Author: acsawyer

August 28, 2014

Guest Artists Visit ‘Music of Asia’ Course

Sitar player Viswas Chitnis and tabla player Rahim Zalal presented a lecture-demonstration on North Indian Classical Music to students and visitors in Dr. Alison Arnold’s MUS 350 Music of Asia. Coming in only the second

March 21, 2014

Operation Breadbasket: Teaching Civil Rights History Through Dance

Throughout the 2013-2014 school year, Panoramic Dance Project developed Operation Breadbasket, a mixed media modern dance honoring its namesake Civil Rights movement. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference launched Operation Breadbasket in 1962 to create economic

September 15, 2013

Students Bring Entrepreneurial Energy to the Arts

by Kate Dobbs Ariail This kind of thing may be common among technogeeks, but it’s not so common in the arts. Dr. Gary Beckman and his students in the NC State Arts Entrepreneurship Minor are changing

September 15, 2013

Shaping Arts and Minds

by Orla Swift Sophomore Brian Haidet turns a glass bead over a flame, embellishing it with bands of color. Katie Allen saws a wooden shelf for a jewelry box she designed. A group of women

September 1, 2013

‘The Spyglass Seven’ Features Ghost of Edgar Allen Poe

Michael Seebold won the ARTS NC STATE Creative Artist Award for 2011-2012 for his play The Spyglass Seven. Seebold’s work was produced and performed by NC State University Theatre in September 2013. The Spyglass Seven

July 16, 2013

Why the Gregg?

Photographer Caroline Hickman Vaughan explains why she chose to give her life’s work and the gift of a lifetime to the Gregg Museum of Art & Design More than a decade ago, photographer Caroline Hickman

May 16, 2013

“Theatre, when mixed with science, creates leaders.”

Alumnus and successful entrepreneur Kristopher Tyra ’86 explains why every student at NC State should participate in ARTS NC STATE’s University Theatre. Kristopher Tyra ’86 is a person of seemingly boundless energy, who at once