The Hastings Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist & Youth Concert on Sunday, February 27, features Hastings College student Maria Pytlik, who was selected as the winner of the Young Artist Competition held earlier this year, and the symphony will play a piece composed by student Benjamin Howie. The concert begins at 3:00 p.m. at the Masonic […]

Hastings College will recognize 24 outstanding young writers from across Nebraska as an affiliate of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards during a virtual awards ceremony on Wednesday, February 23 at 7:00 p.m. The Scholastic Writing Awards program is one of the country’s longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition programs for creative students in […]

Life-long friends with more than a decade of collaboration in the fields of youth engagement, creative arts and community building are bringing The Bridge Project to Hastings college on Wednesday, February 16. Kane Smego and Cj Suitt will host a workshop during the day for students and employees, and public spoken word/hip hop performance in […]

Dr. Thomas J. Reeves, the 12th President of Hastings College, serving from 1985 to 1995, passed away on Saturday, February 5 in Denmark, South Carolina. He was 86. During his tenure at Hastings College, Reeves oversaw construction of the Gray Center for the Communication Arts and the Daugherty Center, and the renovation of several other […]

Sculptural paintings by artist David Andree are being featured in the Jackson Dinsdale Art Center at Hastings College. Titled “Interface Paintings,” the exhibit centers on segmented site-specific paintings that conform their shape to the environment. These painted surfaces record their history through layering. The exhibition is open in the west gallery and will be available […]

Hastings College is showing “We Will Not Be Silent,” a story of hope, empowerment and inspiration chronicling Lincoln (Nebraska) Public Schools fifth graders, at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, February 7 in French Memorial Chapel. The showing is part of the College’s Black History Month programming and is free and open to the public. It will […]

Through the fall semester, the Hastings College forensics team competed in 18 tournaments through both asynchronous and synchronous formats. During the semester, the team qualified 22 events to the American Forensics Association National Speech Tournament (AFA-NST), which will be held at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in April 2022. Highlights for the fall included competing in-person […]

Hastings College has scheduled several activities as part of its Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration on Monday, January 17, 2022. All events are free and open to the public, but note that masks are required in campus buildings. To facilitate opportunities for students and faculty to participate, classes are running on an abbreviated schedule […]

Hastings College has announced the Dean’s List for its fall 2021 semester. For the semester, 386 students from 20 states and eight countries were named to the Dean’s List. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, students must achieve a grade point average of 3.7 to 4.0 scale and be registered for full-time coursework. Students […]

Open Space for the Visual and Performing Arts immersion experience for high school students is expanding for it’s summer 2022 program to include creative writing and speech. The application for Open Space and additional details can be found at hastings.edu/openspace. The immersion programs — one for visual arts and one for performing arts — will […]