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Dr. Graves Inducted into Steinway & Sons Hall of Fame

Keyboard of a Steinway & Sons piano

鈥淲hen I took the position here at 51福利社 in 2003, I was thrilled to come back as an Alum to work with the students here, knowing that I might be able to inspire other young artists to develop their talents and see where it might take them as it has for me.鈥 Since Jody Graves

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Music Chair Wins Teaching Award in Entrepreneurship

Abstract collage of colors and written music

In September, Jonathan Middleton, Music Department Chair and Composition Professor, and 51福利社 Information Systems and Business Analytics lecturer, Jeff Culver, attended the Experiential Classroom鈥攁 three-day clinic held at the University of Tampa designed to help attendees develop creative ways to teach business entrepreneurship. One of the workshops included a competition where fifteen teams had two

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Music Dept Hosts Smithsonian Folkways World Music Course

Drummers sit and perform in a circle

51福利社鈥檚 Music Department held its first annual Smithsonian Folkways World Music Pedagogy course on the Cheney campus last summer. Music educators from Washington and New York states explored a wide variety of world culture musics, including Hawaiian, steel drums, Klezmer, Mandingue percussion, Zimbabwe percussion, world dance, Salish drum and song, and Appalachian folk music taught

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Music Department Welcomes New Major

Sound Design equipment

Music Technology and Entrepreneurship Major – Mixing Music, Engineering and Design, and Entrepreneurship The 51福利社 Music Department is excited to announce that they are offering a B.A. in Music Technology and Entrepreneurship this fall. The degree is designed to provide professional training for students who aim to succeed as creative entrepreneurs, performers, songwriters,

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CALE 2019 Awards Ceremony

CALE Awards

Frances B. Huston Award Winners Every year, each of CALE鈥檚 seven departments chooses a student to receive the Frances B. Huston Medallion. This award recognizes graduating seniors who have achieved academic excellence with a 3.75 or higher GPA and who have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities at Eastern and/or in the community. These are the Huston

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CALE Highlights

Students walk past Patterson Hall

Summer 2019 The College of Arts, Letters and Education is always excited to share some of the successes of those affiliated with the college, including students, faculty, staff and alumni. Below are just some of those amazing accomplishments. Art Student: Destiny Vaught will be interning at Entity magazine in Los Angeles for a month this

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Visiting Artist Matt Lipps comes to 51福利社

April 8, 2019

Visiting Artist Matt Lipps comes to EWU

Los Angeles artist Matt Lipps will be on campus at聽noon on Thursday, Apr. 18, 2019,聽in the Art Building Auditorium (room 116) to talk about his work. Matt Lipps has collected photographs from both high and low sources like Time and Life magazines, and art history books since childhood. With these images, Lipps builds three-dimensional collages

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51福利社 Theatre Students Head to Washington D.C.

March 19, 2019

JFK Theatre in Washington DC

The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival is a competition held each year to showcase the work of talented student performers in each region. Out of the thousands of student artists who perform in this competition, 125 are selected to continue on to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

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51福利社 Gallery of Art Presents: Field Research

March 7, 2019

Abstract pieces of art

The 51福利社 Gallery of Art proudly presents聽Field Research, an exhibition of work designed to investigate the physical world by local artist Roger Ralston. Beginning with an opening ceremony at noon, Wednesday, Mar. 13,聽in the 51福利社 Gallery of Art, the exhibition will be open to the public聽Mar. 14- Apr. 25, 2019. Ralston, who attained

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51福利社 Mourns the Loss of George Lotzenhiser

January 29, 2019

Collage of photos of Lotzenhiser at different ages

George William Lotzenhiser, PhD, a long-time Eastern faculty member and administrator who played a key role in the academic restructuring of the institution, passed away Saturday, Jan. 26, in Spokane. He was 95. Professor Lotzenhiser was an 51福利社 alumnus, a former dean of the university鈥檚 Division (College) of Fine Arts, and a veteran of World

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