With a respected technical excellence and a reputation for being creatively daring, Jennifer Koh has become an internationally renowned violinist.
With start-up fees from local music entrepreneur and UNC student Reed Turchi, the Center for the Study of the American South’s new ‘Sounds of the South’ award is looking to help undergraduates record the music that makes the South move. The winner of the award, which will be announced this month, will receive funds to travel and record Southern music at its source.
In the last installment of the Arts desk’s In The Studio series, Peter Pendergrass premieres his honors thesis. Pendergrass is a senior studying performance studies and studio art. His installment and performance “Dreamlife” is on display at the Artery.
Tucked in the University’s facilities plant about a mile from the main campus, the Art Lab gives students a place to develop their projects in a studio setting. Messy and noisy, the Art Lab is a central part of many studio art students’ creative lives while at UNC.
UNC alumnus Sean McKeithan never meant to be a performer. But his current solo production, “On Breathing in the Barrel,” gives him a whole stage to play with. It’s an experience he says that he’s come to truly appreciate.
As a part of the arts desk’s ongoing series, “In the Studio,” senior Peter Pendergrass spoke with staff writer Abby Gerdes about what drives his art — from childhood into the future.
Drinking water from old glass jam jar in an eclectic room in St. Anthony Hall that he calls “the library,” Peter Pendergrass notates in a fresh Moleskine calendar. Though the iconic notebooks are often used as props to suggest an artistic demeanor, Pendergrass, an artist himself, uses the calendar to chart out his hectic life. A double major in communication performance and studio art working on multiple art theses, Pendergrass shrugs off his list of artistic projects as just another part of what drives him.
