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In Spring 2018 a studio of fifth-year architecture students, led by Professor Deb Ryan, developed a “Millennial Plan” for Charlotte. Their plan is a vision for the future of Charlotte that is based on research into Charlotte’s history, research of best practices in other municipalities, and input from Charlotte residents, with particular focus on the […]

The Department of Dance welcomes visiting artist Janet Schroeder to UNC Charlotte this week to teach master classes and audition students for a work for the Spring Dance Concert. Schroeder will return to campus in January as a visiting professor and will teach three courses in addition to the Spring Dance Concert practicum. Schroeder is […]

In partnership with the Levine Museum of the New South, Assistant Professor of Urban Design Ming-Chun Lee and UNC Charlotte students will help Charlotte residents discover the stories behind the rise and fall of Eastland Mall and its surrounding neighborhood at an event on Saturday, December 8. The event, “Being a Historian for a Day,” […]

Art alumni Laura Knight Beebe (BFA ’13) and Savannah Jackson (BFA ’17) will have their graphic design work featured in the January/February 2019 print edition of Communication Arts. Beebe and Jackson use their talents as art director and junior art director, respectively, at Boone Oakley, a Charlotte advertising agency. Beebe and Jackson provided design, art […]

The University Chorale, under the direction of Dr. Randy Haldeman, will perform a holiday concert on Monday, December 3, at 7:30 pm in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. Divided into three themed sections – “Ghosts of Christmas Past,” “Ghosts of Christmas Present,” and “Ghosts of Christmas Future,” the program features beloved traditional […]

In 1989, before completing the thesis for her Master of Fine Arts in her native Wrocław, Poland, Maja Godlewska flew to the U.S., bought a Greyhound bus pass, and spent 12 weeks seeing America. She visited 24 states, encountering the landscape and the people. “It was such a positive experience,” she says, “the beauty, the […]

Vibrant Practices: Masquerade in Southwestern Burkina Faso, on exhibition in the Student Union Art Gallery through December 8, celebrates in brilliant photographs and videos the research of art historian Lisa Homann. Homann, an assistant professor in the Department of Art & Art History, specializes in West African masquerade practices from the late 19th century to […]

Costume designs for the Department of Theatre’s 2017 production of Trikster have been accepted for the Design Showcase of the 2019 Costume Society of America Annual Meeting and Symposium, which will be held in Seattle, Washington, April 15-20, 2019. The costumes were designed by Aly Amidei, assistant professor of costume design. Trikster was a circus-inspired […]

Two current theatre students were recently booked for professional commercials that filmed in the Charlotte region. On November 9, Ariana Arocho filmed a commercial in Kannapolis for the North Carolina Education Lottery. Arocho, a junior theatre major originally from Puerto Rico, is represented by JTA, Inc. Talent Agency. Over the summer she also shot a […]

By Mayra Trujillo-Camacho UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of Scenic Design Thomas Burch has designed the set for the Burning Coal Theatre production of The Weir, a play by Conor McPherson. The Weir takes place in a small pub in rural Ireland and begins with a group of “regulars” who tell ghost stories of their town […]