Travel the globe all in one Saturday afternoon at this year’s UNC Charlotte International Festival. The Festival features a variety of art, food, music and dance from different cultures in a marketplace setting with exhibition booths.  Over 50 nations will be represented by UNC Charlotte’s international students and Charlotte’s international community. The festival begins on […]

Of the 60 works in “Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft, and Design” Matthias Pliessnig’s work stands out. Pliessnig’s uses the traditional technique of coopering to steam bend thin strips of wood, creating furniture pieces attuned to form, function and physics. His work is representative of the exhibition’s emphasis on the ways contemporary […]

Scene from “Like a Turtle without a Shell, or Crows’ Feet” by Gretchen Alterowitz. Courtesy of UNC Charlotte Department of Dance The intricacies of relationships, whether good or bad, loving or abusive, joyful or sad, were a prominent theme at the UNC Charlotte’s Faculty Dance Concert this past weekend. Each of the four dances explored […]

This coming weekend kicks off a great fall schedule for the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (a Knight Arts grantee), which will feature a potpourri of renowned musicians and performers. From pop rock artists to famous conductors, the 2012-2013 season is sure to be a thrill for the Classics, POPS, and KnightSounds Series. The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra […]

“Omie Wise,” a folk murder ballad, is familiar to many North Carolinians; it tells the story of Naomi Wise, who was murdered by Jonathan Lewis in Randolph County. The story was romanticized by 19th century author Braxton Craven and made more popular by the voice of Doc Watson. Now the ballad is undergoing another re-interpretation […]

Courtesy of the Sunset Jazz Festival Donald Harrison, known as “The King of Nouveau Swing,” will kick off this year’s Coca-Cola Sunset Jazz Festival on September 8th from 2-9 p.m.  According to CBS Sunday Morning, Harrison is one of the most important musicians of the new millennium. He originated the Nouveau Swing Style, which fuses […]

The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art (a Knight Arts grantee) has a new exhibition, “Giacometti: Memory and Presence,” that presents an intimate look at Alberto Giacometti’s life and career, exploring his artistic successes as well as familial relationships and inspirations. The exhibition will remain on view until February 8, 2013 and features more than 80 […]

“Don’t Matter How Raggly the Flag, It Still Got To Tie Us Together,” Thornton Dial (American, b. 1928), 2003. Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Photo by Stephen Pitkin, Pitkin Studio; courtesy of the Mint Museum The Democratic National Convention begins next week (just in case you forgot). The week kicks off with CarolinaFest […]

“Porcupine Cabinet” by Sebastian Errazuriz, 2011.Courtesy of Cristina Grajales Gallery, New York In a brilliant nod to the 2012 Presidential election, the Mint Museum (a Knight Arts grantee) is holding its own election: “Vote for Art.” This project gives museum visitors a chance to directly help in the Mint’s collection process. While visiting the museum’s […]

A thought provoking and honest photography exhibition, “We are Charlotte,” opened this week at the Light Factory (a Knight Arts grantee) in Uptown Charlotte. It is the culmination of a Student Art Exchange program that high school students from Myers Park, Northwest School of the Arts, West Charlotte and Rocky River High Schools participated. During […]