{"id":63075,"date":"2025-01-03T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T13:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/?p=63075"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:43:43","slug":"threads-through-time-60-years-of-art-at-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/2025\/01\/03\/threads-through-time-60-years-of-art-at-charlotte\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads through Time: 60 Years of Art at Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>When he first began to research the history of UNC Charlotte&#8217;s art department, the thing that struck Professor of Art History Jim Frakes the hardest was not what he found, but what had been lost. 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