Hong-An Truong, an assistant professor of art in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, was named one of the “100 artists to watch” in the December 2011/January 2012 issue of Modern Painters magazine. Modern Painters is a magazine published in New York City that covers international contemporary art and culture. Truong has been an artist-in-residence […]
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Actor-playwright Nilaja Sun turned her experience as an artist in New York City public schools into a play about a multiethnic classroom, parents, school administrators and staff – including those working the front door metal detector.
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When Jason Osborne looked through his junk mail, he expected the letter to be a rejection. Instead, he found that he was awarded a prestigious fellowship. Osborne, a second-year UNC MFA student, won a $20,000 painting fellowship from the Dedalus Foundation. The Master of Fine Arts Fellowships are given to only two students, in painting
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Morgan Abbott of Raleigh, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won a John H. Barnhill Trailblazer Award from the North Carolina Campus Compact. Abbot was one of two students who received the award, which is presented to students who exemplify the ability to inspire a campus to address the issues
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“How the Grinch Stole Christmas” … in Latin? Don’t worry, it will be read in English, too, at 4 p.m. Dec. 6 at The Bull’s Head Bookshop at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The shop’s annual bilingual reading of the Dr. Seuss classic will be free and open to the public. Tom
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Blues played in Moscow? Southern fried chicken in Abu Dhabi? It’s all true, say writers for a new online magazine, South Writ Large, who say Southern culture is spreading internationally as people everywhere embrace its food, music, literature and more. On view at http://southwritlarge.com/, South Writ Large stems from the Global South Working Group at
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PlayMakers Repertory Company will celebrate the holidays a little differently this year, with something for those who need a night off from family activities and all the “fa-la-la.” The professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present Edward Albee’s hilarious marital slugfest “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Nov.
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Annegret Fauser of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association (RMA). It is one of the highest international honors a musicologist can receive. Fauser, a professor of music and adjunct professor of women’s studies in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, is the 50th
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It’s gospel music day in professor Louise Toppin’s class, “Music as Culture: The Music of African-Americans.” The course is a survey of the music of African-Americans from its roots in Africa to hip-hop, through the lens of the classical composer.
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Judy Adamson learned to sew at age 10 at the hand of her mother on an Iowa farm. Adamson still remembers her first garment, a border-print, gathered skirt. Fast-forward to her college days, when she majored in speech and theater and eventually got hired by Barbara Matera Ltd., one of the foremost costume houses in
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