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Assistant Professor of Voice Sequina DuBose has become vice president of the board of the International Florence Price Fest, a new initiative dedicated to promoting the music of Black American composer Florence Price (1887-1953). The International Florence Price Fest was founded in 2019 and held its first festival virtually in 2020. In 1933, Florence Price […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams is one of six recipients of the 2021 Emerging Creators Fellowships from the Arts & Science Council. The $5000 grants support “creatives with evolving practices that are at a pivotal moment in launching sustainable careers in the creative sector.” Williams has received the grant for her continued research of […]

UNC Charlotte student Alex Gomes has been accepted into the 2021 Diversity in Arts Leadership (DIAL) internship program established by Americans for the Arts. Gomes is a theatre and health management systems double major and a Martin Scholar. He is one of just 25 recipients of a 2021 DIAL internship out of 504 applicants and […]

Two UNC Charlotte students who competed at the state and regional levels of the National Association for Teachers of Singing (NATS) Student Auditions have advanced to the national level of the competition in the Music Theater category. Sam Pomerantz (student of Assistant Professor of Voice Sequina DuBose) and Migdalia Ramirez (student of Assistant Professor of […]

School of Architecture Director Blaine Brownell, FAIA, was interviewed by Building Design + Construction Executive Editor Robert Cassidy about new materials and systems for post-COVID construction. The interview was broadcast on March 11 via Horizon TV Construction Streaming. In his interview, Brownell presented five trends or products in building technology that offer positive responses to […]

Three professors in the Department of Theatre have jointly written a chapter for The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance, a new book published this month by Bloomsbury. Andrew Hartley, Kaja Dunn, and Christopher Berry contributed the essay “Pedagogy: Decolonizing Shakespeare on Stage,” which addresses issues of race in the performance of Shakespeare’s […]

The School of Architecture has announced that architect, researcher, educator, and curator Sekou Cooke will become the new director of the Master of Urban Design (MUD) program. Cooke will join the architecture faculty in August. Jamaican born, Cooke comes to UNC Charlotte from Syracuse, New York, where he is currently an assistant professor in the […]

A new book by Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams explores Silvestre Technique, the contemporary dance technique founded by Rosangela Silvestre as an extension of the spiritual dance traditions of enslaved Africans in Brazil. Giving Life to Movement: The Silvestre Dance Technique was published by McFarland this month. Rosangela Silvestre is a native of Salvador […]

The Department of Music has announced that Dr. Jason Dungee will join the faculty in August as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities. A conductor, tenor, and music educator, Dr. Dungee holds degrees from the University of Arizona, Westminster Choir College, and Hampton University (Virginia). Prior to appointments as Director of Choral […]

The Charlotte Business Journal has reported that Northwood Ravin, LLC, was the Charlotte area’s largest commercial real estate developer in 2020, ranked by square feet developed. Northwood Ravin, led by architecture alumnus David Ravin ’94, developed 1.46 million local square feet in 2020, nearly twice that of the second ranked developer, Greystar Real Estate Partners. […]