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The Department of Theatre has received the North Carolina Theatre Conference’s 2018 University/College Award. The North Carolina Theatre Conference (NCTC) is a service and advocacy organization that supports the theatre industry in North Carolina. Each year, the NCTC Board of Directors presents awards to companies, schools, and individuals that have exhibited leadership roles in their […]

Voice student Chrystle Mactal performed on December 6 in the World Music Asian Concert at Kent State University in Ohio. At the invitation of Dr. Priwan Nanongkham of the Kent State School of Music, Mactal sang two kundiman, art songs from the Philippines: “Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran,” by Francisco Santiago, and “Mutya Ng Pasig,” by […]

Work by art alumna Carmen Neely (BFA, painting, 2012) was recently featured during Miami Art Week 2018. Neely, who is represented by Jane Lombard Gallery of New York City, participated in Untitled, Art, an international, curated art fair, December 5-9. Originating with Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Art Week now boasts dozens of art fairs […]

In Spring 2018 a studio of fifth-year architecture students, led by Professor Deb Ryan, developed a “Millennial Plan” for Charlotte. Their plan is a vision for the future of Charlotte that is based on research into Charlotte’s history, research of best practices in other municipalities, and input from Charlotte residents, with particular focus on the […]

The Department of Dance welcomes visiting artist Janet Schroeder to UNC Charlotte this week to teach master classes and audition students for a work for the Spring Dance Concert. Schroeder will return to campus in January as a visiting professor and will teach three courses in addition to the Spring Dance Concert practicum. Schroeder is […]

In partnership with the Levine Museum of the New South, Assistant Professor of Urban Design Ming-Chun Lee and UNC Charlotte students will help Charlotte residents discover the stories behind the rise and fall of Eastland Mall and its surrounding neighborhood at an event on Saturday, December 8. The event, “Being a Historian for a Day,” […]

Art alumni Laura Knight Beebe (BFA ’13) and Savannah Jackson (BFA ’17) will have their graphic design work featured in the January/February 2019 print edition of Communication Arts. Beebe and Jackson use their talents as art director and junior art director, respectively, at Boone Oakley, a Charlotte advertising agency. Beebe and Jackson provided design, art […]

The University Chorale, under the direction of Dr. Randy Haldeman, will perform a holiday concert on Monday, December 3, at 7:30 pm in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. Divided into three themed sections – “Ghosts of Christmas Past,” “Ghosts of Christmas Present,” and “Ghosts of Christmas Future,” the program features beloved traditional […]

In 1989, before completing the thesis for her Master of Fine Arts in her native Wrocław, Poland, Maja Godlewska flew to the U.S., bought a Greyhound bus pass, and spent 12 weeks seeing America. She visited 24 states, encountering the landscape and the people. “It was such a positive experience,” she says, “the beauty, the […]

Vibrant Practices: Masquerade in Southwestern Burkina Faso, on exhibition in the Student Union Art Gallery through December 8, celebrates in brilliant photographs and videos the research of art historian Lisa Homann. Homann, an assistant professor in the Department of Art & Art History, specializes in West African masquerade practices from the late 19th century to […]