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Hugh Masekela's Memorial Hall performance delights music lovers

By Tariq Luthun | October 25

The jiving, smooth-stepping groove-machine known as Hugh Masekela called the Memorial Hall stage his home on Monday night. And the trumpeter and civil ...

Student-led groups tackle issues with artistic angle

By Malcolm Ogden | October 19

The students of this year’s Connected Learning Program are knitting, dancing, and dumpster-diving their way toward their version of a better tomorrow. The ...

Chandelier made of multicolored neon tasting spoons

Chapel Hill's University Mall to host Scrapel Hill art contest

By Kristina Weeks | October 18

Scrap metal isn’t junk. It can be an animal, a fountain — anything that sparks the artist’s imagination.

Trinity Velez works in Hill Hall on her latest composition, a complex, eight-voice choral piece. Velez hopes to eventually work in Hollywood composing film scores.

Composition courses at UNC intimate and successful

By Atar Stav | October 18

Trinity Velez can imagine herself actually going to Hollywood from here. She is one of few students studying composition at the UNC Music Department. ...

Kristine Flaherty, known by her stage name, K.Flay, will be coming to UNC with Passion Pit.

Hip-hop artist K.Flay to open 2010 UNC Homecoming Concert

By Carson Blackwelder | October 17

Musician Kristine Flaherty has never been a part of an organized concert tour. But Flaherty — known by her stage name, K.Flay — is set to open the ...

Arts Innovation Steering Committee to discuss arts education at UNC

By Nick Andersen | October 17

In ten years, if a UNC student majoring in business is able to capitalize on University resources to sculpt, paint, sing or dance, Hogan Medlin’s vision ...

Company Carolina cancels Fall musical production

By From staff and wire reports | October 15

Company Carolina, a student-run campus theater group, canceled its planned production of the musical “Once On This Island,” according to the group’s ...

Lena Wegner (right) examines the Andy Warhol photo exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum with Lisa Voss (left) on Thursday night.

Ackland Art Museum capitalizes on Warhol

By Carson Fish | October 15

Andy Warhol is one of the twentieth-century’s best known pop artists — and the Ackland Art Museum is hoping to use his big name to full effect. With ...

As one of the biggest hits at the drag show, UNC graduate Justin Natvig, who goes by “Vivian Vaughn,” came back to perform Thursday.

GLBTSA fashion event was also a fundraiser

By Rachel Coleman | October 14

For men, finding women’s clothes that fit might be a hassle. But the drag queens who starred in the UNC Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Straight ...

'Global Music Jam' takes on hunger

By Katelyn Trela | October 14

At 4 a.m. in South Africa, 8 a.m. in India and 10 p.m. on Rosemary Street, world music will take the stage. Nightlight, a Chapel Hill bar and club, will ...

Artist Kendall Messick features his art of residents of Corapeake in the Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum in the Stone Center.

Corapeake exhibit at Stone Center

By Kelly Blessing | October 14

Ragged suit coats, an artist’s personal journal and faint voices looping in the background tell an intimate story that photographs alone do not. “Corapeake,” ...

New director of Interactive Theatre Carolina brings group talents, goals

By Katherine Proctor | October 12

Amy Burtaine’s acting career blossomed in a circus. It was there, along the Amazon River in Pará, Brazil, that Burtaine discovered the power of interactive ...

Sisters Dallas, April and Haily Ivey color and create paper jack-o-lanterns with ArtHeels at the UNC Children’s Hospital Tuesday afternoon. ArtHeels is a student volunteer organization that brings art and activities to pediatric and geriatric patients at UNC Hospitals.

Students use art to relieve minds of patients at UNC Hospitals

By Ali Rockett | October 12

ArtHeels, a UNC student volunteer organization, is making UNC Hospitals a little bit brighter. The group brings craft projects, coloring books, bubble ...

Radcliffe Bailey, the Fall 2010 Artist in Residence at UNC-Chapel Hill, poses infront of art at the Hanes Art Center before giving a presentation on his work.

Radcliffe Bailey will be UNC artist-in-residence for 2 weeks

By Kelsey Tsipis | October 11

Radcliffe Bailey has often been hailed as an international voice for southern African American racial identity. But his artwork — paintings, sculptures ...

South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela to perform at Memorial Hall

By Tariq Luthun | October 10

Tonight, a cavalier in the South African civil rights movement will indulge Memorial Hall with his own stylistic brand of jazz.

Studio art major Matt Jones paints in the lobby of the Artery. The student-run gallery's current exhibit is titled "Work in Progress."

Student-run Artery gets new location, exhibit

By Katherine Proctor | October 10

Walls adorned with splattered paint, graffiti and cartoonish figures greet art lovers as they enter the Artery, a student-run art gallery in Chapel Hill. ...

Lab! Theatre's first performance of the season, 'From up here,' an entertaining dramedy

By Katelyn Trela | October 7

“From Up Here,” LAB! Theatre’s first performance of the season, brings the audience in quickly, embracing a heightened dysfunction in a pleasantly ...

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Art in the Balance: Student works double major, multiple art theses

By Abby Gerdes | October 7

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 ...

Duke sophomore psychology major Courtney Liu and NC State junior biological business major Kathryn Daniel particiapte in the ballet class Thursday.

New York-based Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet company is bound to please

By Ali Rockett | October 7

Contortionists, yogis and modern dancers will take the stage of Memorial Hall tonight—all within the confines of a 15-person ballet company. All 15 ...

Andrey Belostotsky, a senior business major, breakdances in the Pit at night.

Local break dance group seek campus recognition

By Tariq Luthun | October 6

From the Pit at the heart of campus beats the pulse of a subculture — a culmination of kicks, side-steps and spins against a backdrop of remixed beats ...