Presented by N.C. Department of Cultural Resources
April 1, 2011-March 30, 2013
It is called a brother’s war, and nowhere was that more true than in North Carolina. The American Civil War claimed more lives than any military engagement undertaken by this country. North Carolina lost at least 35,000 soldiers, more than any other Southern state, and great hardships were suffered by those both at war and left at home.
In observance of the sesquicentennial of the Civil ...More
This interactive exhibit, features furniture, machinery, photographs, memorabilia and video. The exhibit examines the history of the relationship between the furniture industry and ...More
Stenciling has long been a popular method of decorative painting. Come try your hand painting a keepsake box with stencils. All ages welcome. Cost: $1 per box. Free for members. ...More
Elina Hartikainen, pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia, will discuss her research into religious and racial identity politics in contemporary Brazil. Specifically, she ...More
Unwind at WAM with this new series of informal performances featuring UNCG students. Enjoy jazz, new music, a capella, and more performed in spaces throughout the museum.
On Feb. 16, UNCG Jazz Studies majors led by professor Chad Eby will premiere their own compositions inspired by Trenton Doyle Hancock's work at this inaugural WAM Jam event.
"Leonardo Live" offers an unprecedented opportunity for audiences worldwide to experience these da Vinci works. The historic exhibition is sold out in London and, due to the fragility of the paintings, the exhibition cannot tour. Crowds in the U.K. have been queueing every day from dawn to snatch the few remaining tickets to the gallery. Tickets have been re-selling for $700 apiece.
Captured live on the eve of the exhibition opening in London last fall, "Leonardo...
Hanesbrands Theatre at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts
Presented by East Market Street Seventh-day Adventist Church
February 26, 2012
"I Love My History: Celebrating Black History in the Making" is a semi-formal affair with music, displays and special guest Bamidele Demerson, executive director of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.
Calling all parents of preschoolers! Representatives from Guilford County Schools and other community pre-K resources will be available to answer questions and give you all the information you need to register and prepare your child for preschool or kindergarten.
This free, drop-in event is co-sponsored by United Way of Greater High Point Children’s Initiatives, Guilford Education Alliance, Guilford Child Development, Guilford Partnership for Children, Guilford County Schools,...
No Hatin 'n' Datin. That’s what teens throughout Greensboro decided to call the month-long campaign that puts the spotlight on teen dating violence.
The culminating event for this month-long campaign is a teen panel discussion and series of skits. This youth-lead event brings together all participating agencies in a forum that is all about communication.
The program begins with one of three skits written by Western Guilford High School creative writing students. Each skit...
Leslie, our female gibbon, is turning sweet 16 and we’re having a party to celebrate! Guests can sign her birthday card and watch Leslie her eat cake, open presents and have fun with enrichment activities.
Weather permitting; we may also have crafts for the kids to do!
To coincide with our exhibit, the High Point Museum will host a seminar featuring William Ivey, C. Michael Briggs, Joseph Byerly and Kenneth Orr. Registration required. Email for more information.
Mariam Aziza Stephan, associate professor of art at UNCG, has been fascinated with Egypt from her first visit in 2002 to her Fulbright Research Award in 2010. She discusses her Egyptian influences, primarily the Fayoum mummy portraits. This lecture is sponsored by the UNCG Department of Art.
Oh, what to do on a Friday night? Parents and children now have something fun to enjoy together!
Visit the Children’s Museum for Discount Friday Night.
Climb our Jack and the Beanstalk, use your imagination in our Build It exhibit, read books in the library, adventure through the Enchanted Forest and learn all your letters in our Animal Alphabet room.
Join us at the Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem as we host this wonderful tea party fit for a princess!
Each child will receive a bracelet and costume ring. Then we will create tiaras and wands, make fancy fans and eat a wonderful dessert! Learn how to say fancy words as we end the fun with storytime.
Do you know how many lobes the brain has? To learn the answer to this question and many more, join us at the Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem for Brain Power Day
Have an engaging day, full of activities geared towards teaching you and your child all about our amazing brains! This program is brought to you by the Brain Awareness Council of Wake Forest University.
While some say art is an acquired taste, this new series aims to show how appetizing art can be, especially when viewed from a non-art perspective. Led by UNCG faculty, Art for Lunch is a series of gallery talks that closely explores works of art within the context of history, politics, sociology, and science.
Lisa Tolbert, associate professor of history at UNCG, talks about images of Yosemite Valley by Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge in the exhibition "To What Purpose?...
There's a saying in Japan that the nail that sticks out will get hammered down. Over the past 15 years, anthropologist Karen Nakamura of Yale University has been chronicling the lives of people with physical and psychiatric disabilities in contemporary Japan through still images and ethnographic film. She has focused on the social protest movements of people with disabilities in Japan and their refusal to be silenced. Through multiple modalities of text, image and sound, her talk will weave...
The Weatherspoon Art Museum along with the UNCG Sustainability Committee and WUAG present the 3rd Annual Sustainability Short Film Competition as part of a year long series featuring new documentary films and post-screening discussions with local experts.
For filmmakers: Films must be 10 minutes or less and address the theme of environmental sustainability. Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. Feb. 24. Filmmakers must be present for screening and discussion at the Weatherspoon on March...
This exciting event for all ages will feature crafts and hands-on activities from different cultures around the globe. Join us at the Museum of Anthropology for an afternoon of educational fun and stamp your passport as you travel the world without leaving Winston-Salem.
Greg Hudson, a known artisan and leather worker who has been perfecting his trade for 30 years, will be conducting the workshop. Each participant will receive a completed or almost completed set of moccasins. The moccasins are made of split elk, with an insole of split elk. All tools and materials will be provided during the seminar. Space is limited.
Do you enjoy painting odd-shaped objects? Great! Then join us at the Children’s Museum for an Egg Decorating Workshop. Brush up on your skills before Easter.
Have fun while you decorate three hardboiled eggs using creative techniques. Each child will be able to take home a fun-filled goodie bag, Enjoy storytime and a snack.
As the Spring 2012 Falk Visiting Artist at UNCG, Richard Mosse will participate in a three-day residency that includes MFA graduate student critiques, artist talks, and a solo exhibition at the Weatherspoon. This lecture is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Doors open 30 minutes prior.
The Falk Visiting Artist program gives students at UNCG and members of the community an opportunity to meet and learn from artists who are active in the field. The program has been...
In its American premiere, this exhibit examines transformations in contemporary Japanese society and landscapes over recent decades by providing an overview of the diverse photographic expression that emerged during that time period. The exhibit features text in English and Japanese.
Art historian Ellen Wiley Todd talks about American realist painter Kenneth Hayes Miller and his depictions of urban scenes from the 1920s and 1930s, including the Weatherspoon's Woman with Packages currently on view in the exhibition "Telling Tales: Narratives from the 1930s."
Todd is associate professor of art history and director of the master's program in art history at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Her research interests include urban realist paintings...
Do you enjoy painting odd-shaped objects? Great! Then join us at the Children’s Museum for an Egg Decorating Workshop. Brush up on your skills before Easter.
Have fun while you decorate 3 hardboiled eggs using creative techniques. Each child will be able to take home a fun-filled goodie bag, enjoy
While some say art is an acquired taste, this new series aims to show how appetizing art can be, especially when viewed from a non-art perspective. Led by UNCG faculty, Art for Lunch is a series of gallery talks that closely explores works of art within the context of history, politics, sociology, and science.
Omar Ali, associate professor of African American studies, discusses an "Explanation by Description: History as Art/Art as History" in conjunction with Richard...
Unwind at the Weatherspoon with this new series of informal performances featuring UNCG students. Enjoy jazz, new music, a capella, and more performed in spaces throughout the Museum. Look for WAM Jam evenings beginning at 5:30 p.m. throughout the spring and remember WAM is open Thursday nights until 9 p.m.
Tonoight: New Music for New Spaces featuring new compositions by UNCG Composition students led by professor Mark Engrebretson.
Be one of the first to see the latest production of "Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century," the Peabody Award-winning biennial television series before its national premiere on PBS.
"Art21" premieres nationally on PBS at 9 p.m. April 13. This is the tenth anniversary of the series with 100 artists profiled to date.
Weatherspoon guests also will be treated to a special preview screening of "Balance" featuring segments on artists Rackstraw Downes,...
The recognition of photography as an art form has been among the medium's dominant philosophical debates ever since its inception, due in part to its mechanical and chemical nature. Photographs considered documentary have further caused many to question the purpose and artistic merit of such efforts: are documentary photographs art forms or simply straight-forward recordings of the subjects at hand?
While photographs have served as records since the early 19th century —...
Dr. Dean Snow, professor of anthropology at Penn State University, will discuss his research on 30,000-year-old hand stencils in the caves of France and Spain and his unexpected results about the gender of the artists. This event is cosponsored by the WFU Humanities Institute and the Department of Anthropology.
As a Weatherspoon member, one of the great things you can do to support the success of the museum is to share it with a friend. Our Members and Friends event is the perfect time to introduce a friend (or friends) to our collection, our modern and contemporary exhibitions, and the many educational programs here at WAM.
Drop by for complimentary refreshments and mini-tours of "Trenton Doyle Hancock: We Done All We Could and None of It's Good," among other exhibitions,...
Photographer Richard Mosse has spent the last two years shooting a new series of work titled "Infra" in the eastern Congo. The artist is known for his restrained and highly aestheticized views of sites associated with violence and fear, such as his 2008 depictions of the war in Iraq, and his large-scale photographs of airplane crash sites and emergency drills. For his work in the Congo, Mosse used Kodak Aerochrome, an infrared film designed in connection with the United States...
A climate refugee is a person displaced by climatically induced environmental disasters. Such disasters result from incremental and rapid ecological change, resulting in increased droughts, desertification, sea level rise, and the more frequent occurrence of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, cyclones, fires, mass flooding and tornadoes. All this, according to "Climate Refugees" film director Michael Nash, is causing mass global migration and border conflicts. Following...
Fritz Haeg was trained as an architect, but his current work spans a range of disciplines and media including gardens, dance, design, installation, ecology and architecture, most of which is commissioned and presented by art museums and institutions. His work often involves collaboration with other individuals and site specific projects that respond to particular places.
Haeg will give a public talk as part of the Falk Visiting Artist program in collaboration with the UNCG Department...
Unwind at the Weatherspoon with this new series of informal performances featuring UNCG students. Enjoy jazz, new music, a capella, and more performed in spaces throughout the Museum. Look for WAM Jam evenings beginning at 5:30 p.m. throughout the spring and remember WAM is open Thursday nights until 9 p.m.
"Truck Farm" is a whimsical 50-minute film about urban agriculture. Realizing he didn’t have any place to grow food after moving to New York City in 2009, filmmaker Ian Cheney planted his mini-farm in the bed of his 1986 Dodge pickup. The traveling, edible exhibit now brings a rural experience to urban students and has become the inspiration for a new fleet of 25 truck farms across the country. Directed by Ian Cheney, co-creator of the film "King Corn" (screened...
Celebrate comics, art, and literacy with guest Chris Schweizer, author of The Crogan Adventures, a series of historically-based graphic novels for teens; and Big Bang Boom, Greensboro's hottest band for its youngest hipsters and their parents. Performances are at 2:30 and 3:15 p.m.
or the mature set, the Weatherspoon's featured exhibition, Trenton Doyle-Hancock's "We Done All We Could And None of It's Good," brings together diverse influences as comics, horror movies,...
Join us for a lively conversation on comics and modern art with Mark Lynch, the ever inquisitive host of "Inquiry," a weekly arts and science radio and podcast program on WICN in Worcester, Mass.
Lynch also has been a docent at the Worcester Art Museum for more than 20 years, typically offering classes on contemporary and modern art. He is an ecological monitor, teacher at the Massachusetts Audubon Society and currently is writing an ornithogeography of the Blackstone...
Do enjoy creating stories and reading books? Then join us at the Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem for our six-week series, Little Storytellers Workshop.
Children in grades K-2 will tell imaginative stories through writing, acting, singing and reading. They will also play word games, collect their favorite words and write poetry.
Participants will build their creative thinking and listening skills, strengthen personal expression and increase their vocabulary in a fun,...
Internationally acclaimed Texas-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock is best known for his ongoing narrative and theatrical installations that thrust the viewer literally and figuratively into his personal, idiosyncratic, and, at times, heretical weave of words and images. This exhibition features new and selected works executed across a wide variety of media, including drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture. The exhibition will also highlight a commissioned wall drawing.
Artists of all periods have used narrative imagery to teach, enlighten, and/or inspire viewers. Derived in the past from literature, Biblical scripture, mythology, or history, narrative art created during the 1930s continued to record these themes as well as the dramatic economic, social, and political changes that were taking place across the nation. Artists who advocated both representational and abstract styles attempted to capture the spirit of their age — a time marked by the...
Attracted to bold patterning throughout his career, Henri Matisse explored in both prints and paintings the decorative possibilities of simplified forms and areas of flat surface design mixed with volumetric representation. Matisse’s proliferation of patterning served to unify his compositions — and also inspired a succeeding generation of artists. Following the French master’s precedent, the artists featured in this exhibition likewise examine the possibilities of robust...
The Museum of Anthropology showcases recent donations to its permanent collection with this exhibit featuring archaeological and ethnographic artifacts from cultures around the world. Highlights include intricately decorated personal adornment from Papua New Guinea, Tang Dynasty ceramics from China, and saddle rugs from the Salgo Collection.
Witness the most beautiful, powerful, and mysterious weather phenomena in the solar system at the Natural Science Center’s new OmniSphere show, Wildest Weather in the Solar System. This spectacular full dome show created by National Geographic takes viewers on a journey to experience a storm the size of a 100-megaton hydrogen bomb, a 400-year-old hurricane and a dust tempest that could engulf entire planets. Shows daily in the NSC's OmniSphere Theater.
The rooms in this exhibit were created by Meredith Slane Michener, a High Point native, between 1990 and 2005. They represent the bulk of her collection, which totals 35 rooms. Many of the items found in the rooms were created by her. Many were purchased from other artisans and many were “found.” Miniatures are always built to precise scale and these are completed in 1:12. This is one of the largest collections of miniature rooms in the country.
Art on Paper 2012 features regional, national and international artists who have produced significant works made on or of paper. Organized by Xandra Eden, curator of exhibitions at the Weatherspoon, the exhibition includes work by artists selected through submissions and by invitation to present a broad perspective of the diversity of work on paper being created today.
Since 1965, the Weatherspoon’s Art on Paper exhibition has charted a history of art through the rubric of...
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