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Professor of Dance Sybil Huskey will receive the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) at the NDEO 18th Annual National Conference on October 9. The organization’s highest award, the Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes exemplary leadership in and innovative contributions to the field of dance education. Huskey has worked in academic, […]

Professor of Theatre Bruce Auerbach is the guest lighting designer for a current production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the University of South Carolina (USC). The production is presented by the USC Department of Theatre and Dance and runs September 30-October 8. Directed by Robert Richmond, the artistic director of the theatre program, […]

UNC Charlotte’s Mobile Arts & Community Experience (MAX) is in residency in the Montclaire neighborhood through October 22. Montclaire is a neighborhood established more than 50 years ago in the south Charlotte area and hosts a diverse group of individuals, families, schools, businesses, and institutions. Situated in the center of this neighborhood is the culturally […]

Dr. Carl DuPont, assistant professor of voice, performed two concerts in Missoula, Montana. On Sunday, September 25, Dr. DuPont was the featured guest soloist in The Concert to End Gun Violence, hosted by the University Congregational Church and sponsored by Faiths United to End Gun Violence, an organization comprising 50 national faith communities. On Monday, […]

This week, students in the CoA+A will present programs and activities in response to the recent events surrounding the death of Keith Lamont Scott. On Tuesday, September 27, the School of Architecture and the local chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) will host a public forum on urban protests at 12:30pm […]

The College of Arts + Architecture presents War and Other Remnants, an installation by Jarod Charzewski, in Storrs Gallery from October 7 through December 1. The gallery will host an opening reception and artist talk on Friday, October 7, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public. Charzewski’s installations […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Rachel Barker will present her new work, “Back of [Y]our Neck,” as part of Emergence, an evening of dance presented by The Triangle Dance Project on Saturday, October 1, in Durham, NC. Barker will perform the duet with Audrey Rachelle, a guest artist from New York City. “Back of [Y]our Neck,” […]

The Department of Art & Art History presents two concurrent exhibitions in the Rowe Galleries, October 3 through November 2. Entrails, Geographies & Empathies, in the lower gallery, features new works on paper by the Kansas City (MO)-based artist Anne Austin Pearce: “My work responds to the ambiguous and transient nature of – and dynamic […]

The Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company is on campus through September 30 for the company’s first-ever “reconstruction residency” in the Department of Dance. Capping an 18-month research project led by Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones, the residency brings the Taylor 2 dancers from New York City to Charlotte to teach students in master classes […]

Dr. Lee Gray, a professor of architectural history in the School of Architecture and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Arts + Architecture, was recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal. The article, “Dumbwaiters on the Rise in New Home and Renovations,” looks at the resurgence of 19th-century-style dumbwaiters in contemporary high-rise apartment buildings […]