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SUMMARY:MFA Thesis art exhibition: victoria mercado-lues
DESCRIPTION:Garden of Corporeal Fantasy\n\n\n\nMFA Thesis Exhibition\n\n\n\nby Victoria Mercado-Lues \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExhibition: April 21 – 25\, 2026\n\n\n\nReception: Friday\, April 24th\, 6-8p\n\n\n\nBrightly saturated and fantastical\, Garden of Corporeal Fantasy explores the meeting of nature and flesh in oil paintings and ceramics. With invented creatures and visceral biological imagery\, the works reframe the gaze towards the bodily through a lens of wonder — a less punitive lens than the centuries-long and still recurring traditions of bodies as commodified\, objectified\, or sinful.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition addresses our discomfort surrounding the body by combining it with the godly imposing presence of the landscape\, like waterfalls and billowing clouds. In this combination\, the work is imbued with a devotional\, almost sacred quality\, borrowing visuals of the holy and filling it with the biological. The sticky\, hairy\, fleshy becomes something worth staring at with open fascination\, the same way we are in awe of exotic plants\, or deep-sea creatures\, illuminating the sublime inherent in the corporeal.  \n\n\n\nBy zooming in on the glistening\, wet thresholds\, the work blurs the boundary between interior and exterior anatomy. Tendrils and drips converge to give birth to strange life forms and new worlds that explore sensuality\, womanhood\, and the fantastic.  \n\n\n\nDocumenting a coming of age\, Garden of Corporeal Fantasy acknowledges the fullness of becoming a woman: the awareness of feeling both precious and strange\, once intimately known\, yet foreign to yourself. In creating these fantastical ecologies\, the work insists on its own terms for beauty\, redefined through tender curiosity.  \n\n\n\nMore About Victoria  \n\n\n\nVictoria Mercado-Lues (b. 2003) is a Mexican-American artist whose oil paintings\, ceramics\, and collage conjure vivid ecologies of invented creatures and fantastical flesh. Her work merges the biological with the devotional\, reframing the body as a site of wonder rather than shame. \n\n\n\nMercado-Lues received her BFA from the University of South Florida and her MFA from the University of North Carolina Greensboro\, where she was awarded a residency through GROW in partnership with Creative Greensboro. Her work has been exhibited nationally at the Carolyn M. Wilson Gallery\, International Museum of Surgical Science\, Proxy Design Gallery\, and the Sechrest Gallery\, among others.  \n\n\n\nLearn more at victoriamercadolues.wixsite.com/arts  | IG: @victoriamercadolues
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/mfa-thesis-art-exhibition-victoria-mercado-lues/
LOCATION:Greensboro Project Space\, 111 E February 1 Pl\, Greensboro\, NC 27406\, USA
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,Greensboro Project Space,School of Art
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SUMMARY:New Frequencies
DESCRIPTION:New Frequencies presents a selection of works by Sandra Andrade\, Rodgers Dameron\, Blas Isasi\, Kasia Ozga\, Varun Saxena\, and Leilei Xia. Over the past three years the UNCG School of Art has welcomed these six artists as new members of its Studio Art faculty. This group exhibition highlights a dynamic range of practices across sculpture\, new media and design\, animation\, and interdisciplinary media\, offering insight into the creative research and artistic inquiry shaping the work of these recently appointed faculty members.This exhibition opens March 26 and runs weekdays until April 24. The opening reception is March 26 from 4-6pm. \n\n\n\nFaculty will give talks on their process and practice from 1-2pm in the Gatewood GalleryApril 1 – Rodgers Dameron\, Varun Saxena\, and Leilei XiaApril 2 – Sandra Andrade\, Blas Isasi\, and Kasia Ozga
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/new-frequencies/2026-04-22/
LOCATION:Gatewood Studio Arts Center\, 527 Highland Ave\, Greensboro\, NC 27412\, USA\, 527 Highland Ave\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Art
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SUMMARY:Concert Band
DESCRIPTION:Patty Saunders\, conductorCat Keen Hock\, clarinetMolly Allman\, graduate conductorJaden Brown\, graduate conductor \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nREENA ESMAILChamak \n\n\n\nJULIE GIROUXFields of Gold \n\n\n\nNATHAN DAUGHTREYTwitch \n\n\n\nCARLOS SIMONReflections \n\n\n\nROSSANO GALANTEAurora Borealis \n\n\n\nCAROL BRITTIN CHAMBERSKalos Eidos \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Program\n \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Soloist\n\n\n\n\nDr. Catherine Keen Hock exemplifies the innovative spirit of the contemporary classical musician.  Living in Greensboro\, North Carolina\, Cat (as she is called by her friends) performs and teaches throughout the southeastern United States.  Cat is an avid supporter of new music\, especially chamber music\, and frequently collaborates with local composers and new music ensembles.  Cat is a founding member of the award-winning reed ensemble Quintet Sirocco\, formed in 2010 by fellow graduate students at UNC Greensboro in an effort to continue advancing this exciting new genre of chamber music.  As an ensemble\, Quintet Sirocco’s mission encompasses commissioning and performing new music\, creating innovative performance experiences for diverse audiences\, and presenting educational performances throughout North Carolina.  In 2007\, Cat was a founding member of the Obsidian Clarinet Quartet\, premiering two original compositions at the 2008 conference for the International Clarinet Association\, ClarinetFest\, in Kansas City.  Cat is a member of the Piedmont Wind Symphony\, the bass clarinetist for the Fayetteville Symphony and Salisbury Symphony Orchestra\, plays clarinet/bass clarinet with WireTap New Music Ensemble (Durham\, NC)\, and serves on the woodwind faculty at the Music Academy of North Carolina.  Cat also enjoys sharing her love of music history as program essayist for the Eastern Music Festival. \n\n\n\nCat completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree (DMA) in clarinet performance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2012 where she was a graduate teaching assistant for the clarinet studio and jazz studies program.  Her degree includes a cognate in jazz studies\, and she also completed a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Historical Musicology during her doctoral studies.  Cat’s dissertation\, “The Pivotal Role of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time in the Establishment of the Clarinet-Piano Quartet Genre” reflects her passion for contemporary chamber music and examines the historical and socio-economic factors that have contributed to its current prominence within the classical music culture.   While at UNCG\, she was a member of the Wind Ensemble (performing at CBDNA in Austin\, Texas in 2009)\, University Symphony Orchestra\, Casella Sinfonietta and Jazz Ensemble II.  Cat also earned a MM in Clarinet Performance from UNCG in 2007 and a BA with Honors in Music Performance with a minor in International Studies from Wake Forest University in 2005.  At Wake Forest\, Cat was a William L. Poteat Scholar\, winner of the Concerto Competition and Giles-Harris Competition for Performance\, and a drum major for the Spirit of the Old Gold and Black Marching Band.  Also while at Wake Forest\, Cat spent a magical semester in Venice\, Italy\, where she studied at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello and traveled Europe experiencing performances by the world’s leading orchestras and opera companies.  She studied clarinet with Kelly Burke\, Anthony Taylor\, Edwin Riley\, Eileen Young and Michael Waddell.  \n\n\n\nIn recent years\, Cat has discovered a love of North Carolina’s state tree\, the long leaf pine\, after planting several acres of seedlings with her younger brother on their family farm in Four Oaks.  When she isn’t back home on the farm\, Cat enjoys attending sporting events\, exploring the tastes of North Carolina’s craft breweries with her husband Noah (a professional violist)\, and experiencing a view of the world through the eyes of her brilliantly curious daughter\, Clara. \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Bands\nThe UNCG Bands are devoted to the performance\, study\, and advancement of wind band music at the highest artistic level. Recognized as one of the nation’s premier collegiate band programs\, the UNCG Bands maintain an active and distinguished record of excellence through performances\, recordings\, tours\, and appearances at major conventions. \n\n\n\nThrough exemplary organization\, training\, and presentation\, the UNCG Bands offer exceptional musical experiences for our members and share outstanding performances throughout the year. Together\, we enrich the cultural life\, spirit\, and character of UNCG. \n\n\n\nThe UNCG Bands also proudly support music education across North Carolina and throughout the region by providing leadership\, mentorship\, and sponsorship to secondary school band programs and other musical organizations. \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Bands\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. 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URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/concert-band-10/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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SUMMARY:Zhanweiyi Liu\, piano
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URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/zhanweiyi-liu-piano-2/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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