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The College of Art & Architecture’s Digital Arts Center (d-Arts) is pleased to announce the presentation of two faculty research projects funded by 2016-2017 d-Arts Faculty Digital Making Grants: the dance film Shouting Echoes: A Reconstruction of Ring Shout Traditions and the multimedia performance With Signs Following. During the Faculty Dance Concert (September 15 and […]

Dr. Evelyn Orman, professor of music education, is the lead author for the article “Feasibility of Using an Augmented Immersive Virtual Reality Learning Environment to Enhance Music Conducting Skills” published recently in the Journal of Music Teacher Education. The article reports on the latest of Dr. Orman’s investigations into the use of immersive virtual reality […]

The Department of Music announces the 2017-18 Masterclass Series. The Masterclass Series will bring seven esteemed instrumentalists, vocalists, and ensembles to campus to work with music students this academic year. As always, the clinicians represent top-notch local musicians, as well as guest artists performing with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Opera Carolina. Students in the […]

Each year the UNC Charlotte Department of Art & Art History partners with the McColl Center for Art + Innovation to provide a special educational experience for students through hosting a shared Artist-in-Residence. The McColl artist joins a UNC Charlotte faculty member to teach a spring semester course, culminating in programming in Rowe Galleries and […]

The U.S. premiere production of Cordelia Lynn’s play, Lela & Co., directed by theatre professor Robin Witt at Chicago’s Steep Theatre, has received rave reviews from Chicago theatre critics. The play opened on July 13 and runs through September 2. Cordelia Lynn is a young and highly acclaimed British playwright. Lela & Co., which played […]

“Making the bottom line the top priority puts enormous pressure on human values. It is a practice that has long characterized the corporate world, and now, increasingly, also characterizes government policy. What becomes of those who are caught up in this system, either as perpetrators or victims?” Bob Trotman The UNC Charlotte College of Arts […]

Faculty members from the School of Architecture have presented papers and projects at national and international conferences this summer. Nadia Anderson presented “Gentrification: The New Urban Renewal, Cherry, Charlotte, NC” at the 48th Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison, WI, June 1-4. […]

Associate Dean of Performing Arts Services Dean Adams and three faculty members from the Department of Theatre presented at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), held August 3-6 in Las Vegas. Dean Adams served as a senior scholar on several panels as part of the Musical Theatre and […]

Assistant Professor of Physical Theatre CarlosAlexis Cruz has received a 2017 Works in Progress Residency Award from the Princess Grace Foundation. The award will fund a residency next March at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City. During his residency, Cruz will further develop his one-man show, Pícaro, a physical theatre take on the […]

Faculty in the UNC Charlotte Department of Music will perform the world premiere of a new “dance-opera” on Saturday, August 19, at 7:00 pm in the Johnson Studio Theater at Winthrop University. Wake—Lucia: a Joycean operatic rite explores the complicated relationship between James Joyce and his brilliant daughter, Lucia. Inspired by multiple works of James […]