Arts News

Lewis Black ’70 has donated his plays, television pilot scripts and materials from his comedy career to the Southern Historical Collection at the Wilson Special Collections Library. Black is known for embodying cathartic anger on stage and in… read more

Two Carolina alumnae turned their passion for photography into a nonprofit to raise money for global conservation causes.   Photographers Ami Vitale ’94 and Eileen Mignoni ’09 (MA) have spent… read more

Ami Vitale ’94, a photographer and filmmaker, and Eileen Mignoni ’09 (MA), a visual journalist, have spent years behind their cameras documenting environmental issues and exploring the intersections of nature, culture, social justice and… read more

Alison Friedman, an internationally recognized performing arts producer, is Carolina’s new executive and artistic director for Carolina Performing Arts. read more

The Ackland Art Museum has received paintings by Joan Mitchell and Milton Avery that are considered transformational for the Ackland’s permanent collection of postwar and contemporary American art. read more

Florence Fearrington ’58 has donated nearly 4,000 books and objects valued at $6.2 million to University Libraries, where they will become part of the Wilson Special Collections Library. read more

On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt van Rijn, the Ackland Art Museum will exhibit for two weeks seven of his drawings that were given to the museum two years ago. read more

A new $1.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has been awarded to Carolina Performing Arts. read more

The University’s Arts Everywhere initiative has launched a mobile app that works as a one-stop shop to connect the campus and the wider community to art experiences happening at Carolina. read more