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On Saturday, April 14, UNC Charlotte dance students will perform at New York City’s 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, a venue of tremendous importance for dance both historically and currently (Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, and Merce Cunningham are among the many storied dancers who have performed there). The students will perform works by Associate […]

Recent UNC Charlotte alumna Linnea Stoops (BFA 2017) won an award in the Flux 2017 Student Competition from AIGA Blue Ridge. This annual competition invites entries from graphic design students across the country. For 2018, 758 entries were submitted, with 278 projects selected. Linnea’s work was selected in the “Identity” category and was produced in […]

Hybrid Skins, an installation created by Associate Professor of Architecture Jefferson Ellinger and Assistant Professor of Art Thomas Schmidt, with graduate student Paul Stockhoff, has been accepted into the Artfields 2018 southeastern regional art exhibition and competition. Artfields takes place in Lake City, South Carolina, April 20-28 and showcases work by nearly 400 artists from […]

The College of Arts + Architecture will join Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I with performances of Benjamin Britten’s powerful War Requiem on April 13 and 14. Britten’s War Requiem was commissioned for the 1962 consecration of the Coventry Cathedral in England, which had […]

The National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), the national accrediting agency for schools of visual art and design and programs of studio art and design instruction, has granted full membership to UNC Charlotte. Gained through an intensive peer review process, membership is granted only to institutions that meet all of the standards […]

Dr. Brian Arreola, associate professor of voice, is reprising the role of Luis Rodrigo Griffith in a current production of the jazz opera, Champion, at the New Orleans Opera, March 9 and 11. Champion, by Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, is based on the true story of world welterweight champion Emile Griffith, who killed boxer […]

Led by Associate Professor of Dance E.E. Balcos and Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams, nine UNC Charlotte dance students participated in the March 4-7 Mid-Atlantic South American College Dance Association (ACDA) festival, held at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Balcos (Contact Improvisation), Williams (Afro-Brazilian Dance), and senior dance major Anna Edwards (Ring Shout […]

The Department of Art & Art History presents an exhibition and auction of work by former professor Roderick MacKillop to support the Roderick MacKillop Memorial Endowments for student scholarships. On view at the Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City, March 9-16, the work will be auctioned at a reception from 6:00 to 9:00 […]

The Department of Dance presents student performers in five diverse works by faculty and guest choreographers in the Spring Dance Concert, March 22-25, in the Anne. R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. Click here for ticket information. New York-based choreographer Netta Yerulshalmy was in residence in the dance department in January, during which she created […]

A group of graduate students from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University, China, have come to Charlotte to work on a joint urban design workshop with students in the School of Architecture MUDD 6102 Advanced Urban Design Studio, led by Assistant Professor Ming-Chun Lee. The students are collaboratively developing plans for […]