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Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts

Never seen on camera, Sophia Stueven, a May 2023 Carson EMA graduate, keeps movie goers dazzled by the special effects. Stueven works for Lola Visual Effects and has worked on films including "Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning Part One" and "Barbie."

Carson EMA grads get opportunity of a lifetime through Lola partnership

July 25, 2023

Conrad Burgos, J. Bird Lathon and Eboni Zamani

Black Public Media fellows finish Carson Center residency

July 21, 2023

Last year’s first cohort of the Black Public Media Residency at the Carson Center included Rae Phillips (second from left), Andrea Walls (second from right) and Johannes Barfield (right), shown with emerging media arts students and faculty Ebben Blake, Da

Black Public Media wins $40K grant to support Carson Center residency

June 27, 2023

Hank Stratton

Arizona’s Stratton named Carson School Director

June 22, 2023

Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts (CEMA)

First four-year Emerging Media Arts cohort to graduate

May 17, 2023

Students listen as Jeff O’Brien leads a special topics discussion in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. O’Brien recently received the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Exceptional Service Award for his unwavering support for Professor Richard Endacott.

O'Brien receives award for exceptional excellence

May 12, 2023

The Nebraska Coast Connection presents The Hollywood Salon Comes Home on Monday, May 8 at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.

Nebraska Coast Connection presents 'The Hollywood Salon Comes Home' May 8

May 5, 2023

Melanie Coombs

IGNITE to feature filmmaker Coombs April 28

April 26, 2023

The UNL Dance Program presents its annual Evenings of Dance concerts April 20-23 at the Lied Center’s Johnny Carson Theater. Photo by Jordan Patt.

Evenings of Dance is April 20-23

April 17, 2023

See the works in progress of emerging media arts and theatre students at the Carson Open Studios event on Dec. 9.

Carson Open Studios event Dec. 9

December 7, 2022

Students and faculty from the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts had the opportunity to tour Disney Imagineering with Mikhael Tara Garver as part of their trip to Los Angeles to attend the Infinity Festival-Hollywood. Courtesy photo.

Carson Center students network in Los Angeles

November 30, 2022

Science & Technology

Pat Hazell and Teresa Ganzel

Hazell, Ganzel return for Carson Lecture Series program Oct. 30

October 26, 2022