College of Arts + Architecture

The UNC Charlotte Department of Dance has received a 2016 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The $10,000 grant will support “Tracing Modern Dance: A Reconstruction Residency for Paul Taylor’s Lost ‘Tracer.’” The reconstruction residency is the culmination of an 18-month research project by Associate Professor of Dance Kim Jones. 

MAX, the UNC Charlotte Mobile Arts & Community Experience, is in residency throughout the month of May at Aldersgate Retirement Community in east Charlotte, where the mobile classroom/meeting space is the site for daily workshops for all ages.

Theatre students Sammy Hajmahmoud and Jennifer Huddleston will be featured performers in the Charlotte Symphony’s “KnightSounds” concerts on Friday and Saturday, May 20-21.

In connection with the international celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the upcoming programs will present Romeo and Juliet in a montage of orchestral pieces, opera arias, a ballet pas de deux and brief scenes from Shakespeare’s tragedy. Charlotte Symphony Music Director Christopher Warren-Green will conduct.

A project by Charles Davis, assistant professor of architectural history and criticism, and students of the School of Architecture will be part of the echo Art Fair, a juried fine art and design exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.

The pieces “Carpenter Brownstone” and “Thespian Brownstone” will comprise one of four installations in the “Light Industry” Architecture Section of the exposition.

Jessica Nutz, an architecture student, was named one of the top 10 finishers in the 2016 International COTE design competition. In its second year, this contest is open to accredited schools in the United States, Canada and Mexico. It is sponsored by the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). Kyoung-Hee Kim, assistant professor of architecture, mentored Nutz.

Learn more about this University effort to bring together an alliance of partners to use arts, science and journalism to look at local environmental issues.

An ambitious six-year project to address all of Shakespeare’s plays before the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death comes to completion on Saturday, April 23, with “As We Like It” in the Belk Theater of the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts.

Tackling six plays a year in formats ranging from lectures to full-blown theatrical productions, the “36 in 6 Project” has been an initiative of UNC Charlotte’s Shakespeare in Action.

Students from the UNC Charlotte Department of Dance, under the direction of Professor of Dance Sybil Huskey, will participate in the National Water Dance. Scheduled for Saturday, April 16, National Water Dance is an annual event that builds a “movement choir” of dancers who join together to draw attention to global water issues. The topic is particularly urgent this year, with the recent drinking water crisis in Flint, Mich., and the persistent drought in California.

The Department of Music will celebrate the music of women composers on Thursday, April 21, with “Set No Limits,” a free concert at UNC Charlotte Center City at 7:30 p.m. Developed by Assistant Professor of Clarinet Jessica Lindsey, the program will present music by eight composers, performed by Lindsey and guest artists Christian Bohnenstengel, piano, and Christy Banks, clarinet. Funded in part by a Chancellor’s Diversity Grant, the concert is free and open to the public.

The Department of Music will present the final concert in the 2015-16 Faculty and Friends Concert Series at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 12, in Rowe Recital Hall. The concert features Anne R. Belk Distinguished Professor of Violin David Russell with guest pianist Kyle Linscheid.