Arts & Culture

Students reflect on the anniversary of the pandemic

“The hardest part was not getting to hug your friends goodbye one last time, because the next time you saw them, it was wearing a mask in a grocery store,” Goddard said. “It shows us how we need to do our best and do our part.”

Column: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ is entertaining family fun

To UNC math students, the number that never ends can also be delicious

The enthusiasm surrounding Pi Day is the same enthusiasm felt by people who have decided to dedicate their life to math. While student groups at UNC haven't been able to celebrate Pi Day in past years because it has fallen during a weekend or Spring Break, that has not stopped members from celebrating the day individually.

Artist support grant recipients use money to expand projects during pandemic

“The grant has given me a brief window to try to create new work and that has both creative implications in terms of the emotional and spiritual side, and it has financial implications because being a full-time artist is being a full-time business,” Eric Serritella said. 

Local arts community bands together to raise money with Big Night In for the Arts

With the funds raised from sponsors and donations for "Big Night In for the Arts," Triangle arts councils aim to be in a position to better support the artists and organizations they work with while shedding light on the struggles arts communities are facing across the country. 

Orange County artists reflect on impact of COVID-19 on their work

“We were masked up and six feet apart, when we could be, recording it at home, which was definitely different, but we made it work,” artist Keenan Jenkins said.

Students reflect on defining pop culture, social moments of the pandemic

With media consumption surging over the course of the pandemic, UNC students reflect on which media got them through the early months, including online communities, social media trends and popular film and television shows. 

'Finding your peace': Students channel their creativity during a year of isolation

“It kind of just gets me out of the work mode, it’s something that I can just pick up and just do something creative and not be focused too much on — it's just something relaxing that I like to do,” she said.

UNC arts organizations find ways to maintain connection throughout COVID-19 pandemic

While in-person theater performances have been on hold due to COVID-19, arts groups across campus have figured out how to manage a largely virtual performing arts landscape.

Marvel Cooke’s legacy lives on in new show from Playmakers: 'Edges of Time'

Playwright and assistant professor Jacqueline E. Lawton's most recent play, "Edges of Time," shows the life of Marvel Cooke, the first Black woman journalist to have her own byline in a major U.S. newspaper.

Duke professor to give lecture on architecture of Nazi-occupied Krakow

An important role of the digital humanities is the preservation of lost culture, which in turn increases diversity and the depth of representation in different cultures.

'Dead Plants': UNC graduate Faith Jones and collaborators release new single

“With all this time in quarantine, I feel like these draining interactions with people is something I’ve thought about a lot personally,” UNC alumna Faith Jones said. “I’m just trying to make other people happy, and sometimes, it’s at my own detriment. And I think this song really reflects that.”

Grace Garcia blends social media and art for internship at the Met

Garcia's internship will focus on utilizing social media to enhance user accessibility to the art collections at The Met. “For me, the Met represented this opportunity to connect with individuals on a large scale, but also to highlight the incredible power that these cultural institutions have and find a way to break down these barriers or ideas of exclusivity.”

UNC lecturer's fiddle album explores musical realism inspired by literature

Inspired by "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez, Hargreaves hopes her solo fiddle album, "Soledad," reaches students, faculty and beyond. 

78th Golden Globe Awards makes history and sparks controversy all in one night

The awards show saw several historical moments all while overcoming the technical difficulties a virtual show can bring. 

'A necessary evil': Code-switching calls for alteration of dialect

“We're either consciously or unconsciously varying the way that we speak in response to the context in which we're in,” J. Michael Terry, an associate professor in the linguistics department, said. “Response to the ways in which the context of people that we're around, right, and a lot of times how we're likely to be perceived.”

'The Suffragist Project' podcast highlights the lives of women’s suffrage leaders

“I didn't really know what to expect at all, but the storytelling and the acting was just all really well put together and I could almost visualize what was going on,” social media intern for OdysseyStage Eloise Rich said. 

New Carolina Performing Arts show makes connections between strangers

“The fact that you can’t see the person on the other side of the line means that they come to life even more, because you get to create an image of them. It’s like theater of the mind,” Silverstone said.

'What we see can be deceptive': Art gallery hosts 'Transcending Geometry' exhibition

“You think about your memories or your perceptions or even the histories that you learned about in school, and there are so many different interpretations,” Murasugi said. “There are so many different points of view, and in my work I like to remind myself of that. Hopefully the viewer can grasp that, too.”

UNC alumna Sakari Milan explores untold Black history through children’s books

“It allows Black children to start to imagine, it allows Black children to start to dream, especially at that young age, where imagination is a huge part of identity development,” student Jamirious Mooney said.