“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.”
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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.”
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Inspired by "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez, Hargreaves hopes her solo fiddle album, "Soledad," reaches students, faculty and beyond.
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The awards show saw several historical moments all while overcoming the technical difficulties a virtual show can bring.
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“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.”
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.”
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“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.
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Carla Gannis, LaJuné McMillian and Rachel Rossin create virtual reality contemporary art and will discuss their work and answer questions from participants.
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Sleepless nights aren't unheard of for most college students, but that doesn't mean it should be the norm. For students, the ongoing pandemic, workload and mental health struggles have added to restless nights.
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“I Care a Lot” is an entertaining dark comedy, but feels shallow and overstuffed enough to keep the experience from being truly satisfying. (5/10)
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“It gives you a different perspective,” book club member Roger Goldstein said. “And all of a sudden you think, 'You know that was worth reading,' because of the discussion.”
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“I think one of the best things we can do as performers is to perform the music by these composers,” Pratt said.
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“It really just depends on what you’re looking for,” Gilbert said. “Spotify is better if you’re looking to discover new music, but if you have music that you already like, I feel like Apple Music has a better library and is easier to navigate.”
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The Race, Racism and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium will hold its third virtual event, “ARTivism: Using Arts-based Scholarship to Interrogate and Dismantle Racism,” on Feb. 24 from 3-4:30 p.m.
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"After 17 years as a writer, Lyons has published over 15 children’s books with people of color serving main character roles."
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“I think there's always going to be an advancement of culture just with having representation and recognition, because Black love is not always necessarily portrayed,” Kumi said.
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“Given I never went to college and then just thinking about the fact that my daughter is not only in college, but is about to graduate is just something amazing,” Oczaveus X, father of a UNC student, said. “I learned a lot that day, even though I didn’t know anything her professor was saying,” he added with a smile.
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“Around the latter half of my first year in I.B. Art, I stumbled across artists like Hannah Höch and Barbara Kruger who made social commentary,” Michelle Castellanos, an I.B. Art student at Cedar Ridge High School, said. “I was inspired to address these messages of women’s issues and racial issues since it's something that affects me as a Latina.”
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