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Professor of Piano Dylan Savage was the featured guest in Episode 122 of the podcast Enhance Life with Music, which aired on January 25. In the interview, he explained how the skills necessary for learning music effectively are transferable to many settings and situations throughout one’s life. The topic is explored fully in Savage’s book, […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Catty Dan Zhang has won first prize in the Pamphlet Architecture competition, an international competition that will award Zhang a $5,500 honorarium to develop her proposal and the opportunity to produce the next book in the Pamphlet Architecture series. Founded in 1978, Pamphlet Architecture is one of the most prestigious architecture […]

Shakespeare in Action, an interdisciplinary initiative housed in the College of Arts + Architecture and guided by faculty in the Theatre and English departments, has organized a semester-long case study of Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice. Beginning with a lecture on February 2 by Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare Studies Andrew Hartley, Shakespeare and […]

A new book published this month by University Press of Florida includes a chapter by Associate Professor of Dance Karen Hubbard. Hubbard’s “Valuing Cultural Context and Style: Strategies for Teaching Traditional Jazz Dance from the Inside Out” appears as Chapter 15 in Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century, edited by […]

Assistant Professor of Voice Sequina DuBose, lyric soprano, will sing the role of Donna Elvira in Opera Carolina’s upcoming production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Performances will take place February 3, 5, and 6 at the Belk Theater in the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. It is DuBose’s debut in the virtuosic role of Giovanni’s spurned lover. […]

Thirteen paintings by Assistant Professor of Art Andrew Leventis will be in exhibition at the Mint Museum Uptown, January 14-May 8, in the museum’s Constellation CLT series. The series celebrates work by local artists, spotlighting three artists each year. The exhibition, Andrew Leventis: Contemporary Vanities, features work created since the pandemic began, photorealist still-life oil […]

Associate Professor of Clarinet Jessica Lindsey, with her musical partner Christy Banks, recently released a new CD of electroacoustic music – the first for the pair of clarinetists, who have performed together as Spatial Forces Duo since 2008. Published by Albany Records, Little Spectacle features seven new works by seven composers, a diverse set of […]

Eight College of Arts + Architecture faculty and four CoA+A alumni are among the 74 recipients of 2022 Artist Support Grants awarded by the Arts & Science Council in conjunction with the arts councils of Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln and Rowan counties. Artist Support Grants support professional and artistic development for emerging and established artists […]

Rowe Gallery is pleased to host my sun is black as the glowing sea by night, an exhibition featuring new work by Johannes Barfield. The work was commissioned by UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture Director of Galleries, Adam N. Justice, with curation and creative direction by Justin Smith, founder/curator of Afrovisualism, and will […]

Professor of Architecture Eric Sauda and School of Architecture alumni Alireza Karduni and Ginette Wessel recently published their book, Social Media and the Contemporary City (Routledge). The book focuses on the interplay between social media, local communities, and urban space in a variety of political and economic settings related to social activism, informal economic activity, […]