COA+A

Two interdisciplinary projects funded by the College of Arts + Architecture’s Digital Arts (d-Arts) Center will be presented at the end of April. Both projects received d-Arts Faculty Digital Making Grants, designed to actively encourage collaboration among faculty in the CoA+A and the exploration of digital technologies in the arts and design. Presented by dance […]

Hybrid Skins, an installation created by Associate Professor of Architecture Jefferson Ellinger and Assistant Professor of Art Thomas Schmidt, with graduate student Paul Stockhoff, has been accepted into the Artfields 2018 southeastern regional art exhibition and competition. Artfields takes place in Lake City, South Carolina, April 20-28 and showcases work by nearly 400 artists from […]

In 2008, UNC Charlotte established the College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A), bringing the arts and design together in an educational forum that is unique in the Carolinas and rare in the United States. The CoA+A is comprised of five academic units: the School of Architecture, the Department of Art & Art History, the Department […]

The College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A) will honor five Distinguished Alumni on Friday, March 16, in the fourth annual celebration of alumni achievement. The awards ceremony will take place in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall at 11:30 am. The event is free and open to the public. Representing each of the […]

The Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City will present ¡VIVA!, an exhibition of work by contemporary Latin American artists, January 19 through February 25, with an opening reception on January 19. ¡VIVA! is a subset of a larger exhibition curated by Randy Shull and Hedy Fischer from their personal collection. Shull and Fischer […]

Fans at Saturday’s football game against Middle Tennessee witnessed the birth of a new home game tradition. After each of the 49ers’ three touchdowns, an Air Force ROTC cadet leapt up onto a platform in the end zone and, borne aloft by six other cadets, did push-ups to celebrate the score. The new push-up platform […]

Lila Quintero Weaver, creator of the award-winning graphic novel Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White, is in residency at UNC Charlotte this week, September 25-29, working with students in the departments of theatre, art, English, and education. Her visit to Charlotte, where she is also leading classes at Vance High School, initiates the Framing […]

This fall, MAX, the College of Arts + Architecture Mobile Arts & Community Experience, will host programming for ourBRIDGE for KIDS, a local nonprofit organization that serves refugee children. Set up as a mobile outdoor classroom on the campus of Aldersgate Senior Living Community, MAX will serve as an after-school and weekend learning center where […]

The College of Art & Architecture’s Digital Arts Center (d-Arts) is pleased to announce the presentation of two faculty research projects funded by 2016-2017 d-Arts Faculty Digital Making Grants: the dance film Shouting Echoes: A Reconstruction of Ring Shout Traditions and the multimedia performance With Signs Following. During the Faculty Dance Concert (September 15 and […]

“Making the bottom line the top priority puts enormous pressure on human values. It is a practice that has long characterized the corporate world, and now, increasingly, also characterizes government policy. What becomes of those who are caught up in this system, either as perpetrators or victims?” Bob Trotman The UNC Charlotte College of Arts […]