Painter Dana Clancy (’99) (from left), ethnomusicologist Gregory Melchor-Barz, and costume designer Susan Mickey.

New Directions

CFA has appointed new directors in its schools of music and theatre. Ethnomusicologist Gregory Melchor-Barz joins the School of Music from Vanderbilt University. An author and former opera singer, Melchor-Barz was nominated for a Grammy in 2007 for his work on Singing for Life: Songs of Hope, Healing, and HIV/AIDS in Uganda (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings). The new director of the School of Theatre is award-winning costume designer and educator Susan Mickey. She’s worked with Lyric Opera Chicago, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Huntington Theatre, the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Ga., and HBO. Dana Clancy (’99) (above, left), an accomplished and widely exhibited painter, was appointed director of the School of Visual Arts in fall 2018. More news and events are here.