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… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
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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… Continue reading…
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,… Continue reading…
