Fine Arts & Communication Archives

Dance education major Katie White is a fourth generation Pirate who has a long line of mentors and influencers supporting her journey to ECU.
May 02, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

Graduate profile: Katie White

Katie White — a fourth generation East Carolina University graduate — has been coming to campus her entire life. When it came time to choose a school, ECU felt like...

In 2018, Pol Solanellas Manzanares, an MBA student from Barcelona, Spain, was involved in a biking accident that left him in a coma for two weeks and put him on a long road to recovery. On May 3, 2019, Solanellas will receive his MBA during the College of Business commencement ceremonies.
May 02, 2019
  • Michael Rudd

Graduate profile: Pol Solanellas Manzanares

Barcelona native Pol Solanellas Manzanares was living the dream that he saw so many times on TV or movies back home in Spain as a student-athlete at East Carolina University...

Apr 22, 2019
  • Erin Ward

BRUSHING BETTER

In 2016, Lindsay McCormick started an experiment in sustainability, resolving to make an alternative toothpaste that didn’t involve throwing away little plastic tubes every month. McCormick, who graduated from East...

Apr 17, 2019
  • ECU News Services

FOUR SEASONS CONCERT TRUCK

The Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival took the show on the road for their 12th annual Children’s Residency and Family Night performances in April. Literally. On the road. As in...

Apr 09, 2019
  • Bri Deel

LOVE, POLITICS AND SWORDFIGHTING

Follow along the journey of D’Artagnan, a young Gascon nobleman whose life dream is to be a musketeer, as he gets caught up in love, politics and international affairs in...

Mar 27, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU pieces to be displayed at New Bern airport beginning March 29

Four East Carolina University sculpture students will have their work displayed at the Coastal Carolina Regional Airport in New Bern beginning March 29. The School of Art and Design students...

ECU’s Musical Empowerment group is one of the six chapters in the country. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 26, 2019
  • Bri Deel

MAKING MUSIC ACCESSIBLE

East Carolina University students are making music accessible to elementary, middle and high school students in Greenville through a new program called Musical Empowerment. The ECU chapter is one of...

Dancers will start the show outside by dancing on seven tons of dirt.
Mar 19, 2019
  • Bri Deel

SPRING DANCE 2019

Seven tons of dirt and dancers will usher in East Carolina University’s Spring Dance 2019. Guests will be greeted with a one-of-a-kind performance at the entrance to McGinnis Theatre beginning...

Donterreo Culp, an ECU senior majoring in dance performance, works with high school students in Messick Theatre.
Mar 14, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

FULL ACCESS

A day created especially for theater arts and dance drew about 130 students from across Pitt County to East Carolina University on March 8. ECU faculty, staff, students and alumni...

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Mar 11, 2019
  • Bri Deel

Student: Epiphany Knedler

Epiphany Knedler is an East Carolina University Master of Fine Arts student who has found a new passion at ECU — teaching. Knedler is originally from South Dakota and graduated...