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Mark Katz is a music professor and chairman of the music department at UNC. The music department
received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of State for their Next Level program

UNC music department receives $1 million grant

By Breanna Kerr | January 7

Despite widespread budget cuts for the arts on a national level, the Chapel Hill arts community will continue to thrive due to a $1 million grant to UNC’s ...

Black and white art evokes colorful feelings

By Sarah Vassello | January 7

It started when he was 6 years old. After receiving a set of red, blue and yellow paints as a gift from his mother, artist Murry Handler was hooked on ...

Gun control to be discussed on stage

By Rebecca Pollack | January 7

PlayMakers Repertory Company is starting the new year off with a bang. Its first performance of 2014 is the world premier of Mike Daisey’s one-man show, ...

Carolina Performing Arts had strong, eventful year

By Samantha Sabin | December 3

Though “The Rite at 100” series has already come and gone, Carolina Performing Arts has proven that its on-campus presence is still as strong as ever. ...

Durham Arts Council displays work of Parker, Feir, Assani

By Emily Hackeling | December 3

Large amounts of wool, recycled washers and spoons are just a few of the objects on display in the Durham Arts Council galleries through Jan. 2.

Molly Laux and Valerie King show their painted hands after contributing their handprints to a banner that says, “Together we are brave.”

Program provides cancer patients student support

By Josephine Yurcaba | December 3

Senior Molly Laux was sitting in a UNC hospital room with her most recent CPAL, a young person with cancer who she was partnered with to support and befriend ...

Duke-UNC grant creates harmony in collaboratives

By Robert McNeely | December 3

The Chapel Hill Contemporary Music Ensemble is joining forces with the Duke New Music Ensemble thanks to the prestigious Kenan-Biddle Partnership Grant. ...

Student theater groups have productive year

By Sarah Vassello | December 3

As the saying goes, the show must go on, and UNC campus theater had no trouble following that advice in 2013 — taking students, faculty and community ...

One of the artworks included in the Durham art exhibit “Gathering,” done by artist Kimberly Wheaton, is titled “Homecoming” and is a mixed media piece on a 24” x 24” canvas. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Wheaton.

Durham art gallery holds holiday exhibit

By Tat'yana Berdan | December 2

One Durham art gallery is letting the holiday spirit loose in its latest exhibit.

Durham offers first-ever DIY District Pop-Up Shop

By Juanita Chavarro | December 2

Shoppers looking for one-of-a-kind gifts this holiday season should stop by the first-ever DIY District Pop-Up Shop, located in downtown Durham at 723 ...

English class to hold Gram-o-Rama

By Rebecca Pollack | December 2

Laughter, music, puns, oxymorons and other grammatical concepts will echo through Wilson Library this afternoon.

Africa Yes!, founded by former Peace Corps volunteer Steve Cameron, works to help rebuild Sierra Leone following a civil war. Africa Yes! funds a variety of programs in several of the Sierra Leone villages. Photo courtesy of Braima Moiwai.

African artist’s work benefits Sierra Leone

By Katie Hjerpe | December 2

Africa Yes! is a Durham-based nonprofit started by former Peace Corps volunteer Steve Cameron, whose goal is to help communities in Sierra Leone rebuild ...

Chapel Hill and Carrboro arts venues see steady numbers

By Samantha Sabin | December 2

In September, the National Endowment for the Arts released its 2012 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, which found that most people would rather ...

Professor Hong-an Truong talks to Audrey Anderson, a sophomore drama and communications major, as she works on her final project in Art 106, "Core Concepts: Time." The project is a way to show time-based works of art through digital media.

Class focuses on the art of multimedia and video production

December 1

Humans have always been natural storytellers. Now, the students of ARTS 106 are facing new challenges in the realm of storytelling.

Maggie Love, 88, paints "happy paintings" that are now on display at University Mall. She has macular degeneration and is starting to lose her eyesight, which makes painting more difficult. She continues to paint and now does more abstract work. Love poses with her artwork in her home at Galloway Ridge retirement community at Fearrington.

Partially blind artist displays artwork of flowers

By Sarah Ang | December 1

Maggie Love is living proof that age is but a number. Love, who suffers from partial blindness as a result of macular degeneration, will display 15 paintings ...

Nathaniel Claridad performs in Metamorphosis dress rehearsal October 31.

Q&A with ‘Metamorposes’ actor Nathaniel Claridad

By Gabriella Cirelli | December 1

Nathaniel Claridad, a UNC graduate student in dramatic arts, appears as various characters in PlayMakers’s rotating repertory “Metamorphoses,” including ...

Chapel Hill Art Gallery features art inspired by Mother Nature

By Emily Hackeling | November 25

It all started when one of Kathy Alderman’s daughters gave her a set of paints and an easel in 2005.

ChocQuibTown brings flair to Memorial Hall

By Rupali Srivastava | November 21

Hip-hop’s bold beats meet Colombian patriotism in a performance Friday that is sure to have audience members dancing the night away.

Carolina Ukulele Ensemble to put on first full-length concert

By Sarah Ang | November 21

The Carolina Ukulele Ensemble plans to prove that the humble ukulele is a musical force to be reckoned with.

‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’ turns the stage pink

By Megan Caron | November 21

When Elle Woods chases her boyfriend to Harvard, she finds that she might not fit in with the rest of the students there — but being true to yourself ...