Video: Clara Yang plays ‘Clair de Lune’
The associate professor of music will perform modern pieces March 22 as part of "Ex Machina."
The Arts at Carolina
A vibrant Carolina
The arts are all around us at Carolina, and it's hard to imagine UNC-Chapel Hill without them. From Pulitzer Prize-winning operas to captivating art work to student performances and more, there’s no shortage of examples of Tar Heels using their creativity and passions to enrich our lives through the arts. Even our parking decks have a creative flair.
A central part of the Carolina experience, the arts reflect the University’s pursuit of new knowledge and commitment to public service.
It’s easy for students to find creative outlets at Carolina. Whether your interest is singing, dancing, magic, animation or anything else, there’s a student group for you.
Each spring, the University hosts Arts Everywhere Day, a campus-wide celebration of the arts. But every day is a chance for students, faculty, staff and the community at large to participate in or simply enjoy the arts at Carolina.
At Carolina, the power of the arts knows no bounds. On campus, in the local community and across the world, Tar Heels are channeling their creativity to achieve lifelong goals, be of service to others and make new discoveries.
Keep scrolling to learn more about the many ways the arts come to life at Carolina.
Tar Heel creatives
Welcome to the Beat Lab
The well-equipped room in Hill Hall is a place where aspiring beat makers can experiment with digital music.
Donovan Livingston crashes back into Carolina
After lifting off from here in 2009, he returned with multiple degrees to direct College Thriving and teach classes in hip hop.
Student-run club brings dancers together
For 35 years, Modernextension Dance Company has given Tar Heels a place to improvise and choreograph.
Carolina’s Matthew Troyer channels his veteran experience into photography
A master of fine arts student, Matthew Troyer is channeling his experience in the Marine Corps to create photography that shares the military experience with the civilian population and fellow veterans.
Tar Heels reflect on the importance of art
You don't need to be an art major to be an artist. Art plays a role in all Tar Heels' lives in some form. On the seventh annual Arts Everywhere Day, Carolina students and faculty members talk about the importance of art.
Arts around campus
English 105 students get ‘School of Rock’ experience
As part of associate professor Marc Cohen’s writing and rhetoric course, they met a rock band and went to a concert.
Ackland features Indigenous filmmaker’s experimental 'Gush'
The screening by the Film Forum is a companion piece to the current museum exhibition celebrating Indigenous artists.
CPA debuts second ‘Artists/Athletes’ video
Women’s soccer player Sam Meza and tap dance trailblazer Michelle Dorrance collaborated in the Carolina Performing Arts presentation.
Music curriculum spans genres, includes applied learning
With IDEAs in Action courses, faculty give students immersive experiences, hands-on training and ways to make new connections.
Class spotlight: Art comes to life in “Merging Printmaking and Biology”
Students from this past fall's BIOL 409L/ARTS 409H, “Merging Printmaking and Biology,” course showed off their artwork at the Printmaking and Biology exhibition, held at the Genome Science Building Jan. 12. The unique class brought together artists and scientists to explore the intersections of the two disciplines.
(Photos by Johnny Andrews, University Communications)
