New Winston Museum Presents This School, This City: Celebrating 50 Years of UNC School of the Arts

There was considerable rivalry among the major cities of our state to host the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. It took the intensive combined efforts of visionaries like N.C. Gov. Terry Sanford, author John Ehle, composer Vittorio Giannini, as well as Winston-Salem community leaders, business owners and citizens to raise the funds that led to N.C. General Assembly establishing the school in 1963.

It opened its doors two years later and the school's incredible first five decades are carefully chronicled in the exhibit This School, This City:Celebrating 50 Years of UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem at the New Winston Museum. It's accompanied by an entire season of related programming. 

This School, This City: Celebrating 50 Years of UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem includes film footage of the school's first president, Vittorio Giannini, live theatre, original composition performances, and a sculpture composed of 37,000 drinking cups. 

Director of Education and Programming Chris Jordan joined UNCSA Division of Liberal Arts faculty Mike Wakeford to discuss the new exhibit.

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