Record #:

3955

Author(s):

Sisk, Taylor

Abstract:

Stricken with polio when she was ten years old, Joy Weeber is now a disability rights activist in Raleigh.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 9, Mar 1999, p20-25, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Political activists; Weeber, Joy; Handicapped--Legal status, laws, etc.

Record #:

3956

Author(s):

Nunns, Stephen

Abstract:

In 1997, five Mecklenburg County commissioners, so incensed that the Charlotte Repertory Company was presenting plays with gay themes, completely cut out the commission's annual $2.5 million contribution to the local Arts and Science Council. In a recent election voters replaced four of the five with art supporters.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 9, Mar 1999, p27,29-31, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Arts--Finance; Charlotte Repertory Co. (Charlotte); Arts--Censorship--Charlotte

Record #:

3957

Author(s):

Ariail, Kate Dobbs

Abstract:

Bert Carpenter taught art history to generations of students. He was also a well-known painter and for twenty-five years served as director of the Weatherspoon Art Gallery at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. During that period he put together an outstanding collection of modern art. In March, 1999, the Gallery honored him with a sixty-five year retrospective.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 9, Mar 1999, p33, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Artists--Greensboro; Carpenter, Bert; University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Weatherspoon Art Gallery