Ricky Skaggs

Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre

The Nile Project

Opera Wilmington

Beauty and The Beast Print Big Film Carnival

Creative Writing Pub Lab UNCW Jazz Studies 2017 Art Walk

Improvisation as a Life SkillImprovisation as a Music Skill

Festival of the ArtsJuly 14 – 30, 2017

• Carmen: Opera Wilmington

• Much Ado About Nothing

• Concerts • Mozart concert with piano, orchestra and chorus

• NC Guitar Quartet – Carmen Suite

• Ernest Turner Piano Trio

• Summer Jazz Workshop Concert

• Free Events• Outdoor Film Screenings

• Art Gallery Reception

• Salsa Dance Party

• Community Performances• Poetry Jam

• Dance Cooperative Concert

• International Ballet Showcase

• Seahawk Family Arts Matinees

20+

events

in 2 ½

weeks

MUSIC

• Sphinx Virtuosi

• Martha Redbone Roots

Project with Lakota John

• Ranky Tanky

• Third Coast Percussion

• Maria Schneider Orchestra

• Chamber Music Society of

Lincoln Center

DANCE• Tango Buenos Aires

• EVIDENCE

THEATER• Ebenezer

• LA Theatre Works: The

Mountaintop

FAMILY ARTS MATINEES

• Sonia de los Santos

• The Light of the Water

• Junie B. Jones the Musical

• Third Coast Percussion

Arts majors after Graduation:the numbers 2012-2015

Major

Average %

employed

Average %

grad school

Studio Art & Art History 81% 10%

Creative Writing 72% 17%

Film Studies 82% 6%

Music, Music Education,

Music Performance 76% 17%

Theatre 78% 14%

OVERALL 78% 11%

Arts majors after Graduation:selected stories

• Art & Art History: Notable alumni include Geneva Ilke, who pursued her masters in Chemistry and is now doing art restoration

• Creative Writing: 85 books published at last count including The Returned by Jason Mott, which was published in thirteen languages, became a New York Times Bestseller, and then a TV series, “Resurrection,” on ABC.

• Film Studies: Notable NC alumni include Josh Woll, Director of Photography for the acclaimed PBS show “A Chef’s Life.”

• Music: at least 8 of the band, chorus, and orchestra director positions in New Hanover County public schools are occupied by UNCW grads

• Theatre: graduates are acting in film and television, performing with professional theatre companies, designing sets and costumes, working in non-profit theatre administration and educating the next generation of artists

Blueberry Creative

Adam Gilbert

Film Studies & Theatre

Austin Stinson

Studio Art

student engagementcreative inquirycritical thinking

thoughtful expressionresponsible citizenship