Alumni Spotlights

Performance Artist, Co-Founder/Artistic Director of OMIMEO Mime Theatre Education:Bachelor of Creative Arts, UNC Charlotte (1979) Hometown:Charlotte, NC Charlotte native and multidimensional performance artist Hardin Minor is a key player in the Charlotte arts scene, embodying countless characters and enlivening spaces throughout the community. In 1978, he and Eddie Williams founded OMIMEO Mime Theatre, which continues to entertain […]

Puppeteer and Variety Performer

Founder/Owner of Form:uLA and Professor of Design Theory at California State University, Fullerton, Orange, CA

Director of Strings, Apex High School (Apex, NC)

Artist/ Lecturer at UNC Charlotte

Director of Charlotte Office, Clark Nexsen

Emeritus Professor of music and Chair of the Department of Music, Winthrop University

Associate Professor, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University Education:Bachelor of Creative Arts, UNC Charlotte (1983)Master of Fine Arts, University of Tennessee (1986) Hometown: Pineville, NC Connie Furr Soloman teaches costume design, drawing, makeup, and the history of fashion in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University, where she […]

Professional Artist

A President’s Excellence in Teaching Professor of Dance and Honors, Associate Head of Dance, and Graduate Dance Director at Texas Tech University/Artistic Director of Flatlands Dance Theatre Education:Bachelor of Arts in Dance, UNC Charlotte (2001)Master of Fine Arts, Choreography, UNC Greensboro (2009)PhD, Dance, Texas Woman’s University (2017) Hometown: Home “region” Virginia/North Carolina Ali Duffy moved […]