Art & Art History

Each year the UNC Charlotte Department of Art & Art History partners with the McColl Center for Art + Innovation to provide a special educational experience for students through hosting a shared Artist-in-Residence. The McColl artist joins a UNC Charlotte faculty member to teach a spring semester course, culminating in programming in Rowe Galleries and […]

Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis is one of 15 artists featured in the exhibition of the Arctic Arts Festival in Harstad, Norway. The international exhibition, Subsistence, is on view June 24 through August 5 at Harstad’s Galleri NordNorge. Created through a collaboration between the Northern Norway Arts Museum and Anchorage Museum (Alaska), Subsistence examines […]

UNC Charlotte is pleased to announce that the family of Roderick MacKillop, a former professor in the Department of Art & Art History, has established three endowments at the University in his memory. The endowment funds will support student scholarships and a bi-annual exhibition of alumni work in the Department of Art & Art History, […]

Dr. Lisa Homann, assistant professor of art history, will present a paper and chair a roundtable discussion at the 17th Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) Triennial Symposium on African Art, to be held August 9-12 at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. Dr. Homann has been conducting research […]

Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis has joined London-based psychology scholar Tim Lomas and the Anchorage Museum (Alaska) to develop a multidimensional community-engaged art project that explores unique words from many languages. Named Cafuné (the Brazilian Portuguese term for the act of running a hand through a loved one’s hair), the project is based on […]

UNC Charlotte art student William Lee won a public art commission from the City of Charlotte GovPorch project to create an interactive installation at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center Plaza on Fourth Street. Lee’s installation, “Resonances,” is made of wood, steel cable, and electrical metallic tubing and is inspired by Gandhi’s concept of communal harmony and […]

The Art Education program in the UNC Charlotte Department of Art & History will presents its third annual contemporary art integration symposium, “ART CONNECTS 2017: Embracing Change,” on Saturday, April 29. The symposium will be held at UNC Charlotte Center City, with a closing reception at program partner McColl Center for Art + Innovation. ART […]

A new exhibition at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation features work by three artists, including Associate Professor of Art Mary Tuma. Tell Me More: Unique Perspectives on Our Collective Human Experience opens with a reception on Friday, April 14, and runs through May 27. Curated by Mark Leach, Tell Me More presents works […]

A new show of paintings by Associate Professor of Art Maja Godlewska will open at the New Gallery of Modern Art in Charlotte with a reception on Friday, March 31. “The Ultimate Landscape” runs through May 6; Godlewska will speak about the work at an Artist Talk on April 22. “The Ultimate Landscape” features large-scale […]

As part of Outliers: The Art of Printmaking, an exhibition at the Westobou Gallery in Augusta, Georgia, Assistant Professor of Print Media Erik Waterkotte and part-time faculty Anna Kenar were invited to create a site-specific installation in the gallery windows. Outliers was organized by Chadwick Tolley of Augusta University in conjunction with the 2017 Southern […]