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By Melody Songer Melody Songer is an art major and journalism minor. A student this semester in the Installation Art class with Carmen Papalia, she wrote this article for a journalism class with Professor Cheryl Spainhour. On the first day of Installation Art class at UNC Charlotte, students sit in their plastic, paint-ridden chairs in […]

The Department of Music will honor retiring professor and former department chair Dr. Royce Lumpkin at the Faculty & Friends Concert on Monday, October 16. Lumpkin came to UNC Charlotte in 1998 as the second department chair in the history of the music department, leading the program for 15 years. He will retire in December […]

The Department of Dance will welcome choreographer Marcus White for an intensive residency October 14-21 at UNC Charlotte. During the residency, White will set a new work on dance students and will also offer open workshops on urban street and social dances and dance for the camera. The new work that White develops with students […]

Voice professors Brian Arreola, tenor, and Carl DuPont, bass-baritone, will perform in the Opera Carolina production of Cyrano in November. A contemporary opera that premiered in 2007, Cyrano is based on the French play, Cyrano de Bergerac, and was composed by David DiChiera, with a libretto by Bernard Uzan. Arreola, the director of the Department […]

AGA Collaborative, the trio of choreographer-performers that includes Associate Professor of Dance Gretchen Alterowitz, will perform at the SHIFT | DANCE Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on October 20. AGA Collaborative will perform win. place. show., a work that they premiered at UNC Charlotte in February 2017. Running approximately 55 minutes, win. place. show. investigates […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Marc Manack and students from his summer studio will travel to Chicago this month to participate in the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Over the summer, the studio designed an installation in response to research by Archeworks, a Chicago-based lab dedicated to public interest design. Their challenge was to translate the research into […]

Two UNC Charlotte architecture alumni, Miyuki Tsujimura, AIA (Bachelor of Architecture, 2013) and Chuck Travis, FAIA (B.A. in Architecture, 1982) were honored this fall at state conventions of the Americans Institute of Architects (AIA). Tsujimara received the Associate Member Individual Honor Award at the 2017 AIA Florida Convention in Naples. Tsujimara has been at Hoy+Stark […]

Dr. Zhongjie Lin, associate professor of architecture and urbanism, has written an essay for the forthcoming book, SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey, which will be published in October. Lin’s essay, “Conflicts and Re-adaptation: Introduction to East Asia,” is also the introductory essay for a large survey exhibition of Brutalist architecture, on view November 9, 2017 […]

Lila Quintero Weaver, creator of the award-winning graphic novel Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White, is in residency at UNC Charlotte this week, September 25-29, working with students in the departments of theatre, art, English, and education. Her visit to Charlotte, where she is also leading classes at Vance High School, initiates the Framing […]

UNC Charlotte alumnus Adé Hogue (BFA Graphic Design, 2012) has been selected by Print magazine for its annual “New Visual Artists” issue. Hogue was selected by the national publication as one of “15 creatives under 30 who are shaping tomorrow’s design landscape.” He will be featured in Print’s Fall 2017 issue. Founded in 1940 as […]