Art & Art History

Associate Professor of Print Media Erik Waterkotte has collaborated with artist Nicholas Ruth to create Interstitial, a site-specific graphic installation in the Loggia Gallery at the Unviersity of Dallas. The installation opened March 3 and is presented in conjunction with the 2019 Southern Graphics Council International Conference. It closes April 3. With Interstitial, the artists […]

Department of Art & Art History alumnus Adé Hogue (BFA ’12) was a conference presenter at Adobe MAX 2018 in Los Angeles, CA, in October. Adobe staff requested that Hogue share an hour presentation on his design process and photography work for conference attendees. In his talk, Hogue revealed for the audience how his creative […]

Work by art alumna Carmen Neely (BFA, painting, 2012) was recently featured during Miami Art Week 2018. Neely, who is represented by Jane Lombard Gallery of New York City, participated in Untitled, Art, an international, curated art fair, December 5-9. Originating with Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Art Week now boasts dozens of art fairs […]

Art alumni Laura Knight Beebe (BFA ’13) and Savannah Jackson (BFA ’17) will have their graphic design work featured in the January/February 2019 print edition of Communication Arts. Beebe and Jackson use their talents as art director and junior art director, respectively, at Boone Oakley, a Charlotte advertising agency. Beebe and Jackson provided design, art […]

In 1989, before completing the thesis for her Master of Fine Arts in her native Wrocław, Poland, Maja Godlewska flew to the U.S., bought a Greyhound bus pass, and spent 12 weeks seeing America. She visited 24 states, encountering the landscape and the people. “It was such a positive experience,” she says, “the beauty, the […]

Vibrant Practices: Masquerade in Southwestern Burkina Faso, on exhibition in the Student Union Art Gallery through December 8, celebrates in brilliant photographs and videos the research of art historian Lisa Homann. Homann, an assistant professor in the Department of Art & Art History, specializes in West African masquerade practices from the late 19th century to […]

On October 18, the Arlo apartment building on West Morehead Street held a street festival to celebrate murals created by students from the Department of Art & Art History. The students, under the direction of professors Maja Godlewska and Erik Waterkotte, researched the neighborhood near the apartment building for inspiration and created 10 murals using […]

Three Charlotte galleries are featuring works by UNC Charlotte art faculty this fall. Thomas Schmidt, assistant professor of interdisciplinary 3D art, is showing work at Hodges Taylor Gallery; Andrew Leventis, assistant professor of painting, is featured at Sozo Gallery; and retired professor Susan Brenner is in exhibition at Elder Gallery. The Hodges Taylor exhibition, MAKE/SHIFT, […]

A sculpture by senior art major Erin Nicholas has been chosen for exhibition in the members’ show at the 40th anniversary Tri-State Sculpture Conference, to be held October 25-28 in Greensboro, N.C. Erin’s sculpture, “Deliverance from Anxiety,” will be on view at the Center for Visual Artists gallery at the Greensboro Cultural Arts Center. Erin […]

Works by art professors Andrew Leventis and Thomas Schmidt will be included in a new exhibition opening September 20 at the Mint Museum of Art uptown location. The show, Mainframe, is the Young Affiliates of the Mint’s Third Annual Juried Art Show. It explores the role of technology in society and how technology overstimulation has […]