Jordan College of the Arts

  • JCA starts alumni community

    With seniors getting ready to graduate, a fear exists that they will lose their connection to Butler University. In order to link the Jordan College of the Arts alumni to Butler, JCA created its first alumni community. Instead of designating an alumni group by geographic location or by year of graduation, the JCA alumni club…

  • REVOLUTION! Long in the making, first annual ArtsFest set to open

    The theme of revolution will be at the forefront of various artistic performances and displays in the first Butler University ArtsFest. ArtsFest will feature more than 40 performances and other events between April 18-28. This is the first ArtsFest, which is to become an annual event. It will be used, in part, to honor the…

  • Forecast: Flurry of student recitals over next month

    Perhaps contrary to popular belief, the Jordan College of the Arts’ main musical output is not sweeping symphonies, rousing overtures for winds or even faculty recitals. Student recitals make up the largest percentage of the musical performances offered on campus. Upwards of 50 are scheduled for this semester alone. These performances, interestingly, are often overlooked…

  • Director of US Marine Band to join music faculty in 2014

    The next director of bands at Butler University will be Colonel Michael J. Colburn, currently the director of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. Administrators and faculty in the school of music announced the decision to members of the wind ensemble late last semester, but Colburn asked that no official announcements be made until…

  • Creativity shines in composer’s concert

    Students have a chance to see Butler University’s student composers perform their own pieces this Thursday. The Jordan College of the Arts Composer’s Orchestra presents a concert about once a month, and over fifty percent of the music is composed by the students. Brice Johnson, a graduate composer who plays in the orchestra, said being…

  • OPINION | New online radio should incorporate student ideas

    Butler University will witness the return of a radio station to campus. However, students will not be tuning into their car radios to listen because this radio station will be online. College of Communication faculty members are working on licensing music to play and setting up the station through Butler’s Information Technology department. Mark Harris,…

  • Duo marries music, creativity

    It wasn’t until the couple got married that they realized the music they could create together. They had avoided performing together, but a conversation during their first anniversary got Johannes Dietrich and Marie-Aline Cadieux thinking. And soon, they’ll bring their performance to Butler. The duo follows performances by music professors Kate Boyd, Douglas Spaniol and…

  • JCA moves arts forward

    Butler University’s art college, which has its roots in the Metropolitan School of Music of the late nineteenth century, underwent another transformation this week. The Jordan College of Fine Arts officially changed its name to the Jordan College of the Arts, notifying students and faculty Monday around noon that the change was immediately in effect.…