Ruth Darling Heyd ’99 and Stephanie Frazier Scholarship Endowment in Collaborative Piano at UNCG’s School of Music
Let the music play! At UNCG, new scholarship in collaborative piano
Ailyn Pitt BFA Studio Arts
Ailyn Pitt believes in the healing power of art both through creating it and by experiencing it. Pitt is the mastermind behind “Art’s Way Out,” a YouTube channel that provides a space for artists to talk about their purpose and their motivation behind the art form they are representing: “When you look at a painting […]
Emilee Fann ’22 BA Arts Administration
Emilee Fann saw herself living a life in the arts but wasn’t quite sure what form that would take until she got to UNCG: “I’d heard that UNCG had a great Theatre Education program, so I transferred here and that’s where I started. From that point, it was a matter of trial and error to […]
Brianca Robinson ’22 BFA – Drama: Design and Technical Production
Brianca Robinson has a style that she is ready to share with the world. While earning a BFA in Drama: Design and Technical Production at UNCG, Robinson focused on costume design: “Creating costumes is a big part of helping an actor create a role. It’s the clothing and those nuances like accessories and hairstyles that […]
Alumna Returns to UNCG with Dance Company Urban Bush Women
When Urban Bush Women comes to campus this week, School of Dance Alumna Shayla Taylor (‘20 BFA Dance: Choreography and Performance) will be with them. Taylor is an apprentice with the company known for weaving contemporary dance, music, and text with the history, culture, and spiritual traditions of the African Diaspora. The performance on Friday, […]
A Journey of 0.4 Miles in Twenty Years
Kevin Lawson jokes that it took him twenty years to go zero-point-four miles—that’s the distance from the Music Building to Taylor Theatre—from a freshman piano performance major to the School of Theatre’s first MFA student with a concentration in Musical Theatre Directing—with a lot of stops along the way. Lawson first enrolled at UNCG in […]
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