April 26, 2016
Paul Koehnke

Fall 2015 collaboration between CPCC
Theatre, Opera, and Dance heated up the
Halton Theater.
There were 7,523 attendees for a 7 show run with ticket sales of $177,592!

The Charlotte Symphony on Campus is an annual concert sponsored through the generous donation of Wilton and Catherine Conner.
In the Fall of 2015, the CSO played for 1,000
Music Appreciation students.

 The NCCC AFA Association was formed in 2015 to support and promote the Visual and Performing
Arts in the North Carolina Community College System. CPCC’s Carolyn Jacobs and Tom Hollis are founding members and Board Officers.
 Each AFA discipline will have its own program code in Fall 2016. Benefits include targeted advising, less confusion for students and clear identity for each discipline.
 The AFA Association/Visual Arts is now working toward a statewide articulation agreement with 4year institutions. Until this is finalized, most UNC Art programs have agreed to publish pathways for
AFA students on their webpage—similar to AA and AS pathways.
 Music and Theatre (program will officially be changed from Drama to Theatre at State level) are also looking at either a statewide articulation agreements or alignments with local universities. CPCC
Music already has this in place with UNCC.
 The AFA Association strives to promote community college programs and student success by facilitating communication between programs and universities, particularly during the annual AFA
Conference. CPCC has been asked to host the conference in 2018.

 Proposal
 Create 3 integrated groups made up of faculty representatives from each discipline to address pressing structural needs of the Division not otherwise addressed by the college, and of strategic importance to the viability of the Division, its faculty, and students. The 3-year project will have targeted outcomes and biannual evaluations of each group’s progress and achievements. Group Leaders will rotate on/off annually.
 Marketing and Recruitment Group – Tom Hollis, Leader
 Create a supplemental recruitment and marketing strategy to increase enrollment in Curriculum and
CCE classes, and to publicize performance ensemble events through traditional means and new social media platforms available through the college
 Articulation & Transfer Agreements Group – Craig Bove, Leader
 Develop action plans to connect with targeted 4-year institutions on a person to person basis to identify current obstacles and feasible solutions leading to written articulation and transfer agreements
 AFA/AAS Degree Group – Mary Kilburn, Leader
 Develop strategies to increase enrollments into and completion out of our AFA and AAS degree programs while identifying impediments within the current sequences that prevent ready transference to 4-year institutions

 ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO DATE (2016SP):
 Faculty attendance at statewide AFA Society Conference in February furthered conversations with 4-year institutions including UNCC, UNCW and ECU, and other community colleges like Mitchell and Rowan-Cabarrus to better serve students and develop articulation agreements.
 Dialogue with Queens University between Music departments further enhanced with
CPCCs Craig Bove acting as outside reviewer of Queens Self-Study project.
 Discussions underway to create written agreements between CPCC Interior Design program and Interior Architecture of UNC Greensboro, and Family and Consumer
Sciences program at NC Central University.

Two of CPCC's Dance majors, and
CPCC Dance Theatre company members, Demaya Sanders and
Levin Huesler, (pictured left), have been selected to be featured dancers for the Theatre West
Virginia Summer 2016 season!

• Events have been specially curated to enhance the learning experiences of our students, and to add to the creative atmosphere of the Charlotte community.
• This year we have chosen to include Student Life as part of the festival, to ensure that we can have events to appeal to all of the students at CPCC.
• With help from culinary students, we held our first Sensoria
Fundraiser dinner. Over $4000 was raised to support the festival.
• Brochure design work was donated by WrayWard under the creative direction of a former CPCC student from Graphic Design.
• We anticipate 12,000 student and community attendees at 5 campuses
• “Literature,” is now included in the name.
• A new required Cultural
Component in Literature classes will bring over 2,000 students to the festival.

Sensoria 2016 Guest Artists, Speakers, and Performers
Ben Marcus, author
Deborah Henson-Conant,
Hip Harpist
Quentin Talley,
Founder & Artistic Director of
On Q Productions
Amy Bloom, author

Sensoria 2016 Guest Artists, Speakers, and Performers
Amelia Morris, author
Michaela Pilar Brown, artist
Dacre Stoker, heir and curator of
Bram Stoker’s,
“Dracula”

Sensoria 2016 Guest Artists, Speakers, and Performers
Charles Williams, artist
Ken Sedberry, ceramicist
Joffrey Ballet Concert Group

Visit tix.cpcc.edu
for tickets!

Sensoria & CPCC Arts in Social Media
Follow CPCC Arts on Twitter for
#Sensoria updates!

Best of the Best Award for
Best Art Gallery!
Gallery Director Cassandra Richardson founded the CPCC Young
Art League (YAL’s) to bring young professionals and emerging collectors to engage with our gallery program on campus.
To date, there are 37 members and 12 Founding Members.
Membership dues generated $700 to contribute to our selfsupporting budget. blogs.cpcc.edu/cpccartgalleries/youngartleague

Since the beginning of the 2015 Fall Semester:
- There have been 7 exhibitions in the Ross and
Pease Galleries.
- 6,181 students and community members have visited the galleries.
- The galleries have generated $5,202 in commissions.

- Division Director Anasa D. Sinegal was invited to join the Board of Directors for WFAE, Charlotte’s NPR News Source, for a 3-year term.
- New Broadcast Writing (BPT) program started with 30 students 2015FA
- Building relationships with Wheelhouse Media, Roz Durant of ESPN,
NASCAR Production, WFAE, Q City Metro and the NC Humanities Council.
- SGD has hosted several successful CMS school tours of their classrooms and motion capture studios.
- Communication Studies Professor Linda White won the 2016 Parr Award for Outstanding Liberal Arts faculty.

Journalism students on set at
WTVI in October 2015!

Broadcast Writing students at
WFAE 90.7 getting a tour!

Intern Kaleigh, on the scene!
Intern Juliana, behind the scenes!

Student interning at WTVI working onset for an Aquaponics special!

 The Baking and Pastry Arts Re-Accreditation self-study will be completed this
Spring.
 The Aspire re-model will be completed this month!
 Culinary Arts & Baking & Pastry Arts students will play a major role at the 21 st annual Taste of the Nation, preparing & serving desserts at the VIP area, & preparing & serving appetizers for two local restaurants: Passion8 & Davidson
Street Public House.
 Culinary Arts students will host a dinner with the Piedmont Culinary Guild
 Two Culinary Arts students will be spending the summer on the Amalfi Coast of
Italy with students from AACC on an 11 week internship.

The Greenway
Restaurant will serve approximately 600 luncheon guests this
Spring semester!

Sensoria 2016
Culinary Arts
Culinary Arts Students will host a VIP reception for Sensoria
Culinary Arts Students will serve an exclusive dinner based on Amelia
Morris recipes in her novel

Sensoria 2016
Baking and Pastry Arts
Don’t miss the Bake Sale held by Baking and Pastry Arts!
- Baking and Pastry Arts Students will make special Sensoria
Chocolates for gift bags!

Celebrated the 10 anniversary of the Halton Theater on
November 12 with a reception followed by the final dress rehearsal of CPCC Theatre’s
Phantom of the Opera. Over
200 attended the reception and performance, including donors, trustees, clients and friends of the college.

REPLACED THE TERRAZZO IN THE FIRST FLOOR LOBBY OF THE
OVERCASH BUILDING, INCLUDING RELOCATING THE CPCC SEAL
TO THE CENTRAL LOBBY AREA.

 FY2015 (through Feb, 2015) – 26,600 tickets sold, $507,100 revenue
FY2016 (through Feb, 2016) – 32,300 tickets sold, $577,800 revenue
Projecting that 65.2% of event dates will be internal uses, versus 67.7% for FY2015.

 Filled two new Full Time positions:
 Account Coordinator- Amy Rogers
 Audio Specialist- Stephen Lancaster

THANK YOU!