Let’s connect! Staff from across the museum will be available to chat with visitors in the Making Connections: Art, Place, and Relationships exhibition from 12 to 1 pm on Fridays from September 20 to November 22.
Learn about the compelling current research of four UNCG art historians: Professors Heather Holian, Claire Ittner, Elizabeth Perrill, and Emily Voelker.
New exhibitions at UNCG’s renowned art museum explore the definition of “America” and the portrayal and empowerment of people with disabilities through art.
School of Art students hosted an iron pour and steamroller press demonstration during a daylong event, turning the public into artistic collaborators at the Gatewood Art Studio.
Assistant Professor of Dance Marielis Garcia has been a teaching artist since she was barely a teenager—a gutsy teenager who knew exactly what she wanted and wasn’t afraid to ask for it. Marielis could not afford dance classes so she asked for work study and started her career acting as an assistant with the younger students.
Smart-Tillman Artist-in-Residence and Musical Theatre Coordinator Dominick Amendum has been Wicked busy. Amendum, who is an alumnus of UNCG’s School of Music spent a year in London acting as the Production Music Supervisor for the Wicked film.
According to Merriam-Webster, unity is “the state of being one; oneness,” while diversity refers to “variety, assortment or mixture.” Jamaas Britton (’24 MFA Drama) thinks there can, and should, be both. So, he created “Unity in Diversity,” an event for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) to showcase their talents.
I❤️Collaboration, a thirteen-part web series developed by students and faculty in the School of Theatre, School of Music, and Department of Media Studies can be seen as a training ground, a recruiting tool, and now, as a contender in a comedy film festival.
Congratulations to Dr. Ana Paula Höfling for the achievement of her book “Staging Brazil: Choreographies of Capoeira” being reviewed and featured in the 55th Volume of the Dance Research Journal, published by Cambridge University Press.
Mila Parrish walks around the studio speaking in a calm almost melodic tone, guiding her students through a Pilates flow, stopping from time to time to adjust a leg or arm to help the dancers achieve the proper positions. The students are pioneers in Pilates at UNCG’s School of Dance—the first cohort that will earn a certification to teach the exercise form.