The Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro has one of the foremost collections of modern and contemporary art in the Southeast. Through a dynamic annual calendar of exhibitions and educational programs, the Weatherspoon provides an opportunity for audiences to consider artistic, cultural, and social issues of our time, and enriches the life of our university and community.
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.
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 —...
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...
The term “altered states” (of mind, of consciousness, of awareness, etc.) describes intense mental and/or psychological changes that cause the person to lose his/her normal sensory perceptions. Almost always temporary, these distortions can occur as a result of fever, psychosis, meditation, lucid dreaming, sensory deprivation or overload, and trauma, to name but a few stimulants. Frequently associated with being transported into a transcendent realm of higher consciousness or...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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,...
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...
"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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 —...
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...
The term “altered states” (of mind, of consciousness, of awareness, etc.) describes intense mental and/or psychological changes that cause the person to lose his/her normal sensory perceptions. Almost always temporary, these distortions can occur as a result of fever, psychosis, meditation, lucid dreaming, sensory deprivation or overload, and trauma, to name but a few stimulants. Frequently associated with being transported into a transcendent realm of higher consciousness or...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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,...
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...
"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...
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.
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...
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...
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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Event Name: Special Event: Greensboro Museum Day "Weatherspoon Art Museum Store Sale" Comment
posted by:
Loring Mortensen, Weatherspoon Art Museum
from Weatherspoon Art Museum,
Sep 23, 2010
Also on Saturday!
Weatherspoon Art Museum Store
BIG BLOW-OUT SALE
25% TO 75% OFF (select items)
Museum Members’ Preview
Friday, September 24, 1-5 pm (members only discounts)
Blow-Out Sale...
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Also on Saturday!
Weatherspoon Art Museum Store
BIG BLOW-OUT SALE
25% TO 75% OFF (select items)
Museum Members’ Preview
Friday, September 24, 1-5 pm (members only discounts)
Blow-Out Sale Continues
Saturday, September 25, 1-5 pm (open to the public)
Four-for-One on Saturday! — along with WAM Store
Sale and Greensboro Museum Day at the Weatherspoon, you can also enjoy UNCG's FallFest/Homecoming weekend, AND the Tate Street Festival...all on the same afternoon, within a block
from the Museum! The Weatherspoon Art Museum is also celebrating the national program Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day on the same day.
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Event Name: Sustainability Film: 'FUEL' "I wish many more people around the World would see this film" Review
posted by:
ZRab
from Greensboro, NC,
Feb 19, 2010
This is a documentary that should be shown in schools. It is one thing whether you agree with global warming and the world wide energy crisis, but in order to make up your mind about a topic like...
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This is a documentary that should be shown in schools. It is one thing whether you agree with global warming and the world wide energy crisis, but in order to make up your mind about a topic like these you need to get educated. This documentary does a fantastic job doing so.
Yes, it is true that the maker of the film has a very strong opinion and a solid stand for renewables, but his reasoning is equally convincing, comprehensive, and logical.
No doubt: This is a low budget production, yet extremly high in quality. What I especially liked in the approach is how the various aspects of renewable energy (e.g.: environmental impact, cost, barriers, etc.) were addressed in sequnce one by one.
Congratulations and thanks for the individuals who made this documentary possible.
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Event Name: Jeff Whetstone: Post Pleistocene "Congratulations" Comment
posted by:
Bill Whetstone
from Birmingham, AL,
Jul 22, 2009
Am pleased to learn of your creative projects. Congratulations on your accomplishments. My branch of Whetstone's came to Orangeburg SC from Switzerland. I
have the geneology if you are interested.
Am pleased to learn of your creative projects. Congratulations on your accomplishments. My branch of Whetstone's came to Orangeburg SC from Switzerland. I
have the geneology if you are interested.
Event Name: 'Invisible' Drum Machine Performance "Concert schedule on holiday" Comment
posted by:
shawn houck
from Greensboro, NC,
Oct 09, 2008
I am disappointed this will be on Halloween, when I have family commitments. I hope there will be another opportunity to catch this show and see this incredible drum innovation!
I am disappointed this will be on Halloween, when I have family commitments. I hope there will be another opportunity to catch this show and see this incredible drum innovation!
Event Name: Artist's Gallery Talk: Eve Aschheim "Bravo" Review
posted by:
B Peck
from Greensboro, NC,
Oct 01, 2008
Eve was a gracious speaker who instructed and even taught the crowd as to her methods and creative process. She is a true artist, in that she does not sacrifice personal values for tradional roles....
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Eve was a gracious speaker who instructed and even taught the crowd as to her methods and creative process. She is a true artist, in that she does not sacrifice personal values for tradional roles. She stretches the boundaries in creating new art forms and is a pleasure to listen to. Thank you Eve for your time tonight. I look forward to your lecture tommorow.
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Event Name: 5th Annual Summer Solstice Party + “TRANSactions” Premiere Opening "For Information" Comment
posted by:
Carlisle Scott
from San Jose, Escazu, Costa Rica,
Jun 14, 2008
I currently live in Costa Rica but am relocating back to the US in a few days. I will be moving to Greensboro summer, 2008. I have taken 4 hours of Latin Dance weekly for the past 2 years and plan...
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I currently live in Costa Rica but am relocating back to the US in a few days. I will be moving to Greensboro summer, 2008. I have taken 4 hours of Latin Dance weekly for the past 2 years and plan to continue. Can you recommend any Latin Dance groups or even Latin Dancercize classes to me?
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