College of Arts + Architecture

Logan Pavia and Charity Williams, students in the Musical Theatre Certificate program, participated in the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, a prestigious, international professional development program for emerging artists.

Theater and Film Professor Jay Morong helps open The Independent Picture House in NoDa.

Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones will join 25 higher education faculty in Chicago this month for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: Making Modernism: Literature, Dance, and Visual Culture in Chicago, 1893-1955. Funded by the NEH and running from July 18 to Aug. 5, the summer institute will explore creative expression in Chicago from the turn of the 20th century through the aftermath of the Second World War.

A year in the making, a new installation was completed at the Trailhead Arts District near the CATS Sugar Creek Station. Anchoring the Trailhead Arts District are the Charlotte Art League and the new Independent Picture House. ⁠⁠

Graduate architecture students taught by faculty member Marc Manack designed and built the installation, the Trailhead Arts District Pavilion, which features a tower, corridors, galleries and courtyard that serves three functions.

Inside the Projective Eye Gallery in The Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City, visitors can see Sekou Cooke’s “Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture.”

The College of Arts + Architecture is the 2022 Dick Robinson Award for Excellence as the Mid-Carolina Regional Art Affiliate of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

This annual award is presented by the Alliance of Young Artists & Writers, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their remarkable work to the world.

Tenor Brian Arreola will perform the lead tenor role of Yoshizo in the Japanese opera “Hebionna” (Snake Woman) by Asako Hirabayashi. The opera will have its world premiere June 27 in a production in Rowe Recital Hall and will be filmed for future distribution. The performance is the latest project in Arreola’s ongoing creative research of music by Asian and Asian-American composers.

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

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 audience experience and their relationship to the performing arts and performance experience.

A new book by Brook Muller, dean of the College of Arts + Architecture, argues for the creative opportunities – and moral imperatives – of “embedding water-related concerns” into architectural design.