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The College of Arts + Architecture is pleased to announce that The Wells Fargo Foundation will sponsor a unique project led by the UNC Charlotte Department of Dance. The project, Tracing Modern Dance, is centered on the reconstruction of Tracer, a lost work by modern dance choreographer Paul Taylor, and includes the first-ever reconstruction residency […]

Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis will present his research at the 2016 Arctic Circle Assembly, to be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, October 7-9. Ranis will participate in the session, At the Center of Periphery: Social Justice and Social Action in the Arctic. The Arctic Circle Assembly is the largest international gathering on the Arctic, […]

A new book by Professor of Theatre and Film Mark Pizzato was published earlier this year by Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC. Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies draws together the diverse disciplines of anthropology, neuroscience, psychology, aesthetics, and performance studies to examine […]

The Storrs Gallery will present work from College of Arts + Architecture-led summer study tours in the Global Studies Exhibition, August 26-September 9. The College operated study abroad programs in Italy, Brazil, and Korea this summer, with more than 50 students participating. ROME, ITALY Based in Palazzo Cenci-Bolognetti, the 2016 Rome Program was led by […]

Recent graduate Hamilton Ward won an award for Excellence in Experimental Film at the Vision6 Film Festival at UNC Wilmington last spring. The short film, Ronnie Ward – Brewton, AL, is a narrated recollection of the death of an infant boy, using burnt found footage. Ward’s current film work explores Southern folklore. Another film, Miss […]

Work by Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis is part of an international exhibition in the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, Alaska. The contemporary art exhibition, View From Up Here: The Arctic at the Center of the World, presents photographs, film, installations, and sculpture by 14 artists who come from Canada, Europe, and the United States. […]

Associate Professor of Dance E.E. Balcos has been chosen as a touring artist with the North Carolina Dance Festival (NCDF) in Fall 2016. Each year, the NCDF brings modern and contemporary dance choreography from professional North Carolina artists to audiences across the state. A panel of NCDF adjudicators selects five professional choreographers through a blind […]

School of Architecture alumni Eddie Winn and Samantha McPadden have won third place in a competition sponsored by the Nka Foundation. The competition called for the design of a small artist-in-residence center in a rural arts village in Ghana, Africa. Nka Foundation was established in 2008 as a network of arts villages and arts-based community […]

Assistant Professor of Theatre CarlosAlexis Cruz will present at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) annual conference, which will be held in Chicago, August 11-14. Cruz will present the paper, “The Importance of Having a Stage Movement Practitioner: How a theatre program strengthens and benefits from stage movement courses and the teachers that […]

The Department of Theatre welcomes Dr. Lynne Conner as its new chair. Dr. Conner comes to UNC Charlotte from Colby College, where she served as a professor and former chair of the Theatre and Dance Department. Dr. Conner is a theater and dance historian, cultural policy theorist, and playwright. Her publications include the books Audience […]