Adjunct Faculty

Arturo Lujan is a designer living in Charlotte, NC. He earned his Bachelor’s of Arts in Architecture in 2017 from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and his Master’s of Architecture in 2019. He joins our faculty as a teaching fellow. 

Jason McNeel joined the bass section of the Charlotte Symphony in the fall of 2017.  As an orchestral bassist he has collaborated with his fellow musicians on many memorable concerts in and around Charlotte. In addition to the busy Charlotte Symphony season, Mr. McNeel has concertized with the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Symphonies domestically and on […]

Sarika Merchant is an adjunct professor at the David R Ravin School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She recently received her masters degree from the same program. During her masters studies she delved into studying architecture through the lens of its purpose within a community and within its environment. She […]

Stephen Morris is a composer based in North Carolina, whose music strives to create musical experiences which separate the listener’s connection to the world through the expression of atmospheric and trance-inducing works. His music has been published in the SCI Journal of Music Scores and has been performed in places such as Arizona State University, […]

A native of Belmont, NC, Nick hold degrees from Western Carolina University (2006 – BS Communication), University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2011 – BA Music/Percussion), and East Carolina University (2014 – MM Performance). While at ECU, Nick served as the Percussion Instructor and Percussion Arranger for the East Carolina University Marching Pirates since 2011, […]

Will holds an M.Arch II and a B.A. in Arch. from UNC Charlotte and currently serves as Lecturer. He primarily teaches first and second year studios and seminars but has also taught at the graduate level and in the Urban Design department. His research focuses on the use of conceptual drawings as tools for architectural […]

Christina Pier is consistently met with great critical acclaim both on stage and in the teaching studio. Opera News has hailed her for her “big, gleaming soprano and impressive coloratura.”  She has performed leading roles with the Santa Fe Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, Nashville Opera, Virginia Opera, Princeton Festival, Eugene Opera, Sarasota Opera, […]

Virginia native Nick Ritter joined the Charlotte Symphony as section bassoonist and contrabassoonist during the 2022-2023 season. He has also been the contrabassoonist in the Richmond Symphony since 2022, and was formerly the contrabassoonist in Orchestra Iowa. Nick has continued freelancing when possible, performing with orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, National Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, and […]

Cooper Schwartz is a visiting adjunct faculty member who is an alum from UNC Charlotte’s School of Architecture (M.Arch ’25) and the University of Michigan’s Taubman College (B.S.Arch ’21). He balances a highly technical mindset with rigorous design experimentation and theory rooted in a deep understanding of architectural precedent and history. His graduate work focused […]

Lauren Suflita Skrabalak graduated cum laude and earned her BFA in Ballet Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Utah in 2002. While on scholarship, she performed with the Utah Ballet and Ballet West. She traveled abroad to Taipei, Taiwan performing a soloist role in Balanchine’s famed ballet Concerto Barocco. Skrabalak also danced on the Medals […]