Art & Art History

Emma Kaye

Visiting Assistant Professor, Ceramics
Art & Art History

Emma Kaye holds a BFA in Art History from The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and has completed Post-Baccalaureate Studies at Syracuse University. In 2024, Emma earned her MFA in Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She has received numerous scholarships and awards to sponsor her participation in […]

Anna Kenar

Lecturer, Foundations, Art & Art History
Art & Art History

Ann Kluttz

Senior Lecturer, Photography; Photographic Facilities Manager
Art & Art History

Ann Kluttz is a Senior Lecturer, Photography; Photographic Facilities Manager in the Department of Art & Art History.

Andrew Leventis

Associate Professor of Painting
Art & Art History

Andrew Leventis makes meticulously detailed oil paintings of contemporary vanitas, a motif popularized in early still life in which food, flowers, and other perishable objects represent the fleeting nature of life and the passing of time. Often his work is infused with iconography reflecting his queer identity. Leventis received an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University […]

Courtney Mervine

Arts Education Specialist
CoA+A

Courtney Mervine is an Arts Education Specialist with over 22 years of experience in fostering creativity and artistic expression in education. Holding both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Art Education, Courtney has dedicated her career to supporting students across multiple disciplines, including art, music, theatre, and dance. As an advisor at the College of […]

Jeff Murphy

Associate Professor, Digital Media/Digital Photography: Area Coordinator
Art & Art History

Jeff Murphy is a Charlotte-based artist working primarily with digital media. His creative career began while taking photography, film, and animation courses as an undergraduate at Ohio State University. In fact, he took a number of courses while in school across a range of diverse majors. In the end, it was lens-based image-making that stuck […]

Mallory Nanny

Lecturer, Liberal Studies
Art & Art History

Mallory Nanny is a new Lecturer in Liberal Studies in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a PhD candidate in art history at Florida State University. Her dissertation investigates how Vietnamese American and non-Vietnamese American artists represent, re-enact, and memorialize the Vietnam War in photo-based […]

Bonnie Noble

Associate Professor of Art History
Art & Art History

Dr. Bonnie Noble has been teaching at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte since 1999. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University, her M.A. in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. in Religious Studies from Northwestern University. Dr. Noble specializes in Northern Renaissance art, with a particular […]

Jonathan Pellitteri

3D Fabrications Labs manager
Art & Art History

Jonathan Pellitteri began managing the UNC Charlotte Department of Art and Art History 3D Studios and Rowe Digital Fabrication Lab in the fall of 2018. His goal is to foster an atmosphere that promotes interdisciplinary approaches to creating art, in a space that is accessible to people of all skill levels interested in expanding their […]

Angela Rajagopalan

Chair of the Department of Art & Art History; Associate Professor of Art History
Art & Art History

Dr. Angela Rajagopalan is the Chair and an Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art & Art History where she teaches courses on Pre-Columbian and early colonial art and architecture of Mexico. Her research focuses on sixteenth-century painted manuscripts from central Mexico and explores changing artistic practices in the century after the Spanish conquest. […]