College of Arts + Architecture

A unique partnership between UNC Charlotte and Charlotte Ballet enables students like Rose Wuertz to earn both a bachelor’s degree in dance and a professional training certificate in dance.

Assistant Professor of Architecture Rachel Dickey and School of Architecture alumni Ali Karduni ’17 M.S./M.Arch.  and Noushin Radnia ’18 M.S./M.Arch. have received a 2020 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Research Incentive Award for their proposal, “Reconfigurable Space: Kinematic Environments Controlled with Computer Vision.”

The UNC Charlotte Wind Ensemble will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 25, in the Belk Theater of Robinson Hall.The ensemble, under the direction of Shawn Smith, will present a program that includes “Process of Nobles,” “Only Light, Only Love” and “The Bicycle Shop” and other selections.Tickets are $8. CoA+A majors receive one complimentary ticket via the 49erArtsLink program.

The University Chorale will perform a holiday concert on Monday, Dec. 2, under the direction of guest conductor Ginger Wyrick. The program features selections from Handel’s “Messiah” including the ever-popular “Hallelujah” chorus.

Assistant Professor of Architecture Catty Dan Zhang has won the 2019 University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design “Emerging Designers” competition. As the winner, she will receive a $5,000 honorarium, an exhibition of her work in the college’s Wurster Gallery, a reception and the opportunity to deliver a public lecture.

Kaja Dunn, assistant professor of acting in the College of Arts + Architecture, is directing the Cape Fear Regional Theatre production of “No Child,” a play by Nilaja Sun. The Fayetteville, North Carolina, production, which features a set by Tom Burch, assistant professor of scenic design, runs through Sunday, Nov. 17.

The Department of Dance will present its Fall Concert Thursday, Nov. 14, through Sunday, Nov. 17; it will feature four works choreographed by faculty and performed by students.

The Department of Music’s Nov. 6 Faculty & Friends Concert will feature jazz artists Will Campbell, professor of saxophone, and DePauw University professor and pianist Steve Snyder.Campbell and Snyder played together in the University of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band in 1993-94. They both are currently members of the Michael Waldrop Big Band.Also director of the University’s jazz studies program, Campbell has been a featured performer on various albums, including “New Songs for the 20th Century” and “Don’t Blink.”

Death will mingle with the likes of Love, Friendship, Understanding and Stuff when the Department of Theatre presents “Everybody,” opening at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 31, in the Black Box Theater in Robinson Hall. This contemporary play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is based on the 15th century English morality play, “Everyman.”

Students in Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams’s Afro-Brazilian dance class will perform with the Los Angeles-based troupe CONTRA-TIEMPO Nov. 7-9 at the Booth Playhouse in the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center.