Where the future of
art and artist align.

Stage manager AJ Helms went from a Raleigh middle school musical to the Metropolitan Opera. With a love for live performance, adaptability under pressure, and strong mentorship at UNCSA, they're now launching their professional career through the prestigious Stage Manager Fellowship at Lincoln Center.

The School of Filmmaking at UNCSA has announced a multiyear commitment from the Semans Art Fund to support the school's continued participation in an exchange program with Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg, the oldest and largest film school in Germany.

High School visual artist Mattias Christian has spent the last two years at UNCSA exploring identity, storytelling and what it means to create art that reflects the self. In this Q&A, he opens up about discovering comics, learning to let ideas breathe and the graphic novel project that changed everything.