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The School of Architecture has announced the winners of the 2017-18 Scholarships in Practice. Launched in 2015, Scholarships in Practice are combined scholarship/internship programs created in partnership with the local offices of architecture firms. Each scholarship consists of $5,000 in tuition support and a market-rate full-time summer internship (Summer 2017), followed by a part-time nine-month […]

The Department of Dance will host Brazilian master teacher, choreographer, and performer Vera Passos for a 10-day residency in April. During the residency, Passos will lead masterclasses for UNC Charlotte students, teach a dance class at Myers Park High School, and provide two public workshops at UNC Charlotte on April 5: Silvestre Dance Technique and […]

The Department of Theatre will host Chicago-based theatre artist Sean Graney for a residency March 13-18. While at UNC Charlotte, Graney will visit classes during the day and lead an intensive new play development workshop in the evenings. The residency will culminate in a public reading of The Aristophanesathon on Saturday, March 18, featuring students […]

As part of Outliers: The Art of Printmaking, an exhibition at the Westobou Gallery in Augusta, Georgia, Assistant Professor of Print Media Erik Waterkotte and part-time faculty Anna Kenar were invited to create a site-specific installation in the gallery windows. Outliers was organized by Chadwick Tolley of Augusta University in conjunction with the 2017 Southern […]

Je’Nen M. Chastain, an alumna of the UNC Charlotte School of Architecture, has received a 2017 Associates Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). According to the AIA, the national award “is given to individual Associate AIA members to recognize outstanding leaders and creative thinkers for significant contributions to their communities and the architecture […]

Theatre professor Jeanmarie Higgins will present “The (Un)spectacular Domestic Spaces of Annie Baker’s Nocturama” at this year’s Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference in Dramaturgies of Silence and Stillness: Contemporary American Women Playwrights Refigure Spectacle, a panel commissioned by the American Theatre and Drama Society. Addressing the conference theme of “Spectacle,” the panel […]

Kaja Dunn, assistant professor of acting in the Department of Theatre, recently had her directing work honored at the 49th annual Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Region VIII in Mesa, Arizona. The Region VIII Governing Board from the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) selected a scene from her California production of As […]

An animated film by Associate Professor of Digital Media Heather Freeman has been screened in 35 national and international film festivals and two gallery exhibitions, with more screenings scheduled for 2017. Artemis, a stop-motion animated short, received a nomination for Best Animation at the Kerry (Ireland) International Film Festival, 3rd Place for Best Animation at […]

Dr. Andrew Hartley, UNC Charlotte Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare and New York Times bestselling author, has released his latest science fiction novel, Cathedrals of Glass: A Planet of Blood and Ice. The book offers a foreword by Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge and is now available for purchase or download. The novel explores the story of […]

The UNC Charlotte School of Architecture will be well represented on the architecture conference circuit this spring. Four faculty members will participate in various presentations and discussions in Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York. Nadia Anderson, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, will participate as a panelist on “Design for Social Impact” at […]