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PRX Launches Professor's "Magic in the United States" Podcast October 24
Heather Freeman's podcast exploring magical beliefs and practices is funded with an NEH grant.
   October 17, 2023

A new podcast by Professor of Digital Media Heather Freeman, published by public media organization PRX, launches on Tuesday, October 24. Over three seasons, Magic in the United States will unveil the secrets of magical and spiritual America by exploring enchanted beliefs, practices, and...

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Architecture Professor’s Plaza Design Wins Award
Rachel Dickey’s “Bleachery Heritage Plaza” is in Rock Hill, S.C.
   October 10, 2023

The “Bleachery Heritage Plaza,” designed by Associate Professor of Architecture Rachel Dickey and completed in 2022, has received the 2023 BLT Built Design Award for Cultural Heritage Landscape in the Landscape Architecture category. The annual international competition recognizes “the most pioneering and ground-...

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Alumna’s Painting Featured in Vice President’s Residence
A painting by Carmen Neely ‘12 hangs in Kamala Harris’s home.
   October 6, 2023

Just five years after Carmen Neely ’12 completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting at UNC Charlotte, she was giving solo gallery exhibitions in major U.S. cities like New York and Miami. Since then, she has added Chicago (where she currently lives), Paris and Düsseldorf, Germany, to the growing list.  

But among her many accomplishments, the installation of her painting in the...

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Dancers Perform at NC Museum of Art
   October 3, 2023

On Saturday, October 7, six UNC Charlotte dancers performed ​​An Homage To Dutch Art In A Global Age at the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) in Raleigh. Choreographed by dance professor Delia Neil, this piece was commissioned by the NCMA to accompany the exhibition, Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 

Dutch Art in a...

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Mint Museum's "Feeding the Stone" Showcases Alumna's Work
Marianne Lieberman '75 survived the Holocaust to become an accomplished artist.
   September 25, 2023

By the time Marianne Lieberman came to UNC Charlotte to pursue a Bachelor of Creative Arts, she had already faced enough challenges, had enough adventures, and endured enough traumas for three lifetimes. And not just because she was a student in her 40s among a cohort of 20-somethings.

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Alum Named NC Rookie Art Teacher of the Year
Pooja Nair teaches at J.T. Williams Secondary Montessori School.
   September 18, 2023

Alumna Pooja Nair has been named “Rookie Teacher of the Year” by the North Carolina Art Educators Association (NCAEA). The NCAEA is the state's largest advocacy group dedicated to supporting visual arts education. The NCAEA honors one beginning teacher each year who has made “an exemplary initial contribution” and “demonstrates the potential...

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Professor’s New Book Advocates for Mindfulness in the Art Classroom
Jane Dalton provides teachers a pathway for cultivating their own and their students’ inner life.
   September 15, 2023

A new book by Professor of Art Education Jane Dalton introduces mindfulness-based expressive arts practices to art teachers. Published this month by Davis Publications, a leading publisher of art education materials and resources, The Mindful Studio: Cultivating Creativity and Well-Being in...

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School of Architecture Announces 23-24 Lecture Series
"New South meets Global South" launches on September 27.
   September 13, 2023

The David R. Ravin School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte launches its 2023-24 lecture series on September 27, 2023. The series, New South meets Global South, will feature nine distinguished speakers throughout this school year. Curated by Associate Professor of Architecture Nadia Anderson,...

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University Chorale Performs with Charlotte Symphony and Master Chorale
Concerts will feature Director of Choral Activities Jason Dungee as tenor soloist.
   September 7, 2023

The University Chorale joined the Charlotte Master Chorale and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra to perform Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms in two concerts, September 28 and 30. Also on the program was The Ordering of Moses, an oratorio by R. Nathanial Dett, featuring Assistant Professor Jason Dungee, tenor, in the role of Moses.

Founded in 1951, the Charlotte...

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Professor Assumes Leadership of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
CarlosAlexis Cruz will serve a two-year term as ATHE president.
   August 9, 2023

Associate Professor of Theatre CarlosAlexis Cruz is the new president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), the national professional membership organization for college and university theatre departments and administrators, educators, graduate students, and theatre practitioners. Cruz assumed leadership of the...

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