Jessi Rae Morton

News Editor

Democracy In Crisis: Lecture by Dr. Keith Gåddie

Wed., Sept. 13, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in UNCG’s School of Education Building, Room 120

From the event webpage:

Join us for the first lecture of UNC Greensboro’s 2023-24 Harriet Elliott Lecture Series, hosted by the Department of Political Science.

The past decade has seen democratic systems come under attack both in the United States and abroad. Dr. Keith Gåddie is the Hoffman Chair of the American Ideal and a professor of political science at Texas Christian University (TCU). In this free lecture, Gåddie will speak on the topic “Democracy in Crisis.” Author of the book Democracy’s Meanings: How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It Matters, Gåddie’s research and teaching focuses on democracy, politics and architecture, southern politics, and voting rights.

This event is free and open to the public. 

Visit cas.uncg.edu/hels to learn more about this year’s Harriet Elliott Lecture Series.

Animation Art Show And Dance Party: Life Size Animated Dancers 

By UNCG Animation Students

Fri., Sept. 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Greensboro Project Space

From the event webpage:

Join us for an Animation Art Show and Dance Party on Friday, September 15th, at Greensboro Project Space! The show will feature storyboarding work inspired by the current Weatherspoon exhibition, A Golden Age: Original Animation Art from the Walt Disney Studios, 1937-42. Life-sized student 2D animations will also be on display in a virtual dance hall where you’re invited to join in and dance the night away.

Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration Concert

Fri., Sept. 15, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Tew Recital Hall

From the event webpage:

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Patricia Garcia Gil and Angelita Berdiales Juscamaita will celebrate with a free concert of works by Hispanic and Latin American composers. After the concert, the audience will be invited to take part in a Salsa workshop!

This recital is funded by the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access Awards.

Currently on Exhibit at the Weatherspoon Art Museum

Making Room: Familiar Art, New Stories

1st Floor: Louise D. and Herbert S. Falk, Sr. Gallery and Sculpture Courtyard

2nd Floor: The Gregory D. Ivy Gallery, Weatherspoon Guild Gallery, and Gallery 6

June 3, 2023 to Spring 2024

How might the Weatherspoon better engage with museum participants to share fuller and more inclusive stories of American art? This question sparked an eighteen-month-long curatorial and programming project starting in January 2022. We’ve been listening to people as they share what matters to them in the museum, and we’ve created this installation of the museum’s art collection based on what we learned. 

Making Room: Familiar Art, New Stories presents 43 artworks from the Weatherspoon’s collection of more than 6,500. Each was chosen in response to what more than 4,000 community members told us they care about. These visitor responses—which ranged from poems to doodles to personal statements—were gathered in multiple ways. Within the Inquiry Hubs, for example, the visitor engagement team coordinated pop-up gallery performances and facilitated collection-based inquiry and play. One thing we heard repeatedly: caring requires doing. As one museum visitor wrote, “I show my family I am there for them through actions.” We chose to organize this installation around the broad theme of caring—of being there—using four spaces dedicated to what we heard people care about: FAMILY, COMMUNITY, PLACE, and MEMORY.

Art on Paper 2023: The 47th Exhibition

2nd Floor: The Bob & Lissa Shelley McDowell Gallery

Sept. 2, 2023 to Apr. 6, 2024
The Weatherspoon is pleased to announce the 47th presentation of Art on Paper. A time-honored museum tradition, the exhibition features the work of artists who demonstrate the breadth of ways in which one can deploy the humble medium of paper to extraordinary ends. From layering colorful strips as one might on a piñata, to precisely cutting through an elongated page until its image appears as if made by lace, to densely coating giant sheets with shellac and walnut ink until they appear as weighty as stone, these artists harness the seemingly infinite ability of paper to take on myriad forms. Simultaneously, they use those forms to explore a rich array of topics–from the links and tensions between humans and the natural environment, to the beauty found in the often overlooked materials of our daily lives, to the complexity of heritage tracked across centuries of global migrations.