In 2008, UNC Charlotte established the College of Arts + Architecture (CoA+A), bringing the arts and design together in an educational forum that is unique in the Carolinas and rare in the United States.
The CoA+A is comprised of 1,000 students in five academic units: the School of Architecture, the Department of Art & Art History, the Department of Dance, the Department of Music and the Department of Theatre. As Dean Ken Lambla wrote following its formation, the CoA+A “is dedicated to transdisciplinary conversation and collaboration, design innovation, creative leadership development, and research and communication using our senses and imagination.”
While the CoA+A will recognize the 10th anniversary of its founding throughout 2018, the celebration is concentrated this spring in a weekend of special activities, March 15-17. Among the anniversary events is the Roderick MacKillop Memorial Alumni Art Exhibition, honoring the legacy of the beloved art professor; the 2018 CoA+A Distinguished Alumni Awards, recognizing five outstanding alumni; and a celebratory dinner in Storrs Hall.