MARIELIS GARCIA
School of dance
Marielis Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, and educator whose work draws on Balanchine, Horton, and Limón technique alongside improvisation to explore identity, plurality, and belonging; she’s performed with Brian Brooks, Peter Kyle, Madeline Hollander and Stefanie Batten Bland, and holds an MFA from City College of New York. She currently serves as Associate Professor at UNC Greensboro and has received choreographic honors including Ballet Hispanico’s Instituto Coreográfico residency, Alvin Ailey’s New Directions Choreography Lab residency and Jacob Pillows Anne and Weston Hicks Choreographic fellowship.
DR. RACHEL MILLS
genetic counseling program
Rachel Mills, PhD, MS, CGC is a certified genetic counselor and Associate Professor in the UNCG MS Genetic Counseling Program. Dr. Mills is an alumnus of UNCG, graduating from the MS Genetic Counseling Program in 2008. She joined the UNCG faculty in 2019 after working as a research genetic counselor and supporting research related to genetics and precision medicine. Dr. Mills completed her PhD in Education Leadership, Policy & Human Development with a focus on adult, workforce and continuing professional education at NC State in 2024. Dr. Mills is the Director of Research for the UNCG genetic counseling program, teaching research-related coursework and mentoring every genetic counseling graduate student on the completion of their thesis/Capstone work. Her own research focuses on the professional development of genetic counselors, including professional identity formation.
HASSAN PITTS
department of media studies
Hassan Pitts is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Studies at the UNCG. He is an interdisciplinary artist and creative researcher whose work explores how technologies shape the ways people understand themselves, one another, and the worlds they inhabit. Drawing on artistic practice, emerging media, and collaborative inquiry, he works across video, sound, immersive media, virtual production, and interactive storytelling to explore questions of culture, memory, place, and belonging. Through this work, Pitts explores how artistic practice and emerging technologies can foster connection, support collective meaning-making, and create new ways of engaging with culture, memory, and community.
DEREK TOOMES
Department of Interior Architecture & Design
Derek Toomes is an interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Interior Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His work spans kinetic sculpture and environmental installation, often developed in collaboration with communities, integrating digital technologies as both medium and subject to explore memory, time, and the accelerating pace of digital culture. Bridging physical and digital realms, his time-based, movement-driven installations situate viewers within unfolding environments that reflect on presence, intimacy, and collective experience.
OPERATING HOURS
Tuesday–Friday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Monday and Saturday: Open for events only. View the calendar for details.
Closed Sundays and Holidays
Jeanne Tannenbaum Center for Creative Practice
Location: 842 West Gate City Blvd., GSO, NC 27403
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 26170, GSO, NC 27402
Email: tannenbaum@uncg.edu
