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.

School of Design and Production launches new graduate program in animatronics

The three-year M.F.A. program will begin enrolling students in fall 2021.

UNCSA announces 2021 spring performance season

UNCSA continues to adjust to the limitations of COVID-19 while presenting inventive delivery of theater, dance, music, film and more that mirrors the creative evolution of a performing arts industry facing the effects of the pandemic.

Alumnus David Loring and John Dickens establish Dance scholarship with $2 million gift to UNCSA

Alumnus David Loring and John Dickens establish Dance scholarship with $2M planned gift to UNCSA

The bequest will support the David Loring Endowed Scholarship in Dance, and is another example of the significant impact UNCSA alumni are having on Powering Creativity: The Campaign for UNCSA. Since 2016, alumni have contributed more than $5 million to the campaign.

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