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MAX, the UNC Charlotte Mobile Arts & Community Experience, is in residency throughout the month of May at Aldersgate Retirement Community in east Charlotte, where the mobile classroom/meeting space is the site for daily workshops for all ages. A broad collection of community partners has come together to provide free programming on MAX, including Charlotte-Mecklenburg […]

Assistant Professor of Theatre Education Beth Murray is serving a three-year post as editor of Youth Theatre Journal, through 2018. Youth Theatre Journal is the research publication for the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. It is published twice annually by Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group and will celebrate the 30th anniversary edition later this year. […]

Theatre students Sammy Hajmahmoud and Jennifer Huddleston will be featured performers in the Charlotte Symphony’s “KnightSounds” concerts on May 20 and 21. In connection with the international celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the program presents Romeo and Juliet in a montage of orchestral pieces, opera arias, a ballet pas de deux, and […]

The UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees has awarded reappointment, promotion, and/or permanent tenure to the following faculty in the College of Arts + Architecture. (All cases effective July 1, 2016.) Reappointment at the current rank of Assistant Professor: · Dr. Jane Dalton, Department of Art & Art History · Thomas Schmidt, Department of Art & […]

Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture Jeffrey Nesbit’s proposal, “Aquatic Resiliency,” has been named a finalist in the NYC Aquarium & Public Waterfront international design competition. Sponsored by arch out loud, the open idea competition attracted 565 participants with 178 proposals from 40 countries across six continents. Twenty-four projects were chosen for recognition, including three winning […]

Architecture student Jessica Nutz, mentored by Assistant Professor Dr. Kyounghee Kim, has received a “2016 International COTE Top Ten for Students” Design Competition Award. Open to accredited schools in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, this international competition is sponsored by the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) in partnership with the […]

A project by Dr. Charles Davis, assistant professor of architectural history and criticism, and students of the School of Architecture will be part of the echo Art Fair, a juried fine art and design exposition in Buffalo, NY. The pieces, Carpenter Brownstone and Thespian Brownstone, will make up one of four installations in the “Light […]

Three architecture students have been awarded Scholarships in Practice for the 2016-17 academic year: Scott Barber: BB+M Scholarship in Practice Yagmur Ersayin: C DESIGN Scholarship in Practice Dean Crouch: CLARK NEXSEN Scholarship in Practice The “Scholarship in Practice” is a combined scholarship/internship program that has been established in partnership with local architecture firms. Rising fifth-year […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Kim Jones performed Martha Graham’s 1935 solo, Imperial Gesture, on April 22 at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. The program of “Historic and Significant Female Solos, 1928-1954” featured four dancers performing rarely seen solos by Graham and other women choreographers. In 2012, Jones, a former member of the […]

Physical theatre expert CarlosAlexis Cruz, an assistant professor of voice and movement at UNC Charlotte and an Artist-In-Residence at McColl Center for Art + Innovation, will present his main stage production of “Nouveau Sud, Nouveau Cirque” April 29-30 at Booth Playhouse at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (130 N. Tryon St., Charlotte). Funded by ASC’s $25,000 […]