Sheryl Oring’s “I Wish To Say Project”
Listen to an NPR piece on Sheryl’s latest project in NYC HERE and read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle HERE
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Andy Dunnill: Exhibition and Celebraton of Life
May 5th @ 5pm, the UNCG Art Department is celebrating the opening of its new space for contemporary arts and community with a celebration of the work of late professor, Andrew Dunnill. The solo exhibition will follow the theme of the Dunnalia festival and showcase a selection of Andy’s sculpture… Continue reading…
Sheena Rose, MFA 2016
Check out the latest video from the UNCG Youtube channel – Sheena Rose Click HERE
UNCG Summer Arts & Design Camp
Explore your Creativity and Artistic Potential. The Departments of Art is preparing for our annual summer arts and design camp for current 8th graders through 12th graders. The student artists will receive daily, studio instruction & supervision from UNCG faculty and art education staff. We are offering a one week… Continue reading…
UNCG student Peggy Marshall awarded Mr. Holland’s Opus Grant
Peggy Marshall, a second-year MME student at UNCG, whose full-time job is as orchestra director at St. Paul’s Middle School in Robeson County, NC where she teaches 108 orchestra students in a small, rural town south of Fayetteville, NC. She applied for and was recently awarded a grant from Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation which… Continue reading…
SMTD mourns the loss of Alumna Lisa Foerster & family
We were tremendously saddened to learn of the untimely passing of recent alum, Dr. Lisa Foerster. Lisa, her children: Emma and Thomas Hamel; and her sister: Lorraine Alstererg all died as the result of an automobile accident on Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Lisa completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree… Continue reading…
Cultural Competence, Dance, and A Better World
[slideshow_deploy id=’382′] A Taiwanese American, 5’2, and stylish woman, Cynthia Ling Lee, Assistant Professor of Dance in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance, has a dynamic approach to teaching cultural competence in the classroom. Her loving approach to pedagogy introduces different dance forms unfamiliar to students in an engaging… Continue reading…
Performer’s Perspective: Dialogues of the Carmelites
What makes art relevant? How can you take a two-hundred year old art form and make it accessible to a 21st century audience? How as an artist can you find echoes of your own voice in a score written centuries before your birth? Well, when you dismantle the artifice of… Continue reading…
Spotlight on: Dr. Joan Titus – New book release & NEH award!
Joan Titus has been awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for research on her newest book project on the composer Dmitry Shostakovich and his film music for Stalinist cinema (1936-1953). This current book project is the sequel to her first book on Shostakovich’s initial experiments… Continue reading…
THIS JUST IN:
@UNCGSMTD @WVUTheatreDance for 2016 #ACDA Mid-Atlantic Region Conference, landing a spot in the #gala! WTG Spartans! UPDATE: Our group was selected to perform at ACDA’s National Conference in D.C. at the Kennedy Center. Congratulations!