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Professor Ivy and His New Experiment: Beaufort Art Colony

“Woman’s College Trying New Experiment On Coast,” reported the Greensboro Daily News in June of 1938. Beginning in the early 1930s, the North Carolina College for Women (now UNC Greensboro) offered a course in marine science for a select group of students. Each summer, students applied to attend the course in Beaufort, North Carolina. Students […]

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Gregory Ivy: The Legacy of a Non-Conformist

Today’s Spartan Stories post was written by Arlen Hansen, a PhD student in History. Arlen worked in Special Collections and University Archives during Summer 2017, assisting with research related to the University’s 125th anniversary celebration. To the extent that UNCG is known as an “arts school” in North Carolina, much of the credit for that reputation […]

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

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 priced institutions in […]

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