School of Music Alumnus Makes Solo Debut at the Metropolitan Opera
David Blalock, BM ’09, recently made his solo debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Pong in Puccini’s Turandot. He previously appeared at The Met as a member of the chorus in a 2013 production of Wagner’s Parsifal. In addition to his appearances at The Metropolitan Opera, David will also sing the title role in Offenbach’s […]
MFA alumna Stephanie J. Woods awarded 2019 Halcyon Arts Lab Fellowship
Stephanie J. Woods is a Charlotte, NC based artist creating textile, photography, and community-engaged projects. Through the use of symbolic mediums referencing black American culture and the southern experience, her multimedia works examine the cognitive effects of cultural assimilation, and how performance is ingrained in identity. Woods earned an MFA in Studio Art from the […]
The David and Tina Ostergaard Endowed Scholarship in Theatre
When David Ostergaard graduated in 2002, he left UNCG with two degrees, and the skills and confidence to start Bright Star Touring Theatre. “UNCG has impacted so much of my life. I graduated with a BFA in acting and a BA in history. So naturally I opened a theatre company that specializes in bringing history […]
School of Art MFA Alumna Sheena Rose featured in Miami museum exhibition.
The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art is a thematic group exhibition centered on the question, “what might a Caribbean future look like?” With a series of newly commissioned works, The Other Side of Now seeks to think beyond narratives of catastrophe that continue to frame the region in terms of then and now. In […]
Sanford Lab welcomes first-ever Artist-in-Residence
Gina Gibson, 2006 MFA, is a multimedia artist and professor of digital communication at Black Hills State University. In the Summer of 2019, she was named as Sanford Underground Research Facility’s first Artist-in-Residence. Gibson first visited Sanford Lab in 2013 for the “Into the Dark: Artists Exploring Dark Matter” art exhibit, which challenged 22 prominent South Dakota artists […]