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Khristopher Smalling Named Assistant Professor in Music Production and Technology
April 8, 2024
College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean bruce d. mcclung has announced the appointment of Khristopher Smalling as Academic Professional: Assistant Professor in Music Production and Technology. Smalling is a second-generation Jamaican American, multi-instrumentalist, classically trained trombonist, electronic music producer, arranger, and educator. He has taught “Electronic Music Production,” “Studio … Continued
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Theatre Students Engage in Collaboration and Collective Creation in [where-else] at Elsewhere Museum
April 4, 2024
Assistant Professor of Theatre Robi Arce-Martínez poses a question, “Where else but at UNCG’s School of Theatre?” He’s talking about a new theatre work called [where-else] which opens April 5th at Elsewhere, an artist residency and museum in downtown Greensboro. Arce-Martínez and 19 students from all majors across the school … Continued
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Gerardo “Gerry” Lopez Named Assistant Professor of Music Theory
April 2, 2024
College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean bruce d. mcclung has announced the appointment of Gerardo “Gerry” Lopez as Assistant Professor of Music Theory. Lopez is a PhD candidate in Music Theory at The Ohio State University (OSU) who will defend his dissertation, “From Robotic Singing to Singing Robots: Exploring … Continued
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Faculty Artist Profile: Marielis Garcia
April 2, 2024
Assistant Professor of Dance Marielis Garcia has been a teaching artist since she was barely a teenager—a gutsy teenager who knew exactly what she wanted and wasn’t afraid to ask for it: “My parents are both immigrants from the Dominican Republic and there just wasn’t a whole lot of surplus … Continued
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Faculty Artist Spotlight: Dominick Amendum
April 2, 2024
Smart-Tillman Artist-in-Residence and Musical Theatre Coordinator Dominick Amendum has been Wicked busy. Amendum, who is an alumnus of UNCG’s School of Music (’01 BM Piano Performance) spent a year in London acting as the Production Music Supervisor for the Wicked films, Universal’s adaptation of the Tony-Award-winning Broadway musical, which is … Continued
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Daria Clarke ’21 Coming “Home” with Garth Fagan Dance Company
March 26, 2024
As an undergrad, Daria “Toni” Clarke ’21 set aside ambitions to be a dermatologist or veterinarian for her first love, dance. Upon graduation, she set her sights on the Garth Fagan Dance company, based in upstate New York. Her professor and mentor, Dr. Janet Lilly(Professor of Dance), had sent her … Continued
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Billie Feather Named Lecturer in Commercial Guitar
March 26, 2024
College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean bruce d. mcclung has announced the appointment of Billie Feather as Lecturer in Commercial Guitar. Feather is a guitarist/songwriter/banjoist/bassist who hails from the Allegheny Mountains of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. She was most recently an assistant professor at Washington State University where she taught “Group … Continued
![College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean bruce d. mcclung has announced the appointment of Claire Ittner as Assistant Professor of Art History.](https://vpa.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Ittner-Headshot-scaled-e1710178782802.jpg)
Claire Ittner Named as Assistant Professor of Art History
March 12, 2024
Claire Ittner is a historian of modern and contemporary art in the Americas with particular interest in the art and visual culture of the African Diaspora in the American South and the Caribbean. Her research interests include questions of mobility and migration, patronage networks and theories of artistic value, and … Continued