Three WXYC student DJs were featured on a New York radio show alongside UNC linguistics professor J. Michael Terry.
“It’s about physically lending your support to two communities that mean a lot to North Carolina, which is Habitat and the arts community,” junior Claire Hyde said. “They’re all awesome pieces and people would be happy to buy them, but the important part is knowing that all your dollars are going towards Habitat.”
“They’re facing the fact that they can’t stay where they are because it’s simply getting to be too hot and chaos is beginning to take over in North Carolina, so they’ve just got to get out,” playwright Jim Grimsley said. “I’m trying to write about a world in which everything that we know right now has been thrown up in the air by the fact that we didn’t pay any attention to the notion of global warming.”
“We don’t get a chance to show off our art all the time, we don’t get a chance this year to get on campus and see everybody for Arts Everywhere Day, so we might as well put it somewhere that’s pretty accessible,” Morgan Pestyk, digital marketing assistant for Arts Everywhere, said. “It’s really nice to have that out there and have a place where you can put your art safely.”
Nominations for the Kira N. Griffith Award are open to the entire UNC community and will be judged by the RHA Alumni Committee. The nomination form will be open until April 9 at 11:59 p.m.
“They really had this artistic collaboration once they came together, once the composers got to see the story, once the animators got to hear the composition, to sort of craft the two things together to create the final animations,” N.C. State associate professor Marc Russo said.
“We were masked up and six feet apart, when we could be, recording it at home, which was definitely different, but we made it work,” artist Keenan Jenkins said.
Carla Gannis, LaJuné McMillian and Rachel Rossin create virtual reality contemporary art and will discuss their work and answer questions from participants.
“Lockdown happened and I hit a very low point in my life where all I was doing was going to class and then lying in bed,” Marina Carolina Fela-Castillo, owner of Pintamar, said. “It was awful, so I turned to my artistic side again and I started making things.”
The play recounts the story of Henry "Dickie" Marrow, a Black man murdered in an act of racial violence in Oxford, North Carolina in 1970. Tickets to stream the performance are available through Feb. 7.
