College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean bruce d. mcclung has announced the appointment of Gina Kim as Assistant Professor of East Asian Art History. Dr. Kim is an art historian whose research focuses on modern and contemporary East Asian visual culture and media in transnational circulation. Her work engages broader questions of borderland imperialism, diaspora, and feminist… Continue reading…
College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean bruce d. mcclung has announced the appointment of Varun Saxena as Lecturer in Game Design and Production. Varun Saxena is a game designer, writer, and educator currently based in Greensboro, where he is a Post-MFA Fellow in Interactive Media at UNCG, teaching classes… Continue reading…
“This course has been a source of inspiration and affirmation that doing what I am passionate about really can become a career. As arts students, that’s something we struggle with a lot,” says Leah Dickinson with a big sigh. “Everyone’s telling you all the time you’re not going to make… Continue reading…
Sometimes there are no words. And that, says Meghan Fox, is where art steps in: “The thing I love about art, and why I enjoy teaching it so much, is that art is a universal language. It’s older than written language. It has been connecting people for thousands of years. Even when words aren’t strong enough, art is always present.” Fox is receiving a BFA… Continue reading…
Dr. Elizabeth Perrill (Smart-Tillman Distinguished Professor of Art History) is serving as lead curator of iNgqikithi yokuPhica/Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Co-curated with Cultural Curator Muziwandile Gigaba and MOIFA curatorial staff, this exhibition is… Continue reading…
In the history of Jazz, there is only one bandleader that has the distinction of having his orchestra still performing sold-out concerts all over the world, with members personally chosen by him, for nearly 40 years after his passing. Pianist and bandleader William James “Count” Basie was and still is… Continue reading…
For Jinna Sakkijha (’22 BA Arts Administration), UNCG was a natural selection: “It was a straight pipeline. I lived in Oak Ridge in Guilford County, and when I graduated high school, I wasn’t quite ready to leave the nest yet. I came to orientation thinking I would be a Psychology… Continue reading…
You can’t say Spartans don’t dream big. While an MFA student at UNCG, Alan LeQuire ’81 MFA learned sculpture bids would soon be accepted for a statue in Nashville’s Centennial Park. His mom mailed him the newspaper clipping from Tennessee, telling of the request for proposals. Not just any statue…. Continue reading…
College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean bruce mcclung has announced the roster of artists for the 2025-2026 UNC Greensboro Concert and Lecture Series (UCLS), which includes Leslie Odom Jr.— straight off his return to Broadway in the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Hamilton. Odom, who won the 2016 Tony… Continue reading…
With immersive new tools like Unreal Engine and a state-of-the-art animation studio, UNCG visual arts faculty and students are pushing creative boundaries – and creating a launchpad for exciting, next-gen careers. Innovate UNCG – the university incubator for entrepreneurship – is helping lay the groundwork for tech-forward growth in the… Continue reading…
