College of Arts + Architecture

The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University will host an exhibition of sculptures by lecturer Keith Bryant.  “Metaphorical Reality,” which opens Friday, Sept. 6, presents 12 works that address ideas of loneliness, isolation, architecture and landscape.

The Department of Music will present Assistant Professor of Trumpet Eric Millard and pianist Erin Palmer in the first Faculty & Friends Concert of the 2019-20 season. The concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 26, in the Rowe Recital Hall.The lively program, titled “Carnaval,” will feature a wide range of music, from the Concerto in E-flat by the 19th century opera composer Vincenzo Bellini, to the Irish ballad, “’Tis the Last Rose of Summer.”

A team of architecture students, led by School of Architecture faculty members Chris Jarrett and Peter Wong, has received an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Timber in the City: Urban Habitats Competition presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

The School of Architecture and Discovery Place Science will co-present “Cities of Tomorrow,” a panel discussion featuring UNC Charlotte architecture faculty and alumni, on Friday, Aug. 23, at Discovery Place. The discussion is inspired by the “Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks” exhibition, which is on display at the science museum.

Will Campbell, professor of saxophone and director of the UNC Charlotte jazz studies program, is a featured performer on the album, “New Songs for the 20th Century.”The album, released in June, is by musician, songwriter and producer Chris Stamey, best known as a founder of the rock group, the dB’s. 

Dance alumna Lillian Willis ’17 was awarded a Short-Term Research Fellowship from the New York Public Library for the project, “Seeking Accessibility: American Dance Practices for the Blind and Visually Impaired.”

During the past academic year, the University’s Department of Music has had access to first-class standard and digital pianos through an association with the Rockley Family Foundation.

To perpetuate this program, these instruments, along with those provided other institutions, will be sold at the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts.

Individuals can make an appointment to attend a “pre-sale” Thursday through Saturday, Aug. 1-3, by calling 704-661-2792.

The final sale will be 2 to 5 p.m., Aug. 3, and no appointment is required to attend.

Murals and mandalas from the project “Promoting Peace” will be exhibited at the Projective Eye Gallery in UNC Charlotte Center City Tuesday, July 16, through Wednesday, July 31. An opening reception will be from 6 to 8:30 p.m., July 18.

A chapter by Associate Dean of Performing Arts Services Dean Adams appears in “The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations,” published this month by Oxford University Press.

The book, edited by Dominic McHugh, traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved since the early decades of sound film. Adams’s chapter, “The Producers and Hairspray: The Hazards and Rewards of Recursive Adaptation,” examines two more recent musical adaptations.

A chapter by Associate Dean of Performing Arts Services Dean Adams appears in “The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations,” published this month by Oxford University Press.

The book, edited by Dominic McHugh, traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved since the early decades of sound film. Adams’s chapter, “The Producers and Hairspray: The Hazards and Rewards of Recursive Adaptation,” examines two more recent musical adaptations.