Assistant Professor of Scenic Design Tom Burch has designed the Children's Theatre of Charlotte production of Bob Marley's Three Little Birds. The production runs February 8-24 at the McColl Family Theatre.
Burch, who has had an extensive career in Chicago, has designed numerous Children's Theatre...
AGA Collaborative, the trio of performer-choreographers that includes Associate Professor of Dance Gretchen Alterowitz, has jointly published an article in Choreographic Practices 9 (2). The article, “And how to be in three places at once: A collaborative experiment...
Architecture professor Jeff Balmer has initiated an effort in Toronto to preserve Ontario Place, a waterfront park designed in the early 1970s by Bauhaus-trained architect Eberhard Zeidler. Balmer grew up in Toronto and in a recent article in...
Last fall the Plaza Midwood Merchants Association approached Associate Professor of Urban Design Nadia Anderson and asked whether the School of Architecture’s City.Building.Lab, a research arm of the SoA, would propose solutions for the Gordon Street alley, a dingy strip that lies between the Sherwin-Williams paint store and Snug Harbor music venue in the Plaza Midwood neighborhood. The...
The College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A) will honor five Distinguished Alumni on Friday, March 15, in the fifth annual celebration of alumni achievement. The awards ceremony will take place in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall at 11:30 am. The event is free and open to the public.
Representing each of the five departments of the College, the 2019 CoA+A Distinguished...
The multidisciplinary design firm LandDesign is sponsoring a class this semester in the Master of Urban Design program to study digital placemaking. Led by Professor Deb Ryan, students in “Dilemmas in Modern City Planning: Digital Technology and Urban Activation” will work with LandDesign team members to explore the impact of technology on the design of public space.
Theatre students Jack Murphy and Amberlin McCormick, pictured here in last fall’s production of Twelfth Night, are competing at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 4 for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship. Now in its 50th year, the Kennedy Center American...
Five faculty and five alumni of the College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A) are recipients of 2019 Regional Artist Project Grants from the Arts & Science Council. Given annually, Regional Artist Project Grants provide funding to artists for professional development and technical assistance.
CoA+A faculty who received grants are:
Department of Music Associate Professor of...
A group of architecture alumni have founded a new scholarship endowment for the College of Arts + Architecture in honor of the CoA+A founding dean, Ken Lambla. The 14 alumni were joined by CoA+A Senior Associate Dean (Interim Dean) Lee Gray and Jim Williams of Little Diversified Architectural Consulting in raising $60,000 for the Ken Lambla Scholarship Endowment.
Beginning in 2021, the...
Stacey Rose (B.A. in Theatre, 2008) has received the inaugural Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award, through a national contest at Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts. Rose, whose play was chosen from nearly 500 submissions, will receive $25,000 and a production of her play at Barrington Stage.
Rose’s winning play, America v. 2.1: The Sad Demise & Eventual Extinction of...
