Commencement Profile:James Stryska BM Performance: Composition
James Stryska came to UNC Greensboro wanting to make music—not just play music—but create it: “I’ve always been interested in composition because I have this astonishment about how music is constructed. As far back as sixth grade band, after we played a piece in class, I would go home and look up the score online […]
Commencement Profile:Jordan Speas BFA Drama: Acting
It all started in kindergarten. Five-year old Jordan Speas walked into his music class, struck a pose, and joyfully and loudly announced, “This is where we come to sing!” And now, many school years later, Speas is still singing. And dancing. And acting. The spark that started in elementary school has grown stronger with each […]
Commencement Profile: Erika Lowrance BFA Studio Art: Painting, BA Communication Studies
UNCG student ‘paints the town positive’
Commencement Profile: Cortney Vartanian BFA Dance: Choreography/ Performance w/K-12 Licensure
Dance is an art form that, in many cases, requires performers to move as an ensemble. Cortney Vartanian knows the importance of esprit de corps, but she’s also learned the value in making the choreography your own. “Our professors preached individuality. They encouraged us to find our own voice here. We are all going through […]
School of Art Alumna Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
UNCG Greensboro’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) alumna Jane South has been awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. South is currently the Chair of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and before that she taught at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She studied Painting and Sculpting in the […]
Transformational Gift to Miles Davis Jazz Studies
New at UNCG: Robinson Family Fund in Jazz Studies
Television, Film, and Stage Actor Chris Chalk ’01 Gives Advice to UNCG Theatre Students
Chris Chalk ’01 gives acting advice to students
James Keith ’08 MM Vocal Performance, ’13 DMA Choral Conducting, Owner of Double Oaks Bed & Breakfast
Long before “nimble,” “flexible,” and “pivot” became the buzzwords of the pandemic, one segment of the workforce already had those things down pat. The career path of an artist is full of twists and turns. Just ask School of Music alumnus James Keith: “There are lots of ways to make the arts a big part […]
Alexandra Joye Warren ’06 MFA Dance, Founder of JOYEMOVEMENT
For Alexandra Joye Warren, starting her own dance company was not so much an act of entrepreneurship as it was a calling. It just took her some time to listen to it. Warren was in her senior year, completing a BA degree in Drama with a concentration in Dance/Pre-Medicine from Spelman College, when she first […]
UNCG Alumni Featured on Podcast About their Grammy Nominations
UNCG Grammy nominees on local podcast