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An album by the Unhinged Sextet, which includes saxophone professor Will Campbell, director of the UNC Charlotte jazz studies program, has been named a Best Release of 2017 by jazz critic Mark Sullivan in All About Jazz. The album, Don’t Blink, is the second CD by the Unhinged Sextet. It features two original compositions by […]

Adria Focht, the new President & CEO of The Charlotte Museum of History, is an alumna of the Department of Art & Art History. Focht graduated from UNC Charlotte in 2005 with a double major in art (with a fibers concentration) and anthropology (with a focus on archeology). As an undergraduate intern at the Schiele […]

The Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City will present ¡VIVA!, an exhibition of work by contemporary Latin American artists, January 19 through February 25, with an opening reception on January 19. ¡VIVA! is a subset of a larger exhibition curated by Randy Shull and Hedy Fischer from their personal collection. Shull and Fischer […]

Assistant Professor of Scenic Design Tom Burch designed the set for The Hypocrites’ production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, performed at the N.Y.U. Skirball Center in New York City November 29-December 9. The uncoventional production was both previewed and favorably reviewed in the New York Times. The Hypocrites will take Pirates of […]

Assistant Professor of Acting Kaja Dunn appeared as a guest on the radio program Up Close and Cultural on October 31 and November 7 for a two-part conversation about representations of women and women of color in theatre. Hosted by Rachel DeGuzman, Up Close and Cultural, is broadcast on WAYO 104.3 FM from Rochester, New […]

The Department of Music will present the powerful multimedia concert drama, Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, in a single performance on Sunday, December 3, at 2:00 pm, in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. A reception will follow. Praised by the New York Times as “Poignant…a monument to the courage of one man […]

Antoine Williams, an alumnus of the Department of Art & Art History, has received a 2017 Painters & Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. The foundation awards grants annually to 25 “painters and sculptors creating work of exceptional quality.” The artists, chosen by jury selection from a pool of nominees, each receive $25,000. Williams […]

Fans at Saturday’s football game against Middle Tennessee witnessed the birth of a new home game tradition. After each of the 49ers’ three touchdowns, an Air Force ROTC cadet leapt up onto a platform in the end zone and, borne aloft by six other cadets, did push-ups to celebrate the score. The new push-up platform […]

Last month, Director of Bands Shawn Smith conducted the Symphonic Band of Córdoba and the Polifonic Choir of Córdoba in a concert on October 15 at the Teatro del Libertador General San Martín, a beautiful 19th-century opera house in Córdoba, Argentina. Both the band and the choir are publicly funded professional ensembles. The band performed […]

Three students in Professor Jefferson Ellinger’s Graduate Topic Design Studio have taken the top prizes in the 2017 Living Building Challenge-Los Angeles (LBC-LA) Collaborative Student Competition. The international competition invited students to design Pavilion Zero, which is envisioned as the main pavilion for the Los Angeles World’s Fair, if the city hosts the fair in […]