Jessi Rae Morton, News Editor 

Thanksgiving Break and Last Day of Class Events at UNCG 

The end of the Fall 2024 semester is coming soon to UNC Greensboro. The university is open, and classes are taking place on Tuesday, Nov. 26, but Thanksgiving Break will take place from Wednesday, Nov. 27 to Sunday, Dec. 1. Classes resume on Monday, Dec. 2, but Wednesday, Dec. 4 is the last day of regular classes. Thursday, Dec. 5 is Reading Day, and exams will be held between Dec. 6 and 12. 

Although there are just a few short weeks remaining in the fall semester, there are still some on campus events to help students finish strong and make the most of the season. 

Tabling Event: Cocoa for Classes 

Hosted by Activities and Campus Events 

Mon., Dec. 2 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at an EUC Table 

From the Spartan Connect event page: 

For this tabling event it will be a simple but relaxing event where we will be providing hot chocolate for students who are passing by. Since it is a colder time of the year and a way for students to destress and have a warm drink! 

Winter Movie Night 

Hosted by Activities and Campus Events 

Tues., Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. in the EUC Auditorium 

From the Spartan Connect event page: 

Come to the EUC auditorium to watch The Polar Express with friends. 

First Finals Fest 

Hosted by New Student Transitions and First Year Experience 

Wed., Dec. 4 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in EUC Cone Ballroom 

From the Spartan Connect event page: 

Join Campus Activities and Programs, the Elliot University Center, ACE & Your First Year on the LDOC! There will be study kits, giveaways, messages, and more to help you during final 

Currently on Exhibit at the Weatherspoon Art Museum 

The Weatherspoon Art Museum will be closed for the Thanksgiving break from Thursday through Saturday (Nov. 28, 29, and 30). They will reopen on Tuesday, Dec. 3 for regular hours (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.). 

Interpreting America: Photographs from the Collection 

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

Aug. 13, 2024 – Dec. 21, 2024 

Drawn from the Weatherspoon’s stellar collection, these photographs illustrate what artists have had to say about American culture from the late 19th- to the early twenty-first centuries. The period spanned by these images shows tremendous change—from civil war battles, western expansion vistas, and class and racial divisions to life in rural America today, increased economic prosperity, and hints of cultural alienation. Photographs such as the ones featured in this exhibition have shaped our ever-evolving definition of what the terms “America” and “American” mean—through the pictorial images themselves and via our interpretations of them, both at the time of their fabrication and present-day.    

While Carleton Watkins’s and William Henry Jackson’s photographs were meant to impress armchair viewers with the majesty of the untamed West, Roger Minick and Robert von Sternberg’s photographs highlight the humor found in the actions of tourists who visited such landscapes. Despite the 150+ years that separate the creation of Lewis Hine’s and Leonard Freed’s images, both photographers used their cameras as tools for social reform. Berenice Abbott, Frank Paulin, Garry Winogrand, and Burk Uzzle focused on the vital interaction between three aspects of urban life: its diverse people; the places they live, work, and play; and their daily activities. Place is equally important in the photographs by William Christenberry, Stuart Klipper, and Alfred Steiglitz. Lastly, psychologically probing images by Diane Arbus, Donna Ferrato, Nikki Lee, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Francesca Woodman round out the offerings.  

Crip* Artists Engage with Disability 

2nd Floor: The Bob & Lissa Shelley McDowell Gallery 

Sept. 7, 2024 – April 26, 2025 

This group exhibition features contemporary artists who engage with experiences and understandings of disability. They do so by thinking about the ways that one’s personal experience of disability always intersects with other aspects of their life. Some of the artists in the show identify as disabled and some do not, but each has a relationship to at least one identity that is not perceived as normal. Too often, such artists are expected to “perform” these identities by making images of themselves. While those images can help diversify the art world, they can also pigeonhole artists, flatten our interpretations of their work, and make the distinctions between “normal” and “not-normal” more rigid.    

To counter these tendencies, the artists in Crip* pay attention to concepts that exist beyond the reach of simplified categories, and they celebrate the rich and complex knowledge gained through lived experiences that are shaped by any number of overlapping personal factors—among them ability, disability, race, gender, sexuality, location, community, and economics. Collectively, their work encourages us to fracture and reassemble the ways in which we think about who we are.  

Making Connections: Art, Place, and Relationships 

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

Sept. 14, 2024 – July 5, 2025 

Following the success last academic year of the collection exhibition, Making Room: Familiar Art, New Stories is Making Connections: Art, Place, and Relationships. Building on the museum’s desire to engage its audiences in more personal and meaningful ways, this installation of works from the collection showcases the Weatherspoon as an academic museum with deep connections to and relationships with its campus, Greensboro, and broader communities.   

Back in 1941, the Weatherspoon was founded with the goal of serving as a teaching resource specifically for UNCG’s department of art. Over the course of its 80+ years, the museum’s mission has expanded to serve many more. Objects included in this iteration of collection highlights showcase the Weatherspoon’s relationship over the years with various art collectors, UNCG fine art alumni and faculty, Greensboro community leaders, artists who taught at Black Mountain College and those who exhibited in the museum’s signature exhibition, Art on Paper, as well as a few of the many UNCG departments that currently incorporate the museum’s collection into their pedagogy.