Joseph C. Sloane Papers, 1909-1998

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Joseph C. Sloane Papers, 1909-1998

Joseph C. Sloane was chair of the art departments at Rutgers University and Bryn Mawr College before serving as chair of the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1950-1974, and director of the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1958-1978. The collection includes files relating to Sloane's active participation in numerous state and national art-related organizations; files relating to his activities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and with the Faculty Assembly of the University of North Carolina system; material relating to his years on the faculty at Bryn Mawr College; and various writings and texts of lectures by Sloane relating to art education and other topics. Organizations substantially represented are the Association of Art Museum Directors, the College Art Association, the National Council of Arts in Education, the North Carolina Art Society, the North Carolina Arts Council, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Southeastern College Art Conference.

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Joseph Curtis Sloane (1909-1998), son of Joseph C. and Julia L. Moss Sloane, was born 8 October 1909, at Pottstown, Pa. As chair of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Art, Sloane was an important leader in promoting art in North Carolina in the 1960s and 1970s. Sloane helped lead the movement to build the new North Carolina Museum of Art, which opened in 1983. As director of Ackland Art Museum, he helped build the collection. During his tenure at Bryn Mawr College in t...