Faculty

Nathaniel Elberfeld is a designer and co-founder of Teltta, a research and computational design collective that engages systems of production, material knowledge, and labor forces in architecture and design. Teltta’s creative work has been exhibited publicly in galleries and museums including the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and at Design Seaport in Boston, Massachusetts, and […]

Jefferson Ellinger is an Architect and Associate Professor at UNC Charlotte in the School of Architecture and Director of the Design Computation Program. He is also an affiliate faculty member in the School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte. Practicing as an architect he has built several projects throughout North America and won several international competitions, […]

Jae Emerling is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art & Art History at UNC Charlotte and the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Arts + Architecture. After attending Wesleyan University, he received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles.  He is the […]

Rachel Engstrom is the Costume Lab Supervisor and a lecturer at UNC Charlotte, where she has designed the recent fall and spring dance concerts. She is also a freelance costume designer with local credits including The Producers, Spring Awakening, and Memphis at Theatre Charlotte, The Mousetrap, The Bridges of Madison County, James and the Giant […]

Deborah Ferguson is a Senior Lecturer of Art Education at UNC Charlotte. She received a BFA with K-12 teaching licensure from UNC Charlotte, a Masters of Art Education degree from Winthrop University and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from UNC Charlotte. Prior to joining the faculty at UNC Charlotte, she taught 9-12 high school photography […]

David Fillmore is Professor of Lighting Design for the College of Arts + Architecture at UNC Charlotte and the Associate Chair of the Department of Theatre. He has been working as a professional designer both nationally and internationally for over two decades, realizing more than 200 designs in all forms of dance and theatre.  Career […]

My creative practice (Ciotat Studio) is based in New York City and consists primarily of architectural design and media production: single-family houses that include quasi-public event spaces; videos that analyze the city through experimental methods of abstraction; media installations embedded into urban spaces; and critical essays on the built environment in multimedia and written formats. […]

Matthew Fraiser is proud to have received his MFA in Technical Production from Florida State University (FSU). During his time at FSU, he worked as Technical Director for The Love of the Nightingale and Romeo and Juliet. In the summers of 2013 and 2014, Matthew worked at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, serving as an Assistant Technical Director in the Adams Memorial […]

James F. D. Frakes is Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.  His book, Framing Public Life: the Portico in Roman Gaul (2009) looks at the installation of a common Mediterranean architectural form in the Gallic provinces, and analyzes how the colonnaded walkway both promoted and sustained new forms of social identity. He has […]

Cynthia Frank has been a faculty member at UNC Charlotte since 2018. In addition to teaching full time, she is the owner of Cynthia Frank Design, producing work for local and national clients. She has created interactive sculpture as part of the award-winning  collaboration PAC3, text-based murals for The Wall Poems of Charlotte, and kinetic type animations for Broadcast at Home, which is currently archived in the Library of […]