Carolina Performing Arts is the brain-child of Emil Kang, an influential professor in the music department who worked in the chancellor's cabinet to elevate UNC's status in the art world. He accepted a position at a N.Y art foundation and will leave the University in September.
Flautists Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull, the duo behind Flutronix, will be performing original tracks from their album of electronic flute music on Sept. 21 at 8 p.m. in Moeser auditorium. Staff writer A.J. O'Leary spoke with the duo about their background and musical influences.
Let your inner nerd out. Nerd Nite, a sort of quirky lecture series, is coming to Chapel Hill. And if fresh fun facts and fascinating speakers aren't enticing enough, then maybe promise of hoop-dancing tips is.
PlayMakers Repertory Company updates the classic tale of Robin Hood with inclusive casting and original music.
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“Bayard Wootten: Then and Now,” a new exhibit in Wilson Library, commemorates the library's collection of photographs by Bayard Wooten, who is considered by some to be North Carolina's greatest photographer.
Spring has sprung — and so has the North Carolina Museum of Art. But this isn't your average enchanted garden. This weekend from Thursday through Sunday, the Art in Bloom festival will be held at the NCMA. Bringing color and beauty to the triangle are 50 floral arrangements from different designers and public exhibits.
Studio art is not what comes to mind when thinking of money-making majors, but some UNC student artists are using their creativity to turn a profit by selling commissioned art.
One could call Peter Marin’s art many things, such as colorful, robust or abstract. Quite often it is many things. Most of his paintings are made entirely of geometric shapes overlapping and interacting with each other.
In the current political climate of gender issues and cultural reflection across a diverse array of ideas, the Ackland Art Museum’s newest exhibition, "Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: French Art from The Horvitz Collection," is uncommonly timely. "Becoming a Woman" explores the so-called “Woman's Question” that was pivotal to some of the most pressing debates of the French Enlightenment during the 18th century. It is a thematic exhibit with 130 pieces of artwork ranging from drawings, to paintings, to sculptures, to prints — with only 10 of these pieces created by women. It conveys various depictions of the societal role of women spanning across 150 years of French art and will be on display from Jan. 26 to April 8.
The Statue of Liberty has welcomed thousands of immigrants into the U.S. for over a century. Now, it also stands in works of art featured in Pleiades Arts that speak to the struggle immigrants to this country still face today. “DREAMers: DACA, Deportation Defense, and the American Dream” is a visual art exhibit currently on display at Pleiades Arts. It is a collaboration between the studio, Alerta Migratoria NC and the NC Dream Coalition.
According to the North Carolina Museum of Art, the word “matron” is no longer a derogatory term, but an elevating one.
A gallery featuring artwork by Renzo Ortega will be on display at the John and June Allcott Gallery from Jan. 17 to Feb. 16, with an opening reception and artist talk on Jan. 25.
Art&Life and the Phillips Ambassadors will be partnering with the Ackland Art Museum to put on Asian Exchanges this Thursday. The event will feature three objects from the Ackland’s collection that highlight the artistic exchange between East and West cultures.
FRANK Gallery will be hosting "Graphein," an art photography exhibition put on by the ARTS 305 class at UNC-Chapel Hill from Dec. 5 to 22. The exhibition will feature the work of 10 students as they share their achievements from the semester.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Music presented the public with a free concert Monday night from University Chamber Players that filled Person Hall with sweet, sweet sounds.
It's time to get jazzy — the UNC Jazz Band will be holding a scholarship benefit concert this Saturday, Dec. 2 in the James and Susan Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall. Staff writer Krupa Kaneria spoke with Jim Ketch, a professor of Music and director of Jazz Studies, about his passion for jazz and about the concert.
This Thursday, the Kenan Theatre Company will start a five-day run of The Kritik, a play set in a 19th century Russian bar about artists’ ceaseless quest for approval.
The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough is collaborating with Mike’s Art Truck to display Irene Tison’s newest collection “Low Country Life.” The 22-painting collection will be on display in the Alexander Dickson house, the building that houses the Hillsborough Visitor Center, from Nov. 10, 2017 through Jan. 4, 2018.
Addled Muse Fire Theater put on their original show called “Purgatoire” on Saturday, Nov. 11, restaging it for another year due the success that it had last year. Through dance, music and fire, a French baroque-styled love story set in Purgatory was told.
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