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Professor’s Research of Korean Modern Dancer is Subject of NEH Summer Institute Study
Kim Jones is researching lost works of Korea’s first modern dancer.
   July 18, 2022

Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones joined a cohort of 25 higher education faculty in Chicago this summer for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute: Making Modernism: Literature, Dance, and Visual Culture in...

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Exhibition Showcases an Emerging Architectural Revolution
Inside Sekou Cooke's "Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture."
   June 28, 2022

“Walk through The Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City and you’ll see rap lyrics from Nas, Slick Rick and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s hit song ‘The Message’ splashed in graffiti on the walls,” wrote Gordon Rago recently in the Charlotte Observer...

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Architecture Students Create “Beacon” for New Arts District
Graduate students designed and built an installation at the Trailhead Arts District.
   June 23, 2022

After more than a year of work, architecture students taught by Professor Marc Manack have completed a magnificent installation at the new Trailhead Arts District. ⁠⁠

The area at the Sugar Creek LYNX Blue Line Station is being developed by Flywheel Group,  led by School of Architecture alumnus Tony Kuhn. Kuhn received his Master of...

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Professors' Research Recognized by National Dance Education Organization
Research by dance professors Tamara Williams and Karen Hubbard included in award recognition.
   June 20, 2022

The National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) has recognized research by two UNC Charlotte dance professors in announcing the inaugural Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award. The new annual award honors "outstanding book-length publications in dance education and recognizing authors who conduct an exemplary inquiry that advances the field."

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CoA+A Receives National Scholastics Award for Excellence
The College of Arts + Architecture received the 2022 Dick Robinson Award for Excellence in the Field
   June 13, 2022

The College of Arts + Architecture has received the 2022 Dick Robinson Award for Excellence in the Field as the Mid-Carolina Regional Art Affiliate of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. The prestigious award is presented annually by the Alliance of Young Artists & Writers who manage the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards nationwide. The award recognizes an affiliate partner that...

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Dance Department Announces New Dance Professor
Ashley L. Tate is a hip-hop dance specialist.
   June 10, 2022
The Department of Dance will welcome Ashley L. Tate to the faculty as a new assistant professor of dance this fall. Tate comes to UNC Charlotte from St. Louis, Missouri, where she served as an adjunct professor of dance at Saint Louis University, Washington University, Webster University, and Southeast Missouri State University, and as the former chair of the dance department at Grand Center...

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Role in Japanese Opera Continues Professor’s Explorations of Asian and Asian-American Composers
Brian Arreola will sing tenor lead in Asako Hirabayashi’s “Hebionna.”
   June 10, 2022

Dr. Brian Arreola will perform the lead tenor role of "Yoshizo" in the Japanese opera Hebionna (Snake Woman) by Asako Hirabayashi. The opera will receive its world premiere on June 27 in a production in Rowe Recital Hall and will be filmed for future distribution. The performance is the latest project...

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Department of Art & Art History Announces New Faculty
Three new faculty will join the department in the upcoming academic year.
   June 9, 2022

The Department of Art & Art History welcomes three new full-time faculty members in the upcoming academic year. Samira ShiriDevich will join the Department in August as Assistant Professor of Graphic Design - Motion Design. Lorraine Turi will join the Department in August as Lecturer in Digital Foundations/3D. Mallory Nanny will join the Department in January 2023 as Lecturer in Liberal...

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Taylor Work Reconstructed at UNC Charlotte to be Performed at Joyce Theater
Dance rofessor Kim Jones reconstructed Tracer (1962) in a collaborative research process.
   June 2, 2022

A work by modern dance icon Paul Taylor that was reconstructed at UNC Charlotte in 2016 will be performed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company in its upcoming Joyce Theater season. Tracer will be performed at the famed New York City theater on June 15, 17, and 18.

In 2015 Kim Jones, associate professor of dance, began the process of bringing Tracer back to life, a work...

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Book Co-edited by Theatre Department Chair Examines the Audience-Performance Relationship
Dr. Lynne Conner is among four editors of a new Routledge Companion.
   May 26, 2022

Dr. Lynne Conner, professor and chair of the Department of Theatre, is one of four editors of the new Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts, a thorough and multifaceted exploration of audiences and the...

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