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TODAY, Oct 1, at 5:30pm: Artist Talk: Morgan

Clarence “Morgan” Morgan is an American abstract painter whose work spans painting, drawing, printmaking, and an ongoing reflective writing practice. Rooted in gesture, intuition, and process, his work explores shifting relationships between order and improvisation. Through pattern, repetition, and fluid mark-making, he examines perceptual experience and the ways visual systems echo larger questions of time, space, and the natural and cosmic world. His parallel writing practice—composed of notes, essays, and studio reflections—further articulates the metaphysical and perceptual concerns that inform his visual work.

This fall, Morgan is spending time on the UNCG campus as part of the School of Art’s Falk Visiting Artist Program, as well as presenting his work in the Weatherspoon’s Art on Paper exhibition.

This talk is supported by the UNCG School of Art’s Falk Visiting Artist Program and UNCG’s College of Visual and Performing Arts and is presented as part of the University Concert and Lecture Series.
@uncgartschool @uncgarts by @wamuncg

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Ease into the weekend with a conversation about art! Friday, September 25 from 12-1pm

Come to the Weatherspoon tomorrow and join Elaine D. Gustafson, curator of collections and head of facilities, and Derek Skillings, associate professor, Department of Philosophy, Department of Biology, and adjunct associate professor, Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, for close looking and conversation in the exhibition Body and Soul, Humanist Visual Languages, which explores how artists use visual language to communicate experiences, emotions, and ideas connected to the human condition.

Credit: Norman Akers, Inverted Home, 2022. Monoprint and chine collé on paper, 10 1/16 x 7 5/8 in. Weatherspoon Art Museum. Purchase with funds from the Warren Brandt Acquisition Endowment for the Dillard Collection; 2024.12.3 © Norman Akers, photograph courtesy of the artist by @wamuncg

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Tonight at 6pm! Experience an evening of poetry inspired by works from the Weatherspoon’s collection on view in the exhibition Body and Soul, Humanist Visual Languages.

Image: MANUAL (Ed Hill & Suzanne Bloom), Radicle Idea (Power of Movement in Plants by Charles & Francis Darwin), 2023. Archival pigment print, 46 1/4 x 31 1/4 in, edition 1/5. Weatherspoon Art Museum. Gift of the Sherman Foundation; 2024.28 © MANUAL (Ed Hill & Suzanne Bloom) by @wamuncg

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Hoy a las 11am! Quedan invitados a una visita guiada de la exhibición “Cuerpo y alma, lenguages humanistas visuales.” Presentada en colaboración con Casa Azul de Greensboro.

Entrada y parqueo al museo son gratis. Meriendas disponibles después del tour.

Credit: Mark Messersmith, Lost Ghosts, 2022. Oil on canvas with carved wooden parts and mixed media predella boxes, 82 x 66 in. Weatherspoon Art Museum. Gift of the artist; 2025.14ab © Mark Messersmith, photograph courtesy of the artist

@casaazulgreensboro by @wamuncg

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Joins us this month for our public programming:

Sábado, 9/12, de11am-12pm: Visita gratis guiada de la exhibición “Cuerpo y alma.” Merienda disponibles después del tour. Un programa en colaboración con Casa Azul de Greensboro.

Thursday, 9/17, 5:30-7:30pm: Poetry in the gallery: a Body and Soul exhibition program in collaboration with students in UNCG’s Creative Writing program.

Friday, 9/25, 12-1pm: Curator’s tour of the exhibition “Body and Soul, Humanist Visual Languages”

The Weatherspoon has free entrance and free parking.

@casazulgreensboro by @wamuncg

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The Weatherspoon is excited to welcome Borough Coffee back to the museum! Located in the Warmath Commons, Borough Coffee is ready to meet our visitors’ coffee, tea, and small snacks needs.

UNCG Spartans: Borough accepts SpartanCard!

Borough Coffee hours at the Weatherspoon: Tuesday through Thursday: 9am – 4pm

Image: Borough Coffee in the museum's Warmath Commons

@boroughcoffeegso by @wamuncg

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Opening today! Art on Paper 2026: The 48th Exhibition, August 29, 2026 – Spring 2027

Art on Paper 2026: The 48th Exhibition is open! The artists featured in this group exhibition demonstrate myriad ways in which the humble medium of paper is elevated to extraordinary ends. From a cityscape built with discarded lottery tickets, to Medieval-inspired molded paper armor, to exploring the anatomy of insects through cuts and folds. Simultaneously, the artists use those forms to explore a rich array of topics—from traditional crafts to contemporary foodways, from comedic situations to the weight of grief, and from the built environment to the natural world.

Curated by Dr. Emily Stamey, Elizabeth McIver Weatherspoon Curator of Academic Programming and Head of Exhibitions

Continue reading the press release on our website (link in bio) and come see the exhibition!

The Weatherspoon is open on Saturdays from 10am-5pm. Entrance and parking are free.

Credit: Susan Hamburger, Helmet (Snake), 2023. Paper mache, celluclay, paperclay, wire, and wood stand; 15 x 9 x 8 in. © Susan Hamburger. Courtesy of the artist and Asya Geisberg Gallery. Photo by Etienne Frossard by @wamuncg

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Welcome back, Spartans! Spend some time at the Weatherspoon, grab a coffee from Borough Coffee starting on 8/25 (they take SpartanCard!), and start the semester with a dose of art. Visiting the museum is always free!

Follow @wamuncg and @cowam, our student organization, for ways to engage with the museum.

Image: Apparel design students in the Department of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies visit the Weatherspoon Art Museum to view Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South, Spring 2026. Photo by Sean Norona, University Communications.

@boroughcoffeegso @bryanschooluncg @uncgcap by @wamuncg

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Opening today!
Body and Soul, Humanist Visual Languages
August 15, 2026 – February 13, 2027

"Body and Soul, Humanist Visual Languages" explores the ways art can communicate experiences—both tangible and intangible. Through their choice of subject matter, technique, and style, artists create visual languages that describe the world around us while also reaching inward, offering insight into our emotional and psychological states. In doing so, they open spaces for reflection, empathy, and dialogue, allowing individuals to see their own experiences in relation to those of others.

Organized by Elaine D. Gustafson, Curator of Collections and Head of Facilities at the Weatherspoon Art Museum.

Museum hours:
Tuesdays - Saturdays: 10am - 5pm
Thursdays: 10am - 8pm
*Free and open to the public*

Credit: Paul Hartley, A History of Rain, 1990s. Acrylic and oil, 39 1/4 x 29 1/4 in. Weatherspoon Art Museum. Gift of Robert C. Hansen; 2025.13 © Estate of Paul Hartley by @wamuncg

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Last month, Weatherspoon docents and members of our Collectors and Curators Circle traveled to Boone and Blowing Rock for guided tours of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University and the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum. At the Turchin Center, co-curators Gale Greenlee (also Weatherspoon docent!) and shauna caldwell led us through their exhibition "belonging to place: The Creative Community and Artistic Legacy of bell hooks."

At BRAHM, we were treated to a tour of "Field Studies: Ways of Knowing Place in Southern Appalachia" by co-curators Jennie Carlisle and Ian Gabriel Wilson-Rhodes.

Our gratitude to all for participating, sharing their knowledge, and hosting us so graciously.

Slide one: Gale Greenlee, PhD, WAM docent and exhibition co-curator, talks to attendees about the background of the "belonging to place" exhibition.

Slide two: Ian Gabriel Wilson-Rhodes, BRAHM’s Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, shares about the "Field Studies" exhibition.

Slide three: Artist, professor, and friend of the Weatherspoon Jody Servon talks to attendees about her work in the "Field Studies" exhibition.

Slide four: Trip participants take a photo at the home of Molly and Jeb Burns who generously opened their doors to our group for a lunch break in Blowing Rock.

@turchin center @brmuseum by @wamuncg

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The museum will be closed for installation from Tuesday, August 4 to Friday, August 14. We reopen on Saturday, August 15 with a new exhibition of works from our collection, Body and Soul, Visual Humanist Languages. The 48th edition of Art on Paper opens soon after, on August 29. by @wamuncg

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Today, on what would have been Betye Saar’s 100th birthday, we send our condolences for her recent passing to her family and friends. Betye Saar (July 30, 1926 – July 26, 2026), contemporary artist and a foundational figure in the Black Arts Movement, left a lasting artistic and personal legacy. The Weatherspoon's collection includes two of her works, including the one pictured here, To the Manor Born, 2011. Saar used mixed media assemblage to create art that explores important questions of our time regarding race, gender, and religious identities. The work is consistently exhibited at the museum and used for teaching at UNCG, and we will continue to celebrate her through her work.

Credit: Betye Saar, To the Manor Born, 2011. Mixed media assemblage, 11 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro. Purchase with funds from the Jefferson-Pilot Endowment, the Robert C. Ketner Family Acquisition Endowment, the Carol and Seymour Levin Acquisition Endowment, the Lynn Richardson Prickett Acquisition Endowment, and the Judy Proctor Acquisition Endowment; 2016.18 © Betye Saar, photo courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles by @wamuncg

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