People

The Department of Art & Art History is known for the quality and achievements of our faculty, students, and alumni. Get to know us!

OUR outstanding FACULTY INCLUDE

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  • An award-winning designer of coins and medals who designed the U.S. nickel
  • A specialist in African art history with documentary work in the NC Museum of Art and a project with the Smithsonian
  • A graphic design professor who creates logos and branding for regional and national organizations and firms
  • Author of the award-winning Photography: History and Theory
  • An art education professor who researches art and contemplative practices
  • A painting professor who has had residencies in South Korea, Iceland, Spain, Germany, Greenland, Chile, and Tasmania

among our alumni are

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  • A Senior Designer at ABC News
  • The Associate Director of Education at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
  • Graduate students in art history at Columbia University and McGill University 
  • Successful art teachers in NC public schools
  • An art director for projects with brands such as PayPal, eBay Inc., Nike, ALDI, and Ocean Spray
  • Artists who have exhibited their work at PS1 Museum of Modern Art in NYC and Art Basel Miami

Are you an Art & Art History alum? We'd love to add you to our alumni spotlight profiles! Let us know what you've been up to by filling out this form!

RECENTLY, OUR STUDENTS HAVE

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  • Won awards in the Bellwethers Annual Juried Exhibition of Collegiate Student Art and the Charlotte ADDY Awards
  • Traveled to Senegal for the Goree Diaspora Festival
  • Had work featured in LENSCRATCH photography journal
  • Created murals for a new building in uptown Charlotte
  • Received scholarships for residencies at Penland School of Crafts and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
  • Served as paid interns at the Mint Museum of Art, the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, and the Charlotte Art League