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UNC Charlotte dance students Makayla Church, Anna Edwards, and Tracy Heim presented research projects during the Summer Research Symposium, held on July 26 on the UNC Charlotte campus. The Charlotte Research Scholars program provides undergraduate students funding to participate in a 10-week research program. Scholars receive faculty-guided research training and participate in weekly professional development […]

Dr. Will Campbell, professor of saxophone and the director of the UNC Charlotte jazz studies program, is featured on a new album to be released next month. Don’t Blink is the second CD by the Unhinged Sextet. The members of the jazz sextet, which formed in 2014, come together from across the country – the […]

Students in Marc Manack’s graduate summer studio have designed an installation in response to research by Archeworks, a Chicago-based lab dedicated to public interest design. The project is a spatial response to Archeworks’ Social Construction research on the complex social, psychological, and emotional dimensions of public housing, housing insecurity, and social injustice. Between July 30 […]

Music major James Matens earned third place in the Lower College / Independent Studio Men category at the final round of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) 2017 National Student Auditions, held on Friday, July 21, at the University of Colorado-Boulder College of Music. Matens, a bass, is a student of Dr. Brian […]

Steeplejack, the young adult fantasy novel by Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare Andrew Hartley, has won two major awards: the 2017 International Thriller Writers Award for “Best Young Adult Novel” and the 2017 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy. Both awards were announced on July 15. Steeplejack is a fantasy/mystery […]

Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis is one of 15 artists featured in the exhibition of the Arctic Arts Festival in Harstad, Norway. The international exhibition, Subsistence, is on view June 24 through August 5 at Harstad’s Galleri NordNorge. Created through a collaboration between the Northern Norway Arts Museum and Anchorage Museum (Alaska), Subsistence examines […]

CarlosAlexis Cruz, assistant professor of physical theatre, will present his newest urban circus arts project in performances July 21 and 22 at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center Booth Playhouse. The production, Sûr: An Acrobatic Journey in Search of Safety, explores concepts of fear and security in contemporary American society, responding to current issues such as […]

Scenic design by Assistant Professor of Theatre Tom Burch is in exhibition at the World Stage Design 2017 conference in Taipei, Taiwan. The international conference, which convenes every four years, is being held July 1-9 and includes performances, workshops, exhibitions, and seminars. Burch’s design for The Hypocrites’ production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance […]

Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Deb Ryan has been elected chair of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission, effective July 1, 2017. Formed in 1954, the Planning Commission’s role is to advise the Mayor, Charlotte City Council, and the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners on all matters related to urban design, long range planning, and […]

For five decades, the artist and activist, poet and performer TJ Reddy has challenged, educated, and inspired the Charlotte community and beyond, through the power and beauty of his paintings and words. The Projective Eye Gallery is proud to present a retrospective of Reddy’s life of creativity in Everything is Everything, on view June 30 […]