UNK College of Arts and Sciences

10/09/2026

UNK welcomed artist Tim Spurchise to campus, where he presented free glass blowing demonstrations for the public. Students had the opportunity to meet Spurchise and learn about making various glass sculptures in the Fine Arts Building.

10/08/2026

10/07/2026

Students had the opportunity to make ocarinas in the Ponderosa room during the music group K**i Taki’s visit to UNK! The group organized a Music of the Andes educational workshop, giving students the opportunity to play on stage with them. K**i Taki also performed in the Fine Arts Recital Hall later that night.

10/05/2026

Liz Bloomfield recently had the opportunity to present her research-based professional development workshop at the 2026 Nebraska Writing Project Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“I am working on my educational doctorate degree. I’ve been taking classes through the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, and one of those courses included the Nebraska Writing Institute. I purposely selected that class because as an artist, I feel like I need to improve my academic writing. I was excited for the opportunity to blend my skills as an artist and art educator with more academic and writing skills that I’m going to need as I work on my dissertation and my doctorate.

“As part of that Nebraska Writing Institute experience, each student was tasked to develop a workshop where they explored their area of research and presented it to a group of writers. I was presenting to a group of writing instructors primarily with the understanding that they could bring it back to their own classrooms as activities to do with their students. In my workshop, I brought a whole bunch of nontraditional art supplies, like sticks, rocks, yarn, glue and scissors, and we talked about the importance of play and really informal approaches to creative thinking. I allowed the students to engage with those art materials, and then we looked at their creations after the making time was over and wrote about the creative experience of letting go of predetermined ideas about what we need to create and instead, practicing being openly creative and free, and the importance of trusting your instincts as an artist or as a writer.

“I definitely learned from them too. They had some fantastic workshops as well. Some of them dealt with the ability to do more character development. Each person brought their own research area into their workshop. We were introduced to lots of different ideas, and think they do cross contexts really nicely. Like if you think about storytelling, we do that in all aspects of education, whether it be me in the art room or somebody in a history classroom, and of course, the creative and academic writing platforms.” - Liz Bloomfield

10/01/2026

Calling all high schoolers! What are you doing Oct 9?

Discover where creativity, communication, and critical thinking can take you at UNK's Arts & Humanities Day! Explore academic programs in English, History, Theatre, and Modern Languages while connecting with faculty, current students, and fellow prospective Lopers. Experience interactive activities, tour campus, and learn how an Arts & Humanities degree can open doors to careers in education, law, business, media, public service, the arts, and beyond.

Whether you're passionate about writing, performing, history, languages, or simply exploring your options, this event offers an inside look at the opportunities waiting for you at UNK.

Space is limited. Parents and guests are welcome to attend. Register at the link in the pinned post!

09/30/2026

Last week, the Department of Modern Languages hosted more than 100 local high school language learners and their teachers for the 2nd annual World Language Day. Faculty and students gave presentations over the many different language learning opportunities they provide here on campus. 📚

09/23/2026

Klaire Lockheart, Professor in Art and Design, had several paintings from her Brodalisque series feature in a duo exhibition at the William Havu Gallery in Denver, CO.

"Klaire Lockheart’s “Brodalisque” series combines a “bro” with an “odalisque,” depicting reclining dudes in man caves. Detailed oil on canvas figure paintings of passive masculine forms lounging in mysterious and unknowable environments purposefully invoke a historic and academic style of art to challenge the traditional patriarchal values of Western civilization. Even though Lockheart’s paintings feature men, they’re not about men, but art history’s endless parade of undressed women’s bodies rendered by cis-men artists to satiate the male gaze. To counterbalance these arbitrary gender roles, Lockheart painstakingly paints masculine men in the same languid poses of flaccid odalisques, writhing Venuses, and other allegories represented by feminine bodies in countless famous works. Lockheart hopes that when viewers chuckle at her paintings of reclining men, this encourages them to notice the absurd ways women are usually treated in the art world.

"Lockheart is grateful to have received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and the South Dakota Arts Council. Her subversive brodalisque paintings have been published in New American Paintings, DailyArt Magazine, and Bird in Flight. The Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, SD; the Norfolk Arts Center in Norfolk, NE; and the Sioux City Art Center in Sioux City, IA have hosted her recent solo exhibitions. Lockheart is also thankful to be a recipient of the Rural Regenerator Fellowship from Springboard for the Arts so she can continue to work in Vermillion, SD." - William Havu Gallery

09/21/2026

Dr. Jeremy Armstrong recently had his paper, “Scissors Mode in generalized Gross-Pitaevskii Equations” published in the Ukrainian/American journal Fizyka Nyzkykh Temperatur/Low Temperature Physics in the special issue “Opening the Second Quantum Century with the Kharkiv Quantum Seminar,” Volume 52, Issue 9 (September 2026). This work was also presented at the 11th Frontiers of Quantum Mesoscopic Thermodynamics Conference in Prague, Czechia.

“The origin story of the article is kind of interesting. It was originally planned as what’s called a conference proceeding, which means there’s a conference, and people who spoke in the conference can publish a paper, but we couldn’t get it finished in time with that deadline. But my coauthors, two of them are Ukrainian and from the university in Kharkiv, which has been sort of under the siege from Russia since 2022. And in fact, the physics building in their university was probably one of the first buildings to be hit because it’s on the outside of the city on the Russian side. So anyway, they said that there’s a special edition in this low temperature physics journal dedicated for their physics department in Kharkiv University. And so I thought, that sounds like a worthy thing to appear in. So, that’s how we ended up in this journal. And then the article itself has a very sort of esoteric title. Scissors Mode and Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations. But to tell you about the system we studied, you take a very, very cold gas near absolute zero, and you put it in a trap. Lasers confine it, and you just slightly turn that trap. Then inside we are checking if these atoms kind of oscillate back and forth, which is the so-called scissors mode. And according to our calculations, they do. And they do that depending on just how big of an initial kick you give it. If it’s too big, then other things start happening.” - Dr. Jeremy Armstrong

09/21/2026

09/21/2026