As we imagine our future, we envision a department that maintains
excellence, improves programs, and offers the best to our students and
faculty. Some departmental needs change from year to year. Some
years we look for funds to bus our undergraduate survey classes of 200
plus students to the North Carolina Museum of Art. There is
nothing like a direct encounter with the masters to whet a student’s
appetite! Many of our best and brightest come to the department
from our introductory level classes. Other years we look for
funding to take our art majors to national museums, exhibitions or even
conferences. We need additional
graduate student support
to continue to recruit the best applicants into our programs.
Every so often a kiln breaks and we need to replace it; and it seems
that
technology changes by the day, and we are always running to keep up to date.
We would like to have a
foundry for our sculpture program, and the faculty to staff it. We badly need to
endow our artist-in-residence program.
To keep our faculty at the cutting edge of research requires funds for
travel to archives, libraries, and museums; money to equip
studios, and most importantly
faculty fellowships. We dream of an
expanded Allcott Gallery
with a full-time curator and funding to mount even more impressive
exhibits. Such a gallery would greatly enhance our undergraduate and
graduate curricula. We want to develop a
museum studies program that would benefit institutions around the state by producing outstanding museum professionals. And
North Carolina Creates needs your support!
If you are interested in supporting the Department of Art, we will work
with you to make your gift meaningful to you and your family, as well
as to our students and faculty. We pledge to be good stewards of
your gift and to preserve it for future generations. We believe
that together we can make a difference!
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