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The Department of Dance is proud to announce that three recent dance alumni will attend excellent graduate programs in Fall 2019. Lillian Willis has been offered a position with Transitions Dance Company at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, which includes acceptance into the Master of Arts in Dance Performance. Trinity Laban […]

Professors Maja Godlewska and Marek Ranis of the Department of Art & Art History have been announced as the 2019 University of Tasmania Cradle Coast Campus Artists in Residence. They will travel to Tasmania in May to begin their project Landscape: A Place Remembered and Imagined. From a press release issued by the University of […]

The School of Architecture is pleased to announce the 2019 Scholarships in Practice: C DESIGN Scholarship in Practice: Mariel Hamer BB&M Scholarship in Practice: Cameron Day CLARK NEXSEN Scholarship in Practice: Devin Waddell The SoA Scholarship in Practice program was established in 2015. Each Scholarship in Practice provides the recipient with a full-time summer internship, […]

Students from the Department of Theatre will perform THEATRE SHORTS: Scenes, Monologues and Dramatic Storytelling from the Department of Theatre on April 2 from 5 to 6 pm in the Halton Reading Room of J. Murray Atkins Library. This program, hosted by theatre major Isabel Gonzales, is part of Atkins Out Loud, a program presented […]

The UNC Charlotte community is pleased to welcome Brook Muller as dean of the College of Arts + Architecture beginning September 2019. Muller joins us from University of Oregon, where he is a professor in the Department of Architecture and director of the University of Oregon Portland Architecture Program. Muller’s leadership experience includes appointments as […]

Kevin Brawley, an alumnus of the Department of Music, has been named a 2019 Music Teacher of Excellence by the Country Music Association Foundation. Brawley was one of 30 music teachers nationally who have received recognition “for their commitment to shaping the next generation through music.” He will receive the award and $5,000 ($2,500 for […]

Professor of Theatre Mark Pizzato’s new theatre history textbook, Mapping Global Theatre Histories, has recently been published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book begins its survey of theatre with a look at the development of the brain’s “inner theatre” and continues its exploration through ancient, medieval, modern, and postmodern developments. It broadly considers prehistoric cave art […]

Associate Professor of Print Media Erik Waterkotte has collaborated with artist Nicholas Ruth to create Interstitial, a site-specific graphic installation in the Loggia Gallery at the Unviersity of Dallas. The installation opened March 3 and is presented in conjunction with the 2019 Southern Graphics Council International Conference. It closes April 3. With Interstitial, the artists […]

The Department of Music was saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. William “Bill” Dailey, a dedicated member of the Department of Music faculty for decades. Dr. Dailey died on February 27. A memorial service will be held at Resurrection Church on Saturday, March 23, at 2:00 pm. The family will receive visitors prior […]

Students in the architectural history class “Museums: Southeast + Beyond” are working with the Levine Museum of the New South to design and present the exhibition The Legacy of Lynching. Coming to Charlotte from the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, the exhibition will open on April 24 and will be on view through June […]