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Assistant Professor of Architecture Marc Manack is a guest speaker on two architecture lecture series this fall. On October 26, Manack spoke at the Drury University Hammons School of Architecture in Springfield, Missouri, as part of the lecture series, Impermanence. The lecture, GOOD|FAST|CHEAP focused on the work of SILO AR+D, the practice he directs with […]

Noma Dumezweni, the African-born English actress who recently made headlines as Hermione Granger in the London West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, will narrate the audiobook version of Steeplejack, a new young adult novel by Dr. Andrew Hartley. Hartley, who is the Robinson Distinguished Professor of Theatre, first met Dumezweni when […]

MAX, the Mobile Arts & Community Experience, is in operation this week (October 23-28) in Romare Bearden Park in uptown Charlotte. Beginning with the Open Streets 704 festival on Sunday, October 23, MAX is serving as both a performance space and a community gathering space throughout the week. Each morning begins at 8:30 am with […]

Nadia Anderson, associate professor of architecture and urban design and director of City.Building.Lab, has been invited to present lectures on publicly engaged design at the Technical University of Ostrava (VSB-TUO) and the Architectural Institute in Prague (ARCHIP) in the Czech Republic during the week of October 31. She will also be leading a workshop on […]

Recent music graduate Joey Rincon has been selected as one of only 14 guitarists worldwide to enter the Master in Classical Guitar Performance degree program at the University of Alicante in Spain. The innovative program includes courses in solo guitar performance and technique taught by some of the premiere guitarists in the world, including Grammy […]

Jeanmarie Higgins, assistant professor of dramaturgy in the Department of Theatre, has published an article in the inaugural issue of PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research. The article, “Rehearsal Skirts: Undergraduate Research and Hamletmachine‘s Chorus of Dead Ophelias,” considers the rehearsal and performance practices of the spring 2016 Department of Theatre production of Heiner […]

Department of Theatre Chair Lynne Conner recently published an essay on the dance critic John Martin in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Dr. Conner is an expert on the early years of dance criticism in the United States and has written extensively about the relationship between newspaper dance criticism and the development of the field […]

Department of Art & Art History faculty members Thomas Schmidt, assistant professor of interdisciplinary 3D studio, and Andrea Vail, part-time instructor in fibers, have received 2016-17 Artist Fellowship Awards from the North Carolina Arts Council (NCAC). Schmidt and Vail are among 17 statewide recipients of awards in the field of visual arts/craft. Artists receive the […]

Five UNC Charlotte choral students were invited to participate in the inauguration of Margaret Spellings, the 18th president of the University of North Carolina system. This event took place on Thursday, October 13, at 10:00 a.m. in Memorial Hall on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus; it was broadcast live on WUNC-TV. President Spellings requested the formation […]

Jill Bloede, part-time acting professor in the Department of Theatre, has won the Best Actress award in Creative Loafing’s “Best of Charlotte” edition. The citation reads: “Jill Bloede takes the laurels for her astonishing performance as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. Bloede was such a majestic tugboat from the moment she entered […]