College of Arts + Architecture

“Cartographer,” a film by Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis was screened recently at the Northern Norway Art Museum in Tromsø, Norway.The 45-minute film is about the life and activism of the Sámi artist and poet Hans Ragnar Mathisen, one of the most significant artists of the Arctic region. An artist talk with Ranis and Mathisen followed the screening.

Ceramic works by Cuban-American artist Carlos Estévez are on view in Storrs Gallery through Friday, March 27. The exhibition, “Palimpsest,” is a culmination of three ceramic series that Estévez produced between 2016 and 2018.

Kaustavi Sarkar, assistant professor of dance, is the principal investigator on a 2020-21 Art Works grant awarded to the Department of Dance.The $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) “Art Works” grant will support the project “Indian Dance and American Communities: Expanding Forms and Audiences.”

The School of Architecture (SoA) recently renamed 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 Department of Music opens the spring 2020 semester with three Faculty & Friends Concerts. The first, on Monday, Jan. 27, features Assistant Professor of Oboe Elizabeth Sullivan with Trio Village. Created with flutist Rebecca Johnson and pianist Cara Chowning, Trio Village champions the music of women and other underrepresented composers as well as discovering older works that are not standard to the chamber music canon.

There are many players working behind the scenes of a Broadway production to ensure the audience sees a good show. Allie Dillard ’08, a graduate of the College of Arts + Architecture, is one of those players. She is using her wardrobe talents to make sure cast members look their best.

The Steep Theatre (Chicago) production of “Pomona,” directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Robin Witt, has been named one of the Top 10 Chicago theatre productions of 2019 by the Chicago Tribune.

As the fall semester came to a close, Marc Manack, associate professor of architecture, and students in his class “Good Fast Cheap” worked to bring a community’s vision to life.

Associate Professor of Theatre CarlosAlexis Cruz will join the 2020 board class for the Network of Ensemble Theaters; he is one of six new board members from across the United States. The Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET) is a national community of artists and arts organizations committed to the advancement of the ensemble form through advocacy, education and capacity-building. It has hundreds of members from across the country.

Associate Professor of Urban Design Ming-Chun Lee has collaborated with the Levine Museum of the New South to integrate augmented reality (AR) technology and GIS mapping into an exhibition about Charlotte neighborhoods, past and present.