The Studio – UNCG Magazine

April 24, 2020

Turn up the front burner

UNCG alumna and guest curator Ashlynn Browning ’02 MFA assembled a stellar lineup of artists for the “Front Burner: Highlights in Contemporary North Carolina Painting” exhibition at the North Carolina...

April 24, 2020

High Notes

Omar Ibn Said, an enslaved Muslim scholar in mid-nineteenth century Fayetteville, was a topic of alumna Rhiannon Giddens’ discussion on campus last autumn. She has composed an opera on him, which was...

April 24, 2020

Cool jazz legend

Jazz icon, band leader, and composer Dave Brubeck was born 100 years ago. This fall, the biggest Brubeck centennial celebration in the world will be hosted at UNCG, with an opening concert...

September 23, 2019

London Calling: Dominick Amendum

What do you do when you come off the high of having worked on the first national tour of the smash Broadway hit production of “Wicked?” Well, you begin work on a high-profile, international stage production...

September 20, 2019

‘To the Hoop’ at Weatherspoon

Among the Weatherspoon Art Museum’s extensive lineup of exhibitions and events this year, the “To the Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art” exhibition looks to be a slam dunk. Coinciding with the...

July 31, 2019

Soaring sounds for UNCG’s choral groups

Choral music lovers consider Greensboro’s First Presbyterian Church a uniquely ambient space. Good news: UNCG’s choral program this year will host more concerts there than ever before. Dr. Welborn...

July 31, 2019

Visit from Opera Royalty

Renée Fleming is the only classical artist to sing the national anthem at the SuperBowl. She is the first woman in Metropolitan Opera history to solo headline an opening night gala. The National Medal...