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Associate Professor of Art Maja Godlewska and Assistant Professor of Music Jessica Lindsey have been awarded 2017 Regional Artist Project Grants from the Arts & Science Council (ASC). They are among 32 awardees chosen from nearly 100 applicants. Given annually, Regional Artist Project Grants support artistic creation by funding professional development opportunities or the purchase […]

This winter, students in the Department of Dance have the opportunity to experience and study dance in New York City. Led by professor Rachel Tucker and mentored by Tucker and professor Kim Jones, ten UNC Charlotte Dance students traveled to New York City December 1-4. During the field trip, students took master classes with Ronald […]

The Fine Arts Building (FAB) Gallery at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada, presented a solo exhibition by UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of Printmaking Erik Waterkotte November 1-26, 2016. The show, Principa Rerum de Lumine in Tenebris (The Principle of Light in Darkness), is inspired by Waterkotte’s Catholic background and draws upon Masonic symbols […]

Award-winning actor, writer, and director Roger Guenveur Smith will come to the UNC Charlotte campus on January 10 to work with students in the Department of Theatre and perform his one-man show, Rodney King. Smith, who has a successful career in film (American Gangster, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, The Birth of a Nation), […]

Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare Andrew Hartley is the editor of Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader, recently released by Bloomsbury Publishing. Issued in the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides series, the reader surveys the performance history, major themes, and critical reception of Shakespeare’s tragedy in a detailed timeline and eight essays: Julius Caesar Timeline (Andrew […]

Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis’s essay, “North Carolina and the Sublime North: An Artistic Interpretation of the Arctic,” has been published by the U.S. Department of State on the blog site “Our Arctic Nation,” an official U.S. Arctic Council Chairmanship initiative. “Our Arctic Nation” seeks to publish 50 essays, one from each state of […]

The Department of Dance presented its Fall Dance Concert to students from local middle and high schools in a special education performance on Friday, November 4, at 11:00 am in Belk Theater, Robinson Hall. More than 300 students from seven schools attended; the schools represented are Jay M. Robinson Middle, Northridge Middle, Ridge Road Middle, […]

Assistant Professor of Architecture Marc Manack is a guest speaker on two architecture lecture series this fall. On October 26, Manack spoke at the Drury University Hammons School of Architecture in Springfield, Missouri, as part of the lecture series, Impermanence. The lecture, GOOD|FAST|CHEAP focused on the work of SILO AR+D, the practice he directs with […]

Noma Dumezweni, the African-born English actress who recently made headlines as Hermione Granger in the London West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, will narrate the audiobook version of Steeplejack, a new young adult novel by Dr. Andrew Hartley. Hartley, who is the Robinson Distinguished Professor of Theatre, first met Dumezweni when […]

MAX, the Mobile Arts & Community Experience, is in operation this week (October 23-28) in Romare Bearden Park in uptown Charlotte. Beginning with the Open Streets 704 festival on Sunday, October 23, MAX is serving as both a performance space and a community gathering space throughout the week. Each morning begins at 8:30 am with […]