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The UNC Charlotte Women’s Chorus, The Charlotteans, recently spent two weeks in a virtual exchange with choral students from Tohoku University, a UNC Charlotte institutional exchange partner since 2014. Through Zoom, the two choirs met for joint rehearsals and group discussions and together have created a combined performance. According to Department of Music Chair Joe […]

Three theatre students and two recent theatre alumni performed on October 3 in the Charlotte Symphony production of Spoon River Anthology. The performance took place in Elmwood Cemetery in uptown Charlotte. Written in 1915, with a second collection published in 1926, Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology is a series of free verse monologues spoken […]

The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture will be the first museum to present an exhibition about the North Carolina architect Phil Freelon (1953-2019). Created by faculty and students in the UNC Charlotte School of Architecture, Container/Contained: Phil Freelon – Design Strategies for Telling African American Stories opens at the Gantt Center […]

The School of Architecture and the City of Charlotte Urban Design Center presented the city’s first Urban Design Awards, or “Urbies,” today to elevate the importance of excellent urban design. The goal of the annual awards program is to recognize and celebrate quality urban design in Charlotte, while encouraging continued community discussion around what makes […]

School of Architecture Director Blaine Brownell, FAIA, will deliver a keynote address for the 2021 annual conference of the Oklahoma state chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Oklahoma). His presentation, “The Corona Effect: Toward an Inoculated Architecture,” will close the conference’s first day on September 30. “The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the way […]

Alumna Ali Petrauskas has been named “Rookie Teacher of the Year” by the North Carolina Art Educators Association (NCAEA). The NCAEA is the state’s largest advocacy group dedicated to supporting visual arts education. Petrauskas is in her third year as an art teacher at Harold E. Winkler Middle School in Concord, N.C. A double major […]

Three-time Grammy Award® winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis led a masterclass for music students in Rowe Recital Hall on August 30. Visiting campus the day after Charlie Parker’s 101st birthday, Marsalis launched the Department of Music’s “Charlie Parker 101” project with the class and a public event in the Anne R. Belk Theater later that evening. […]

Dr. James Grymes, professor of musicology, has been named the Scholarship and Research Editor for the College Music Symposium: Journal of the College Music Society, effective immediately. The College Music Society (CMS) is one of North America’s leading professional organizations for college and university music faculty, serving musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines of […]

Associate Professor of Dance Delia Neil will present a workshop at the Royal Academy of Dance international conference on September 4. Dance students Leah Adams and Brandy Brown will serve as the workshop demonstrator in the online presentation. The Royal Academy of Dance describes the virtual conference, Mapping Dance and Dance Teaching: Past(s), Present and […]

The City of Charlotte Urban Design Center and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte School of Architecture are collaborating on the city’s first Urban Design Awards, or “Urbies,” to elevate the importance of excellent urban design. An awards ceremony recognizing the inaugural Urbies winners will take place on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 5 p.m. […]