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The College of Fine Arts has launched our online calendar allowing patrons to quickly stay up-to-date on all we having going on throughout the college. It brings us great joy to be able to once again connect through our love of music and the arts by providing timely and accurate information to help you plan ahead for events you might be interested in attending. Get ready for a fun year full of exciting musical and artistic displays featuring the best that Wichita State University has to offer.
We invite the public to participate in any or all of the events we have planned for the coming school year. The CFA Online Calendar of Events is updated daily to quickly reflect any changes or cancellations of planned events. Each event on the calendar has information detailing what the event is about, where the event is being held and, if applicable, a link to the Fine Arts Box Office to purchase tickets.
Stay up to date on the latest College of Fine Arts events!
Deborah Butterfield: A Lifetime of Horses
Dr. Mark Foley is Principal Double Bass of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra; he spends his summers with the orchestra of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder. Recent concerts include appearances with Leon Fleisher, the Saint Petersburg String Quartet, Eugene Friesen, Darol Anger, Wichita’s Chamber Music at the Barn series, and has been a concerto soloist with the Wichita Symphony.
Mark is the founder and musical director of the Knob Festival of New Music, an annual
series of concerts presenting performances of wildly diverse new works by local, national
and international artists.
He holds degrees in music performance from the University of Minnesota, the Eastman
School of Music, and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where his doctoral
thesis brought to light a previously unpublished double bass concerto written in Vienna
at the time of Haydn.
2022 Faculty Excellence Awards
We are proud to announce this year's Mickey and Pete Armstrong Faculty Excellence Awards recognizing meritorious achievements in 3 distinct categories. At the College of Fine Arts Convocation on August 18, 2022 six awards were given to faculty who have gone above and beyond for our college, community, students, or each other. These awards are a way for us to acknowledge their hard work and encourage our faculty to continually improve the world around them. This year’s awardees are:
Irma Puškavrević
Associate Professor of Graphic Design
Jennifer Ray
Associate Director, Associate Professor of Graphic Design
Marco Hernandez
Assistant Teaching Professor of Print Media
Barry Badgett
Associate Professor
Meg Gray
Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy and Graduate Counselor
Bret Jones
Professor and Program Director of Filmmaking