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Lecturer Keith Bryant and art alumnus Bradley Tucker won first and second place, respectively, in the 31st Annual Sculpture Celebration, presented on September 10 by the Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir, NC. The judge was Dr. Elizabeth (“Lee”) Kelley, curator of fine art collection development and management for the Chicago Transit Authority. Sixty-eight artists entered […]

SILO AR+D, founded by new Assistant Professor of Architecture Marc Manack, has recently received recognition as one of North America’s most promising new architecture firms. In February 2016, SILO AR+D won an Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York, one of eight practices honored. The online magazine Archipreneuer also named SILO AR+D […]

UNC Charlotte Director of Bands Shawn Smith conducted two concerts, on September 8 and 9, with the Banda Sinfόnica de la Provincia, a full-time professional band in Cόrdoba, Argentina. The concerts featured the world premiere of a clarinet concerto by James Lee III, an American composer, and took place in Cόrdoba’s 19th-century opera house, the […]

Dr. Jae Emerling, an associate professor in the Department of Art & Art History, is one of this year’s five finalists for the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence, one of the University’s most prestigious honors. The 2016 award winner will be announced on Friday, September 9, at a ceremony to be held at […]

School of Architecture alumnus Sean Gallagher (B. Arch. 2000), Director of Sustainable Design at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), is the project architect for the winning entry in an international competition to design the South Sea Pearl Eco-Island, a man-made eco-tourism hub planned for China’s Haikou Bay. Gallagher joined Liz Diller and Charles Curran in […]

A production designed by Assistant Professor of Scenic Design Tom Burch has been selected for the International Performing Arts for Youth Showcase, to be held in Madison WI in January 2017. The showcase will present 16 shows from seven countries. The design, for Journey to Oz, was created for a production presented in February 2016 […]

The UNC Charlotte Department of Dance will present two back-to-back evenings of diverse performance showcasing faculty choreography on Friday, September 16, and Saturday, September 17. Both performances take place at 7:30 pm in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. The Faculty Dance Concert features guest and faculty dancers in works by professors E.E. […]

Opening on September 16 at the Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City is Heightened Perspectives, a collaborative two-part exhibition presented by the UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture & The Light Factory. In a time when mass imagery is more often a quick superficial surveillance of self and other, the power of […]

BFA Print Media student Carley Moore will exhibit three of her recent prints in the fifth annual Nebraska National Undergraduate Juried Art Exhibition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). The exhibition will feature the work of the best undergraduate student artists from across the country and will be shown in the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery at UNL. […]

The College of Arts + Architecture is pleased to welcome the following new faculty in the 2016-17 academic year: Nadia M. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and the Director of the City.Building.Lab. Her research, teaching, and practice focus on publicly-engaged design as a vehicle for social empowerment and environmental resilience. […]