College of Arts + Architecture

Tenor Brian Arreola will perform the lead tenor role of Yoshizo in the Japanese opera “Hebionna” (Snake Woman) by Asako Hirabayashi. The opera will have its world premiere June 27 in a production in Rowe Recital Hall and will be filmed for future distribution. The performance is the latest project in Arreola’s ongoing creative research of music by Asian and Asian-American composers.

“Tracer,” a work by modern dance icon Paul Taylor was reconstructed at UNC Charlotte in 2016, will be performed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company in its upcoming Joyce Theater season at the famed New York City theater on June 15, 17 and 18.

Lynne Conner, professor and chair of the Department of Theatre, is one of four editors of the new “Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts,” a thorough and multifaceted exploration of audiences and the audience experience and their relationship to the performing arts and performance experience.

A new book by Brook Muller, dean of the College of Arts + Architecture, argues for the creative opportunities – and moral imperatives – of “embedding water-related concerns” into architectural design. 

Lydia Thompson, professor of art and former chair of the Department of Art & Art History, is the latest Constellation CLT artist at the Mint Museum of Art.

Constellation CLT, a solo exhibition series featuring work by local artists, rotates three times per year. “Lydia Thompson: Travelers” will be exhibited through Saturday, Sept. 4, in the museum’s uptown facility.

A group of architecture and chemistry students spent the spring semester working together to translate the nanoscale of chemistry to the macroscale of architecture.

Students from the Graduate Topic Studio, led by Rachel Dickey, assistant professor of architecture, and graduate research assistants from the lab of Christopher Bejger, associate professor of chemistry, teamed to design proposals for a nanoscale science pop-up museum. They built full-scale components, which were displayed at the Science Building for a juried competition.

Skyler Parrow-Strong is graduating from the University’s College of Arts + Architecture as a member of the Class of 2022. Originally from Baldwinsville, New York, she will complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. Learn how she arrived in Charlotte, the best part about her internship and her post-Commencement plans.

Among the tall trees of the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens is a new memorial dedicated as part of the University’s 2022 Niner Nation Remembrance of the April 30, 2019, campus shooting.

A pair of interdisciplinary researchers from architecture and engineering recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to use artificial intelligence to improve health care among the elderly.

The funding of $255,992 is through a Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I grant, designed to assist researchers transform scientific discoveries into commercial products.

A new song cycle about violins recovered from the Holocaust will be the centerpiece of Charlotte’s Holocaust Remembrance Day event, the Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration.