Fine Arts Series
Ticketing Information
Unless specified, tickets are available at the Information Center Desk, level 3 of the Union, or by calling (940) 565-3805. Free tickets are available for UNT students with a valid ID and discounted tickets are available for UNT faculty, and staff.
Accommodations
Persons needing special assistance should contact TTY at (800) 735-2989 a minimum of one week in advance of the program.
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UNT Fine Arts Series
The Fine Arts Series began as the Lyceum Series in 1903 when UNT was North Texas Normal College. The series has grown over the past century while never losing sight of its purpose. In all our endeavors we hope to enrich UNT students' lives and provide a higher quality of life here at North Texas. As the Fine Arts Series enters its 109th season, we hope to entertain and educate our campus community by presenting an exciting series of performing, visual, and literary arts events. All UNT Fine Arts Series performances are presented free of charge to UNT students.
Upcoming Guests
Austin Kleon
April 11 - May 6, 2013
UNT on the Square
Gallery Talk and Reception from 4:00pm - 6:00pm on April 11, 2013
“Immersing yourself in Steal Like An Artist is as fine an investment in the life of your mind as you can hope to make.”
—The Atlantic
Austin Kleon is a writer, artist, speaker, and New York Times best-selling author. His work has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS Newshour, Time, The Atlantic, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. Now he’s brought his depth and range of experience as a creator to his new book, Steal Like An Artist, an illustrated manifesto for creativity in the digital age.
Steal Like An Artist is a lesson in applied creativity. It’s based on a list Austin drew up one day of key insights he wishes he’d known when he started out. He boiled them down into pithy phrases: “Steal like an artist”, “Use your hands”, “Creativity is subtraction”, and many more. He turned that list into a talk, the text and slides from the talk “rocked the creative world” and went viral— and since it’s been online, the original blog post has reached millions of readers.
Austin is also the author of Newspaper Blackout, a collection of poetry made by redacting newspaper articles with a permanent marker. His art has been called “brilliant” by New York Magazine and The New Yorker said his poems “resurrect the newspaper when everyone else is declaring it dead.” Austin speaks on creativity, visual thinking, and being an artist online.
Ticket Information
Free, no tickets required
World Premiere of Ahab's Symphony
April 24, 2013 - 8 pm.
Murchison Performing Arts Center
After a critically acclaimed premiere in 2010 of the opera Moby-Dick with the Dallas Opera, renowned composer Jake Heggie was commissioned to compose a new concert work for voices and orchestra also based on Herman Melville’s novel. The Ahab Symphony will go beyond the scope of the opera with particular emphasis on the Ahab monologues and will be a more introspective symphonic work. Its premiere will take place on April 24, 2013 at the Murchison Performing Arts Center and will be performed by the UNT Symphony Orchestra, Grand Chorus, and tenor soloist Richard Croft singing the Ahab monologues.
Ticket Information
Free for UNT Students!
Tickets @ Murchison Box Office
12th Annual Songwriter's Competition
Finalist Showcase April 23, 2013 – 7:30 pm
The Syndicate, University Union
The 12th annual Finalist Showcase of the University Songwriters Competition will present the best student songwriters from UNT. Students will compete for the top prize, an invitation to perform at the Kerrville Folk Music Festival, and an all-expense paid trip to Nashville to record at the London Broadcasting Company’s studios. Students can submit their original works for consideration in March 2013. Selected students will perform in the Finalist Showcase.
Ticket Information
Free, no tickets required
Send submissions to www.kerrville-music.com in March 2013