Fine Arts & Humanities

In February and March, the art department will bring various artists and art scholars to the UNC campus through the Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art. The first, part of the Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture, is an opera-masquerade titled “Four Electric Ghosts” by Mendi + Keith Obadike. Mendi

Non-fiction author Stephanie Elizondo Griest, who has mingled with the Russian Mafiya, polished propaganda in China and belly danced with rumba queens in Cuba, will give a reading Feb. 1 at 3:30 p.m. in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room in Wilson Library at UNC. The talk by Griest, whose works include Around the Bloc and Mexican

Linda Wagner-Martin, the Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emeritus in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, received a lifetime achievement award in American literary studies. The Jay B. Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies was presented on Jan. 6 at the Modern Language Association meeting in Seattle. The

Solo Takes On 3: Story, Identity & Desire,” a festival of one-person performances, will be presented Feb. 3-14 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The performances in rotating repertory are sponsored by the communication studies department in the College of Arts and Sciences. Single tickets are $5 for students and seniors, $10

In “Built Forged Faked,” UNC’s first-year MFA students investigate unraveling narratives of identity, race, gender, geography, ritual and constructed spaces in a new exhibition. Through Feb. 7, the John and June Alcott Gallery in the Hanes Art Center will be inhabited with string landscapes, shimmering blankets, old barns, altered and investigated bodies, natural environments, haunting lullabies, ghosts