Imprint Newsletter from East Carolina University's College of Fine Arts and Communication

This Spring 2026 semester gave us a winter wonderland, but the sunshine and warmer temperatures are coming! I'm happy to see everyone back again, and hope all are staying safe, warm, and engaged with our incredible students.

On my mind is saving the date for this year's 10th anniversary of Pirate Nation Gives, March 4. Please help us continue our efforts to provide high-impact experiences to our students, particularly an all-college alternative spring break trip to New York in 2027.

We hope you enjoy the highlights in this email version of our newsletter. Click in each section for more information, and below to check out the entire alumni, faculty, and student sections online.

See a full list of upcoming events in CFAC's online calendar, sign up to receive our monthly Sights & Sounds events calendar by email, or reach us through the Connect with our College section below.

7:30 p.m. | Wright Auditorium
$30 faculty/staff; $38 public
More information + tickets

7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sun. | McGinnis Auditorium
$10-20
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7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat.; 2:30 p.m. Sun. | Paramount Theater, Farmville
$5-20
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McCade Walker, Master of Music student in piano performance, was named winner of the MTNA State Young Artist Piano Competition. A student of faculty artist Kwan Yi, Walker performed a program of Liszt’s Ballade No. 2 and the Barber Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, Op. 26.

Dr. Rachel Son visited Jagiellonian University in Poland as part of the Erasmus+ Program, to teach a series of lectures. She also had the opportunity to participate in various tours, events, and sightseeing excursions. 

As three ECU alumni neared graduation with communication degrees, standout classes, faculty mentors and a drive toward advocacy led them to law school and, today, successful legal careers.

Amanda Miller ’06 and ’07, and Jessica Nottingham ’06 and ’08, both School of Communication graduates, were in the group of 2025 Leo Jenkins Society inductees. 

Check out CFAC at ECU News Services for more stories from our college. These are a sampling of the stories from the previous quarter:

East Carolina University advanced dance students learned an accessible Black Box Dance Theatre (BBDT) warmup on Jan. 27 with founding member Natalie Morton. The group repeated their peers’ names while combining the movements each contributed to the warmup, giving voice and ownership to the dancers.

A gift that doubled the East Carolina University School of Music’s ability to give student scholarships has begun benefiting those music students — especially at the graduate level.

ECU Photo by Steven Mantilla

In October 2025 we started a CFAC blog on our website, a space where we can share more stories about guest artist visits, performances, events that engage our ECU community and beyond,  and so much more. We hope you'll check it out regularly, with our most recent post below.

It’s almost time for Pirate Nation Gives, ECU’s annual day of giving! This year, March 4 marks the 10th anniversary of PNG, and we are Building on a Decade of Impact here in the College of Fine Arts and Communication.

To celebrate that theme, we want to share with our communities 10 ways that our college is building a strong future for our students. We work hard every day to achieve that goal, and we hope you will see the great variety of ways we do so.

Learn more about supporting our events and investing in student success. We have a variety of funds across the college, as well as Friends groups for each of our four schools. We appreciate every gift!

Contact and connect with the College of Fine Arts and Communication! We look forward to engaging with you.