College of Arts + Architecture

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.

This week, innocent acts of kindness by two Pride of Niner Nation Marching Band (PNNMB) members that were captured by a Clemson fan garnered a lot of positive social media attention. The two students, Rhea Lawhorn and Patrick Cunning, are surprised that their decision to help a Clemson fan navigate the stairs of Clemson’s football stadium,”Death Valley,” have become such a big deal.

The Department of Theatre will present “Detroit ’67,” a play by Dominique Morisseau, Sept. 27 through Oct. 3, in the Black Box Theatre in Robinson Hall.Motown music and race riots underscore this family drama about two close-knit siblings who find themselves at odds over inherited property and interracial romance in 1967 Detroit. The play is one of a trilogy about the Motor City written by Morisseau, a Detroit native; it won the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History.

Three faculty members in the College of Arts + Architecture are among the winners of the inaugural “Celebrate Charlotte Arts” grants given by the Knight Foundation. Twelve grants, totaling $200,000, are designated to “fund art that captures the spirit of Charlotte.”Assistant Professor of Theatre CarlosAlexis Cruz and his urban circus project, Nouveau Sud, will receive $25,000 for “La Bestia,” a contemporary circus take on the Central American immigrant journey to the United States.

The Department of Music will present a Faculty & Friends Concert featuring Anne R. Belk Distinguished Professor of Violin David Russell on Monday, Sept. 16, in the Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. Guest pianists Kyle Linscheid and Eric Malson will perform, too.

Kaustavi Sarkar, assistant professor of dance, is the recipient of the 2019 J. Murrey Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award. 

The Department of Dance will present its annual Faculty Dance Concert Friday and Saturday, Sept. 6-7, in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall.

Charlotte photographer Micah Cash’s “Waffle House Vistas” exhibit is on display in the Storrs Gallery through Friday, Sept. 20. An artist’s reception is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 29.“Waffle House Vistas” focuses on the built environment as seen through the windows of Waffle House restaurants from across the southeastern United States. The collected images contemplate the surrounding architecture of habitat and commerce through the lens of a southern cultural icon.