An Interdisciplinary Arts Community - Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts

Aaron Nix Author

09/16/2024 Added

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At UNL's Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, working across artistic mediums and boundaries is what we do. Learn more about what it looks like to pursue a degree in the arts here: https://arts.unl.edu/

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[00:00:00.000]Interdisciplinarity is such
[00:00:03.000]at the core of what we do
[00:00:07.208]We're all coming with different practices.
[00:00:09.250]Some of us have fine arts, painters, sculptures, installation artists.
[00:00:13.791]Some of us have theater backgrounds, some of us are performers, some of us are
[00:00:18.375]musicians and play instruments and are really thinking about sound.
[00:00:23.500]What we do is so many things at once.
[00:00:26.541]It's really great to be able to do like personal projects,
[00:00:29.875]but also to be able to have like, professional experience in collaborations.
[00:00:35.326]Young people getting into music
[00:00:36.828]have to know
[00:00:37.746]a lot about what they’re doing
[00:00:39.205]and all the different processes that are going on
[00:00:41.875]because the way the world moves today
[00:00:44.711]is that you are going to be quite likely doing all of it.
[00:00:50.833]An acting degree prepares you for anything.
[00:00:53.291]You learn communication skills, you learn organization, time management.
[00:00:57.125]I think it prepares them for artistic disciplines of all kinds.
[00:01:01.666]I'm just a fan of pairing
[00:01:04.875]real world skills with academic
[00:01:07.541]objectives.
[00:01:08.583]One should reflect the other and vice versa.
[00:01:11.905]The nice thing about UNL is that it’s
[00:01:14.407]big enough that there are all kinds of
[00:01:16.367]opportunities and resources to draw from
[00:01:19.579]no matter what kind of project you’re looking at
[00:01:21.748]and what you’re trying to pursue.
[00:01:24.292]I love mentoring the students and
[00:01:27.712]help them get to where they need to be after they graduate.
[00:01:32.208]Our teachers,
[00:01:33.208]they all want the best for us and they all want us to succeed.
[00:01:36.083]They're very encouraging.
[00:01:37.166]And I think that's what's so cool about art is it's so collaborative.
[00:01:40.225]What I want the university to be
[00:01:43.228]is a place where
[00:01:45.522]young people know that they can come
[00:01:47.732]and they can completely thrive
[00:01:50.401]What I love to do is send out musicians that are ready to go on and tackle the world.
[00:01:56.500]Working with the orchestra and the actors and the lighting and,
[00:02:01.125]scenic designer, all of those worlds combining just really gives me
[00:02:04.875]into like, a real glimpse into what I could be doing, professionally.

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