Powering Creativity:
The Campaign for UNCSA

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UNCSA is building the future of the arts by educating the next generation of creative innovators. Composed of five nationally ranked, highly collaborative conservatories, our inspiration-filled campus has produced some of the industry's most remarkable leaders.

With extraordinary accomplishments propelling us, we are poised to reach new heights. We will empower emerging artists who will shape the future of creativity.

What It Takes

It takes patience and endurance to master an artform, grit and determination to emerge as an artist-leader and discipline to practice and perfect a craft. And it takes your support.

PROGRESS TO $65 MILLION CAMPAIGN GOAL

Campaign Pillars

Fueling Artists

Who will shape the future of human expression

Scholarships

Goal: $25 million

Funding scholarships will transform our capacity to recruit and retain top students from North Carolina and beyond.

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Supporting Faculty

Who are changing the artistic landscape

Faculty

Goal: $8 million

Investing in faculty who are on the leading edge of their respective fields allows them to provide emerging artists with exceptional opportunities.

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Powering New Expressions of Creativity

Embracing innovation in distinct ways

Innovation

Goal: $18 million

Supporting innovation will help fuse conservatory training with advances in technology and technique.

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Developing State-of-the-Art Facilities

For growth and mastery

Living and Learning Environment

Goal: $12 million

Our students perform at the highest level. Updated, enhanced and well-equipped facilities foster artistic and personal growth.

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Strengthening Cultural Life

Through arts experiences

Community

Goal: $2 million

By engaging with the community at large, students broaden their journey of expression and reach new audiences.

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Recent Campaign News & Stories

Here's how your support is changing lives.

Piano student Kelsey Carlisle receives annual Presser Award from School of Music

Each year, School of Music faculty select a rising fourth-year student as the recipient of the Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award. For 2021 recipient Kelsey Carlisle, the honor comes on the heels of a school year shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, making the recognition especially meaningful for the undergraduate pianist.

A campus evolution: New and renovated spaces meet the needs of today's student artists

If you haven't been to UNCSA for a while, you might be surprised to see the campus looking a little different these days. Despite the pandemic, UNCSA has been able to move ahead on projects to improve the living and learning environment on campus.

Writing the next chapter in the history of UNCSA

Five years ago, UNCSA began a comprehensive fundraising effort to generate philanthropic support for our next generation of artists -- our first campaign in decades and the largest ever undertaken by our university.

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Powering Creativity: The Campaign for UNCSA

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Powering Creativity:
The Campaign for UNCSA