College of Arts + Architecture

The Department of Music Faculty and Friends Concert Series will present a jazz performance at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 23, in Rowe Recital Hall. 

Four UNC Charlotte jazz faculty – Will Campbell (saxophone), Michael Hackett (trumpet), Noel Freidline (piano) and Ron Brendle (bass) – will be joined by guests Ocie Davis (drums) and Troy Conn (guitar).

Of a recent album featuring Campbell, “All About Jazz” critic Mark Sullivan wrote, “smoking hot … a first-class collection of modern jazz, with strong playing and exciting, varied original compositions.”

The UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture and Urban Institute will launch the third year of the KEEPING WATCH initiative with a focus on air quality and the city’s tree canopy. Events will begin in early March and continue through the end of May.

“The Art of the Print,” organized by Erik Waterkotte and assistant professor in the Department of Art + Art History, is on display through Sunday, June 19, at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.

The College of Arts + Architecture lent the museum specialized tools used in the four major types of printmaking: relief, intaglio, lithography and screen printing. In addition, the exhibit is displaying a worked woodblock and lithography stone with corresponding artwork printed from them by recent graduates Lauren Ernst and Andrew Steed.

UNC Charlotte will host a Women + Video Games Festival Monday through Sunday, Feb. 15-21. Through a series of workshops, lectures, panel discussions and video screenings, the festival will encourage women and girls to explore game design and programming and to promote a creative gaming culture that is inclusive of individuals, regardless of gender, race or creed.

The Department of Music will present a Faculty and Friends Concert on Monday, Feb. 8, featuring Associate Professor of Voice Brian Arreola. The program, which takes place on Chinese New Year’s Day, is a celebration of music by Asian and Asian-American composers, with songs sung in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and English.

Performing with Arreola, a tenor, will be guest artists Kelvin Chan, baritone; Wei-En Hsu, piano; Kari Giles, violin; and UNC Charlotte Associate Professor of Cello Mira Frisch.

Choreographer Christal Brown and a nine-member male ensemble will present “The Opulence of Integrity: A Movement Odyssey Exploring the Life and Legacy of Muhammad Ali” at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 29, in the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts Belk Theater.

Brian Arreola, associate professor of voice and director of Opera Workshop, will sing the role of Tybalt in Opera Carolina’s production of Charles Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet.” The performances will be Jan. 24, 28 and 30 in the Belk Theater of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center.

Gounod’s treatment of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy was composed in 1867. The character of Tybalt, for tenor, is Juliet’s cousin who is slain by Romeo after killing Romeo’s friend, Mercutio.

The UNC Charlotte School of Architecture chapter of “Freedom by Design” earned two awards at the 2015 AIAS FORUM, the national conference of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), held Dec. 29-Jan. 2 in San Francisco. The UNC Charlotte team was recognized as the 2014-15 Chapter of the Year and received the 2014-15 Project of the Year award.

Rabbi Reuben Zellman will lead an open conversation about the challenges he faced as the first openly transgender rabbinical student and how his experiences have served his mission of LGBTQ acceptance and inclusion at 2 p.m., Friday, Jan. 15, in the Rowe Arts Building Auditorium.

The Music Department is hosting this free event, which is open to the campus community. Zellman is participating in a residency at UNC Charlotte Jan. 11-15 to educate the campus and community on gender identity, sexuality, Judaism and Jewish music.

Acclaimed experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton will speak at the opening reception for the film installation of his “New York Portraits: Chapter I, Chapter II and Chapter III” at 5:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 15, in the Storrs Gallery.