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Assistant Professor of Scenic Design Tom Burch designed the set for The Hypocrites’ production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, performed at the N.Y.U. Skirball Center in New York City November 29-December 9. The uncoventional production was both previewed and favorably reviewed in the New York Times. The Hypocrites will take Pirates of […]

Assistant Professor of Acting Kaja Dunn appeared as a guest on the radio program Up Close and Cultural on October 31 and November 7 for a two-part conversation about representations of women and women of color in theatre. Hosted by Rachel DeGuzman, Up Close and Cultural, is broadcast on WAYO 104.3 FM from Rochester, New […]

The Department of Music will present the powerful multimedia concert drama, Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, in a single performance on Sunday, December 3, at 2:00 pm, in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. A reception will follow. Praised by the New York Times as “Poignant…a monument to the courage of one man […]

Antoine Williams, an alumnus of the Department of Art & Art History, has received a 2017 Painters & Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. The foundation awards grants annually to 25 “painters and sculptors creating work of exceptional quality.” The artists, chosen by jury selection from a pool of nominees, each receive $25,000. Williams […]

Fans at Saturday’s football game against Middle Tennessee witnessed the birth of a new home game tradition. After each of the 49ers’ three touchdowns, an Air Force ROTC cadet leapt up onto a platform in the end zone and, borne aloft by six other cadets, did push-ups to celebrate the score. The new push-up platform […]

Last month, Director of Bands Shawn Smith conducted the Symphonic Band of Córdoba and the Polifonic Choir of Córdoba in a concert on October 15 at the Teatro del Libertador General San Martín, a beautiful 19th-century opera house in Córdoba, Argentina. Both the band and the choir are publicly funded professional ensembles. The band performed […]

Three students in Professor Jefferson Ellinger’s Graduate Topic Design Studio have taken the top prizes in the 2017 Living Building Challenge-Los Angeles (LBC-LA) Collaborative Student Competition. The international competition invited students to design Pavilion Zero, which is envisioned as the main pavilion for the Los Angeles World’s Fair, if the city hosts the fair in […]

UNC Charlotte alumnus Curtis Petraglia was named one of Business Insider magazine’s “30 Most Creative People in Advertising Under 30” earlier this year. The list is based on advertising agency and peer nominations, as well as the magazine’s own research into candidate’s awards and campaigns. Curtis completed his BFA in Studio Art with a Concentration […]

Dance majors Makayla Church (dance education concentration) and Anna Edwards (dance performance, choreography, and theory concentration) presented research posters at the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium on Saturday, November 4, at Campbell University. Both presented research completed at UNC Charlotte as Charlotte Research Scholars. Church’s project, mentored by Associate Professor Gretchen […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams has presented her research on the spiritual dances of the African Diaspora in two international conferences this fall. In October, she taught an Afro-Brazilian dance workshop and performed a solo work, “Of the Past,” at the Rex Nettleford Arts Conference at Edna Manley College in Kingston, Jamaica. The theme […]