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Mar 19, 2019

Arts NC State Offering Student Artist Workshop

Arts NC State will host Raleigh based artists Angela Zappala and Brett Morris for a workshop on Thursday March 28 geared towards NC State student artists. They will talk about their respective journeys as professional artists and answer questions about selling work, promoting work, pricing work etc. Students: feel free to bring photos of artwork…

Feb 15, 2019

Lil Buck and Jon Boogz: Dancing to Bring Awareness in Love Heals All Wounds with NC State LIVE

Article by Emily Rain, Senior English major with Language, Writing, & Rhetoric concentration   On Saturday, February 2nd, NC State LIVE hosted the performance of Love Heals All Wounds. The masterpiece was created by Lil Buck and Jon Boogz, two movement artists from Memphis (Buck) and Miami (Boogz). The two dancers and their team of performers…

Feb 13, 2019

Artist in Residence Series: New Sculptural Forms and an Ecological Discourse

Article by Rebekah Middleton, Senior, Philosophy Major | Arts Outreach & Engagement Intern     Jean Michel Dissake is a mixed media artist from Yaoundé, Cameroon, who incorporates recycled and found materials into his work and places heavy focus on the philosophical themes of unity with nature and the eternal recurrence of the human spirit.…

Jan 30, 2019

Lil Buck and Jon Boogz: The Campus Event You Don’t Want to Miss

Article by Emily Rain, Senior English major with Language, Writing, & Rhetoric concentration   Two movement artists, Lil Buck and Jon Boogz, are breaking down the walls surrounding the idea of what dance is and means. Through their powerfully themed performances, they aim to awaken awareness to social justice as well as encourage reflection and growth.…

Nov 30, 2018

Arts NC State Student Art Award Winners

  On October 25, 2018, Arts NC State at NC State University hosted an event to honor the 2018 Creative, Performing and Visual Artist Award recipients. These awards celebrate NC State University students from across the university’s colleges who exhibit extraordinary creativity and mastery of their craft. The Creative Artist Award recognizes students who have…

Apr 22, 2018

The Creative Artist Award: Behind the Scene

By Caitlin Hall, Arts NC State Intern     Rehearsal started on a rainy Monday, but everything started a long time before that. It was in April of last year that Peter Lalush learned his script, Girl in Space won the Creative Artist Award, and for the past four months every Friday a group of…

Nov 14, 2017

Arts NC State & NCSU Libraries Partner for STEAM Family Workshops

In September and October, NC State University Alumni and their children attended free STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) family workshops at D.H. Hill Library. This program was a collaboration between Dr. Fay Cobb Payton, professor of Information Systems/Technology and University Faculty Scholar at NC State, the NCSU Libraries, and Arts NC State; generously…

Nov 1, 2016

Big Brother is Watching

Post written by: Meredith Biechele What if George Orwell’s prediction of a dystopian, authoritarian government came true? Themes of government surveillance, control, and free will are all being examined in the upcoming production of Nineteen Eighty-Four, adapted by Michael Gene Sullivan. Student director Meredith Biechele has modernized the classic tale of Winston Smith in a…

May 24, 2016

NC State Chorale Completes Successful Tour of Ireland

The North Carolina State University Chorale returned on May 16, 2014, from a successful concert tour of Ireland, including performances

May 5, 2016

End of the year intern recap: Areon Mobasher

Today’s college students are in quite the pickle. Most of us decide to go to college because getting a degree will help us get a job. But to get that job, you need at least 2 to 3 years of internship experience in that field already. This internship experience is often unpaid, so many college…