UNC Department of Art and Art History

We still have space inour Summer Session II classes! ARTS 215: Darkroom Photography 2 will explore more challenging photographic environments for darkroom processing, including night photography.

Dates: June 22-July 28, 2026
Days/Times: M-F 1:15- 4:00 pm
Instructor: Lindsay Metivier
Questions? Email [email protected]

Places are still available in ARTH 320 for the Fall Semester! Chinese Landscape Representation in the Second Millennium takes a deep dive into the masterpieces of Chinese Painting. Fulfills FC-Aesth.

Instructor: Dr. Meng Zhao
Days/Times: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays: 1:25-2:15 pm
Questions? Email [email protected]

Places are still available in ARTH 158 for the Fall Semester! This introductory-level course will introduce students to architecture, design, drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture across Asian countries and cultures. FC-Aesth credit will be applied to the course retroactively.

Instructor: Dr. Meng Zhao
Days/Times: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays: 9:05-9:55 am
Questions? Email [email protected]

We still have space in several of our Summer Session II classes! ARTS 215: Darkroom Photography 2 will explore more challenging photographic environments for darkroom processing, including night photography.

Dates: June 22-July 28, 2026
Days/Times: M-F 1:15- 4:00 pm
Instructor: Lindsay Metivier
Questions? Email [email protected]

Places are still available in ARTH 360 for the Fall Semester! Death is inevitable. Art helps us process it. Everyone can learn The Art of Dying Well, and you will earn FC-AESTH credit along the way.

Instructor: Dr. Christoph Brachmann
Days/Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 3:30-4:45 pm
Questions? Email [email protected]

Places are still available in ARTH 272 for the Fall Semester! Learn about Northern European Art of the Renaissance and earn your FC-AESTH credit along the way.

Instructor: Dr. Christoph Brachmann
Days/Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 12:30 -1:45 pm
Questions? Email [email protected]

Reserve Tickets for Department Chair Annette Lawrence's upcoming Performance Ahkelo's Walk! This performance by Lawrence and poet Nikky Finney will be on April 17-18 at 7:30 pm at Swain Hall Black Box Theatre.

This multilayered correspondence explores how time is neither energy nor matter. It addresses past and future, with handwritten text and images projected on screens surrounding the stage like celestial bodies in orbit. The performance offers viewers multiple entry points for reflection on themes of memory, identity, and remembrance as they witness the evolution of this living letter.

Link for more info and to register: https://www.processseries.unc.edu/current-season/ahkelos-walk

Please join us in celebrating the achievements of our outstanding students in the Department of Art and Art History! Each student will be giving a brief presentation of their Honors, SURF, and Allcott Travel awards work in the past year. Refreshments will be served.

Honorees:
Ghita Basurto-Covarrubias, 2025 John and June Allcott Undergraduate Travel Fellowship
Madalyn Hutchinson, Art History Honors
Georgia Philips, Studio Art Honors SURF recipient
Lanna Read, 2025 John and June Allcott Undergraduate Travel Fellowship

Congratulations to Art History PhD/MSIS alumna Erin Dickey on two recent publications:

"Bandwidth is Political: Nancy Paterson's Stock Market Skirt," Visual Resources, December, 1–19 contextualizes one artist's practice within recent internet, feminist, and economic histories, through close analysis of one of her telerobotic artworks.

"Computers Never Make Mistakes: Judy Malloy's Bad Information," Archives of American Art Journal, 2026, 65:1, 46-65 situates historically and theoretically the work of an artist (and former librarian) who created a database of 1980s techno-rhetoric, then spun up a pre-Web networked art project crowdsourcing fake information, both a reflection of her own context and a portent of our current era.

NOTE: Institutional or subscription access may be required to read the full text of the articles.

Erin is currently the Librarian for the Arts at the University of Virginia.

Associate Professor of Studio Art Roxana Perez-Mendez will be a panelist for “Sacred Paths-Contemporary pilgrimage, walking art, climate and activism,” an online event happening on April 7, 2026. She will be speaking about Campo Research Studio’s long-distance pilgrimage practice — our work on the Camino and beyond — and bringing in questions around counter-cartography, kincentric relationships with land, and what it means to walk as a Puerto Rican artist on ground that is never neutral.

It is a pay what you can event, which can be waved with a form. The amount supports the artists presenting. Register at https://walklistencreate.org/walkingevent/sacred-steps/