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Faculty Artist Profile: Marielis Garcia

UNCG faculty Marielis Garcia

Assistant Professor of Dance Marielis Garcia has been a teaching artist since she was barely a teenager—a gutsy teenager who knew exactly what she wanted and wasn’t afraid to ask for it.


Weatherspoon Celebrates Its Spring Open House

Two people sit on a bench inside the UNCG Weatherspoon Art Museum.

UNCG’s renowned art museum brings eclectic works this semester. Internationally acclaimed artists, community members, and UNCG students have contributed to the stories told within Weatherspoon’s walls using photography, paper, and dance.


Hope Springs Eternal in UNCG Photography Faculty’s Art

UNCG photography associate professor Leah Sobsey crushes flowers for anthotype photography.

With plants collected by famed poets Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau and unique 19th century photography techniques, UNCG’s Leah Sobsey explores the past, present, and potential futures of plants endangered by climate change.


Music Scholarship Honors Emma Gibbs Slater

Emma Gibbs Slater

Robert Slater knows that music can create strong ties of friendship, family, and community. He learned this from his mother, Emma Gibbs Morisey Slater ’36. Now, he and his wife, Jane, are continuing his mother’s legacy through annual support of the Emma Gibbs Slater Scholarship in Music.