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.
Join hosts Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle and Wiley Cash for a day trip from Asheville to Cherokee.
UNC Asheville's Open House offers high school students, transfer students, and family members a chance to learn about the people and experiences that make our university special.
Lumbee historian Malinda Maynor Lowery and Cherokee anthropologist Courtney Lewis will propose a new food framework, one that incorporates Native Peoples' contemporary and creative foodways.
Authors Charles Frazier and Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (EBCI), will discuss Frazier's research while writing “Thirteen Moons,” the first novel translated into the Cherokee syllabary.
UNC Asheville's Open House offers high school students, transfer students, and family members a chance to learn about the people and experiences that make our university special.
Tour 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.
Kick off your college search at Junior Preview Day, an experience designed just for high school juniors. Discover how UNC Asheville offers an affordable and endlessly relevant education as a top-10 public liberal arts and sciences university in the nation.
Ramsey Library Special Collections is proud to present the Isaiah Rice Photography Exhibit which showcases the African American community in Asheville. The photos in the exhibit are a sample of the approximately 1,400 images which illustrate urban Appalachia as depicted through the lens of an African American man during some of the nation's most pivotal events of the mid-20th century.
At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 19, Tom Hearron will discuss how Thomas Wolfe transmuted his life in Asheville to fiction when writing his debut novel “Look Homeward, Angel.”
Author Psyche Williams-Forson will delve into the ways Black women have used, and continue to use, food to shape cuisines in and beyond the south, while defining their sense of self.
From February 28 to March 21 the Owen Hall New Media Gallery will host an exhibition exploring the craft of place for animation and interactive media, featuring 15+ regional and international artists.
Admitted Student Days provide an in-depth opportunity to learn more about UNC Asheville and to meet the people who will support your student experience here.