Art & Art History

Recent UNC Charlotte alumna Linnea Stoops (BFA 2017) won an award in the Flux 2017 Student Competition from AIGA Blue Ridge. This annual competition invites entries from graphic design students across the country. For 2018, 758 entries were submitted, with 278 projects selected. Linnea’s work was selected in the “Identity” category and was produced in […]

The National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), the national accrediting agency for schools of visual art and design and programs of studio art and design instruction, has granted full membership to UNC Charlotte. Gained through an intensive peer review process, membership is granted only to institutions that meet all of the standards […]

The Department of Art & Art History presents an exhibition and auction of work by former professor Roderick MacKillop to support the Roderick MacKillop Memorial Endowments for student scholarships. On view at the Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City, March 9-16, the work will be auctioned at a reception from 6:00 to 9:00 […]

A show of new work by Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis will open at the New Gallery of Modern Art in Charlotte on January 17. The exhibition, Seascapes, presents new paintings and works on paper inspired by recent travel in the Arctic region. In this body of work, Ranis shares his impressions of the […]

Adria Focht, the new President & CEO of The Charlotte Museum of History, is an alumna of the Department of Art & Art History. Focht graduated from UNC Charlotte in 2005 with a double major in art (with a fibers concentration) and anthropology (with a focus on archeology). As an undergraduate intern at the Schiele […]

Professional Artist

Antoine Williams, an alumnus of the Department of Art & Art History, has received a 2017 Painters & Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. The foundation awards grants annually to 25 “painters and sculptors creating work of exceptional quality.” The artists, chosen by jury selection from a pool of nominees, each receive $25,000. Williams […]

UNC Charlotte alumnus Curtis Petraglia was named one of Business Insider magazine’s “30 Most Creative People in Advertising Under 30” earlier this year. The list is based on advertising agency and peer nominations, as well as the magazine’s own research into candidate’s awards and campaigns. Curtis completed his BFA in Studio Art with a Concentration […]

By Melody Songer Melody Songer is an art major and journalism minor. A student this semester in the Installation Art class with Carmen Papalia, she wrote this article for a journalism class with Professor Cheryl Spainhour. On the first day of Installation Art class at UNC Charlotte, students sit in their plastic, paint-ridden chairs in […]

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