Art & Art History
Partnership with Goodyear Arts Offers Artist Residencies to New Alumni
A new collaboration between the Department of Art & Art History and Goodyear Arts awards three-week summer artist residencies to recent graduates of the Department. Alumni Nadia Meadows, who received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art in December 2020, and Nicole Thrower, who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art in May, are […]
Department of Art & Art History Welcomes Three New Faculty
The Department of Art & Art History will welcome three new faculty members this August. Chelsea Brtis is a new Assistant Professor of Illustration. She received a Bachelor of Architecture from Iowa State University and an MFA in Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication from the University of Texas at Dallas. Previously, Brtis has taught digital […]
Parks Sadler
MFA candidate at Central Saint Martins in London
Art by Students Enlivens Novant Clinic
The Novant Health SouthPark Family Practice is the site of a vibrant exhibition of 130 works of art by students from UNC Charlotte and Central Piedmont Community College. The works, a wide range of painting, photography, sculpture, illustration and more, will be on display in the lobby and throughout the four floors of the medical […]
Professor Shortlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize
Assistant Professor Andrew Leventis has been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize. The Aesthetica Art Prize is an international competition founded in 2007 by U.K.-based Aesthetica magazine. Each year the competition attracts thousands of entries from across the globe. Leventis is one of just 19 artists to be shortlisted. Leventis was recognized for two works […]
Art History Professor Will Serve as Co-curator for NEH-funded Exhibition
Associate Professor of Art History Lisa Homann will join a team in the development of a new exhibition by the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution (NMAfA). Funded with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), New Masks Now: Artists Innovating Masquerade in […]
Projective Eye Gallery Exhibition Reflects on Signs of the Times
Signs + Gestures, an exhibition in the Projective Eye Gallery in the Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City, showcases two collaborative printmaking projects organized, curated, and produced by master printmaker Stefanie Dykes. On view through June 18, the show brings together works from Signs of the Times, created in 2009, and Token Gestures, created […]
Art Students’ Work Included in Chicago Museum Exhibition
Works by UNC Charlotte art students Ajané Williams and Malik J. Norman have been accepted into the Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, which opened at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on April 7. Held annually since 1970, the Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition is the nation’s longest-running exhibition of African American art […]
Alum Wins Regional Emmy Award
Alumnus Danny Tulledge (’15) won the Emmy© award for Technical Achievement at the 35th Midsouth Regional Emmy© Award ceremony, held virtually on Saturday, February 27. A senior designer for ABC News, Tulledge received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Media and minors in art history and theatre from UNC Charlotte. Tulledge and colleague Zachary […]
Alum Wins 2021 AAF Silver Medal Award
Graphic design alumnus Banks Wilson (’01) has received the 2021 AAF Silver Medal Award from the Charlotte chapter of the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the highest honor in the local American Advertising Awards (ADDY). The AAF Silver Medal Award was established in 1959 to recognize those who have made outstanding contributions to advertising and who […]