Fine Arts & Communication Archives

Assistant director Lacee Thomason, left, and director Riley Yates rehearse a scene from “SCOUTS” with members of the 5th Street Players.
Mar 31, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

PASSION PROJECT

A common piece of writing advice is to write what you know. East Carolina University alumna Caitlyn Leach ’18 did just that when she created the concept for “SCOUTS,” an...

ECU senior Reyna Crooms poses for her Pirate Profile portrait.
Mar 28, 2023
  • Hannah Eccleston

Student: Reyna Crooms

East Carolina University senior Reyna Crooms’ passion for journalism began in a high school classroom and is now carrying on as she prepares to graduate in May.  Crooms grew up...

East Carolina University's Spring Dance Concert 2023 features a collaboration of many genres of dance including ballet, jazz, hip-hop, contemporary, ballroom and more.
Mar 22, 2023
  • Hannah Eccleston

SPRING DANCE 2023

East Carolina University's Spring Dance Concert 2023 opens tonight, showcasing the incredibly talented students, faculty and guests who work hard to bring amazing performances together for the School of Theatre...

Tessa Gibson works on a canoe with Gerald Weckesser in East Carolina University's first boat building class in summer 2016. Weckesser is building relationships that bring the boat building techniques to classrooms across the world.
Mar 10, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

BUILDING BOATS AND BRIDGES

A boat building course at East Carolina University has become the perfect vessel to build bridges with other universities and institutions at home and abroad. Since 2016, School of Art...

Feb 23, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ECU hosts middle and high school artists’ work in competition

Artwork by middle and high school students from central and eastern North Carolina adorn the walls of East Carolina University’s Gray Gallery — the exhibition site for this year’s Scholastic...

The East Carolina University School of Theatre and Dance and Loessin Playhouse invite Pirates to immerse themselves in the uniquely American form of popular music and dance known as swing with their latest production
Feb 23, 2023
  • Hannah Eccleston

ECU PRESENTS ‘SWING!’

East Carolina University's School of Theatre and Dance and Loessin Playhouse invite Pirates to immerse themselves in the uniquely American form of popular music and dance known as swing. Requiring...

Elizabeth Bailey has choreographed a dance piece about healing from trauma that will be performed Saturday and Sunday in ECU’s Archie Burnette Studio Theatre.
Feb 02, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

‘PIECES OF US’

Elizabeth Bailey’s experience of healing from trauma inspired a collaborative research project and dance performance that will open on stage Saturday and Sunday. “Pieces of Us” will feature Bailey’s original...

Dec 19, 2022
  • Matt Smith

ECU 2022: YEAR IN REVIEW

If one word sums up Pirate Nation in 2022, it's "renewal." Pirates returned to campus with a rejuvenated sense of hope in response to COVID-19. Chancellor Philip Rogers was officially...

Almost 2,000 graduates were recognized at East Carolina University’s fall 2022 commencement ceremony in Minges Coliseum.
Dec 16, 2022
  • ECU News Services

AUDACITY TO ASPIRE

Nearly 2,000 East Carolina University graduates turned their tassels in Minges Coliseum on Friday, celebrating fall commencement 2022 along with their families, friends, and university faculty, staff and administrators. Chancellor...

Dec 15, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Hitting finals: Drumming helps students de-stress

The final exam for East Carolina University’s music therapy group activities course was a hit for students in and out of the classroom. Virginia Driscoll’s students set up on the...