COA+A

A group of architecture alumni have founded a new scholarship endowment for the College of Arts + Architecture in honor of the CoA+A founding dean, Ken Lambla. The 14 alumni were joined by CoA+A Senior Associate Dean (Interim Dean) Lee Gray and Jim Williams of Little Diversified Architectural Consulting in raising $60,000 for the Ken […]

The College of Arts + Architecture is pleased to welcome these new full-time faculty this fall: Department of Art & Art History Lydia Thompson, Chair & Professor Jessica Burke, Assistant Professor / Foundations Anna Kenar, Lecturer Cynthia Frank, Lecturer Department of Dance Kaustavi Sarkar, Assistant Professor Department of Music Jeremy Marks, Assistant Professor / Trombone […]

The College of Arts + Architecture is pleased to welcome Adam N. Justice as Director of Galleries. Justice assumed the position on July 9 and will oversee the artistic operations of gallery spaces in Storrs and Rowe Arts on the main campus of UNC Charlotte and the Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City. […]

The College of Arts + Architecture at UNC Charlotte is proud to announce the world premiere of User Agreement on Monday, August 20, and Tuesday, August 21, at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. User Agreement, by California-based composer Ian Dicke, is scored for soprano, chamber ensemble, and dynamically spatialized audio delivered through a system […]

Professors Jefferson Ellinger (architecture) and Thomas Schmidt (art) have received a 2018 Merit Award in the ArtFields southeastern regional art competition for their installation LED Kintsugi (formerly named Hybrid Skins), created with graduate research assistant Paul Stockhoff. ArtFields took place in Lake City, South Carolina, April 20-28 and showcased work by nearly 400 artists from […]

The College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A) joins the Arts & Science Council (ASC) to present “Celebrating 5 Years of Community Supported Art,” an exhibition of work by local visual artists, at the Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City. The show runs from April 28 through July 28, 2018. The gallery is open […]

Two interdisciplinary projects funded by the College of Arts + Architecture’s Digital Arts (d-Arts) Center will be presented at the end of April. Both projects received d-Arts Faculty Digital Making Grants, designed to actively encourage collaboration among faculty in the CoA+A and the exploration of digital technologies in the arts and design. Presented by dance […]

Hybrid Skins, an installation created by Associate Professor of Architecture Jefferson Ellinger and Assistant Professor of Art Thomas Schmidt, with graduate student Paul Stockhoff, has been accepted into the Artfields 2018 southeastern regional art exhibition and competition. Artfields takes place in Lake City, South Carolina, April 20-28 and showcases work by nearly 400 artists from […]

In 2008, UNC Charlotte established the College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A), bringing the arts and design together in an educational forum that is unique in the Carolinas and rare in the United States. The CoA+A is comprised of five academic units: the School of Architecture, the Department of Art & Art History, the Department […]

The College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A) will honor five Distinguished Alumni on Friday, March 16, in the fourth annual celebration of alumni achievement. The awards ceremony will take place in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall at 11:30 am. The event is free and open to the public. Representing each of the […]