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UNC Charlotte music students Tyrez Dabbs, Mary Layton, Tiffanie Briggs and Adrian Fullerwinder recently competed in the statewide scholarship competition hosted by the North Carolina Branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) and held at UNC Chapel Hill on January 30. Tyrez Dabbs and Mary Layton won second and third place, respectively. The […]

UNC Charlotte will host a Women + Video Games Festival Feb. 15-21 on the main campus. A series of workshops, lectures, panel discussions and video screenings, the festival’s mission is to encourage women and girls to explore game design and programming and to promote a creative gaming culture that is inclusive of individuals regardless of […]

The Department of Music will present a Faculty & Friends Concert on February 8, featuring Associate Professor of Voice Brian Arreola, tenor. The program, which takes place on the Chinese New Year’s Day, is a celebration of music by Asian and Asian-American composers, with songs sung in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and English. Performing with Arreola […]

The College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A) will honor five Distinguished Alumni on Friday, March 18, in the second annual celebration of alumni achievement. Representing each of the five departments of the College, the 2016 CoA+A Distinguished Alumni are Architecture: Terry Shook (1976) Art & Art History: Todd Aldridge (1992) Dance: Mojdeh Henderson (2000) Music: […]

A new book by Associate Professor of Digital Media Heather Freeman has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing. The Moving Image Workshop: Introducing animation, motion graphics and visual effects in 45 practical projects provides an interactive approach to learning how to create captivating animations by presenting examples of independent films, commercial films, and student work. The […]

Congratulations to architecture students Kel Cooper and Nathalie Slobodiuk, who have received diplomas to mark completion of the Masters of Architecture from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. Kel and Nathalie are the first students in the three-year Masters of Architecture II dual degree program that UNC Charlotte […]

A new exhibition at McColl Center for Art + Innovation has been co-curated by José L.S. Gámez, associate professor of urban design and director of City.Building.Lab, and Brad Thomas, an alumnus of the Department of Art & Art History. The multimedia exhibition People/Places/Exchanges: Art as a Visual Voice brings together three artists and one collaborative […]

Dr. Brian Arreola, associate professor of voice and the director of Opera Workshop, will sing the role of Tybalt in Opera Carolina’s production of Charles Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet. The performances take place in the Belk Theater of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center on January 24, 28, and 30. Gounod’s treatment of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy […]

An article by Assistant Professor of Dance Kim Jones is the cover article of the December 2015 issue of Dance Research Journal, published three times a year by the Congress on Research in Dance. The article, “American Modernism: Reimagining Martha Graham’s Lost Imperial Gesture (1935),” chronicles the research process that Jones undertook in 2012 to […]

The Department of Dance welcomes choreographer Christal Brown and a nine-member male ensemble for a one-night only performance of The Opulence of Integrity: A Movement Odyssey Exploring the Life and Legacy of Muhammad Ali on Friday, January 29. This riveting multimedia dance theater work, inspired by the public life and inner searching of boxing’s outspoken […]