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Students from the UNC Charlotte Department of Dance will perform at McLeod Plantation Historic Site in Charleston, S.C., on April 28. Presented by James Island Arts and supported by the South Carolina Humanities Council, the students will participate in a program on ring shouts and praise houses, two examples of cultural traditions rooted in the […]

Assistant Professor of Theatre Kaja Dunn was a director for the PlayMakers Repertory Company’s “Making Tracks” new play festival. The festival, April 13-15, featured readings of four new plays. Dunn directed the play Noms de Guerre by Jacqueline E. Lawton, a PlayMakers’ company member as well as a professor in the Department of Dramatic Art […]

Alumna Stacey Rose has been named a 2018 Theatre Lab Fellow by the Sundance Institute. Rose, a playwright, received her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from UNC Charlotte in 2008 and subsequently completed an MFA in Dramatic Writing at New York University. The Sundance Institute was founded in 1981 by Robert Redford. The Theatre Lab, […]

By Linda Luise Brown A sense of genuine camaraderie was palpable on the stage and in the auditorium during the March 15 reception for the inaugural Roderick MacKillop Memorial Alumni Art Exhibition, which honors “the legacy of the beloved art professor” at UNC Charlotte. And in the galleries at Rowe Arts Building, the work of […]

School of Architecture alumna Tracy Dodson has been named assistant city manager for economic development by City Manager Marcus Jones. Dodson will leave her position as a vice president in the Charlotte-based real estate and development firm Lincoln Harris and begin the city post on May 7. Dodson has served as the Director of Economic […]

Two interdisciplinary projects funded by the College of Arts + Architecture’s Digital Arts (d-Arts) Center will be presented at the end of April. Both projects received d-Arts Faculty Digital Making Grants, designed to actively encourage collaboration among faculty in the CoA+A and the exploration of digital technologies in the arts and design. Presented by dance […]

The Department of Theatre will present The Wiz, Apr. 19-23 at the Belk Theater in Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts. An update of The Wizard of Oz set in an urban landscape The Wiz won seven Tony Awards on Broadway, including Best Musical and Best Score. The production is directed by Associate Professor of […]

The Charlotteans, the UNC Charlotte Women’s Chorus, will sing the National Anthem for the Charlotte Knights baseball game on Monday, April 16, at the Knights’ BB&T Ballpark. The game, against the Rochester Red Wings, starts at 7:04 pm. Directed by Ginger Wyrick, The Charlotteans is a Liberal Studies course open to students in any major. […]

Works by Assistant Professor of Art Thomas Schmidt are on display at Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC, as part of the North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship 2017 Award Exhibition. The exhibition features work by 17 artists from across North Carolina who received fellowship grants last year. Schmidt’s mixed-media ceramic works, Modular Vase Series and […]

Assistant Professor of Art Education Jane Dalton has co-edited a three-volume series: “Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education,” released last month by Rowman & Littlefield. The three books, Cultivating a Culture of Learning, The Teaching Self, and Impacting Teaching and Learning draw together first-hand accounts from researchers and practitioners in the developing philosophy of […]