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Future Artifacts Explores the Interplay of Digital and Manual Art-Making
Exhibition is in the Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City through March 13.
   February 5, 2020

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...

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Freedom By Design Chapter Wins Two National Awards
The UNC Charlotte chapter of Freedom By Design™ received two awards at the 2019 FORUM.
   February 5, 2020

The UNC Charlotte chapter of Freedom By Design™ received two awards at the 2019 FORUM, the national conference of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) held in Toronto, Canada, December 29-January 2. The awards recognized and celebrated the best 15 projects completed in Freedom By Design's first 15 years. According to the advisory committee statement, every project completed...

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Art Professor’s Film Screened at Norway Art Museum
A film by Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis was screened at the Northern Norway Art Museum.
   January 30, 2020

A film by Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis was screened at the Northern Norway Art Museum in Tromsø, Norway, on January 28. The 45-minute film, Cartographer, is about the life and activism of the Sámi artist and poet Hans Ragnar Mathisen, one of the most...

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Gallery Exhibition Features Works by Cuban Artist, Inspired by Literature
The CoA+A presents ceramic works by Carlos Estévez in Palimpsest.
   January 27, 2020

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 for Art + Innovation in 2016. The...

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Theatre Professor's Children's Book Adaptation is on Stage in Chicago
Aly Amidei has adapted "Bunny's Book Club" for Lifeline Theatre's KidSeries.
   January 22, 2020

Assistant Professor of Costume Design Aly Amidei has adapted the children's book, Bunny's Book Club, for the stage in a world premiere production at Chicago's Lifeline Theatre. The show, part of the Lifeline Theatre's KidSeries, opened on January 11 and runs through February 16. Amidei has also designed the production's costumes.

This is Amidei's second adaptation for the...

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Department of Dance Wins NEA Grant
Dr. Kaustavi Sarkar is the Principal Investigator on a 2020-2021 Art Works grant.
   January 20, 2020

The Department of Dance has been awarded a 2020-2021 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) “Art Works” grant. The $10,000 grant will support the project “Indian Dance and American Communities: Expanding Forms and Audiences.” Dr. Kaustavi Sarkar, assistant professor of dance, is the principal investigator.

With the grant,...

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New Article by Music Lecturer Explores Race and Authenticity in Jazz
Kelsey Klotz's article has been published in the Journal of Jazz Studies.
   January 10, 2020

A new article by Dr. Kelsey Klotz, a lecturer in the Department of Music, explores race and authenticity in jazz. The article, "Performing Authenticity 'In Your Own Sweet Way,'" has been published in the Journal of Jazz Studies, Volume 12, Number 1.

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Come From Away Actors Visit Musical Theatre Workshop
Two cast members from the national touring Broadway production of Come From Away were on campus.
   January 10, 2020

Two cast members from the national touring Broadway production of Come From Away led a special Musical Theatre Workshop for students on Friday, January 10. The show has run at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center’s Belk Theater, January 7-12.

Sharone Sayeghi and Amelia Cormack conducted a master...

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SoA to Dedicate Storrs Lecture Hall to Scholarship Donors
The School of Architecture will rename Storrs Lecture Hall the Jack and Vada Boardman Auditorium.
   January 6, 2020

The School of Architecture will rename the newly renovated Storrs Lecture Hall the Jack and Vada Boardman Auditorium in recognition of the Boardman family’s generous funding of student scholarships. The dedication of the Boardman Auditorium will take place at 2:00 pm on Friday, January 10, in a public ceremony in Storrs Hall.

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Production Directed by Theatre Professor Witt Among Chicago's Top Ten for 2019
The Steep Theatre production of "Pomona" was listed as one of top theatre productions in Chicago.
   December 20, 2019

The Steep Theatre (Chicago) production of Pomona, directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Robin Witt, has been named one of the Top Ten Chicago theatre productions of 2019 by the Chicago Tribune.

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