In The News

A column by Liz Bertrand for The Charlotte Observer highlights 10 works of art in the Charlotte area, including “Remembrance Stones,” by art faculty Marek Ranis and Tom Schmidt with community and student assistance, created for the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens after the April 30 campus shooting. Read the story here.

Energy Innovation Review features the microalgae window research of Professor Kyoung Hee Kim. Read the full article here.

WFAE 90.7FM radio reporter Gwendolyn Glenn speaks to art history professor Lisa Homann about the newly installed African gallery at the Mint Museum of Art. Homann is an African art specialist and served as the guest curator for the collection exhibition. Read and hear the full story here.

WFAE 90.7 FM environmental reporter Zachary Turner interviews Professor of Architecture Kyoung Hee Kim and graduate research assistant Constance Sartor about the regenerative microalgae window facade system now installed at Innovation Barn. Read and hear the full story here.

WFAE 90.7 FM public radio previews the interdisciplinary research-based exhibition Subcritical, featuring work by Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis in collaboration with Professor of Geology Missy Eppes. Read and hear the story here.

WFAE 90.7 FM public radio reporter Gwendolyn Glenn interviews artist Ayana Ross, whose exhibition, When Two or More Are Gathered, is on view at the College of Arts + Architecture’s Projective Eye Gallery. Read/listen here.

Kristin Rothrock, senior lecturer in art and art history attended the UNC Charlotte sustainability workshop in 2022 and has incorporated sustainability concepts and practices into her classes since. Learn how in this story in Inside UNC Charlotte.

Associate Professor of Art History Lisa Homann discusses The Mint Museum’s newly opened African Art galleries, which she curated, with The Charlotte Post. Read the full article here.

WFAE radio features the Charlotte Strings Collective, which includes CoA+A alumni Alice Silva, Matt Primm, and Malik Johnson and cello professor Mira Frisch. The group got started in August 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. Silva and the other musicians wanted to contribute to the Black Lives Matter movement. They performed a piece virtually […]

James Grymes has a distinguished career as a professor of musicology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The Knoxville News Sentinel interviews Grymes about his book,  “Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust ‒ Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour,” published in 2014.