Storytelling in pursuit of connection, change and cultural preservation is at the heart of creative research projects being produced by three UNT professors as the 2024-25 Institute for the Advancement of the Arts Faculty Fellows.

Eugene Martin, professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences' Department of Media Arts, will create a feature film titled American Street. It will tell stories of people navigating the financial struggles of the first of the month in the former manufacturing hub of Kensington, Philadelphia.

Molly Fillmore, professor and chair in the College of Music's Division of Vocal Studies, will pursue an interdisciplinary project culminating in a commercially released music album of songs performed in London during the Regency era, roughly 1795-1837.

Grammy-nominated jazz trumpeter Philip Dizack, assistant professor of jazz trumpet in the College of Music's Division of Jazz Studies, will be both composer and a soloist on "Brass Regalia," which will convey a personal narrative of resilience through childhood emotional trauma and sexual abuse, the long-term effects of those experiences and the healing process through eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.