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The College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A) will honor five Distinguished Alumni on Friday, March 18, in the second annual celebration of alumni achievement. Representing each of the five departments of the College, the 2016 CoA+A Distinguished Alumni are Architecture: Terry Shook (1976) Art & Art History: Todd Aldridge (1992) Dance: Mojdeh Henderson (2000) Music: […]

A new book by Associate Professor of Digital Media Heather Freeman has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing. The Moving Image Workshop: Introducing animation, motion graphics and visual effects in 45 practical projects provides an interactive approach to learning how to create captivating animations by presenting examples of independent films, commercial films, and student work. The […]

Congratulations to architecture students Kel Cooper and Nathalie Slobodiuk, who have received diplomas to mark completion of the Masters of Architecture from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. Kel and Nathalie are the first students in the three-year Masters of Architecture II dual degree program that UNC Charlotte […]

A new exhibition at McColl Center for Art + Innovation has been co-curated by José L.S. Gámez, associate professor of urban design and director of City.Building.Lab, and Brad Thomas, an alumnus of the Department of Art & Art History. The multimedia exhibition People/Places/Exchanges: Art as a Visual Voice brings together three artists and one collaborative […]

Dr. Brian Arreola, associate professor of voice and the director of Opera Workshop, will sing the role of Tybalt in Opera Carolina’s production of Charles Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet. The performances take place in the Belk Theater of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center on January 24, 28, and 30. Gounod’s treatment of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy […]

An article by Assistant Professor of Dance Kim Jones is the cover article of the December 2015 issue of Dance Research Journal, published three times a year by the Congress on Research in Dance. The article, “American Modernism: Reimagining Martha Graham’s Lost Imperial Gesture (1935),” chronicles the research process that Jones undertook in 2012 to […]

The Department of Dance welcomes choreographer Christal Brown and a nine-member male ensemble for a one-night only performance of The Opulence of Integrity: A Movement Odyssey Exploring the Life and Legacy of Muhammad Ali on Friday, January 29. This riveting multimedia dance theater work, inspired by the public life and inner searching of boxing’s outspoken […]

The UNC Charlotte School of Architecture chapter of Freedom By Design™ brought home two awards from the 2015 AIAS FORUM, the national conference of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), held December 29-January 2 in San Francisco. The UNC Charlotte team was recognized as the 2014-15 Chapter of the Year and was awarded the […]

The Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City will present work by two artists, Julianne Swartz and Laura McCarthy, January 22 through March 4. No strangers to the nurturing voice, these interdisciplinary artists are masters at facilitating the intimacy of the moment – dismantling the chaos of the outside world and encouraging presence from […]

The Department of Music will host Rabbi Reuben Zellman, Assistant Rabbi and Music Director at Congregation Beth El in Berkeley, California, in a residency on the UNC Charlotte campus January 11-15 to educate both campus and community on gender identity, sexuality, Judaism, and Jewish music. Rabbi Zellman received his BA in Linguistics from U.C. Berkeley […]