college in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he has taught since 1999. He has more than 6,000 subscribers eagerly awaiting each new Youtube video he makes and has private students that he teaches on-line via webcam. Check out his web site
UNC School of Music Opera students made headlines in Germany in July as performers in several concerts and opera productions. Read all about their trip at the students’ blog: http://arts.unco.edu/blogs/operatheatre/
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 UNC School of Theatre Arts and Dance Alumna Jenny Fellner is in another high profile NYC production: “Fellner, Birnbaum, Arcilla and Cimma Will Rock “Lizzie Borden” in September - A new rock musical adaptation of “Lizzie Borden,” starring Jenny Fellner, will play a limited engagement at the Living Theatre beginning Sept. 10. http://www.playbill.com/
3rd Annual Leadership Institute for Education In & Through the Arts a Great Success - The Center for Integrated Arts Education and the College of Performing and Visual Arts hosted Planning for Sustainability and Quality in Arts Education Programming in June, featuring Peg Portscheller, who spoke on “The Value of Arts Education in the 21st Century” and Lois Hetland, who presented “Qualities of Quality Arts Education: Thinking Skills Taught in the Arts Classroom.” Sessions explored Using Art & Technology for 21st Century Learning and New ideas in the arts & Technology and included workshops with practical classroom applications, as well as sessions on grants and grant writing for technology needs.
The participants partnered with university arts discipline experts to develop an arts plan that addressed the goals of their individual schools or districts. Keynote speakers and panel presentations provided information about sustainable programming, current research in curriculum development and the benefits of quality arts education programs.
Invited representatives from Colorado K-12 schools worked with university personnel to develop 5-year strategic plans and curriculum models for arts and arts integration programs. The purpose of the forum is to support planning and the formation of sustainable educational systems providing quality K-12 arts programs and developing arts integrated pedagogical strategies that promote arts learning and creative and critical thinking throughout the curriculum. Purposes, concepts, and critical issues in the disciplines of theatre, music, visual arts and mixed discipline art forms were discussed and applied.
University of Northern Colorado’s Andrew Svedlow, Ph.D., has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant - his second such award in the past three years from the prominent U.S. international exchange program. Svedlow, dean of the College of Performing and Visual Arts and professor of Art and Design, will lecture and conduct research in Ukraine. From March through May 2010, he’ll deliver graduate-level courses on arts administration, cultural management and creative leadership at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture and the Lviv National Academy of Arts. He’ll also serve as an advisor in helping the academies create graduate programs in arts management.
The College of Performing and Visual Arts is proud to have several individuals from the College serving on the Colorado Department of Education's Colorado Model Content Standards Review Subcommittee: Dr. Mary Schuttler and Gillian McNally in Theatre, Mark Montemayor in Music, Dr. Andrew Jay Svedlow, Dean of the College, Visual Arts. All were selected from hundreds of highly qualified applicants throughout the state to fill these appointments.
UNC’s Little Theatre of the Rockies summer theatre turned 75 years old tin June, making it Colorado's longest running professional summer theatre program. A longtime faculty member in the School of Theater & Dance chronicled the evolution of the program at http://www.unco.edu/news/spotlights.asp?ID=272
Theatre Arts Director Contributes to New Book for Actors
David Grapes, director of the School of Theatre Arts and Dance, is a contributing writer to a new industry book titled "Hit the Ground Running: The First Years of Your Acting Career," by Carolyne Barry.
The book was just published by Creative Entertainment and is currently available at Samuel French, Inc., Amazon.com and other locations. The book offers a definitive step-by-step business plan that is vital for new actors to establish the groundwork and create the path to their career. It provides the business information needed before and in concert with what is presented in most other acting books.
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