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Inspired decades ago by “The Wiz,” Rory Sheriff is preparing to teach a new generation of theatre professionals.

Jim Novak, 69, is earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art on December 12.

Seven faculty in the College of Arts + Architecture are among the 137 recipients of 2025 Artist Support Grants allocated by the Arts & Science Council. Awarded annually, Artist Support Grants fund professional and artistic development for emerging and established artists to help them enhance their skills, grow their practice and share their creativity with […]

Blaine Brownell will present forward-thinking material strategies for designing and building to withstand disasters.

Associate Professor of Dance Tamara Williams is one of 25 dance artists to receive a Dance/USA Fellowship to Artists. Established in 1982, Dance/USA is the national service organization for dance. Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists recognize dance and movement-based artists from across the U.S. and its territories “who work at the intersection of social and embodied […]

Last month, seven current students and two alumni had the extraordinary opportunity to travel to New York City to perform on a program with professional dancers at the Theatre at St. Jean’s. Dance majors and recent graduates shared the stage with members of Movement Migration, a company founded by Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones […]

An interdisciplinary team of six UNC Charlotte researchers and three local youth arts organizations has received a $500,000 grant from The Wallace Foundation to support an in-depth study of the impacts of arts engagement on youth participants, their families and those who provide the arts programming. Over the course of two and half years, the […]

Professor of Architecture Kyoung Hee Kim began developing microalgae-filled building façade systems years ago, prompted by an environmental science class in graduate school. Knowing algae’s ability to sequester carbon and improve air quality as well as potential uses as food or energy sources, she began to design window installations in which microalgae could grow. The […]

Professor of Art Education Jane Dalton has received the 2025-26 Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Award from the North Carolina Art Education Association (NCAEA). Dalton was recognized at the annual NCAEA Professional Development Conference, which was held in Asheboro, October 9-13. A state affiliate of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), the NCAEA […]

On her first trip to the United States, when she was still a graduate student in her native Poland, Maja Godlewska spent the summer touring America’s national parks. Afterwards, her paintings of actual and imaginary landscapes became her thesis project and launched a lifetime of considering the sublime in nature and our sometimes fraught engagement with […]