FINE ARTS & COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT 2019 AND

FINE ARTS COMMUNICATION

As Pirates,™ our sights are always set on exploring new horizons. Our college’s goal is to build on its reputation as a rich and dynamic academic community where creativity, culture and ideas flourish and provide a fertile environment for the artists, educators, communicators, performers and designers of the future. We can’t do that without your support.

Our Golden Horizon The College of Fine Arts and Communication houses Art and Design, Communication, Music, and Theatre and Dance. In addition to preparing students for success in life, we regularly bring international artists and family programming to the region. To go even further, we need more funding for student scholarships, study abroad, and a performing arts center that will provide a venue equal to the professional settings that students will find themselves in after graduation. FINE ARTS & COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT 2019

Our Golden Stats Our Golden Examples

LARGEST BFA ART PROGRAM HOWELL BINKLEY is a lighting designer on Broadway who won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Musical for “Jersey Boys” in 2006, and again in 2016 for “Hamilton.”

EDWARD JACOBS IN THE STATE is a music composition professor who received a prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for his work as a composer. Eddie has made the composition program at ECU’s School of Music a model for the country.

Communication alumni TAYLOR REED working for CNN, NBC is the first ECU student to win the Erasmus+ Scholarship to and NASCAR attend Krosno State College in Poland. Taylor is a theatre arts major who wants to teach youth theatre when she graduates.

NIA FRANKLIN is a music composition graduate who went on to win Miss America 2019. Nia ran on a platform advocating for the arts and UNC Board of Governor’s Award for Teaching sang opera for the talent competition, wowing the judges. Excellence in 2017-18 and 2018-19

Pirates, Let’s Go The unique opportunities that come with an education from ECU’s College of Fine Arts and Communication lead to life-changing outcomes. We enable students to discover their passions and prepare them for success on the world’s stage. With your help, we can continue transforming lives that transform the world.

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