Art & Art History

Eli Coblenz is Providence Day School art teacher Sydney Sheaffer’s first Gold Medal winner. Providence Day School high school student Eli Coblenz recently became alumna Sydney Sheaffer’s first national Gold Medal winner in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Founded in 1923, the Scholastic Art& Writing Awards have become the nation’s longest-running, most prestigious recognition and scholarship […]

Thomas Schmidt’s 75-foot “Connected” echoes Charlotte’s electrical grid. Employing student and alumni assistants, art professor Thomas Schmidt has created and installed a magnificent large-scale work in the Duke Energy Plaza, the company’s new headquarters at 525 South Tryon Street in uptown Charlotte. The 75-foot wall installation, comprised of some 175 porcelain panels and 50 mirrors, […]

Devlin McNeil ’00 is president and executive director of Arts+. Devlin McNeil had already had stints in banking and as a stay-at-home mom when she enrolled at UNC Charlotte to nurture a passion for photography that she had first developed as a student at Myers Park High School. When she graduated in 2000 with a […]

Faculty and alumni from the College of Arts + Architecture are among 54 artists to receive 2024 Creative Mecklenburg Grants from the Arts & Science Council (ASC). The grants were open to Mecklenburg County-based artists of all disciplines and provide funding of up to $3,000. Grantees represent creative disciplines from visual art and music to […]

Hometown: Morehead City, NC BFA with a concentration in Graphic Design Minor: Journalism 2025 How did you first get interested in art?I’ve always grown up loving art and creating, but it wasn’t until highschool that I realized my passion was specifically in Graphic Design. I am such a people person, so I love the idea […]

As they complete their spring semester, students in Christina Singer’s Design Research class have published what will be the sixth digital book to emerge from the Department of Art & Art History’s graphic design program since Singer joined the department in 2021. CLT Graphic Design History: A Collective Research Effort, Vol. 6 is a delightful […]

Professor of Art Lydia Thompson will receive a 2024 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Honorary Member Award at the organization’s annual conference in Richmond, Virginia, this month. The Honorary Member Award has a history of over five decades of recipients and recognizes individuals “whose commitments to creativity, scholarship, activism, or professionalism […]

Associate Professor of Art History Lisa Homann is a key member of a team developing the internationally traveling exhibition New Masks Now: Artists Innovating Masquerade in Contemporary West Africa. The exhibition is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and supported by a $500,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). After […]

Hometown: Greensboro, NC BA in Graphic Design 2025 How did you first get interested in art?I got interested in the Fine Arts in general because I experienced each aspect of it in my life. I grew up doing professional dancing and practicing theater which led me to explore music by being a percussionist. What got […]

Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at UNC Charlotte Christina Singer has three works showcased in two international exhibitions. “Mariposa” and “Golden” were selected to participate in the International Fine Arts, Printing and Sustainability Conference (IFPSC) in Barcelona while “Never Over” is a part of Intercontinental Bienal, an exhibition that travels to different countries throughout the […]