Art & Art History

Associate Professor of Fibers Mary Tuma is one of seven artists whose work is featured in the exhibition Preoccupations: Palestinian Landscapes, at Minnesota Street Projects in San Francisco, California. Curated by Kathy Zarur, the exhibition presents contemporary Palestinian art that addresses landscape, directly or metaphorically, in a variety of mediums. The exhibition opened July 27 […]

The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University will host an exhibition of sculptures by Lecturer Keith Bryant, opening September 6. Metaphorical Reality presents 12 works that address ideas of loneliness, isolation, architecture, and landscape. “My work is an attempt to make visual my personal reality—thoughts and feelings based on my experiences […]

Nothing to Write Home About (2018), a group exhibition at the KIPCO Mall in Kuwait, includes an installation by Mary Tuma, associate professor of fibers in the Department of Art & Art History. The exhibition, curated by Rana Sadik, presents works from Sadik’s personal art collection produced by seven global artists. Tuma’s Internal Systems 3 […]

The Spring 2019 Mixed-Media/Print Media 3 studio art class has completed a site-specific installation in the front window case at UNC Charlotte Center City. The colorful mixed-media work, “A Glass Rhinoceros,” explores concepts of movement, transformation, and perception and was inspired by two works of literature: Eugène Ionesco’s play, Rhinoceros, and Paul Auster’s novella, City […]

Professors Maja Godlewska and Marek Ranis of the Department of Art & Art History have been announced as the 2019 University of Tasmania Cradle Coast Campus Artists in Residence. They will travel to Tasmania in May to begin their project Landscape: A Place Remembered and Imagined. From a press release issued by the University of […]

Associate Professor of Print Media Erik Waterkotte has collaborated with artist Nicholas Ruth to create Interstitial, a site-specific graphic installation in the Loggia Gallery at the Unviersity of Dallas. The installation opened March 3 and is presented in conjunction with the 2019 Southern Graphics Council International Conference. It closes April 3. With Interstitial, the artists […]

Department of Art & Art History alumnus Adé Hogue (BFA ’12) was a conference presenter at Adobe MAX 2018 in Los Angeles, CA, in October. Adobe staff requested that Hogue share an hour presentation on his design process and photography work for conference attendees. In his talk, Hogue revealed for the audience how his creative […]

Work by art alumna Carmen Neely (BFA, painting, 2012) was recently featured during Miami Art Week 2018. Neely, who is represented by Jane Lombard Gallery of New York City, participated in Untitled, Art, an international, curated art fair, December 5-9. Originating with Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Art Week now boasts dozens of art fairs […]

Art alumni Laura Knight Beebe (BFA ’13) and Savannah Jackson (BFA ’17) will have their graphic design work featured in the January/February 2019 print edition of Communication Arts. Beebe and Jackson use their talents as art director and junior art director, respectively, at Boone Oakley, a Charlotte advertising agency. Beebe and Jackson provided design, art […]

In 1989, before completing the thesis for her Master of Fine Arts in her native Wrocław, Poland, Maja Godlewska flew to the U.S., bought a Greyhound bus pass, and spent 12 weeks seeing America. She visited 24 states, encountering the landscape and the people. “It was such a positive experience,” she says, “the beauty, the […]