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New Gallery of Modern Art Features Work by Prof. Godlewska

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A new show of paintings by Associate Professor of Art Maja Godlewska will open at the New Gallery of Modern Art in Charlotte with a reception on Friday, March 31. “The Ultimate Landscape” runs through May 6; Godlewska will speak about the work at an Artist Talk on April 22. “The Ultimate Landscape” features large-scale […]

Dance Professor Chosen as NCDF Touring Artist

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A work by Assistant Professor of Dance Rachel Barker has been chosen for the 2017 North Carolina Dance Festival (NCDF) touring roster. Each year, the NCDF, a program coordinated by Greensboro-based Dance Project, brings professional modern and contemporary dance choreography from North Carolina artists to audiences across the state. In 2016, Associate Professor of Dance […]

SoA Team’s Winning Design Honors Orlando Shooting Victims

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A UNC Charlotte team of School of Architecture faculty and students has won the 2017 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Small Project Practitioners (SPP) Small Project Design Competition. Sponsored by AIA National, the SPP Small Project Design Competition is open to architects, associate architects, and architecture students. The UNC Charlotte team is made up of […]

Voice Students Win in NATS Regional Auditions

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Five voice students have placed in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Mid-Atlantic Region Student Auditions, held on March 17 at UNC-Chapel Hill. Tiffanie Briggs was awarded first place in the Hall Johnson Spiritual Category. Tyrez Dabbs placed first in the Fourth/Fifth Year College Men Division while Phillip Hill took third place. James […]

Students and Faculty Attend Regional ACDA Conference

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More than 20 students and four faculty from the UNC Charlotte Department of Dance participated in the Mid-Atlantic South Regional Conference of the American College Dance Association, held March 15-18 at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte. The Mid-Atlantic South Regional Conference represents schools from North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Professors Rachel Barker, E. […]

SoA Team’s Design Wins 2nd Prize in New York Build Competition

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A design entry by UNC Charlotte School of Architecture students Naz Modaresahmadi and Robby Stubbs and faculty Peter Wong and Chris Jarrett (SoA director) won second prize in the New York Affordable Housing Challenge, an international architecture competition sponsored by New York Build 2017. The competition posed the question: “How do we use the limited […]

Recent Dance Alum Will Pursue Movement Therapy Graduate Degree

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UNC Charlotte Alumna Christina Hudgins (class of 2016) has been admitted to the Master of Arts in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling program at Columbia College, Chicago. At UNC Charlotte, Christina earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Dance and Psychology and a Professional Dance Training Certificate with Charlotte Ballet. She was a member of the Honors […]

Symposium Will Address Affordable Housing Issues

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The City.Building.Lab in the UNC Charlotte School of Architecture joins with the UNC Greensboro (UNCG) Department of Interior Architecture and Center for Community-Engaged Design to present Urban Complexities: Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Erasure. The full-day symposium will be held at UNC Charlotte Center City. Held in conjunction with the UNCG Novem Mason Symposium on Community-Engaged […]

School of Architecture Team to Compete in DOE Design Competition

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A team of UNC Charlotte School of Architecture students and faculty advisors will compete in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2017 Race to Zero Student Design Competition. The competition challenges collegiate teams to design high-performance, energy-efficient housing in one of four categories: suburban single-family, urban single-family, small multifamily, and attached housing. It will be […]

Department of Music Presents Requiem of Solace

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The Department of Music, in partnership with the Steinway Gallery of Charlotte and the Sorel Foundation, will present Requiem of Solace on Friday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Belk Theater, Robinson Hall. A musical meditation on death and life, the program includes Johannes Brahms’s A German Requiem, sung in a new English translation, and […]