UNCSA Archives

Support the UNCSA Archives during the 2024 Days of Giving, April 10-11! Funds will directly support our mission to collect, preserve, and share our school’s rich history. You can even give early to make sure you don’t miss out!

To make your gift, visit https://alumni.uncsa.edu/g/givingdays2024/, select Library & Archives, click Make a Gift, and select the UNCSA Archives.

Your generous support of the Archives helps enrich our unique collections for our students, alumni, campus community and beyond, ensuring that the records of our school’s history are preserved and accessible for years to come!

The UNCSA Archives Digital Collections have a new home! Read the announcement to learn more about our digitized resources.

UNCSA Archives Digital Collections have moved! Just in time for the new semester, the UNCSA Archives Digital Collections have a new home! Our digital resources, including over 13,000 digitized photographs and documents from the Archives, are now searchable in the Library Catalog. Stay tuned for additional collection materials coming soon!

This year you can directly support the UNCSA Archives during the Days of Giving, tomorrow through Friday, April 27-28! We are raising funds to support our mission to collect, preserve, and share our school’s history, and this year your donation to the Archives will directly support preservation supplies (specialized, acid-free boxes and folders) to house the original music scores and manuscripts of Vittorio Giannini, one of UNCSA’s founders and our first president.

In addition, the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts has pledged $1,000 to each of the 30 featured funds, if 850 donors make a gift on Days of Giving. Please help spread the word to make sure we can unlock this additional gift!

Your generous support of the Archives helps enrich our unique collections for our students, alumni, campus community and beyond, ensuring that the records of our school’s history are preserved and accessible for years to come!

UNCSA Day of Giving: The UNCSA Fund — also known as the Annual Fund — impacts the areas of greatest need on campus. Gifts to this unrestricted fund are used to support special projects, guest artists, faculty development, touring, outreach, and countless other efforts. Your gift to the UNCSA Fund makes the differenc...

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Please Note: the UNCSA Archives will be closed until July 9, 2018.

Patrice Slattery, the University Archivist will be retiring on October 31, 2017. The University Archives will remain open, operating with reduced access and services, while the University works to fill the vacancy. We appreciate your patience during this transition period. We would like to extend our thanks and warmest gratitude for the incredible work that Patrice has done over the past two decades in preserving and improving access to our institution’s history.

University Archivist Patrice Slattery retiring Oct. 31 Patrice Slattery, the University Archivist, will be retiring on October 31. The University Archives will remain open, operating with reduced access and services, while the University works to fill the vacancy.

Happy Anniversary to Associates UNCSA from the Archives! https://www.uncsa.edu/archives/time-capsules/time-capsule-no-24.aspx

[U]NCSA Time Capsule no. 24 The (U)NCSA Associates Scrapbook, covering 1992-2002, digitized by the University Archives.

Thank you to the NC Digital Heritage Center at UNC Chapel Hill for the digitization work they've just completed on our course Catalogs (1965 - 2002) and NCSA Yearbooks (1972, 1978, 1986-1996, high school only from 2002-2016). https://goo.gl/rCbsA1
We hope our followers enjoy this latest project along with the DHC 's work on NCSA's very first student newsletter, NC Essay.
(see link in prior post).

You will enjoy reading this article on several of UNCSA's grand old buildings!

Then and Now: The unusual past of UNCSA's buildings The UNCSA campus is a creative composition of repurposed buildings and gorgeous original spaces. But, like our five conservatories, they work together to create an atmosphere that is as exceptional as our artists.

Two closeups of NCSA's Pickleman designed by Stephen Geiger!

Pickleman has taken up residence in the Archives!
Created by Drama alum Stephen Geiger (74), the inspiration for Pickleman is the college football Heisman trophy paired with NCSA's eponymous Homecoming mascot, the Pickle.
Only 3 were cast by Geiger and the mold was broken so there will be no more!
We have no doubt Vittorio would approve the creative endeavors of Stephen and Pickle mascot mastermind and oboist, the late Larry Glickman
WE are so proud that Pickleman will live in perpetuum in the School Archives. Thank you from our hearts, Stephen Geiger!

http://www.uncsa.edu/archives/time-capsules/time-capsule-no-23.aspx

Southside Baseball Field on UNCSA campus was researched and written by Nate Nihart.

[U]NCSA Time Capsule no. 23 The theme of this year's Black History Month is "Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories." The baseball field pictured above, known as Southside Park, was one of the home fields used by the Winston Salem Pond Giants, the town's most prominent black baseball team.