Making Room: Familiar Art, New Stories

Jun 3, 2023
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Apr 6, 2024

Art on Paper 2023: The 47th Exhibition

Sep 2, 2023
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Apr 6, 2024
A decades-long museum tradition, the biennial exhibition allows the museum to showcase the diverse and complex ways that contemporary artists work on and with the medium of paper….

A Golden Age: Original Animation Art from the Walt Disney Studios, 1937-42

Aug 19, 2023
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Dec 9, 2023

2023 UNCG MFA Thesis Exhibition

Apr 22, 2023
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May 20, 2023
This exhibition features new work by MFA students in the UNCG School of Art….

To Serve the People: Prints from Mexico’s Taller de Gráfica Popular

Jan 21, 2023
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May 15, 2023
Committed to the progressive idealism of the Mexican Revolution, the artists of the TGP worked together to create prints, posters, flyers, and other works on paper aimed at educating the widest possible audience about the social issues of their day….

Endia Beal | Corporate Disclosure

Jan 14, 2023
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May 13, 2023
Working from her own and others’ personal stories, Endia Beal highlights challenges faced by Black women in corporate workspaces….

Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth

Sep 10, 2022
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Apr 8, 2023
Across time and cultures, gold has served as a metaphor for what we value most….

Allora & Calzadilla | The Great Silence

Sep 17, 2022
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Jan 7, 2023
The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence….

Bestiary: Animals as Symbols and Metaphors

Jun 11, 2022
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Dec 3, 2022
Two- and three-dimensional representations of familiar animals, many of which are quite benign and intriguing….

The Eye and the Ear: Animations by Mary Ellen Bute

May 14, 2022
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Sep 10, 2022
From the mid 1930s to mid 1950s, artist Mary Ellen Bute produced more than a dozen pioneering animations that sought to allow viewers to see sound….

Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990-2003

Jun 12, 2021
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Aug 28, 2022
Eminent among a second generation of postwar American abstract artists, Helen Frankenthaler’s invention of the soak-stain technique expanded abstract painting possibilities while referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways….

Ostensibly So: Sculpture from the Collection

May 28, 2022
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Aug 13, 2022
This exhibition offers new ways of looking at three-dimensional objects. Whether forms that no longer serve their original intent, eye-catching works that avoid specific contexts, witty re-interpretations of objects, or illusionistic wonders, the artworks included in Ostensibly So reflect a fascination with and exploration of the methods and materials of…

Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And

Jan 8, 2022
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May 20, 2022
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And, on loan from the Brooklyn Museum in New York, is the first comprehensive overview of the work of Lorraine O’Grady (born in Boston, 1934), one of the most significant figures in contemporary performance, conceptual, and feminist art….

2022 UNCG MFA Thesis Exhibition

Apr 16, 2022
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May 14, 2022
This exhibition features new work by MFA students in the UNC Greensboro School of Art….

Make My Presence Known

Jan 15, 2022
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Apr 2, 2022
As humans, we are subject to the perception of others at any moment….

Splinters of a Secret Sky Angela Fraleigh: Falk Visiting Artist

Oct 9, 2021
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Dec 11, 2021
In Angela Fraleigh’s dynamic paintings, female subjects culled from art history become active protagonists in newly imagined spaces….

Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints

Sep 10, 2021
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Dec 4, 2021
Early in the twentieth century, during Japan’s rapid Westernization and industrialization, a desire to revive the great Japanese tradition of woodblock prints (known as ukiyo-e) in the context of Japan’s dynamic, modern life gave rise to an art movement known as shin hanga, or the “new print.” Beginning around 1915,…

Art on Paper 2021: The 46th Exhibition

Jul 24, 2021
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Nov 27, 2021
The Weatherspoon is pleased to announce the 46th presentation of Art on Paper….

Mysterious and Magical: Surrealist Art from the Collection

Jun 19, 2021
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Sep 25, 2021
Born in Europe in the aftermath of World War I, Surrealism arrived in America shortly thereafter and was enthusiastically embraced by a broad segment of artists….

Vibrant: Artists Engage with Color

Feb 3, 2022
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Aug 7, 2021
Our associations with colors are profound and diverse….