News & Events
Registration Now Open for College for Seniors Spring Term
February 14, 2011
UNC Asheville's nationally renowned College for Seniors has opened registration for spring term courses, held March 21-May 13. Course catalogues were mailed today and course listings are available online. Classes will take place at UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, home of the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement.
Greek Art and Archeology Expert to Lecture on Development of Western Greek Culture
February 9, 2011
Greek art and archeology expert Barbara Barletta will present a lecture on the early art of Western Greece and the relationships with other cultures that influenced Greek development. The lecture will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, in the Whitman Room of UNC Asheville's Ramsey Library, and will explore architecture, sculpture and painting. The event is free and open to the public.
Writers at Home Continues with Readings by Master of Liberal Arts Students
February 3, 2011
Members of UNC Asheville's Master of Liberal Arts program will present their creative writing works in the next installment of UNC Asheville's Writers at Home series. Authors include Nathan Cook, Jordan Dolfi and Carolyn Ogburn. The reading begins at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20, at Malaprop's Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. It is free and open to the public
Laura Hope-Gill's Poetry and Photographs by John Fletcher Jr. to be Featured at UNC Asheville
January 28, 2011
UNC Asheville's Ramsey Library will present the collaborative work of poet Laura Hope-Gill and photographer John Fletcher Jr. during the month of February. An exhibit of their paired poems and photos will be on view in Ramsey Library's Blowers Gallery from February 1-28. Hope-Gill and Fletcher will also present a slideshow and poetry reading at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8 in the library's Whitman Room.
UNC Asheville’s Super Saturday Program Offers Super Classes for Kids
January 25, 2011
Saturdays are super this spring at UNC Asheville! Academically gifted, creative, and/or highly motivated students in grades 3-8 have the opportunity to explore foreign language, model rocketry, magic, and much more at UNC Asheville’s spring semester Super Saturday program, beginning March 5. More than 12,000 children from across Western North Carolina have explored their special interests through hands-on learning on the UNC Asheville campus as part of Super Saturdays.
Dan Pierce Headlines Faculty Book Talk Series
January 19, 2011
Dan Pierce, UNC Asheville history professor, will kick off the spring semester series of Brown Bag Book Talks with UNC Asheville Faculty Authors with a reading from his acclaimed book, "Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France." The reading will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 25, in the Special Collections Reading Room of Ramsey Library.
Weaving, Woodworking and Printmaking Featured in “Meet the Maker” Series
January 18, 2011
UNC Asheville’s Craft Studies Initiative will continue its series, “Meet the Maker: Conversations of Meaning with Craftspeople,” with a presentation by Windgate Fellowship recipients Andrea Donnelly and Dustin Farnsworth. The evening will include a lecture and reception, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23, at Owen Hall, room 302.
Writers at Home Series Continues with Readings by Great Smokies Writing Program Poetry Class
January 3, 2011
Poets participating in UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program will read their work, created under the guidance of Katherine Soniat, in the next installment of the Writers at Home series. The reading begins at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16, at Malaprop's Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. It is free and open to the public.
West African Art Exhibit and Lecture at UNC Asheville
December 17, 2010
Art educator, collector, and curator Jan Goffney will present an exhibit of West African art at UNC Asheville's Highsmith University Union Gallery. The exhibit, "African Art: A Collectors Perspective," includes traditional masks, mortar and pestles, slave shackles and Kente cloths, and will be on view from January 10-February 7. Goffney will also give a lecture accompanying the exhibit at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, in the gallery. A reception featuring traditional West African foods will begin at 5:30 p.m. The events are free and open to the public.
UNC Asheville's Holly Iglesias Awarded Prestigious NEA Literature Fellowship
December 17, 2010
Holly Iglesias, poet, translator and lecturer in UNC Asheville's Master of Liberal Arts Program, has been awarded a prestigious Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Iglesias is the only North Carolinian and one of only 42 poets chosen nationally to receive the $25,000 fellowship for 2011.
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