8.16.18 | On View
A $1.75 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will enable UNC’s Southern Folklife Collection to preserve, digitize and share unique audio and moving image recordings.
As part of a promise from South Building to the students to publicly confront the University’s racial history, a seven-panel exhibit opened in the Carolina Hall front lobby in mid-November. read more
Life often was a struggle for Bayard Wootten, and for many of her subjects, as she pursued early 20th-century photography on her own terms. UPDATE: Wilson Library exhibition featuring her work extended through Feb. 7. read more
A class sweater, a dress purchased on Franklin Street — a piece of clothing that captures the essence of your years at Carolina. Would you be willing to donate or lend it to the North Carolina Collection for an exhibition that will explore… read more
Carolina’s Southern Folklife Collection, based in in Wilson Library, is receiving thousands of hours of recordings from concerts played at a guitar shop in Southern California. Collection staffers plan to preserve the recordings by creating and… read more
Carolina will come together at a common table when it examines food and food studies as its 2015-17 academic theme. “Food for All: Local and Global Perspectives.” read more
Joseph Haj ’88 (MFA), producing artistic director of UNC’s PlayMakers Repertory Company, has been named the next artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn. read more
A new exhibit in Wilson Library traces students’ extracurricular lives for two centuries. “From Di-Phis to Loreleis: A History of Student Organizations at UNC” features 157 records, photographs, publications and other items that document the… read more
The state’s most famous indigenous art form — objects created from clay — is being celebrated throughout this winter at the Ackland Art Museum. “Tradition in Clay: Two Centuries of Classic North Carolina Pots” includes more than 100… read more
The Ackland Art Museum is interested in the private art collections of Carolina alumni, and in September the museum will open an exhibit on that theme: Carolina Collects: 125 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibit, to focus on European… read more