Alumni News
Commencement Profile: Maya Simmons BA Art History and African American and African Diaspora Studies
April 27, 2020
Maya Simmons is graduating with a double major — a BA in Art History and in African American and African Diaspora Studies — and she knows just how she plans to use both of them: “I have loved art from a very young age. As I started researching art historians … Continued
New Director for School of Theatre Named
April 7, 2020
College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean bruce d. mcclung has announced the appointment of Natalie Sowell as the new Director of the School of Theatre. Sowell has taught and served in administrative roles at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts for the past 16 years where she founded the Child … Continued
CVPA Alumna is behind the scenes of Met Opera online
March 26, 2020
https://news.uncg.edu/enjoy-met-opera-online-spartan/
School of Art Shines in Raleigh Exhibition
March 13, 2020
You might say Front Burner: Highlights in Contemporary North Carolina Painting has been on the backburner for a little while. It was 2017. Ashlynn Browning (’02 MFA Studio Art) was feeling what she describes as “burnt out” after the recent election and plagued by negativity and devisiveness: “Everything seemed to be … Continued
Alumnae to receive honorary degrees
January 28, 2020
https://newsandfeatures.uncg.edu/honorary-degrees-rhiannon-giddens-emmylou-harris/
Sherrill Roland ’09, ’17 MFA awarded the Fellowship in Documentary Arts
December 2, 2019
Sherrill Roland ’09, ’17 MFA awarded the Fellowship in Documentary Arts from Duke University. Read more… https://vpa.uncg.edu/2019/05/07/sherrill-roland-09-17-mfa-awarded-the-fellowship-in-documentary-arts-from-duke-university/
December Commencement Profile: Marya Fancey ’19
November 27, 2019
Marya Fancey ’19 DMA Organ Performance Her degree from UNCG’s College of Visual and Performing Arts is a Doctor of Musical Arts in Organ Performance, but Marya Fancey has put her hands on just about every kind of keyboard instrument you can think of and in more than one … Continued
December Commencement Profiles: Kahlila Brown and Taylor Roberson
November 25, 2019
Kahlila Brown ’19, BFA Dance Education Taylor Roberson ’19, BFA Dance Education Kahlila Brown and Taylor Roberson have similar stories about how each found their way here. Recommendations from high school dance teachers pointed them toward UNC Greensboro’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, and they both felt they were … Continued