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Alum-directed Project Brews Coffee from Canal Water at Venice Biennale

Categories: News Tags: Architecture

Sean Gallagher ’00 of DS+R is the project director for the award-winning Canal Café.

Art Professor Receives Artist Exchange Grant for Research in Ghana

Categories: News, Research Tags: Art & Art History

Professor of Art Lydia C. Thompson has received a Lighton International Artists Exchange Program award for travel to conduct research in the West African country of Ghana. Founded in 2000, the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program (LIAEP) provides support for mid-career visual artists and arts professionals “who create work of exceptional quality” to travel internationally, bringing foreign […]

Art Professor Receives International Excellence Award from OEA

Categories: News Tags: Art & Art History

Aspen Hochhalter, associate professor of photography in the Department of Art & Art History, has received the 2025 International Excellence Award from the UNC Charlotte Office of Education Abroad (OEA). The award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to promoting global engagement and enriching education abroad experiences for Niner Nation.  Hochhalter has […]

Nationally Traveling Exhibition Co-curated by Art History Professor Opens at New Orleans Museum of Art

Categories: News, Research Tags: Art & Art History

Lisa Homann, Ph.D., co-curated New African Masquerades and co-edited the catalogue.

From Beyoncé to Three Bone, Bringing Skill and Collaboration to Production Arts

Categories: News Tags: Theatre

Madison King’s tech and design skills are valued on stages large and small.

Architecture Graduate Pushes Boundaries

Categories: News Tags: Architecture

Even on the fast-track to licensure, Franklin Bell has had the freedom to experiment and explore.

In Award-winning Course Students Solve Global Challenges Brick by Brick

Categories: News, Research Tags: Architecture

What if the design of a brick could reduce the spread of malaria? That question lies at the heart of the course “Building Health: Resilient Building Materials for Global Health & Sustainability.” Cross-listed between architecture and civil engineering and developed collaboratively by architecture professor Liz McCormick and civil engineering professor Brett Tempest, “Building Health” challenges conventional architectural […]

Interdisciplinary Seminar Considers the Relationship Between Sound, Space and the Body

Categories: News, Research Tags: Architecture, COA+A, Music

Architecture professor Rachel Dickey and music professor Jessica Lindsey presented their unique course curriculum at a recent national conference.

CoAA Students Find Rewarding Jobs as Teaching Artists with Local Arts Organizations

Categories: News Tags: Art & Art History, COA+A, Dance, Music

Students in the College “make a difference” while earning valuable experience and income.

Event Fuses Art, Science and Climate Inquiry to Uncover Hidden Stories of Earth’s Fractured Landscapes

Categories: News, Research Tags: Art & Art History, COA+A

“Subcritical” is a multi-sensory exhibition, book launch, reception and public conversation on April 4.