COA+A

Students in the College of Arts + Architecture are among the winners in the Office of Education Abroad Study Abroad Photo Contest. The winning photos and images by other participants are now on view online in the 11th Annual Study Abroad Photo Exhibit, presented in a virtual gallery. In January the Office of Education Abroad […]

Seven faculty members in the College of Arts + Architecture have received 2020 Regional Artist Project Grants from the Arts & Science Council. Regional Artist Project Grants provide an award for individuals and groups of unincorporated artists to pursue projects that further enhance their artistic development by attending a professional development experience or purchasing/renting a […]

The College of Arts + Architecture is pleased to announce the 2020 Distinguished Alumni. The award ceremony will take place on Friday, March 13, at 11:30 am in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. The Distinguished Alumni Awards were created by the College of Arts + Architecture in 2015 to recognize the accomplishments […]

The UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture presents Future Artifacts, an exhibition in the Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City, through March 13. Featuring works by five artists, Future Artifacts addresses the “digital reality” of contemporary culture and its effect on artists and art-making. Digital production has become so prevalent that we […]

The UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture presents ceramic works by Cuban-American artist Carlos Estévez in Palimpsest, on view in Storrs Gallery through March 27. The exhibition is a culmination of three ceramic series that Estévez produced between 2016 and 2018. Two series were produced by Estévez during a residency at the McColl Center […]

The average roundtrip flight from Charlotte to Rome, Italy, and back emits about one ton of greenhouse gasses (estimated as carbon dioxide equivalent). And while globally the average human being emits about two tons of greenhouse gasses per year, the carbon footprint of the average American is considerably greater: 20 tons per year. The implications […]

New College of Arts + Architecture Dean Brook Muller invites us to interrupt his day and answers 49 rapid-fire questions. As he takes us around the College, he talks about his drive cross-country, all things arts and architecture, and his hopes for the future of the CoA+A.

Broadway actor Phillip Boykin was in Rowe Recital Hall on November 14 to lead a masterclass in the Musical Theatre Workshop. Boykin, a bass-baritone, was a lead cast member in the 2017 Broadway production of Once On This Island and was in Charlotte for the touring production of the show at the Blumenthal Performing Arts […]

Faculty members in the College of Arts + Architecture are among the winners of the inaugural “Celebrate Charlotte Arts” grants given by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The 12 grants, totaling $200,000, are designated to “fund art that captures the spirit of Charlotte.” They were announced September 19. Assistant Professor of Theatre […]

A chapter by Associate Dean of Performing Arts Services Dean Adams appears in The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations, published this month by Oxford University Press. The book, edited by Dominic McHugh, traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved since the early decades of sound film. Adams’s chapter, “The Producers […]