Community Group Visits
Free guided gallery visits for community members of all ages can be requested for a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 30 people. Our galleries fill quickly with visits and programs. To ensure your group has space for an enjoyable visit, please let us know when you’d like to come by filling out the visit form. All scheduled visits begin with a short welcome and orientation to the museum.
UNCG Academic Visits
The Weatherspoon supports UNCG academic classes from all disciplines. Our academic programming team works with faculty members to design museum-based sessions as well as asynchronous assignments that center course content and support learning outcomes. Our team members can serve as the leads for class visits, but we also support faculty members in teaching on their own in the galleries.
Regardless of structure, we ask that all faculty members seeking academic visits, guided or self-guided, submit a scheduling request. The museum serves thousands of students each semester, and reservations ensure that each group gets adequate time and space.
Space for Engagement
In the Space for Engagement, you’ll find drop-in activities and a venue for teaching and study, informal and scheduled meetings, community conversation, and personal reflection. The space’s regularly changing art installations are curated in collaboration with UNC Greensboro faculty. This space is open during regular museum hours, but you can also reserve it for a class or meeting.
The Space for Engagement is unavailable until construction of the new Cole Levin Center for Art and Human Understanding is complete in late 2026.
CoWAM Students' Club
Current students interested in art and museums are encouraged to join this student-led organization at the Weatherspoon and support its mission to connect students socially, academically, and professionally through peer-activated programming. No background in the arts is required to participate. Follow CoWAM on Instagram @Co_WAM, Spartan Connect, or contact the museum to find out more at weatherspoon@uncg.edu.
Benjamin Faculty Fellowships
The Margaret and Bill Benjamin Endowed Faculty Fellowship at the Weatherspoon Art Museum expands access to the museum’s renowned collection of modern and contemporary art and accommodates object-based teaching and learning among faculty, students, and the Greensboro community.
JEANNE TANNENBAUM CENTER FOR CREATIVE PRACTICE
The Jeanne Tannenbaum Center for Creative Practice is a hub for creative, collaborative innovation and campus and community engagement. Its spaces, technology, and programs support faculty and community residencies, workshops, and public programs that ask big questions, solve problems, and build relationships. Prioritizing process over product, the Tannenbaum Center fosters interdisciplinary experiences and partnerships that encourage participants to think and work differently—and share what they learn along the way. Conceived as a “third space” for generative dialogue and the hands-on development of ideas, the center will produce research, creative work, and campus and community programming relevant to a changing world.
GATEWOOD GALLERY
The 99,000 square foot Maud Gatewood Studio Arts Center (STAC) was designed by architectural firms Hays, Seay, Mattern and Mattern and by Centerbook at a cost of $17.6 million. Two monumental sculptures by faculty members Andy Dunnill and Billy Lee flank its front entrance. The Gatewood building houses the School of Art and the Interior Architecture Department. The School of Art is located on the first three floors in the Gatewood Studio Arts Center.
GREENSBORO PROJECT SPACE (GPS)
Created by the School of Art at UNC Greensboro, GPS is an off-campus contemporary art center that serves both the university and community. GPS acts as a space for students to have critical dialogue that engages with people and issues outside of our university. Visiting artists and students themselves are encouraged to use the off-campus location as a catalyst for expansive and sustained interactions with a diverse set of local communities.