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The College of Arts + Architecture will join Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I with performances of Benjamin Britten’s powerful War Requiem on April 13 and 14. Britten’s War Requiem was commissioned for the 1962 consecration of the Coventry Cathedral in England, which had […]

The National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), the national accrediting agency for schools of visual art and design and programs of studio art and design instruction, has granted full membership to UNC Charlotte. Gained through an intensive peer review process, membership is granted only to institutions that meet all of the standards […]

Dr. Brian Arreola, associate professor of voice, is reprising the role of Luis Rodrigo Griffith in a current production of the jazz opera, Champion, at the New Orleans Opera, March 9 and 11. Champion, by Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, is based on the true story of world welterweight champion Emile Griffith, who killed boxer […]

Led by Associate Professor of Dance E.E. Balcos and Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams, nine UNC Charlotte dance students participated in the March 4-7 Mid-Atlantic South American College Dance Association (ACDA) festival, held at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Balcos (Contact Improvisation), Williams (Afro-Brazilian Dance), and senior dance major Anna Edwards (Ring Shout […]

The Department of Art & Art History presents an exhibition and auction of work by former professor Roderick MacKillop to support the Roderick MacKillop Memorial Endowments for student scholarships. On view at the Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City, March 9-16, the work will be auctioned at a reception from 6:00 to 9:00 […]

The Department of Dance presents student performers in five diverse works by faculty and guest choreographers in the Spring Dance Concert, March 22-25, in the Anne. R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. Click here for ticket information. New York-based choreographer Netta Yerulshalmy was in residence in the dance department in January, during which she created […]

A group of graduate students from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University, China, have come to Charlotte to work on a joint urban design workshop with students in the School of Architecture MUDD 6102 Advanced Urban Design Studio, led by Assistant Professor Ming-Chun Lee. The students are collaboratively developing plans for […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Catty Dan Zhang’s proposal, “60 mph: Architectural Mediums and Speed Tectonics,” has been selected as a finalist for the $100,000 Wheelwright Prize to support extensive travel and research, sponsored by the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University. The prize is awarded annually “to early-career architects who have demonstrated exceptional […]

In 2008, UNC Charlotte established the College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A), bringing the arts and design together in an educational forum that is unique in the Carolinas and rare in the United States. The CoA+A is comprised of five academic units: the School of Architecture, the Department of Art & Art History, the Department […]

Marc Manack, assistant professor of architecture, has contributed a chapter to The Interior Architecture Theory Reader. The book was edited by Gregory Maninic and recently published by Routledge. In 50 chapters, the book surveys interior architecture, examining history, theory, and production across the fields of interior design, digital fabrication, and spatial installation. Manack’s chapter is […]