Spartans Win Spot in North Carolina Folk Festival
A group led by a School of Music student has won a spot to perform in the North Carolina Folk Festival this fall. Anna Vtipil is a composition student under Professors Mark Engebretson and Alejandro Rutty. Her group is made up of two other UNCG students – Gracie Zielinski (’23 Arts Administration) and Hanna Fishastion […]
BFA Rachael Hayes in Italy Artist Residency
Rachael Hayes (BFA Sculpture and Ceramics 2021) finally made it to Italy for her previously delayed Artist Residency with the Digital Stone Carving Project! The Digital Stone Project was founded in 2005 by sculptors who wanted to create a new way of working in stone by leveraging the burgeoning digital technologies. Garfagnana Innovazione is a […]
Caitlyn Schrader ’22: Bringing Energy and Experience to Role of Director of Community Engagement
Caitlyn Schrader (’22 MFA Dance) is moving into a role that seems choreographed just for her — Director of Community Engagement for UNCG’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA). In that position, she will also serve as Director of Greensboro Project Space (GPS), CVPA’s contemporary art gallery in downtown Greensboro. Schrader is a dance […]
UNCG on TV: Your Binge Watch List for Summer
UNCG on TV: Your binge watch list for summer
Quentin Fears ’03 BFA Acting: Turning Personal Style into a Career
When the 75th Annual Tony Awards aired on Sunday, June 12th, millions of viewers tuned in to see who goes home with the coveted statuette, but that’s not all they were watching. Checking out what the stars are wearing has become as much a part of the show as learning who gets the awards. Quentin […]
Commencement Profile Kyrese Washington BM Performance: Woodwinds
Kyrese Washington has played a number of instruments but has always come back to the flute: “From the minute I picked up a flute in sixth grade band class, it just seemed easy for me to make music with it.” Throughout middle and high school in their hometown of Raleigh, Washington played through the woodwind […]
Commencement Profile Chelsea Hilding MFA Dance: Choreography
Chelsea Hilding is determined to break through the barrier of body image to make ballet more accessible: “We’re told ballet is for very thin, young girls, and women. Ballet studios are so often decorated with gendered photos of girls in pink tutus. But I believe ballet is personal, and it’s for everyone. Ballet is the […]
A Growing Art Form: Painting with Bacteria
Peanut butter and jelly…spaghetti and meatballs…painting and bacteria. Wait, what? It may sound like the most impossible combination, but it’s just the kind of art + science mashup that Karen Ingram (’96 BFA Studio Art, Concentration in Painting) loves to explore: “I think there’s a real overlap, and I think that the more conscious we […]
Spartan Leads Broadway COVID Safety Team
After a dark winter of shutdowns caused by COVID breakthrough cases and the widespread Omicron variant, audiences are cautiously returning to theaters, and as they do, safety is top priority for School of Theatre Alumnus Hugh Hysell. Hysell (‘88 BFA Acting) leads The Broadway COVID Safety Team, which celebrated a record setting milestone this week, […]
Sherrill Roland exhibits at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Sherrill Roland (MFA 2017/BFA 2009) exhibits his drawings, and multimedia sculptures reflecting his life experiences after a wrongful incarceration in the exhibition Hindsight Bias at the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York. This exhibition follows up from his “Jumpsuit Project” in which he wore an orange jumpsuit and encouraged dialog with the community about what […]