Following the same educators over seven years gave the researchers a view of how personal and professional experiences shaped one another. Participants’ histories, relationships and communities influenced how they understood themselves as teachers, as did their ideas about who they wanted to become.
Blythe LaGasse, a professor of Music Therapy and the coordinator of the Music Therapy program in the College of Liberal Arts, has been awarded $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.
A tale of two Draculas as CSU Theatre and OpenStage Theatre Co both produce adaptations of the story this fall.
Moving Through Parkinson’s, a Colorado State University Dance-affiliated community program, presents ‘My Brain Has a Mind of Its Own.’ The new documentary shines a light on the transformative role of movement, dance, creativity and community for people living with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative challenges.
Erin Carignan, an associate professor of theatre in the College of Liberal Arts’ School of Music, Theatre and Dance, has been awarded the 2026 Oscar G. Brockett Golden Pen Award from the United States Institute of Theatre Technology. This award is given annually to “an outstanding publication in the field of design and production for the performing arts.”
CSU Cello Professor, Meredith Blecha-Wells, releases Beyond Words: A Collection of Art Songs for Cello and Piano on Navona Records.
John Pippen, an associate professor of music in the College of Liberal Arts’ School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, has been selected to spend a month at the National Humanities Center this summer.
Colorado State University Theatre students and faculty were widely recognized at the annual American College Theatre Festival regional competition in Pasco, Washington.
The Sharon Prize, a $5,000 annual grant celebrating and supporting women and non-binary artists in Colorado, has been awarded to CSU Dance Professor Grace Gallagher for her innovative contemporary dance work, There is No Planet B, a multimedia performance that fuses art with environmental activism to address the urgency of climate action. This compelling dance and art experience will have its world premiere at the University Center for the Arts at Colorado State University on Nov. 21 and 22, 2025.
Following reviews by a panel of national music educators, Dr. Rachel Waddell, Colorado State University Director of Orchestras, was named one of twenty-five semifinalists for the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum’s Music Educator Award. Dr. Waddell was chosen from a national pool of 2,000 initial nominations and is the only semifinalist from the state of Colorado.
