Fine Arts & Communication Archives

Jan 12, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

Recent ECU graduate places in top 10 in international dance competition

Jessica Wooten, a 2020 East Carolina University graduate, recently placed fifth at the international Hamburg Dance Competition. This inaugural event was online due to the pandemic. A live competition will...

Jan 11, 2021
  • Matt Smith

Farmville’s Café Madeleine, RISE29 interns connect over confections

A group of East Carolina University interns is helping an artisanal bakery bring the taste of France to Farmville. Through ECU’s student entrepreneurship program RISE29, College of Fine Arts and...

Dec 07, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Morgan Gillespie

If not for an unsuccessful basketball tryout, Morgan Gillespie might not be pursuing a career in theater. The East Carolina University senior, who graduated on Dec. 4 with a bachelor...

Dec 03, 2020
  • ECU News Services

FALL 2020 COMMENCEMENT — COLLEGE CELEBRATIONS

Graduates, parents, families and friends, please join us at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 4 for our virtual Fall 2020 Commencement Ceremony. Watch the ceremony live on the commencement website, or...

Grad Profile: Gillian Pena
Nov 30, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

DREAM BIG

As a communication student at East Carolina University, Gillian Pena has studied in central Europe and interned with three organizations in Chicago. The Windy City is also her birthplace, having...

Fall 2020 Grad Profiles
Nov 25, 2020
  • ECU News Services

FULL SPEED AHEAD

East Carolina University’s graduating class of fall 2020 includes more than 2,000 students who will turn their tassels this week (from home — the Friday, Dec. 4 ceremony is virtual...

Nov 24, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

ECU alumna receives Arthur Miller Foundation arts education award

An East Carolina University alumna recently received the Excellence in Arts Education Award from the Arthur Miller Foundation. Lisanne Shaffer, a theater teacher at the Brooklyn High School of the...

Oct 30, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Wayne Godwin

Growing up in rural Johnston County, surrounded by farms, Wayne Godwin learned what he called the “basics of southern life, church, family and community.” Today, he carries those ideals with...

Oct 22, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

CREATING AN IMAGE

With live performances put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, East Carolina University’s School of Theatre and Dance faculty members decided to focus on what students could do rather...

Oct 16, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

DIGITAL CONCERT HALL

The shift from in-person to online events during the 2020 pandemic is taking the annual Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival from East Carolina University’s Fletcher Hall to concertgoers’ own homes....