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Five faculty members of the Department of Art & Art History will be part of the group exhibition, Pacts and Invocations: Magic and Ritual in Contemporary Art, opening June 23 at the Spartanburg Art Museum. Curated by Assistant Professor of Print Media Erik Waterkotte, Pacts and Invocation will feature work by 10 artists, including UNC […]

The online theatre journal, HowlRound, has recently published an article by Assistant Professor of Theatre Jeanmarie Higgins that describes the work that dramaturgy students do in the Department of Theatre at UNC Charlotte. “The Youngest People in the Room: Dramaturgy in Undergraduate Theatre Programs” presents the challeges and opportunities that undergraduate theatre students encounter as […]

The UNC Charlotte “Pride of Niner Nation” Marching Band has been selected as the official band to represent the United States in Normandy, France, in June 2018. The performance will mark the 74th anniversary of D-Day. Each year, one band is chosen to represent the U.S. at the D-Day commemoration. The honor was historically reserved […]

The Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City presents Digital Dialogues, two multimedia installations that incorporate full-scale digital fabrication with a touch of the hand and a topographic perspective. Newly formed collaborative teams of College of Arts + Architecture professors and students have expanded the creative process, removing the control of the solely autonomous […]

The UNC Charlotte Department of Dance has received a 2016 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The grant, in the amount of $10,000, will support Tracing Modern Dance: A Reconstruction Residency for Paul Taylor’s Lost “Tracer.” The reconstruction residency is the culmination of an 18-month research project by Associate Professor […]

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 & […]

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 […]