College of Arts + Architecture
Spring Dance Concert features work by Tony Award winner George Faison
The Department of Dance will present a Spring Concert Thursday through Sunday, April 14-17, in the Belk Theater of the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts. Among the works on the program is “Suite Otis,” choreographed by the Tony Award-winning choreographer George Faison.
Auerbach co-edits lighting design book
Professor of Theatre Bruce Auerbach is the co-editor of the second edition of “Practical Projects for Teaching Lighting Design: A Compendium, Volume 2,” published by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology Inc. (USITT) in 2016.
The book, a collection of practical lab projects that can be used in a lighting class, was edited with Anne McMills and is a project of the USITT Lighting Design and Technology Commission. Auerbach was the sole editor of the first edition of the book, which was published in 1990.
MAX on the move this spring
The UNC Charlotte Mobile Arts & Community Experience (MAX) will be in two residencies this spring in the Charlotte area. From Friday, April 8, through Monday, April 18, MAX will be on the front lawn of the McColl Center for Art + Innovation on North Tryon Street. Beginning Saturday, April 30, MAX will be in east Charlotte on the property of Aldersgate, a continuing care retirement community on Shamrock Drive, for an entire month of activity.
Photographic exhibition documents a N.C. Latino community
The Department of Art and Art History, along with the Levine Scholars Program and J. Murrey Atkins Library, will present “Nowhere | Now Here,” a photographic exhibition documenting the Latin American community of a small town in North Carolina. The exhibition will be displayed on first floor of Atkins Library Monday, March 28, through Saturday, April 23.
Ceremonial tree planting to celebrate Arbor Day, KEEPING WATCH
UNC Charlotte will conduct a ceremonial tree planting at 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 16, at the west end of Hechenbleikner Lake. This event is part of the University’s KEEPING WATCH initiative and celebrates North Carolina Arbor Day, which is March 18.
Organized by the UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture and UNC Charlotte’s Urban Institute, KEEPING WATCH is a multi-year initiative designed to foster collaboration across disciplines and interest groups to engage the public in local ecological issues.
Theatre Department to stage postmodern masterpiece ‘Hamletmachine’
The UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre will present “Hamletmachine” Friday, March 18, through Tuesday, March 22, in the Anne Belk Theater of the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts.
Opening reception scheduled for Rowe exhibits
Rowe Galleries will host an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, March 17, for three coinciding exhibitions.
“Drawing into Space,” will feature works by Hollis Hammonds, a visiting artist at the McColl Center, and students from the Department of Art + Art History. Their efforts explore drawing and its relationship to three-dimensional space. Hammonds and student will speak about the work in a panel discussion at 4 p.m., March 17, in Rowe Arts Building, Room 130.
Music Department to present faculty jazz concert
The Department of Music Faculty and Friends Concert Series will present a jazz performance at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 23, in Rowe Recital Hall.
Four UNC Charlotte jazz faculty – Will Campbell (saxophone), Michael Hackett (trumpet), Noel Freidline (piano) and Ron Brendle (bass) – will be joined by guests Ocie Davis (drums) and Troy Conn (guitar).
Of a recent album featuring Campbell, “All About Jazz” critic Mark Sullivan wrote, “smoking hot … a first-class collection of modern jazz, with strong playing and exciting, varied original compositions.”
Air quality, trees focus of 2016 KEEPING WATCH
The UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture and Urban Institute will launch the third year of the KEEPING WATCH initiative with a focus on air quality and the city’s tree canopy. Events will begin in early March and continue through the end of May.
University contributes to Bechtler exhibit
“The Art of the Print,” organized by Erik Waterkotte and assistant professor in the Department of Art + Art History, is on display through Sunday, June 19, at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.
The College of Arts + Architecture lent the museum specialized tools used in the four major types of printmaking: relief, intaglio, lithography and screen printing. In addition, the exhibit is displaying a worked woodblock and lithography stone with corresponding artwork printed from them by recent graduates Lauren Ernst and Andrew Steed.