Mark your calendars for the 2022 UNCG MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception, Sat, Apr 16 @ 4pm at the Weatherspoon. More info: weatherspoonart.org/event-april-16…

REMINDER! While the Weatherspoon will be closed for the university holiday this Friday, April 15, we will reopen on Saturday, April 16. Come out this Saturday to view the new 2022 UNCG MFA THESIS EXHIBITION. More: weatherspoonart.org/event-april-16…

REMINDER! We are a few weeks away from the close of the LORRAINE O'GRADY: BOTH/AND exhibition (closes April 30). Read more about this thought-provoking installation in the BURNAWAY article here: burnaway.org/magazine/lorra…

Join us this Saturday, April 30 for the final day of the exhibition LORRAINE O'GRADY: BOTH/AND. 3 last-call activities: Borough Coffee (10am-4pm), Free Drop-in Docent Tours (1-1:30pm), Boomerang Bookshop Bus in the WAM parking lot beginning at 1pm.

LAST CALL! 2022 UNCG MFA Thesis Exhibition Sat May 14. Featuring new work by MFA students in the UNCG School of Art. photo: Taylor Allison, Hediyeh Bondar, Chris Cassidy, Anna Abhau Elliot, Neeraj Sebastian, Sarah LaPonte, Jennifer Meanley, Ash Strazzinski. Photo: Derek Toomes.

What's on view now? Beat the heat in the coming days and swing by WAM to view the latest summer exhibitions. Learn more: greensboro.com/.../article_b4…... Image: Gallery photo of the exhibition "Bestiary: Animals as Symbols and Metaphors" on view until December 3, 2022.

In case you missed it, WAM was featured in an article about art and basketball this week in the NEW YORK TIMES. Weatherspoon curator Emily Stamey was featured along with images of the WAM's exhibition TO THE HOOP (2020). Read the article in the link here: nytimes.com/.../basketball…

Join us this Monday, June 20 @ 9:30am for a Juneteenth Celebration at the Weatherspoon Art Museum. This year UNCG, NC A&T, and Guilford College are teaming up. If you cannot make it in person there will be a Livestream here: racialequity.uncg.edu

The art world lost one of its grand innovators this weekend. Artist Sam Gilliam passed on June 25th. He is best known for his abstract, stained, colorful canvases that drape suspended in space. Read more here: nytimes.com/2022/06/27/art…

Read more about a recent visit in June from the summer camp, Intersection UNCG, Technology and Innovation Explored Through Fashion, Architecture, and the Arts. Link here: news.uncg.edu/intersection-u…

Just added! Join us for a string performance by EMF student musicians on Wednesday, July 27 from 2-3pm. Free and open to all. Look for the sextet/quartet in the museum atrium on the first floor.

Keep an eye out for WAM in an upcoming "Destination Vacation" on Fox 8 WGHP. Museum director Juliette Bianco talks about the Weatherspoon with some added gallery views. The show airs twice a day on Wednesdays and Fridays. We will post a link later.

GREAT NEWS for museum and coffee lovers! Austin and his @boroughcoffeegso bike roll back into the courtyard this Monday, August 1. Their hours next week will be Monday-Friday 9am-3pm. The intersection of art and caffeine at the corner of Tate and Spring Garden Streets!

Tune into the Museum Open House segment of NewTV with Jay Sugarman. WAM's Elaine D. Gustafson shares our current exhibition "Ostensibly So: Sculptures from the Collection" (through Aug 13): newtv.org/recent-videos-…

WE ARE HIRING! Visitor Engagement Fellowship Position. The visitor engagement fellowship is a one-year, part-time (20 hrs/wk) grant-funded position with responsibilities to directly engage with visitors in the Weatherspoon Art Museum's Inquiry Hubs. More: spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/23908

Join us for the Weatherspoon's first large-scale event since 2020. Explore the galleries, including the installation of GILDED, music, pop-up tours, scavenger hunt, photo booth, food + drinks (IDs required). FREE! Sep 16, 5:30-8:30pm weatherspoonart.org/all-that-glitt…

Check out the article and video link about WAM’s recent student collaboration. As part of an independent study project in fall 2021 at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Angelica Henry ’22 curated the exhibition Make My Presence Known. Link: news.uncg.edu/making-her-pre…

Art on Paper 2023! WAM seeks submissions to the 47th installation of its ART ON PAPER exhibition. This time-honored biennial showcases the ways in which contemporary artists are working on and with paper. Submissions open through Dec 16. More: weatherspoonartmuseum.submittable.com/.../art-on...

Join us for a night of inquiry through POETRY AND WORDPLAY. Calling all poets and writers! Drop-in for linguistic exploration, expression, and interpretation through poetry and wordplay. Inquiry Hubs Event POETRY + WORDPLAY Thur Nov 10, 5:30-7pm. FREE. weatherspoonart.org/event-nov-11-i…

Cone Cake Break, Thursday, November 17, 1:30-3pm, Location: WAM Sculpture Courtyard. Come celebrate the November birthdays of Etta and Claribel Cone, founding donors of WAM's permanent collection. Cake and coffee...FREE! UNCG students + community. More: weatherspoonart.org/event-nov-17-c…