College of Arts + Architecture

Lydia Thompson, professor of art and former chair of the Department of Art & Art History, is the latest Constellation CLT artist at the Mint Museum of Art.

Constellation CLT, a solo exhibition series featuring work by local artists, rotates three times per year. “Lydia Thompson: Travelers” will be exhibited through Saturday, Sept. 4, in the museum’s uptown facility.

A group of architecture and chemistry students spent the spring semester working together to translate the nanoscale of chemistry to the macroscale of architecture.

Students from the Graduate Topic Studio, led by Rachel Dickey, assistant professor of architecture, and graduate research assistants from the lab of Christopher Bejger, associate professor of chemistry, teamed to design proposals for a nanoscale science pop-up museum. They built full-scale components, which were displayed at the Science Building for a juried competition.

Skyler Parrow-Strong is graduating from the University’s College of Arts + Architecture as a member of the Class of 2022. Originally from Baldwinsville, New York, she will complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. Learn how she arrived in Charlotte, the best part about her internship and her post-Commencement plans.

Among the tall trees of the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens is a new memorial dedicated as part of the University’s 2022 Niner Nation Remembrance of the April 30, 2019, campus shooting.

A pair of interdisciplinary researchers from architecture and engineering recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to use artificial intelligence to improve health care among the elderly.

The funding of $255,992 is through a Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I grant, designed to assist researchers transform scientific discoveries into commercial products.

A new song cycle about violins recovered from the Holocaust will be the centerpiece of Charlotte’s Holocaust Remembrance Day event, the Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration.

The Washington, D.C., company IN Series will present an opera composed by UNC Charlotte Professor of Voice Brian Arreola at the Kennedy Center Saturday, April 9. 

Nine UNC Charlotte music students will join the cast of Carlisle Floyd’s opera, “Susannah,” in a production presented through a partnership with Central Piedmont Community College’s Opera Theatre program. Performances will be Friday, April 1, through Sunday, April 3, in the Halton Theater on the main campus of Central Piedmont.

The current Theatre Charlotte production, “Love, Loss & What I Wore,” features eight artworks by stage tech/design students and faculty from the Department of Theatre and Performing Arts Services. The play by Delia and Nora Ephron runs through April 10 in various locations in Charlotte.

Through augmented reality technology, guests will be able to virtually explore the future memorial.