Fine Arts & Communication Archives

Oct 30, 2015

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter speaks at ECU event

CNN Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sara Ganim told close to 125 aspiring high school journalists to embrace their youth as they pursue their profession during a recent visit to East Carolina...

Oct 07, 2015

ECU art professor displays work at NYC’s ‘LOOT’

East Carolina University School of Art metal design professor Mi-Sook Hur showed 60 of her new artworks at LOOT: MAD About Jewelry at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC,...

Sep 09, 2015

In Memoriam – Dr. Charles E. Stevens

Dr. Charles E. Stevens of Greenville, who taught piano at East Carolina University for 30 years before accepting emeritus status in 1990, died Sept. 4. He was 89. Stevens, who...

Aug 06, 2015

ECU graduate stars in opera version of “Cold Mountain”

Mezzo-soprano Deborah Nansteel, who earned a degree in music from East Carolina University in 2007, premiered the role of Lucinda in the Santa Fe Opera Festival’s world premiere production of...

Jun 26, 2015

J.H. Rose High, Tar River Writing Project awarded $20,000 grant

Students and teachers from J.H. Rose High School in Greenville were on ECU’s campus June 15-19 working with staff from the Tar River Writing Project developing plans to implement an...

Jun 12, 2015

ECU Guitar Festival celebrates 20th year with SoloDuo, Rene Izquierdo

  The 2015 East Carolina University Summer Guitar Festival and Workshop celebrates 20 years of world-class classical guitar with SoloDuo, Rene Izquierdo and others in Greenville on July 11-14 in...

Jun 05, 2015

ECU Marching Pirates to play Carolina Panthers halftime show

The ECU Marching Pirates have been invited to perform at halftime of the Carolina Panthers home football game against the Washington Redskins this fall. The Marching Pirates will take the...

Apr 30, 2015

ECU students use music therapy to help Vidant Medical Center patients

  “The girls and their music made it much easier for him to go on to glory,” Brenda Daniels said. Her husband, Noah Daniels, passed away in January at Vidant...

Mar 12, 2015

Married ECU art students present senior exhibition

East Carolina University art students and husband and wife, Jacob and Meredith Parker, will host a dual senior exhibition, “Passing for Normal,” in the Burroughs Wellcome Gallery in the Jenkins...

Mar 06, 2015

ECU graduate sells the Broadway Channel

East Carolina University alumnus Matt Hege said interning at Greenville television station WNCT and then working as advertising director of the “East Carolinian” student newspaper taught him everything he needed...