Billy James Hawkains III (Graduate Student, MFA Dance) has been awarded a $500 grant from the Atlantic World Research Network to advance his thesis, “Come Sunday: Baptized by Fire and Bound for Glory,” investigating how the physical body has been used as a vessel of worship in the Southern Black Church in ways connected to a transatlantic African past. The project involves a creative team of seven dancers, four musicians, and two cinematographers, who will conduct interviews and perform at churches around the Triad. Read more about the award here.

Adam Jones (Freshman, BM Cello Performance) has been named a winner of the 2020 Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge from the American Theatre Wing and the National Endowment for the Arts. The national contest provides each winner with a two-person coaching team—a mentor and a music director—to hone an original song into a Broadway-ready composition. Each song is then recorded by Broadway musicians and vocalists in New York City, made available on streaming music platforms, and compiled into a songbook by Concord Theatricals. Adam’s entry, “A Father’s Fear/Mardi Gras,” was chosen by a review panel of professional theater artists in a blind competition from almost 200 applications from 41 states. Read more here.

India Jones (Sophomore, BFA Theatre) has been hired by West Virginia Public Theatre as a non-union actor on a radio production titled “Radio Theatre for Our Time,”

a dramatization of non-dramatic text drawn from letters and speeches relating to current social conditions. The first episode aired on WVPB on November 23rd. Listen here.

Erin Lally (Graduate Student, MA Dance Education) was featured in a recent New York Times article for her work as director of the Dance Education Laboratory at the

92nd Street Y in New York City. Read the article here.

Caitlyn Schrader (Graduate Student, MFA Dance) created a dance film that was selected to be included in a recent UNCG Art Truck Exhibition The Social Body - Exquisite Imagination, which was shared virtually last month. View the exhibit and film here.

Kyrese Washington (Junior, BM Flute Performance) was selected as the Division 7 winner in the Raleigh Area Flute Association (RAFA) Review and Contest. Her competition submission of the second movement of Rozsa’s Sonata for Flute was included in RAFA’s Virtual Flute Fair on November 14th.

Hugh Hysell ('88 BFA Acting) is a producer for the play The Inheritance which just received the Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding Play". The Inheritance is also nominated for eleven Tony Awards this year.

Dominick Amendum (BM '01 Piano Performance and Coordinator of the Musical Theatre Program) has received a Grammy Nomination for Best Musical Theater Album for Stephen Schwartz’s new musical Prince of Egypt. Dom was on the podium when Prince of Egypt opened at the Dominion Theatre in London’s West End on February 25, 2020. Read more about the Grammys here.

Julianna Foster ('01 BFA Art) is featured in Create Magazine for her photography series “Geological Lore,” which the magazine describes as “complex and layered... like tectonic plates that shift in jagged forms.” Read the article here.

Will Kelley ('14 Piano Performance) has joined the music staff at Theater Bremen in Germany as Kapellmeister and Solorepetitor.

Caity Brewer ('16 BFA Acting) has landed a supporting role in the new film Uncle Frank starring Paul Bettany. Some of Caity’s other credits include Homeland (2011) and One Tree Hill (2003).

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Guy Capuzzo (Professor of Music Theory) presented a paper, “‘Dance to the Dissonant Sway’: Groove, Headbanging, and Entrainment in Extreme Metal,” at the Society for Music Theory’s virtual conference on November 15th.

Gaurang Doshi (Lecturer of Indian Music) and Rebecca MacLeod (Professor of String Education) collaborated on a concert by the Sinfonia and Indian Music Ensemble classes called “Sangam Project.” Watch here.

Gavin Douglas (Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology) has published the chapter “Music in Myanmar (Burma)” in Oxford University Press’s new textbook Global Music Cultures: An Introduction to World Music.

Hannah Grannemann (Assistant Professor and Director of Arts Administration) hosted a podcast with AudienceView. Listen here.

Garrett Klein (Assistant Professor of Trumpet) has a received a $5,000 New Faculty Internal Award for his new method book, Collaborative Practice Routines, which will provide trumpet students several comprehensive daily practice routines that they can go through with a friend, teacher, a large group, or alone. The book will include demos and play-along tracks, which he will create with the assistance of one of his doctoral trumpet students.

Jennifer Meanley (Associate Professor of Painting, Printmaking, and Drawing) contributed to a new mural installation at the Greenway trailhead on Spring Garden Street. The work is called “Bridging the Gap.” Check out a photo of the mural and read more about the project in the Greensboro News & Record.

Karen Messina (Lecturer in Music Theory) successfully defended her dissertation, “Dramatic Impulse: Diegetic Music in the Operas of Giacomo Puccini,” and now holds a PhD from Duke University.

Amy Moore (Business Officer and Executive Assistant to the Dean) has been selected as the 2020/21 UNCG Southern Conference Staff Award recipient. This award annually recognizes a member of the staff who has made a significant impact in the lives of students and served their institutions in significant ways including service to UNCG, recognition for bringing out the best in others and creating conditions for success, and contributions to student life and the local community.

Christine Morris (Associate Professor of Voice and Acting) co-authored, with Dr. Bill Adams of Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, the peer-reviewed paper “Vocal Traditions: Acting and Singing with Archetypes,” recently published in the journal Voice and Speech Review.

Jennifer Reis (Assistant Professor of Arts Administration) has received a $5,000 New Faculty Internal Award for her project “Andragogy and Creative Entrepreneurship Education: Current Best Practices of Content and Delivery in the United States.” The

year-and-a-half-long project will involve research into the theory and practice of creative entrepreneurship education for adult learners, interviews with program directors and facilitators of established courses, and a partnership with ArtsGreensboro to deliver a specifically designed creative entrepreneurship course to their clientele with built-in program assessment.

Rachele Riley (Assistant Professor of New Media and Design) has received a $5,000 Regular Faculty Internal Award to support her new research project titled “Annie Scanner,” which is an extension of her multi-dimensional project “The Evolution of Silence.” The project focuses on visualizing the impact of nuclear testing through critical and engaging experiences and explores representations of conflict, the body and environment, and visual culture. Read more here.

Rachele Riley (Assistant Professor of New Media and Design), Nicole Scalissi (Assistant Professor of Art History), and Sunny Spillane (Associate Professor of Art Education) participated in the SECAC (formerly Southeastern College Art Conference) virtual conference, hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University this month. Riley presented her paper “Making with Different Data-Visual Design Approaches to Uncovering Dynamics in the Environment” and was part of the panel “Evolving Curriculum in the Anthropocene.” Scalissi presented her paper “‘Real Violence’ at the Whitney Museum: Jordan Wolfson and Privilege of Allegory” and participated in the panel discussion “Forms of Violence.” Spillane co-led a Racial Justice Town Hall and, as Secretary of the SECAC Board of Directors, presented SECAC’s new EDI Awards.

John Salmon (Professor of Piano) was a guest artist for the Virginia Music Teachers Association virtual conference. He presented a piano recital with works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Dave Brubeck, as well as a workshop titled “Improvising in Beethoven.” Salmon, along with Annie Jeng (Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy), co-presented a workshop titled “Dave Brubeck’s Classical Piano Compositions.”

Natalie Sowell (Associate Professor and School of Theatre Director) is featured in the latest UNC Greensboro Research Magazine. Read the article here.

Joan Titus (Associate Professor of Musicology) has published a chapter for the book Music in Action Film Sounds Like Action. The chapter titled “Tale of Two Cinemas: Zashchitniki (Guardians, 2017) and Music for the New Russian Superhero Film” examines the cultural politics and music of the first Russian superhero film, which was released in 2017.

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