CVPA Alumni at 2019 Tony Awards
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Arts Administrators: Connecting Art to an Audience
UNC Greensboro’s Arts Administration Program adds Museum Studies Concentration and New Faculty There are many ways to live a life in the arts, and many of those ways are behind the scenes, sometimes WAY behind the scenes. For every successful artistic experience, there is likely an arts administrator with a combination of creative passion and […]
Dr. Elizabeth Keathley Publishes New Book
Dr. Elizabeth Keathley, Associate Professor, Historical Musicology and Women’s & Gender Studies and Director of Graduate Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, has a new book. Schoenberg’s Correspondence with Alma Mahler documents a modern music friendship beginning in fin-de-siécle Vienna and ending in 1950s Los Angeles. The correspondence is edited and translated by Keathley and Marilyn L. […]
Sherrill Roland ’09, ’17 MFA awarded the Fellowship in Documentary Arts from Duke University
SHERRILL ROLAND has been awarded the Center for Documentary Studies’ 2018-19 Post-MFA Fellowship in the Documentary Arts. He will be in residence at the Center for Documentary Studies for 10 months. He is the founder of the acclaimed Jumpsuit Project, intended to raise awareness around issues related to incarceration. Rolland created the Jumpsuit Project after […]
Drs. Constance McKoy and Andrew Willis Appointed Covington Distinguished Professors in Music
The UNCG School of Music is pleased to announce that Dr. Constance McKoy and Dr. Andrew Willis have been appointed Marion Stedman Covington Distinguished Professors in Music for a five-year term, effective Fall 2019. Dr. Connie McKoy is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the UNCG School of Music, where she teaches undergraduate and […]
Soprano Theresa Bickham Appointed to School of Music Faculty
The UNCG School of Music is pleased to announce that soprano Theresa Bickham has been appointed to the faculty as Assistant Professor of Voice effective Fall 2019. Bickham has been praised for her “fine piano nuances” and “expressive legato line.” She made her European debut in 2007 singing scenes from La Traviata under the direction of Maestro […]
UNC Greensboro School of Theatre Students Visit the American Shakespeare Center
By UNC Greensboro School of Theatre Student Lexie Simerly On April 14, 2019 a group of current and former UNCG theatre students traveled up to Staunton, VA, with Associate Professor, John Gulley, to the American Shakespeare Center. They participated in a workshop and saw a production of Henry IV, Part 1. The students who participated […]
UNCG Alumna Beth Leavel nominated for TONY Award
UNC Greensboro Alumna Beth Leavel, MFA ’80 has just received another Tony nomination, this one for her role as Dee Dee Allen in the hit Broadway musical, THE PROM. The nomination was announced this morning by The American Theatre Wing. Ms. Leavel holds a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for THE DROWSY […]
Pixar Art Director Teaches Animation Workshop at UNCG School of Art
“Just rip that paper off and toss it on the floor if you need to, just keep going.” That encouragement was from Dan Holland, an Art Director at Pixar Animation Studios to a group of 20 advanced Art students at UNC Greensboro’s College of Visual and Performing Arts on the weekend of April 5-7. And […]
Conductor Jonathan Caldwell Appointed to School of Music Faculty
The UNCG School of Music is pleased to announce that conductor Jonathan Caldwell has been appointed to the faculty as Assistant Professor of Conducting and Assistant Director of Instrumental Ensembles, effective Fall 2019. “Since I left North Carolina in 2009, I’ve always hoped I could come back home,” said Caldwell. “The chance to work at […]