Research

Associate Professor of Dance Tamara Williams is one of 25 dance artists to receive a Dance/USA Fellowship to Artists. Established in 1982, Dance/USA is the national service organization for dance. Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists recognize dance and movement-based artists from across the U.S. and its territories “who work at the intersection of social and embodied […]

An interdisciplinary team of six UNC Charlotte researchers and three local youth arts organizations has received a $500,000 grant from The Wallace Foundation to support an in-depth study of the impacts of arts engagement on youth participants, their families and those who provide the arts programming. Over the course of two and half years, the […]

Professor of Architecture Kyoung Hee Kim began developing microalgae-filled building façade systems years ago, prompted by an environmental science class in graduate school. Knowing algae’s ability to sequester carbon and improve air quality as well as potential uses as food or energy sources, she began to design window installations in which microalgae could grow. The […]

On her first trip to the United States, when she was still a graduate student in her native Poland, Maja Godlewska spent the summer touring America’s national parks. Afterwards, her paintings of actual and imaginary landscapes became her thesis project and launched a lifetime of considering the sublime in nature and our sometimes fraught engagement with […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Ashley Tate recently spoke with The Charlotte Observer about the inspiration behind her upcoming Hip-Hop conference, her experience growing up immersed in a family of artists and how her insatiable curiosity led her to see dance as a tool to understand and preserve history. Tate has danced and choreographed for most […]

Assistant Professor of Dance Alyah Baker’s “juste, juste” was performed August 24.

Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones recently curated a dance festival for the National Maritime Museum in London.

Dance student Naiya Graham was an OUR Summer Research Scholar.

The Charlotte Observer explores the work of Professor of Ceramics Lydia Thompson in a feature story by Liz Bertrand.

Assistant Professor of Dance Ashley Tate is one of three choreographers to receive a 2025-26 North Carolina Choreographic Fellowship from Trillium Arts. The two-week fellowship will provide Tate and a group of four dancers with financial support, lodging and studio space at the Trillium Arts campus in Mars Hill, North Carolina, in June 2026. “Trillium […]