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The Milken Archive recently published an article by Dr. Kelsey Klotz, lecturer in the Department of Music, that explores the 1969 work by Dave Brubeck, The Gates of Justice. “Negotiating Jewish Identity in Dave Brubeck’s The Gates of Justice” looks at the musical documentation in Brubeck’s work of Black-Jewish relationships, as well as the relationship […]

Graphic design alumnus Banks Wilson (’01) has received the 2021 AAF Silver Medal Award from the Charlotte chapter of the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the highest honor in the local American Advertising Awards (ADDY). The AAF Silver Medal Award was established in 1959 to recognize those who have made outstanding contributions to advertising and who […]

Ken Lambla, professor of architecture and founding dean of the College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A), has been named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the AIA’s highest membership honor. Only three percent of AIA members achieve Fellowship (FAIA) status, honored, according to the AIA, “for their exceptional work […]

Architecture alumni Eliot Ball (’20) and Emily Dobbs (’20) have won an international design award from the Architecture and Design (A+D) Museum in Los Angeles. The A+D Design Awards competition received more than 140 submissions, from which 10 winning projects were chosen representing 10 categories of work. The winning projects are in digital exhibition through […]

Drummer, composer/arranger, band leader, and educator Dennis Mackrel joined the UNC Charlotte Jazz Ensemble class virtually on February 18 to talk about his career and music. Mackrel was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra from 1983 to 1987, returning to the band as its conductor from 2010 to 2013. He has served as the […]

A painting by Associate Professor of Art Maja Godlewska is on display at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in the exhibition Twentieth Century Women. The exhibition, which runs through September 2021, highlights the work of 23 artists represented in the museum’s permanent collection, “who have made significant contributions to 20th-century modernism and its legacies,” […]

Three students from the School of Architecture, Sydney Garceau, Alexis Andrikanich, and Tyler DeJong, have been accepted into the iPAL program this semester. ⁠ In 2015, the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards launched the Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL). UNC Charlotte’s School of Architecture was one of the first universities accepted into the […]

An interactive installation by Assistant Professor of Architecture Rachel Dickey with architecture alumna Noushin Radnia has been chosen for the “I Heart Rail Trail: Lights 2021” festival through a competition sponsored by Charlotte Center City Partners. The festival will present five public art light installations at light rail stations in SouthEnd and will run February […]

Dr. Lynne Conner, an award-winning playwright and chair of the Department of Theatre, has released an audio production of her play, The Mother. The play, which was a 2018 and 2019 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, received its world premiere by Dramatic Repertory Company (DRC) in Portland, Maine, in March 2020. Originally scheduled to run […]

Arts research, diversity and racial equity, and meaningful community engagement are themes that Dean Brook Muller has applied with great intention since assuming leadership of the College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A) in September 2019. He sees Charlotte’s rapid growth as an opportunity for CoA+A to engage more deeply with the community. “There is an […]