TheatreUNCA and the Drama Department of UNC Asheville will be hosting the first play of the fall season: “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.” Showings are on October […]

UNC Asheville music students will treat audiences to free, weekly performances throughout the fall semester at noon on Thursdays on the Quad, outside of Lipinsky Auditorium. 

Accomplished songwriter and poet Alice Osborn will host a songwriting workshop on October 25 at 6 p.m. via Zoom. Registration costs $20 and is open to the public.

UNC Asheville music students will treat audiences to free, weekly performances throughout the fall semester at noon on Thursdays on the Quad, outside of Lipinsky Auditorium. 

Lina-Maria Murillo will present a lecture, “Abortion in the Borderlands before Roe v. Wade,” at 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 26 via Zoom. Link to join is here. Journalists, activists, […]

Adam Rothman, professor of History at Georgetown University, will be speaking on Georgetown’s history of enslavement and his current research on Thursday, October 26 at 7 p.m. at the UNC Asheville Reuter Center, Manheimer Room.

UNC Asheville Department of Music welcomes Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang to the Lipinsky Hall Auditorium on October 26 at 7 p.m.

Poet Eric Tran will present a reading at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 2 in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Union, Blue Ridge Room.
Tran is a queer Vietnamese poet and the author of “Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke.”

Featuring four mental health practitioners with Asian heritage – Tracy Hopkins, Eric Tran, An Truong, and Tai Kulenic – who will address the unique experiences of AAPI people who are still largely portrayed as a “model minority” and a monolithic group.

Author Lauren Yero will host a worldbuilding in speculative fiction class on November 4 at 10 a.m. in the Laurel Forum in Karpen Hall. Registration is $20 and open to the public.

Come see where it all starts with an in-person visit to campus.

"Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual," an exhibition showcasing varied examples of both traditional and modern styles of Cherokee art and historical photos, will be on view through December 8 in […]

Michael Fowler, art historian and archaeologist, will look at the visual and anthropological evidence for human sacrifice in the ancient Greek world, focusing on topics related to material religion, iconography, gender, and violence (and their intersections).

Writer Jasmin Pittman Morrell will host a class on constructing personal narratives November 11 at 10 a.m. in the Laurel Forum in Karpen Hall. Registration is $20 and open to the public.

On November 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Wedge Brewing at Foundation, Blue Ridge Pride LGBTQIA+ Archive and UNC Asheville's Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies program invite those who knew CLOSER and those who want to learn more about local LGBTQ+ history to a public storytelling event.

Join us on Wednesday, November 15 at 11 a.m. for a special Craft Research Talks: Community, Tradition, and Culture. This is a UNC Asheville Humanities Common Lecture, it is free and open to the public. The lecture will be held in the Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville and will be live-streamed and recorded.

Join Wiley Cash for a conversation with NBA All Star Eric “Sleepy” Floyd on Thursday, November 16 at 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center in the Manheimer Room.

TheatreUNCA will present “Nacho Mama's Comedy Improv Show: It Might Get a Little Cheesy,” Nov. 16 and 17 at 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Carol Belk Theatre.

On November 19 at 5 p.m., Malaprop’s Bookstore in downtown Asheville will host an open-mic night featuring current and prior Great Smokies Writing Program students! This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required by Malaprop's: In-Person | Writers at Home | Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe

The Fall 2023 Symposium on Undergraduate Research, Creativity and Community Engagement will take place across campus on Tuesday, November 28, and will feature hundreds of undergraduate research and creative project presentations by UNC Asheville students and presentations about their service-learning experiences.

A wide variety of functional and decorative pottery, prints and other artwork created by UNC Asheville students will be on sale in Owen Hall.

The Great Smokies Writing Program presents “Writers at Home” celebrating the fall 2023 issue of “The Great Smokies Review” with live readings at the Story Parlor at 7:00 p.m. on December 10, 2023. The event is free and open to the public.

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.