Carolina has a rich variety of performing and visual arts dispersed widely throughout the university community. The campus is home to professional artists, scholars, students, amateurs, visiting artists and community groups. Their efforts encourage new approaches to learning, challenge students to question their perceptions, and offer a “window on the world” for campus and community alike. The arts at Carolina have also served as a gateway for the larger community to engage the campus, providing opportunities for enrichment and growth.
Learn more about many of the Campus Arts Departments below.
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ORGANIZATION
Ackland Art Museum
As an academic unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Museum acquires, preserves, exhibits, and interprets works of art to fulfill the University’s mission to provide teaching, research, and public service to the people of North Carolina.
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Communication Studies Department
The Department of Communication Studies is defined by its commitment to providing outstanding educational opportunities for students at the University and to being a leading force in shaping the direction of communication studies, education, and practice in the state, nation, and international community. Through their teaching, research, and service, they seek to develop and enhance the ability of students, fellow citizens, and communities to express their interests, understand others, and contribute to the aesthetic, political, social, and cultural environments in which they live.
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Department of Art
From a strong central core in the traditional practices of making and interpreting art, the faculty and students at UNC move out in innovative and personal directions. The Art Department is small enough to work closely with students and guide them in developing an individual voice, and diverse enough to offer a variety of choices in materials and methods.
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Department of Dramatic Art
The Department of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established in 1925, making it the second oldest theater department in the country. It counts among its graduates many alumni distinguished in the world of theatre and beyond.
The department is the home of PlayMakers Repertory Company, a professional theatre named in 2003 by the Drama League of New York as "one of the fifty best regional theatres in the country." Each of the department's programs is supplemented and enhanced by interaction with PlayMakers' resident and guest artists.
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Department of Music
Like any great institution, the Music Department succeeds because of the rich contributions offered by the people in the department. The faculty, staff, and students that work, write, study, teach, and perform in the department’s three buildings produce a vibrant and exciting environment where excellence abounds. Go visit them - plan to attend a concert or lecture event or visit their world-class music library.
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Frank Porter Graham Student Union
The Carolina Union is an organization of students, professional staff, and part-time student staff who provide programs, services, and facilities to all members of the campus community. The Union contributes to the University’s educational mission through the provision of cultural, social, educational, and entertainment programs many sponsored by the Carolina Union Activities Board. The Union provides a facility and services for student groups and other members of the campus community. Student organizations are housed and conduct regular meetings and activities in the building. Other services are offered to campus members such as lounge spaces, food services, bowling, billiards, and video games.
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Institute of Outdoor Drama
At any given time, the Institute of Outdoor Drama is working with 30-40 communities across the country which are in various stages of developing new outdoor historical dramas, Shakespeare Festivals and religious plays. For more than 40 years, the Institute has provided guidance to individuals and groups proposing the production of these new plays, conducting feasibility and planning studies and offering start-up and long-term assistance.
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Morehead Planetarium
At Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, one of the largest planetariums in the United States, you can experience dazzling multimedia star shows, varied exhibits, year-round programming for all ages and stellar shopping at the Infinity Gift Shop.The Morehead Center Building and grounds include a 68-foot, domed Star Theater and Zeiss Model VI Star Projector, scientific exhibits and classrooms, 24-inch Cassegrain reflecting telescope and observation decks, Visitor's Center, art galleries, rose gardens and a massive sundial.
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PlayMakers Repertory Company
PlayMakers is committed to creating productions that embrace the cultural diversity of today's world and to augmenting the effectiveness of their work through outreach programs. The theatre provides a place where an audience can assemble to reflect upon itself, filling an essential need in the examined life for which a civilization must strive. PRC wants to engage the entire community in an ongoing exploration of the nature and significance of theatre in contemporary life.
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Stone Center for Black Culture & History
Since its inception in 1988, the Stone Center for Black Culture & History has focused its efforts on the interdisciplinary examination of Africana lives, cultures and histories. The Center's current focus is on integrating cultural development with community development, and on building ties to communities and institutions in the African diaspora in the Americas.
Visit the Stone Center for Black Culture & History website
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