JMU Arts Explores Global Partnership with Hansung University in South Korea

Jun 24, 2025: Laying the groundwork for continued international arts collaboration.

Soak up the sun with a good book

Jun 20, 2025: Summer is the perfect time to slow down, unplug and lose yourself in a great JMU story.

Forbes Center Unveils 2025-2026 Masterpiece Season

Jun 18, 2025: A Captivating Collection of Global Talent in Dance, Music, Theatre and Family-Friendly Shows with Tickets Available Starting July 1!

Red Wing Roots Music Festival Receives Circle of Excellence Award

Jun 18, 2025: Recognizing Individuals and Organizations that Enhance and Strengthen the Shenandoah Valley’s Cultural Community

'The fire is still roaring'

May 23, 2025: Twelve years after graduating, alumni rock duo Illiterate Light is more inspired than ever.

Student project offers a model for hub’s future outdoor space

May 22, 2025: Architectural Design studio's vision aligns with the city's revitalization efforts.

A legacy lives on: Celebrating George A. Newman’s publication after 150 years

May 8, 2025: One family's act brought an author's voice back to life, sharing his legacy with the world.

Breeze journalists, ad staff win 26 Virginia Press Assoc. awards

Apr 13, 2025: The Breeze journalists and advertising staffers took home more than two dozen awards — including first place in 12 categories — in the Virginia Press Association’s annual statewide contest.

A magical night for JMU Arts at Carnegie Hall

Apr 8, 2025: A look at the historic performance involving JMU Choral, Dance, and Percussion Areas

Dancing in the rain

Apr 2, 2025: A new scholarship honors community member Lloyd Mast’s legacy through movement at JMU.

JMU Arts to perform at Carnegie Hall for the first time

Mar 4, 2025: A historic event for JMU Arts featuring the JMU choral, dance and percussion areas.

Timeline highlights ‘Black Firsts’ at JMU

Feb 26, 2025: Black pioneers and initiatives paved the way for future generations of Dukes.

Illuminating Ideas: 2025 Sparks Research Symposium Showcases Innovation in the Arts

Feb 13, 2025: Featuring presentations, faculty and student scholarship, and a keynote by Dr. Adérónké Adésànyà.

SMAD racks up nine honors in 2025 BEA awards

Feb 12, 2025: Sixteen students representing all four Media Arts and Design concentrations earned recognition in the 2025 Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts competitions.

New faculty spotlight: Leech brings branding expertise to SMAD

Feb 12, 2025: For more than a decade, Matt Leech has been designing logos and branding for businesses and organizations across Virginia and beyond. Now he's SMAD’s newest Creative Advertising professor.

Creative Research Spotlight: Casting The Great Comet in Shanghai

Feb 10, 2025: "The Great Comet’s" Shanghai debut with STAD professor Kate Lumpkin

Creative research highlight: Dennis Beck

Jan 28, 2025: A look into JMU theatre professor Dennis Beck’s new co-authored research on theatre in East Central Europe

Enriching young lives through the arts

Jan 24, 2025: The Forbes Center brings the arts to over 10,000 local K-8 students in partnership with Any Given Child.

Creative Scholarship Spotlight: Matt Pardo

Jan 23, 2025: Matt Pardo and his producing partner Caitlin Scranton brought an unforgettable blend of art and performance to the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, alongside the legendary choreographer Lucinda Childs.

Graduates of the past change Carrier Library’s future

Jan 15, 2025: Donors make gifts to name the library's entrances.

Positive career outcomes

Jan 13, 2025: While the world of work has changed fundamentally, JMU graduates are fully prepared to succeed.

The Forbes Center welcomes All-star percussionists of the Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble on Jan. 26

Jan 10, 2025: Bridging cultural divides and sparking connection through music

Campus: Then and now

Jan 10, 2025: How Madison’s creative team was able to bring JMU’s dramatic growth over the years into focus.

Study abroad: The world as our classroom

Jan 8, 2025: Opportunities to study abroad were limited for the women of Madison College, but students today enjoy plenty of options.

Celebrating the worlds of Black poetry

Jan 3, 2025: Renowned poets, emerging voices, scholars and educators gathered at JMU for Furious Flower IV.

Illuminating gifts through the years

Dec 17, 2024: Gifts in kind, from ancient Egyptian artifacts to rare, vintage comic books, have shaped the Madison Experience.

If this airplane could talk; JMU X-Labs students bring history to life

Dec 12, 2024: Last year, the First Air Force One Foundation posed a unique challenge to the students in JMU’s X-Labs program: come up with a plan to make First Air Force One accessible to the public. 

ENG 415 students create handmade manuscripts in project-based learning experience

Dec 10, 2024: Professor Mark Rankin’s students utilize aspects of medieval scribal culture.

A Museum Without Walls

Nov 14, 2024: MAC launches digital access to its art collection

Q and A with JMU's Dr. Carole Nash

Nov 13, 2024: Dr. Carole Nash (’83) was recently appointed by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to the board of trustees of the Virginia Museum of Natural History.

As Election Day approaches, Breeze TV gears up for coverage

Nov 1, 2024: Student news organizations band together to prepare for the upcoming election.

There is no place like Home(coming)

Oct 30, 2024: A recap of a winning finish

Conservation photography is about ‘the big picture’

Oct 17, 2024: EMU professor takes close-ups of a world many haven’t seen.

New faculty spotlight: Michelle L. Herman brings interactive design, VR/AR expertise to SMAD

Oct 13, 2024: Michelle L. Herman, SMAD's newest professor in the Interactive Design concentration, brings a vast and deep background in virtual reality and fine arts, as well as professional experience.

MVS speaker builds bridges by ‘arguing joyfully’

Oct 3, 2024: Civil discourse is a practical skill that can be developed.

International Week brings in renowned filmmaker

Oct 3, 2024: Environmental activist Shalini Kantayya was the keynote speaker.

The Madison Art Collection and Furious Flower Poetry Center Collaborate on a Dynamic New Exhibition

Oct 2, 2024: Featuring works from the Art Bridges Foundation celebrating the work of contemporary Black artists

JMU professor receives Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery award

Sep 19, 2024: Laura Katzman, professor of art history, has been awarded the 2024 Director’s Essay Prize for Scholars by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. 

Professor pens best-selling book about bookstores

Sep 13, 2024: Landing on the New York Times list “feels like a lifetime achievement.”

Expecting the (un)expected

Sep 6, 2024: Rachel Garmon-Williams (’10) works to make improv accessible to all at Bridge 9 Theater.

When an alum(not) falls for a JMU alumna

Sep 3, 2024: When Tom Dyer met Robin (’87) and “married into” the JMU community, he didn’t expect he’d become part of it.

Forbes Center welcomes public to free open house Aug. 31

Aug 21, 2024: A free event for all ages with children’s activities, workshops, performances and more.

Alumni kick off Carrier Library fundraising by naming spaces

Aug 16, 2024: Carrier Library memories inspired a few JMU alumni to kick off fundraising efforts for Carrier Library by naming new spaces.

Breeze journalists to compete for national SPJ honors

Aug 7, 2024: The student-run news organization won the "Best All-Around Student Newspaper" in the Mid-Atlantic regional Society of Professional Journalists competition.

Breeze, Breeze TV win 14 Virginia Press Association awards

Aug 5, 2024: Competing against professional news organizations across Virginia, students won 14 awards for journalism and advertising in the annual VPA contest.

Art Education students visit Harrisonburg's Valley Creative Reuse Center

Jul 2, 2024: Dukes were introduced to the creative reuse concept.

Four purple-and-gold reads for the Fourth

Jul 1, 2024: Check out these four titles written by JMU alumni and faculty members.

Volunteers today, leaders tomorrow

Jun 27, 2024: Service-learning at JMU helps students find their purpose.

JMU MFA graduate named VMFA Visual Arts Professional Fellow

Jun 25, 2024: Yulin Yuan (’24M) of SADAH’s MFA program received a 2024-2025 Visual Arts Professional Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra receives 2024 Circle of Excellence in the Arts Award

Jun 24, 2024: Recognizing Individuals and Organizations that Enhance and Strengthen the Shenandoah Valley’s Cultural Community

JMU's Forbes Center announces 2024-25 Masterpiece Season

Jun 21, 2024: The Forbes Center for the Performing Arts at James Madison University has announced its 2024-25 Masterpiece Season lineup.

The Forbes Center for the Performing Arts announces 2024-25 Masterpiece Season

Jun 21, 2024: Celebrating 15 years of artistic excellence!

JMU receives Poetry Foundation grant

Jun 20, 2024: The Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University recently received a $40,000 grant from the Poetry Foundation.

Ethical Leadership and Professionalism from Italy to Africa

Jun 20, 2024: The U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa team shares their advice on leadership and professionalism in an ever-changing workplace with the EUPS 2024 cohort.

Santi Apostoli

Jun 20, 2024: Marisol Powell ('24) writes about her experience living in Florence and visiting the city's most ancient religious sites.

Fostering Innovation in the Middle East

Jun 20, 2024: Alexandra Wilson Tuman ('24) interviews Christina Craver ('12) about her experiences living and working in Dubai, to highlight the benefits and challenges of living and working abroad.

Letter from the Director

Jun 20, 2024: Our alumni survey speaks to how our graduates value their time in this program.

Modeling the Way with Model EU

Jun 20, 2024: Noah Buracker ('24) shares his perspective on serving as the High Representative/Vice President during the 2023 Model EUP Simulation and embracing cultural exchange and international networking.

Bridging Skies and Borders

Jun 20, 2024: EUPS alumna, Liz Hammer ('14), the Chief of Air and Space at the U.S. Embassy in London, shares her insight on professional growth and career development from across the pond.

New downtown mural memorializes professor and birder Charles Ziegenfus

Jun 18, 2024: The artwork pays tribute to the late math professor’s passion for ornithology in Virginia.

JMU faculty partner with African universities through a fellowship

May 28, 2024: Three JMU faculty members received support from the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to partner with African higher education institutions.

History professor awarded 4-VA Grant

May 9, 2024: Fawn-Amber Montoya was awarded a $25,000 grant to support her project “Voces: Centering the Latino/x Experience Through Pedagogy and Research.”

SMAD honors 2024 graduates and scholarship winners

May 5, 2024: SMAD doled out more than $40,000 in scholarships to incoming and returning students and honored top performers from the class of ’24, which started at JMU amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

New CS club brings game development to JMU

May 2, 2024: Computer Science students transform their shared love for gaming into a thriving community of creativity, innovation and camaraderie.

JMU ArtsMobile to mark a new era of creative engagement in the Shenandoah Valley

May 2, 2024: Celebrating the intersection of art and the Shenandoah Valley.

JMU international students and faculty travel to Washington, D.C., for the 2024 Cherry Blossom Festival

Apr 30, 2024: At the end of March, a group of more than 30 JMU international students and faculty hopped on a bus and traveled to Washington, D.C., to experience the annual Cherry Blossom Festival.

Charting a new course

Apr 25, 2024: A collaborative approach enhances the 14th Annual Interdisciplinary African, African American & Diaspora Studies (AAAD) Conference.

CHBS professor leads Psychology student in unique FYRE project

Apr 19, 2024: Health sciences professor Asmita Mhaskar formed a mentorship with freshman Emily Hoder through the FYRE program, where they research an interesting cross-disciplinary iniquity on music and health.

JMU prepared music producer for the big time

Apr 19, 2024: Scott M. Riesett (’93) took home a 2024 Grammy for the Broadway cast recording of “Some Like It Hot.”

Inaugural Elev8 Ethics speaker navigates 'catastrophe ethics'

Apr 18, 2024: Author, speaker and bioethicist Travis Rieder encourages finding the common ground between saving the world and giving up.

JMU Brass Band makes history with championship win

Apr 15, 2024: The win marked the first time a collegiate band has claimed the highest division of the competition.

Jeweler Emily Warden (’17) urges students to trust themselves, learn all they can

Apr 12, 2024: For Virginia-based jeweler, success comes from creativity in work and in life.

The Madison Art Collection selected to partner with The American Alliance of Museums

Apr 5, 2024: An exciting step towards accreditation for the MAC