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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. […]

Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy Jeanmarie Higgins will present “The Glas Nocturne: Theatre at Home as Sustainable Production Practice” in the curated paper panel, (On the Way) Home: TRANSience in Performance, Performing TRANSience, at the American Society for Theatre Research conference in Minneapolis, MN, November 3-6. Dr. Higgins’s presentation concerns the 2016 production of Seattle based […]

AGA Collaborative, which includes Associate Professor of Dance Gretchen Alterowitz, along with Alison Bory and Amanda Hamp, will present the trio’s newest work, win.place.show., at Davidson College on Friday, September 2, and Saturday, September 3. The performances take place at 7:30 pm in the Barber Theatre in Cunningham building. A trio of artist/scholars who collaborate […]

Faculty in the School of Architecture will present at several national and international conferences this fall: Associate Professor Thomas Forget will present “Housing Inquiry: Changes in Contemporary Urban Living” at the Culture in Urban Space Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark (August 24-26); Associate Professor Jefferson Ellinger will present “Urban Vertical Farming” at the Association of Collegiate […]

The independent choral group Sine Nomine, led by Associate Professor of Voice Alissa Deeter and music alumnus Dareion Malone, with Mark Johanson, will perform a program in recognition of the 15th anniversary of 9/11. Featuring Morton Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna (1997), the program will be performed twice: on Saturday, September 10, at 7:30 pm at Mt. […]