Please join us for this community-wide tradition as we celebrate the accomplishments of our graduates. Commencement will take place on Friday, December 15. The ceremony will begin at 4 p.m. in Kimmel Arena. 

UNC Asheville will host its annual juried international exhibition, Drawing Discourse, from January 19 through February 16 in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, Owen Hall. The exhibition features 49 works of contemporary drawing selected from 1358 submissions by 407 artists in 6 nations.

On February 4th, 2024, at 3:00 p.m in UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville’s Music Department celebrates the 100th anniversary of the debut of George Gershwin’s American classic, “Rhapsody in Blue,” with a concert recreating the milestone moment in music.

On February 7, UNC Asheville will present an exhibition of work from Cherokee artist Tara McCoy and of UNC Asheville students who learned handbuilding and pit firing techniques from McCoy. 

On February 9, UNC Asheville will host the opening reception for “The River Arts District / UNC Asheville Artist Alumni Show” in Ramsey Library’s Blowers Gallery from 4-6 p.m. As part of Homecoming Week events, this exhibition, curated by Karen Keil Brown ’81, showcases the artistic careers of 12 talented alumni and celebrates the exceptional education and training they received at UNC Asheville.  

Roger Zare, an award winning composer and U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s 2023 guest composer,  will present “The Music of Physics” at 5 p.m. on Friday, February 9 in UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. Zare’s intersectional work translates concepts of higher-energy physics into the language of music while still remaining accessible to the audience. 

UNC Asheville welcomes students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members back to campus February 12-17 for Homecoming 2024!

On February 15, at 7 p.m. UNC Asheville’s Department of Music will present a concert in celebration of Mardi Gras and Carnival.

The Department of Philosophy will host a two-day annual symposium, the Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, in the Laurel Forum at UNC Asheville.

On February 21 at 7 p.m. the UNC Asheville English department will host an evening to honor our beloved colleague, Katherine Min, and celebrate her posthumously published novel, “The Fetishist.”

On February 22, at 7 p.m. join Steven Clontz, mathematician, professor, and puzzle designer, for this year’s Parson’s Lecture in the Blue Ridge Room of the Highsmith Student Union at UNC Asheville.

UNC Asheville Art & Art History and New Media Departments welcome students, families, and teachers from 8:45 a.m. to noon on Friday, February 24 for Owen Hall Day. Visit our Owen Hall facilities featuring art history, ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, and new media. Events include department tours, portfolio reviews, open studios, exhibitions, alumni panel discussions, and campus & STEAM tours. 

A series of performances from University Chorale and the Reuter Center Singers, directed by Chuck Taft; the UNC Asheville Wind Ensemble, directed by Emily Mariko Eng; and the UNC Asheville Percussion Ensemble, directed by Matthew Richmond. The concert will take place February 25 from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Lipinsky Hall Auditorium on UNC Asheville’s campus.

Theodore Goodson, professor of chemistry and macromolecular science and engineering from the University of Michigan, will be giving two public lectures in Alumni Hall of Highsmith Union, the first at 7:15 p.m. on February 26 and the second at 12 p.m. on February 27.

The ancient city of Petra, located in Jordan, is renowned for its monumental tombs and sacred structures. However, recent excavations have unveiled a previously unseen aspect of life in Petra […]

TheatreUNCA’s newest production is “No Exit,” a play from renowned playwright and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, with showings February 29 through March 2 at 7:30 p.m. and March 3rd at 2 p.m in the Carol Belk Theatre at UNC Asheville.

An exhibit featuring photographer Evan Kafka, “Trophies & Billboards Selfies” is on display at the Blowers Gallery in Ramsey Library until March 31.

On March 16, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., UNC Asheville’s Department of History will host History Day!

Celebrate Pi Day at UNC Asheville's annual fun-run on March 17, starting at 3:14 pm sharp. Whether you prefer to run, walk, skip, or trot the 3.14-mile distance, come take part in honoring the mathematical marvel that is Pi at Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Rd Asheville, NC 28806.

On March 18 at 11 a.m., Joseph Kerski from the Environment Rating Scales Institute will be speaking on the connections between Digital Humanities and Geotechnologies.

On March 18 at 6 p.m. Mark Gibney, Carol G. Belk Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UNC Asheville will discuss the link between politics, violence, and terror, relating the events of this semester’s Community Read book, “Wilmington's Lie,” to contemporary crises around the globe.

On March 20 at 7 p.m. in the Blue Ridge Room of UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Union, Natalie Baszile will present readings from her recent work.

Catch the student Latin Jazz Ensemble on March 21 at 12 p.m., live on the Quad in front of Lipinsky!

Join the Asheville Singers for their choral concert “Paint the Sky with Music” in the Lipinsky Hall lobby from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on March 26. 

On March 27 at 6 p.m. a roundtable discussion between foodways scholar Marcie Cohen Ferris and cookbook authors Sandra Gutierrez and Ronni Lundy, will be in the Blue Ridge Room of UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Union. 

Check out the student ensemble NOIRE on March 28 at 12 p.m., live on the Quad in front of Lipinsky!

Join The Breakfast Club student ensemble for a performance of your favorite songs from the 1980’s in the Lipinsky Hall Room 018 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on March 28. 

On March 28 at 7 p.m. in Alumni Hall of Highsmith Student Union, Shannon Gayk will explore how premodern accounts of biblical flood and fire probe the ethics of seeing ecological catastrophe and responding to the suffering it generates.

Elizabeth Perrill will present several key moments in South African histories of ceramic production on March 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall.

On April 2 at 7 p.m., the Music and Dance Departments will host a collaborative concert in Lipinsky Auditorium.

Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Shulamit Reinharz Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University, explores how Jewish texts, Jewish law, and contemporary Jewish ethics inform questions of reproductive health issues.

On April 4 at 7 p.m. in Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville student ensembles will perform the music of Wayne Shorter, American jazz saxophonist, and Latin Jazz.

On April 8 at 6 p.m., join authors Wiley Cash and David Zucchino as they discuss Zucchino’s book “Wilmington’s Lie,” this semester’s Community Read selection.

A powerful exhibit about the Holocaust will be visiting the UNC Asheville campus April 9 to April 12, open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in Reed Plaza.

Check out the student ensembles Wayne Shorter Ensemble and Studio 18 on April 11 at 12 p.m., live on the Quad in front of Lipinsky! The ensembles will perform a variety of jazz music, instrumental and vocal.

On April 16 at 7 p.m. in the Blue Ridge Room of UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Union, Neema Avashia will present readings from her recent work.

On April 17, from midnight to midnight, our community unites as Bulldogs for Give UNC Asheville, the University’s biggest day of giving.

Join the Prog Rock and Songwriters Ensembles on April 18 at 12 p.m., live on the Quad in front of Lipinsky!

Two shows, one experience! From April 18 through the 21, TheatreUNCA will host two productions “Sincerely,” and “The Egg” in the Carol Belk Theatre. 

On April 22, join a Braver Angels Workshop “Depolarizing Within” from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Manheimer Room (102) of the Reuter Center.

UNC Asheville’s Atmospheric Sciences will host an advanced Skywarn storm-spotter training course at 6:30 p.m. on April 23, at UNC Asheville’s Robinson Hall, room 125.

Catch the Contemporary Guitar Ensemble on April 25 at 12 p.m., live on the Quad in front of Lipinsky!

A wide variety of functional and decorative pottery, prints, and other artwork created by UNC Asheville students will be on sale in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery of Owen Hall on April 26 and 27.

Explore visual works of expression from graduating Art majors at the annual BA Salon Exhibition, presented by the UNC Asheville Department of Art and Art History

A community remembrance of the Holocaust will be hosted at UNC Asheville on May 5 from 3 to 5 p.m in the Blue Ridge Room of Highsmith Union. The event will feature the keynote speaker, Michèle Taylor, a U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Explore the excellent undergraduate research of our students at the 3rd annual Squibb Symposium for Chemistry and Biochemistry Undergraduate Research.

In her lecture, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe will explain how the soil system controls the Earth’s climate and impacts climate change.

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe will discuss the patterns found in fire-altered carbon distribution after a wildfire has affected a landscape.

Terry Roberts will share research on the Hot Springs area's history as the setting for some of his and Charles Fraziers novels.