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Time Magazine: ECSU Graduate and Internationally Renowned Documentary Photographer Joshua Rashaad is Profiled in Time Magazine’s American Voices Series.
External Source October 24, 2017
  Joshua Rashaad McFadden stood with his camera poised, ready to snap a photo of a fresh-faced college senior. It was orientation week at Morehouse, the 150-year-old, all-male, historically black college in Atlanta that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among...

Five Students Prepare for Senior Recitals
Robert Kelly-Goss April 20, 2017
Whether it has been the symphony orchestra marching band jazz band or choral performances the performing art students have given audiences a lot of joy. So when five seniors prepare for the May 13 commencement ceremony they are also preparing...


Music Educators Are All About Jazz at Arts of the Albemarle
Robert Kelly-Goss April 19, 2017
Ever since Arts of the Albemarle’s Third Thursday Jazz Series launched in 2016 the region has been flocking to the downtown Elizabeth City art center to hear the classic American music. Performers have ranged from regional musicians to Elizabeth City...

ECSU Jazz Festival 2017 April 7
Robert Kelly-Goss March 30, 2017
Spring is here and that means a lot of great things and on the campus of Elizabeth City State University it definitely means great music and a lot of it. You can have that great music Friday April 7 when...


Internationally Acclaimed Photographer ECSU Grad Exhibits at K.E. White
Robert Kelly-Goss March 21, 2017
When Joshua Rashaad McFadden’s mother gave him a camera as a young boy the die was cast and an internationally acclaimed award winning photographer was born. The 2013 Elizabeth City State University graduate will return to his alma mater April...

ECSU Hosts Benefit Concert for Town of Princeville
Robert Kelly-Goss January 27, 2017
When the town of Princeville, North Carolina was hit by Hurricane Matthew last year, it was devastated by the storm. But the historic eastern North Carolina town is getting help from the Elizabeth City State University Visual and Performing Arts...


ECSU Concert Brings Broad Musical Range to Stage Nov. 10
Robert Kelly-Goss October 28, 2016
When Elizabeth State University does music, it does it right. That’s why when the ECSU Department of Visual and Performing Arts presents a combined fall 2016 concert featuring chamber groups and the ECSU Jazz Ensemble, you will want to be...

Percussionist and saxophonist step into AOA spotlight
Kesha Williams March 21, 2016
By Kesha Williams Performing artists who garnered the spotlight as students at ECSU are making quite an impression on local jazz fans. Arts of the Albemarle (AOA) is hosting a jazz series February through June that showcases live performing artists...


Concert Choir performs at the White House
Kesha Williams March 16, 2016
The Elizabeth City State University Choir performed at the White House on Jan. 27. Choir director Walter Swan said the tour resulted from an invitation by ECSU alum and Coast Guard Commander, Warren Judge. While at the White House, students...

Alumna’s book illustrations published in fourth book
Kesha Williams February 4, 2016
By Kesha Williams An internship completed during her senior year at ECSU not only opened Anna Marie Lewis’ eyes to the possibility of a freelance career, but it led to her fourth book of published illustrations. Lewis recently received confirmation...