Art & Art History
Art Alum Exhibits at Miami Art Week 2018
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 […]
Alumni Work Featured in Communication Arts Magazine
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 […]
Professor’s Solo Show in Kansas City Gallery Explores Our Relationship to Nature
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 […]
Exhibition in Student Union Illuminates Art Historian’s Research
Vibrant Practices: Masquerade in Southwestern Burkina Faso, on exhibition in the Student Union Art Gallery through December 8, celebrates in brilliant photographs and videos the research of art historian Lisa Homann. Homann, an assistant professor in the Department of Art & Art History, specializes in West African masquerade practices from the late 19th century to […]
Regional Developer Praises Students’ Murals
On October 18, the Arlo apartment building on West Morehead Street held a street festival to celebrate murals created by students from the Department of Art & Art History. The students, under the direction of professors Maja Godlewska and Erik Waterkotte, researched the neighborhood near the apartment building for inspiration and created 10 murals using […]
Local Galleries Feature UNC Charlotte Art Faculty
Three Charlotte galleries are featuring works by UNC Charlotte art faculty this fall. Thomas Schmidt, assistant professor of interdisciplinary 3D art, is showing work at Hodges Taylor Gallery; Andrew Leventis, assistant professor of painting, is featured at Sozo Gallery; and retired professor Susan Brenner is in exhibition at Elder Gallery. The Hodges Taylor exhibition, MAKE/SHIFT, […]
Student’s Work Accepted into Tri-State Sculptors Member Show
A sculpture by senior art major Erin Nicholas has been chosen for exhibition in the members’ show at the 40th anniversary Tri-State Sculpture Conference, to be held October 25-28 in Greensboro, N.C. Erin’s sculpture, “Deliverance from Anxiety,” will be on view at the Center for Visual Artists gallery at the Greensboro Cultural Arts Center. Erin […]
Faculty Work Included in New Mint Museum Exhibition
Works by art professors Andrew Leventis and Thomas Schmidt will be included in a new exhibition opening September 20 at the Mint Museum of Art uptown location. The show, Mainframe, is the Young Affiliates of the Mint’s Third Annual Juried Art Show. It explores the role of technology in society and how technology overstimulation has […]
CoA+A, Art Department Co-Present Goodyear Exhibition
The College of Arts + Architecture and the Department of Art & Art History join Goodyear Arts to co-present Delusions of Grandeur: Big Works From Below the 39th Parallel at Goodyear Arts/Camp North End, August 10-31. The exhibition, which opens with a reception and gallery talk on August 10, is curated by Associate Professor of […]
Department of Art & Art History Welcomes New Chair
The College of Arts + Architecture is pleased to welcome Lydia C. Thompson as the new Chair of the Department of Art & Art History. Thompson has held positions as the Director of the School of Art at Texas Tech University, Department Head at Mississippi State University, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Virginia Commonwealth […]