A college student wears a traditional graduation gown with a yellow sash as he smiles for a portrait.

Nicholas Mireles grew up in Georgetown, and would often go to the movie theater on weekends, attempting to catch every new release. As his love of film grew, he started…

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Bryn Shellenback felt most creative as a child when she was drawing her favorite book characters, or playing video games like “Skylanders.” In high school, she took technical animation classes…

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In Colton Neuville's youth, he was drawn to the performing arts. The Euless native joined choir and drama clubs, and set out on a path to pursue the arts in…

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Maggie Lloyd was inspired by superhero media and comics in her youth, as well as animation including “Gravity Falls,” “The Muppets,” “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “Steven Universe.”

A college student wearing a maroon Texas A&M graduation sash smiles for a portrait.

Zoe Nygren has been dancing since she was 4, from ballet and modern to Chinese folk dance. Throughout her dance journey, Nygren said she saw fellow students face injuries that led to chronic pain. It was through those experiences she decided to pursue a career path in physical therapy at Texas A&M.

A college student wears a traditional graduation gown and a maroon sash as she smiles for a portrait.

Bailey Zettler has been dancing since she was 3. In middle school, she choreographed her own dance routines. And she hasn’t looked back since.

Eight college dance students pose for a photo, each wearing a gray shirt and dark pants, and each with a thin black tape strip down their right arm.

Dance students and faculty are heading to Washington, D.C., to present work at the ACDA National College Dance Festival, which begins Friday at Georgetown University and George Washington University.

Award statues painted in gold feature a figure with a computer screen for a head, also wearing sunglasses.

Paintings, animated shorts, game design and research by Visualization students will be among the artistic works featured in the 32nd annual Viz-a-GoGo, starting Wednesday and continuing through Friday at the Rudder Theatre Complex.

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Dance Science students will present 14 new choreographic works during the sold-out Student Choreography Showcase on Friday and Saturday. Sixty students will perform at the Black Box Theater in the Physical Education Activity Program Building, presenting modern, contemporary, jazz, musical theatre, ballet and tap dances.

Three wearing robes perform with shakuhachi bamboo instruments on a stage.

The 2025 World Shakuhachi Festival was a success. For four days in April, hundreds of shakuhachi artists and aficionados traveled from around the world to Aggieland to celebrate the shakuhachi — a traditional end-blown bamboo flute — and its hundreds of years of impact on music and culture in Japan and beyond.