Art & Art History

Je’wel Lucas
B.F.A. in Graphic Design

Alumna’s Student Wins Scholastic National Gold Medal
Eli Coblenz is Providence Day School art teacher Sydney Sheaffer’s first Gold Medal winner.

Professor Creates Artwork for New Duke Energy Headquarters
Thomas Schmidt’s 75-foot “Connected” echoes Charlotte’s electrical grid.

Alum Named to CBJ’s “Most Admired CEO” List
Devlin McNeil ’00 is president and executive director of Arts+.

CoA+A Faculty and Alumni Receive Creative Mecklenburg Grants from ASC
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 […]

Sunnie Stainback
B.F.A. in Graphic Design and a Minor in Journalism

Design Research Class Collects Local Design History
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 […]

Thompson to Receive Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
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 […]

Professor to Co-curate NEH-funded International Exhibition of West African Masquerade Artists
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 […]

Jazmine Chance
B.F.A. in Graphic Design