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Month: October 2015

The Development of the Weatherspoon Art Museum: Bridging Art and Education

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by Erin Lawrimore Elizabeth McIver Weatherspoon Elizabeth “Lizzie” McIver enrolled at the State Normal and Industrial School at its opening in October 1892. She was the younger sister of the school’s founding president Charles Duncan McIver. In fact, one of the drivers that led McIver to advocate for State Normal was the lack of reasonably […]

Woman’s College and the Burnsville School of Fine Arts

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by Erin Lawrimore On July 21, 1947, the curtains opened on a new venture for the Woman’s College – the Burnsville School of Drama. Running for six weeks in the North Carolina mountain town of Burnsville (about 40 miles northwest of Asheville), the school was a partnership between WC and Burnsville Playhouse, Inc., a local […]

Maud Gatewood: Southern Artist

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Maud Gatewood’s senior yearbook photograph, 1954 (p. 81) Maud Gatewood was born and raised in Yanceyville, North Carolina. Her mother encouraged her to take drawing classes at Averett College in Danville, Virginia. Her sketchbooks show dozens of drawing of her mother. Mostly, seated and probably drawn while the subject was unaware. Maud spent her youth […]

Dark Shadows, Deep Closets: A LGBT History Month Special Post

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by Stacey Krim When reflecting upon events that serve as vehicles for social consciousness, a library book display is unlikely to rate as an impactful medium to facilitate and stimulate dialogue relating to controversial topics. Such displays are passive and frequently overlooked. However, a book exhibit installed in Jackson Library, at The University of North […]

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