Fort Smith man wins EMMY

Kevin Croxton, music composer, sound designer and music instructor from Fort Smith has won an EMMY Award from the National Academy of the Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Northwest Chapter. The EMMYs were held May 30, in Seattle. Croxton won the EMMY in the category of Craft Specialty – “Musical Composition/Arrangement” and held two of the four nominations for the category.

Croxton’s winning entry was for a short undersea film called “The Secret Weapon.” He was also nominated for a short undersea film called “Attack of the Sea Slugs.”  Both films, which gained top honors at undersea film festivals around the world, were broadcast as segments for an undersea television program in Washington State.

Croxton recently finished scoring a documentary about the life and architecture of Fay Jones, former Frank Lloyd Wright student and designer of the famed Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs. The documentary, shown at the dedication of the renamed “Fay Jones School of Architecture” at the University of Arkansas, will be broadcast on the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) around the end of this year. Croxton and wife, Karen, and son, Aaron, live in Fort Smith. Croxton teaches elementary music in the Van Buren Public Schools.