Inspired – Fall/Winter 2022

Journey Through America

Explore two centuries of American art and artists in American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection PLUS Fashion Reimagined: Themes and Variations

1760-NOW: Celebrating 50 years of the Mint’s fashion collection

A curator chat with artist Stacy Lynn Waddell

On view through December 11, 2022 | Mint Museum Randolph

Weaving together timeless narratives of freedom and remediation through pattern, form, and craft.

Diedrick Brackens: ark of bulrushes is organized by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) and curated by Lauren R. O’Connell. Support provided by the S. Rex and Joan Lewis Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Learning & Engagement and Community Outreach programming for this exhibition is generously supported by Windgate Foundation. IMAGE: Diedrick Brackens (American, 1989–). we inherit the labyrinth, 2021; cotton and acrylic yarn, 83 x 78 inches; courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles/Dallas/Seoul. © Diedrick Brackens.

FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO

Beginning a new fiscal year offers time for reflection on the year past.

For The Mint Museum, 2022 is a year marked by a strong recovery from the dark days of Covid, though the pandemic has not yet passed. Despite struggles at museums nationwide, the Mint’s visitor attendance surpassed preCovid numbers, and our Coveted Couture gala was the most successful on record with generous donations that will help cover initiatives from exhibitions to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility programming.

Through The Mint Museum’s 85-year history, very few years have been quite as important as the coming. Thank you to all who helped to get us there. Translating these successes into value for the community is the mission of our talented staff. We do this by evaluating our programs to ensure that we are maximizing our resources in service of our mission, and that planning is done for and by a community of diverse voices.

Diedrick Brackens: ark of bulrushes opened in July and showcases North Carolina’s first museum exhibition of rising-star Diedrick Brackens. Working in Los Angeles, Diedrick draws upon traditional weaving techniques and rich symbolic language, translating it into stunning works that echo his personal story as a young, gay, Black man.

American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection, which opens September 10, takes us on a journey of work by American artists. The collection, painstakingly assembled by friend of the Mint Diane Jacobsen, spans the 18th century to the mid 20th century. The 100-plus piece collection brings to Charlotte both familiar names, as well as works by women and artists of color who have traditionally been pushed to the background in the story of American art.

Fashion Reimagined: Themes and Variations 1760-NOW, opening December 10, celebrates 50 years of the Mint’s fashion collection and continues the museum’s dedication to the art of fashion and design. The stunning exhibition draws from the museum’s renowned collection of historic and contemporary fashion and spans four centuries. It is sure to pique visitors’ interests.

Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds will open in February 2023. The Mint Museum is the first stop of an intimate national tour featuring approximately 35 rarely seen paintings by Picasso. In conjunction with Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds, the Mint has organized a companion exhibition Bearden/Picasso: Rhythms and Reverberations that explores the artistic synchronicity between Picasso and Charlotte’s native son Romare Bearden. To broaden the appeal, we will be collaborating with local artists and arts organizations to bring these exhibitions to people outside the museum walls.

Within these pages you will discover a myriad of programs and projects the staff have been developing to encourage curiosity, inspire wonder, and promote understanding through the beauty of creative arts. Please take the time to read the many things that your Mint Museum is doing to make Charlotte and North Carolina a more desirable place to live, learn, work, and play. As always, I thank you, our members and supporters, for allowing us this creative space to improve our community and inspire our visitors.

Sincerely,

Todd A. Herman, PhD, president and CEO

Table of Contents

5 | FIND YOUR ‘CHILL’

Slide into a chill vibe in the new season with artisan items available at The Mint Museum Store.

10 | ON THE DAILY

Follow along 24 hours in the life of Rosalia Torres-Weiner, the next featured artist in the Mint’s Intervention series.

12 | UPCOMING EVENTS

Mark your calendar for not-to-miss Mint events.

14 | NOTEWORTHY

Notable mentions, awards, and recognition of Mint people, projects, and programs.

15 | 14 REASONS TO LOVE THE MINT RIGHT NOW

From dynamic programming to artist conversations and exhibitions, there’s a lot to love about the Mint.

45 | AFFILIATES IN ACTION

A review of the Mint’s affiliate groups’ events and activities.

50 | EVENTS AT THE MINT

Snapshots from recent events, exhibition openings, and more.

54 | CROWN SOCIETY PATRONS

57 | CURATOR’S PICK

OUR TEAM EDITOR

Michele Huggins

CREATIVE DIRECTION & GRAPHIC DESIGN

Stephanie Lepore

Shelby McVicker

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Rubie Britt-Height

Jamila Brown

Annie Carlano

Hillary Cooper

Jen Sudul Edwards, PhD

Brian Gallagher

Kitty Hall

Todd A. Herman, PhD

Molly Humphries

Page Leggett

Cynthia Moreno

Clayton Sealey

Ellen Show

Joel Smeltzer

Leslie Strauss

Jonathan Stuhlman, PhD

ON THE COVER

Ferdinand (Joachim) Richardt (1819–95). A View of Niagara Falls (detail), 1873, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation.

OPPOSITE: Madame Alix Gres (French, 1903–93). Evening Sheath with Matching Neck Scarf, circa 1970-1975, silk. Collection of The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. Museum Purchase: Auxiliary Costume Fund. 1997.125A-B.

Features

24 | EYE ON DECORATIVE ARTS

Two 19th-century English porcelain pieces by artist James Callowhill enter the museum collection.

25 | AMERICAN MADE: PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE FROM THE DEMELL JACOBSEN COLLECTION

Journey through two centuries of American art and artists in this comprehensive exhibition of works.

29 | FASHION FORWARD

Celebrate 50 years of the Mint’s fashion collection with Fashion

Reimagined: Themes and Variations 1760-NOW

34 | MINT TO CREATE

A look at the first exhibition solely curated with works by museum staff.

36 | WHO’S WHO

Get to know the Mint’s newest staff.

39 | ROMANTICIZING THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE

A conversation with artist Stacy Lynn Waddell about a recent work that is now part of the Mint collection.

42 | THE DEIA MINDSET IS ALIVE AT THE MINT

Behind-the-scenes highlights from the Mint’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives.

44 | FAREWELL TO TWO BELOVED MINT AFFILIATES

We tip our hat to the Friends of the Mint and Delhom Service League.

46 | FIRED UP

See the roster of stellar potters attending this year’s Potters Market.

48 | TRAVEL WITH THE MINT

The Crown Society Travel Program connects members to art and inspiration across the globe.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection is generously presented in Charlotte by PNC Bank. Additional generous support is provided by The Dowd Foundation and Windgate Foundation. The national tour of American Made is made possible by Bonhams, Christie’s, Doyle, Schoelkopf Gallery, and Sotheby’s.

Fashion Reimagined: Themes and Variations 1760s-NOW is generously presented by Wells Fargo Wealth and Investment Management and the Mint Museum Auxiliary. Additional generous support is provided by Bank OZK.

The STAR (Student Artist) gallery at Mint Museum Uptown is generously sponsored by Duke Energy–Piedmont Natural Gas.

Craft in the Laboratory: The Science of Making Things is generously presented by Müller Corporation and the Craft & Trade Academy. Generous individual support provided by Beth and Drew Quartapella, Mary Anne (M.A.) Rogers, Ann and Michael Tarwater, and Rocky and Curtis Trenkelbach. Craft in the Laboratory is also supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thanks to STARworks Ceramics for hand crafting materials to help enhance this Mint Museum-organized exhibition.

Constellation CLT is generously supported by Fifth Third Bank.

Diedrick Brackens: ark of bulrushes , organized by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, has been supported by the S. Rex and Joan Lewis Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Learning & Engagement and Community Outreach programming for this exhibition is generously supported by Windgate Foundation.

Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds and Picasso and Bearden: Rhythms and Reverberations is generously presented in Charlotte by Bank of America, Duke Energy, M.A. Rogers, and Ann and Michael Tarwater. Additional generous support is provided by the following individuals: Leigh-ann and Martin Sprock; Robin and Bill Branstrom, Sarah G. Cooper, Laura and Mike Grace, Marsha and Milton Prime; Posey and Mark Mealy; Chandra and Jimmie Johnson; Marty and Weston Andress, Mary and Walt Beaver, Betsy and Alfred Brand; toni and Alfred Kendrick, Beth and Drew Quartapella, Rocky and Curtis Trenkelbach, Charlotte and John Wickham; Mary Lou and Jim Babb, Jo Ann and Joddy Peer. Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds is organized by the American Federation for the Arts.

Support for Student Tours is provided by the Mint Museum Auxiliary.

Free Wednesday evenings are generously sponsored by Bank of America and the Mint Museum Auxiliary.

Foragers is generously presented by Wells Fargo Private Bank with additional individual support from Laura and Mike Grace, María-José Mage and Frank Müller, Kati and Chris Small, and Rocky and Curtis Trenkelbach.

The Mint Museum’s Coveted Couture Gala is generously presented by PNC Bank.

The Mint Museum’s FREE Party in the Park is generously presented by Principal Foundation.

The Grier Heights Program is financially supported by Fifth Third Bank, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Foundation, and the Mint Museum Auxiliary.

Covid-19 Relief Support funding has been generously provided by the Windgate Foundation, Foundation For The Carolinas, Charlotte-Mecklenburg CARES for the Arts grant program and THRIVE Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, Bank of America, Wells Fargo Private Bank, Terra Foundation for American Art, and the North Carolina Department of Commerce. Additional significant support provided by all members of The Mint Museum’s Board of Trustees and Advisory Board.

The Mint Museum is supported, in part, by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, and the Infusion Fund.

The Mint Museum is supported, in part, by the Infusion Fund and its generous donors:

Multimillion Dollar Commitment

City of Charlotte

$1.5 million and above

Bank of America

C.D. Spangler Foundation / National Gypsum Company

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Trane Technologies

$600,000-$1 million

Albemarle Foundation

Atrium Health

Barings

Duke Energy

Honeywell

JELD-WEN, Inc.

LendingTree Foundation

Lowe’s Companies, Inc.

Novant Health

Red Ventures

Truist

$300,000-$600,000

Ally Financial

The Centene Charitable Foundation

Childress Klein Properties

Coca-Cola Consolidated

Deloitte

EY

The Gambrell Foundation

Moore & Van Allen

PwC

Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.

Rodgers Builders

Wells Fargo

Up to $300,000

Fifth Third Bank

Foundation For The Carolinas

Deidre and Clay Grubb

Leslie and Michael Marsicano

Jane and Hugh McColl

Nucor Corporation

PNC Bank

Premier, Inc.

Jane and Nelson Schwab

Find your ‘chill’ this fall

As temperatures dip this fall, there are myriad ways to enjoy more “chill” in your life. From an evening on the town with friends to enjoying a relaxed vibe at home with family, The Mint Museum Store has the goods to make this season exceptional.

CASEY HENDRICKSON PHOTOGRAPHY

Host friends and family

From fireside patio soirees to holiday hosting, upgrade the table setting with these specialty items.

1. Small Gold and White Cluster Bowl $80 2. Feuilles Stemless Glass Set $5 3. Golden Leaves Fork and Spoon $10 ea. 4. Small Jagged Tray $18 5. 3 Piece Nakshatra Cheese Knife Set $26 6. Stripes and Moustache Salt and Pepper Shaker Set $22 7. Kiss Salad Tongs $96 8. Born to Party Forced to Work $79.95 9. Jubilee Cookbook $35 10. Pablo Stripes Plate $18 11. Marble Tray with Gold Handles $78 12. Mini Champagne Candle $16 13. Lola Tira Corkscrew $130 14. Metal and Wood Serving Set $44

Settle in for a family night

On chilly fall nights, raise the fun factor with new games, puzzles, and recipes.

1. Summer Wheat Puzzle $32 2. Mary Cassatt Action Figure $34 3. Original Art Cards for Baby $16

4. Pendleton Backgammon Set $35 5. Rosewood Game Night Set $44 6. Wooden Airplane $8

7. Animal Roller $8 8. The Silver Spoon Recipes for Babies $29.95 9. Tacos! Cookbook $19.95

Or chill out on the town

Bring on the friend brigade and hit the town with a fresh style for a new season.

1. Arty Parties $40 2. Nagtalie Hat $48 3. Mandala Mirrors $6 4. Christina Brampti Reversable Resin Necklace $120

5. Delaunay Shawl $4 6. Samuel Coraux Face Earrings $64 7. Peaked Column Cuff $26 8. Royal Perugia Leather Bag $230

ON THE DAILY

24 HOURS IN THE LIFE OF ROSALIA TORRES-WEINER

BY PAGE LEGGETT

Artist Rosalia Torres-Weiner’s garden is an important part of her day and life. It is a sanctuary for bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, but also for her. “I love spending time in nature,” Torres-Weiner says. “It’s healing. Nature teaches us so many lessons.”

The flora and fauna she encounters there and on her daily walks near her home in Lake Wylie make their way into her bright, colorful works. Although her work is vibrant, her themes are often serious. The artist/activist’s work often focuses on the immigrant experience, family separation, and the changing demographics of the Southeast.

Known for her murals throughout Charlotte, including the mural she painted on a two-story house in Elizabeth, she has a roster of projects underway but has expanded to experimenting with digital platforms. “I’m learning Adobe Fresco software. It’s a challenge, which is really good for me.”

Beginning in October, Torres-Weiner will be the featured artist in the Mint’s Intervention series at Mint Museum Randolph. November also brings exhibitions at UNC Charlotte, the Gaston County Museum, and the Artisan’s Palate in NoDa. Never one to shy away from trying something new, Torres- Weiner can also add filmmaker to her resume. She made a whimsical, 10-minute film called “The Magic Kite,” in which she is featured, that deals with immigrant family separation in Charlotte.

“It’s a story about family, love and hope,” she says. “It tells the story of what is happening in our Latino communities.” Children’s Theatre of Charlotte adapted that story as a children’s play with puppets. I am very lucky to have big support from my family,” she says. “My son is a cinematographer, my husband is in technology, and my daughter is sort of my art advisor always giving me feedback on my paintings.”

Photos courtesy of Rosalia Torres-Weiner

Torres-Weiner doesn’t have a fixed daily schedule. The only day of the week she’s certain of is Friday. That’s the day she spends with her baby granddaughter. “I take Fridays off to babysit her,” she says. “At that moment, I forget about every single deadline and everything on my list. She’s like my garden in that way.” Following is a general idea of how Torres-Weiner spends her days.

7:30 AM That’s when I wake up, but it depends on how late I stayed up the night before. I get coffee as soon as I’m up.

8 AM I water my gardens. I have four gardens. One is my berry garden. I also have my rose garden, my backyard, and my indoor garden. My garden is my priority. I water it by hand. I will often water it with my coffee in one hand. That’s how I ground myself. This is how I get my day started. It’s almost like a meditation. Gardening is a huge part of my life and my art.

9 AM I take my black lab Luna on a walk. She follows me everywhere. Or, sometimes, I’ll go out on the water on my paddleboard or my kayak. I don’t think I know the term “artist’s block.” It’s not in my dictionary because I walk through the woods with Luna and get inspired each day. There’s always something new to see, so there’s always something to paint. Especially during the pandemic, these walks helped me a lot. Just being in nature is inspiration.

10:30 AM After spending time in the woods or on the water, I go full, 200% into my studio that I moved to my home during Covid. We converted our bonus room into my art studio, and I love having it upstairs. I don’t have to drive anywhere. I don’t have to get dressed or put on makeup. If I cannot sleep at night, I’ll come to my studio to work. My neighbors have told me that sometimes they’ll see the light on at 3 or 4 AM.

I believe there is a difference between painting and creating. And when I’m creating, it has to be quiet. I cannot have the radio or TV on, or somebody talking to me. So, I have this thing I do. I close my door and hang a red sneaker from the banister. My son and my husband know that whenever they see that red sneaker hanging, they are not to disturb me. They are very respectful with my time of creation.

NOON I love bringing my lunch up to my studio. I just go downstairs and grab something quick. I love it when I have a full day of nothing but studio time. I get to have that, maybe, four days a week. I work weekends, too. I work Monday to Monday.

I don’t watch TV. I do listen to Audible, though. I love “reading” while I’m taking my walks. I like history, biography, and books about artists.

7:30 PM My husband knows me. He will ask me to take just 20 or 30 minutes to have dinner with him and our son. I will when I’m able, but then I usually go right back to the studio. I do like to cook when I can. I make awesome salsa, thanks to my mom. When I cook for my family, they know it is a true sign that I love them very much.

11:30 PM I take my iPad with me to bed and I create art. Even when I’m in bed, I’m still working on my digital app. I am always creating. I have to be careful because so many ideas come to my mind. If I can’t sleep, I will go back to my studio and work until I get tired. Even if it’s 3 AM in the morning. I am so grateful to love what I do for a living.

Page Leggett’s writing regularly appears in The Charlotte Observer, Business North Carolina, and SouthPark magazine.

LEARN MORE ABOUT ROSALIA TORRES-WEINER

— AND SEE SAMPLES OF HER WORK — AT REDCALACASTUDIO.COM.

UPCOMING EVENTS

AUGUST

28 SUNDAY

Party in the Park

Presented by Principal Foundation

Mint Museum Randolph

1–5 PM | Free

Enjoy free admission to the museum, food trucks, and live music and a cash bar on the front terrace (weather permitting), plus the mobile art bus with Bunny Gregory and hands-on activities that celebrate the art of Sam Gilliam, whose colorful sculptures can be seen floating overhead in the Mint Museum Randolph atrium.

29 MONDAY

Annual Meeting

Mint Museum Randolph

4–6 PM | Free

Join us for the annual museum meeting and celebration, followed by a light cocktail reception.

SEPTEMBER

9 FRIDAY

Members-only opening celebration for American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection

Mint Museum Uptown

11 AM–9 PM | Free

A first look at the exhibition with more than 100 paintings and sculptures from the DeMell Jacobsen private collection showcasing two centuries of American art and artists.

10 SATURDAY

Tea-and-Tees and Conversation

Mint Museum Uptown

1–5 PM | Free

Sip tea or “tee” up for a game of mini golf in the Robert Haywood Morrison Atrium to celebrate the opening of American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection.

American Made panel discussion

Mint Museum Uptown

2–3 PM | Free

Diane Jacobsen, PhD, distinguished scholar, art collector and chair of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen, PhD, Foundation, joins the Mint’s president and CEO Todd Herman, PhD, and senior curator of American art Jonathan Stuhlman, PhD, for a lively talk about the exhibition.

16 FRIDAY

Opening celebration for Borderless

Mint Museum Uptown

5–9 PM, 6 PM artist talk | Free Celebrate the opening of the Constellation CLT installation Borderless by Charlotte-based artist Naji Al-Ali. Enjoy an artist talk with Al-Ali and Constellation CLT curator Jamila Brown, plus a cash bar. Constellation CLT is presented by Fifth Third Bank.

21 WEDNESDAY

Wednesday Night Live Block Party

Mint Museum Uptown and Levine Avenue of the Arts

5–9 PM | Free, cash bar

Join us as we kick off the second season of Wednesday Night Live with live music, spoken word, and more experiential arts as part of the International Festival of the Arts on Levine Avenue of the Arts.

24 SATURDAY

Potters Market at the Mint

Mint Museum Randolph

10 AM–4 PM | Tickets start at $20

Enjoy live pottery demonstrations, raffles, live bluegrass music, and a beer garden at this one-day sale featuring renowned North Carolina potters. Tickets available at pottersmarketatthemint.com .

25 SUNDAY

Party in the Park

Presented by Principal Foundation

Mint Museum Randolph

1–5 PM | Free

It’s Pottery Palooza! Enjoy free admission to the museum, food trucks, and live music and a cash bar on the front terrace (weather permitting), plus a pottery seek-and-find in the galleries.

Artist talk with Shae Bishop

Mint Museum Randolph

2–3 PM | Free

Artist Shae Bishop discusses connections between ceramics, textiles, and culture, and how these influence his work and the craft world.

OCTOBER

5 WEDNESDAY

Wednesday Night Live

Presented by Bank of America

Mint Museum Uptown

5–9 PM | FREE

In collaboration with Blumenthal

Performing Arts and Charlotte Lit, author Glenda Gilmore, PhD, joins us to discuss her book Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination

15 SATURDAY

Bilingual stories and Music

Mint Museum Randolph

11 AM | Free

Children ages 6 and younger, and their families, are invited to join for 40 minutes of music and stories with CrissCross Mangosauce to celebrate culture and diversity.

16 SUNDAY

Writing with Bearden: an Ekphrastic Workshop with Charlotte Lit

Mint Museum Uptown

2–3 PM | Free, registration required

In this Bearden Gallery workshop, Charlotte Lit faculty members will share examples and tips from the fascinating “writing about art” tradition called ekphrasis, then invite you to give it a try. No experience or special materials required.

21 FRIDAY

Mint to Move

Mint Museum Uptown

7–11:30 PM | $10 members; $13 nonmembers with $1 off before 9 PM

Celebrate 10 years of Mint to Move!

Enjoy sizzling salsa, cha cha, bachata, line dancing, live musicians, and DJ Carlos Lebron playing Latin rhythms and Afro-beats, plus free dance lessons at 8 PM that include merengue, salsa, bachata with Rumbao Latin and MamboSol.

30 SUNDAY

Party in the Park

Presented by Principal Foundation

Mint Museum Randolph

1–5 PM | Free

Enjoy free admission to the museum, food trucks, and live music and a cash bar on the front terrace (weather permitting).

NOVEMBER

2 WEDNESDAY

Wednesday Night Live: The History of Bluegrass with Andrew Finn Magill

Presented by Bank of America

Mint Museum Uptown

5–9 PM, 6:30 PM discussion

Free admission, cash bar

Musician Andrew Finn Magill performs fiddle tunes and gives a mini presentation on the roots of bluegrass in America.

27 SUNDAY

Museum Store Sunday

Both locations of The Mint Museum Store Museum hours

Shop unique finds for holiday giftgiving with 30% discounts on items at both museum store locations.

Party in the Park

Presented by Principal Foundation

Mint Museum Randolph

1–5 PM | Free

Enjoy the last Party in the Park of the season with free admission to the museum, food trucks, and live music and a cash bar on the front terrace.

DECEMBER

2 FRIDAY

Mint to Move: Día de las Velitas (Little Candle Day)

Mint Museum Uptown

7–11:30 PM | $10 members; $13 nonmembers with $1 off before 9 PM

Celebrate Día de las Velitas, a Colombian holiday that marks the beginning of Christmas, with dancing, live musicians, and DJ Carlos Lebron playing Latin rhythms and Afro-beats, plus free dance lessons.

ARTBREAK

Take a mental “ArtBreak” in your day every Thursday at Mint Museum Uptown from noon12:30 PM. Visit the museum galleries, see new exhibitions, and recharge. Enjoy a guided tour on the third Thursday each month. Admission is FREE.

7 WEDNESDAY

Wednesday Night Live:

Youth Orchestras of Charlotte

Concert of American Favorites

Presented by Bank of America

Mint Museum Uptown

5 –9 PM, 6: 30 PM performance

Free admission, cash bar

10 SATURDAY

Celebrate Mint Fashion Day

Mint Museum Uptown

10 AM–6 PM | Free

Join us for the opening celebration of Fashion Reimagined: Themes & Variations: 1760-NOW that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mint’s fashion collection by the Mint Museum Auxiliary.

10 AM: Early opening with champagne toast.

11 AM–noon: Panel discussion: The Anatomy of an Exhibition featuring Tae Smith, fashion and textile conservator and dresser; Lauren Whitley, co-author of the exhibition catalogue; exhibition architects Vanessa Kassabian, Emily Moore, Andrew Gale, and Senior Curator of Craft, Design and Fashion Annie Carlano.

2–3 PM: Artist talk with acclaimed fashion designer, filmmaker, and author Walé Oyéjidé.

Events are subject to change. See the most up-to-date information, visit mintmuseum.org/events or call 704 337 2000.

NOTEWORTHY

AWARDS, ACCOLADES, AND NOTABLE MENTIONS

The Mint Museum was awarded reaccreditation on behalf of the American Museum Alliance. Reaccreditation means the museum continues to meet National Standards and Best Practices for U.S. Museums and remains a member of a community of institutions that have chosen to hold themselves publicly accountable to excellence. Through a rigorous process of self-assessment and review by its peers, the museum has shown itself to be a good steward of its resources held in the public trust.

The Mint’s very own Community Programs Coordinator Kurma Murrain was named Author of the Year in the 2021 Queen City Awards for her books Coffee, Love, and the American Dream. In addition, Murrain is the first Latina featured in the campaign #somos #changethenarrative by the Latin American Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte, and the only Afro Latina.

Amy Grigg, director of retail operations for The Mint Museum Store, was appointed director at-large for the Museum Store Association national board of directors. Grigg is a member of the South Atlantic Chapter and has served as chapter president, vice president, secretary, and meeting host.

Chris Georgalas, chief preparator at the Mint, was a featured artist at ArtPop Street Gallery @ The SHOUT! Lounge during the 2022 Charlotte SHOUT! festival. “It was such a gift to me to be able to share my work with the Charlotte community and meet so many other creative artists,” Georgalas says.

The Mint Museum was awarded a 2022 Best of the Best (BOB) Award in Charlotte magazine for best museum. Readers voted The Mint Museum as the best art museum in the category for media, culture and entertainment in Charlotte.

14 REASONS TO LOVE THE MINT RIGHT NOW

WE LIKE TO GET TO THE ROOT OF IT ALL

Artist Diedrick Brackens, along SMoCA curator Lauren O’Connell, joined a group of Mint staffers on a field trip to Nebedaye Farms while in town for the opening of Diedrick Brackens: ark of bulrushes. With the guidance of farm owner Bernard Singleton and teaching artist Sunya Folayan, participants picked indigo and learned the complex process of transforming the raw material into a successful dye vat before then dying pieces of cloth. In addition to growing indigo, a variety of plans, herbs, and rice, Nebedaye Farms hosts the Nebedaye Farms School of Ancestral Arts and African Botanical Gardens for children, as well as community workshops, to foster an understanding and trace the ancestry of crops originating in West Africa. —Michele Huggins, associate director of marketing and communications

WE

SHOWCASE

AMAZING WORKS

BY LOCAL ARTISTS

Constellation CLT installations greet visitors to Mint Museum Uptown as soon as they step into the Robert Heywood Morrison Atrium. The series, in its fifth year, serves as a continuous activation of Mint Museum Uptown’s public spaces and a budding connection between museum visitors and artists living and working in Charlotte.

Naji Al-Ali's mural, painting, and collage works kick off the upcoming year of installations with Borderless, opening September 16. In January 2023, Quynh Vu, whose 2-D paintings respond to Vietnamese and Western culture and shifting identity, goes on view. Holly Keogh’s installation, opening May 19, 2023, rounds out the series with colorful, psychologically charged oil portrait paintings. The installations for each exhibition can be seen in six different public spaces at Mint Museum Uptown: in the museum entrance; at the foot of the Morrison Atrium escalator; on the landings of the Mezzanine, Level 3, and Level 4, as well as in The Mint Museum Store. —Jamila Brown, curatorial assistant and Constellation CLT curator

ABOVE : Naji Al-Ali’s midtown mural Refugees In Love. Al-Ali is the featured artist in the fall Constellation CLT installation at Mint Museum Uptown.

NELLIE ASHFORD

UNITES

GENERATIONS THROUGH TWO ACQUIRED WORKS

“A Juneteenth Day Celebration with Artist Nellie R. Ashford and Friends” drew over 200 guests with art, music, desserts, and fellowship June 19 in dedication of her works Generations and Juke Joint. On view on the mezzanine level, the works were acquired in 2019 by 14 African American women community leaders and an anonymous donor who treasure Ashford’s works as a self-taught artist. The event also commemorated the federal Juneteenth holiday. Todd Herman, PhD, president and CEO, welcomed guests and Senior Curator of American Art Jon Stulhman, PhD, shared the artist’s milestones, including her mural on view in Charlotte-Douglas International Airport and the Mint’s 2017 Constellation CLT installation The Works of Nellie Ashford. A musical presentation by Dennis Reed and GAP and a dessert reception added to the event, along with a montage presentation of filmed interviews with Ashford. —Rubie Britt-Height, director of community relations

ART 101 AT THE MINT MAKES ART HISTORY FASCINATING AND FUN

The Mint has teamed up with the Charlotte speaker series Sphere Series to rethink art history. In keeping with the encyclopedic, antihierarchical nature of the Mint’s collection, and the quirky, conversational style of Spheres Series lectures, ART 101 is a survey class that includes cultural investigations and innovations, while adding in some unusual, intellectual twists.

Your college survey probably started one semester with Venus of Willendorf in 25,000 BCE and ended with Giotto in 14th century Florence, to be picked up the next semester by Michelangelo in the next century and ending with Warhol. Maybe you had 1,400 years of Islamic art and architecture covered in a single 90-minute class. We are taking it slower with two eight-week sessions held twice a year over the course of three years taking ART 101 participants all over the globe.

Expert professors and curators from universities and museums around North America will join us to share their knowledge of a period and do a deep dive into an unusual aspect of their specialty. Tulane University professor Fan Zhang, for example, will talk about China’s particular influence on cultural development via the Silk Road by tying in her research on Chinese wine cups and their connections with West Asia and the Mediterranean.

In true Mint and Sphere Series fashion, this series is constructed to be fascinating, but also fun. If you never took a college art-history class or missed the first semester of ART 101 in spring 2021, lectures are recorded so registrants can watch what they missed, including lectures from last semester. —Jen Sudul Edwards, PhD, chief curator and curator of contemporary art

CREATING IS PART OF THE MUSEUM EXPERIENCE

Museum visitors of all ages can utilize Imagination Station, the art-making station inside the Lewis Family Gallery at Mint Museum Uptown, to explore creativity and express themselves. The area is stocked with drawing and collage material, and rotating art activities themed around the Mint’s permanent collection. On any given day, you may find a young artist busily wrapping sticks with fluffy yarn or painting a scene with colorful tape, as the adult with them sketches a cartoon in color pencil. The area is open to all ages.

While some artists take their masterpieces home with them, many others choose to share their work with others by posting their creations on the adjacent gallery wall. A recent stop in this ever-changing gallery space featured compelling portraits by adults and children, comic character sketches, a sculptural assemblage of upcycled materials, and uplifting messages including “You are Loved!” A visit to Imagination Station is a reminder of the boundless creativity and compassion of our community.

—Leslie Strauss, head of family and studio programs

WE CONTINUE TO EXPAND REACH INTO THE COMMUNITY

Over the summer, the Mint’s Family and Studio Programs team collaborated with the School and Gallery Programs team to test drive a new museum experience. The goal of the pilot program was to trial a hybrid tour during which groups split their time between an interactive animal-themed tour in the galleries and a self-directed studio artmaking experience in the classrooms. The program, titled Summer Art Sessions, was offered free of charge to invited groups from CMS Summer Enrichment Camps and other partner community organizations. Testing the program as a pilot allowed educators the opportunity to learn by doing. Groups appreciated the chance to visit the museum and engage in an art activity while helping the museum mold a new program. The team was able make adjustments based on observation and conversation with participants. Educators will utilize the findings of the pilot to explore the feasibility of extending the hybrid experience in future months. —LS

THE 2022 COVETED COUTURE GALA WAS A NIGHT TO REMEMBER

After a two-year hiatus from in-person galas, the 2022 Coveted Couture Gala and Closing Celebration for The World of Anna Sui delivered unparalleled results for the Mint’s annual signature fundraiser. A very special thank you to our presenting sponsor, PNC Bank, and to the wonderful gala co-chairs, Marty and Weston Andress, for their creativity and leadership in making the evening a night to remember. The night “by the numbers” tells the whole story: 416 delighted guests, 31 host committee members, 92 paddle raises, over $411,000 netted — making it our most lucrative gala in its nine-year history — and 1,000,000 smiles and good memories! Please mark your calendars and join us for next year’s Coveted Couture Gala and celebration of Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds Saturday, April 29, 2023 at Mint Museum Uptown. —Hillary Cooper, chief advancement officer

DYNAMIC ART BY LOCAL ARTISTS HAS A PLACE IN M5 AT THE MINT

Who has the sharpest eyes honed to detect the most innovative, interesting work coming out of Charlotte and the Carolinas right now? The artists, of course! That is why the Mint is strategically working to turn over its oftenempty spaces to creatives who bring compelling projects to our attention. One of our most exciting venues in recent months: Mint5 — the raw exhibition space on Level 5 of Mint Museum Uptown. The space has been available rentfree for installations to special outside projects since 2014, but now the curatorial team is working more closely with guest organizers to ensure that M5 is not only an incubator for new works of art, but also a training ground for new cultural leaders.

In the past six months, exhibitions have included the MidCarolina Region of the Scholastic Art Awards winners; FRESH2DEATH, a survey of Black life over the last 50

years, organized by the style leaders and trend setters Dupp & Swat and Crown Keepers; the second iteration of Carla Aaron-Lopez’s LOCAL/STREET 2022 that presented an even more dynamic range of Charlotte art than the first installment that was held last at Mint Museum Randolph in spring 2021; and through September 11, pioneering fashion designs by Gordon Holliday and his upcycling company ROOLE, along with over 40 artists responding to his contemporary interpretations of the classic kimono, are on view.

All cultural production is welcome and celebrated in M5 as long as it is revelatory and good. M5 is a microcosm of the Mint’s galleries: our collection that spans craft, painting, sculpture, fashion, photography, and furniture design. We are adhering to our mantra “art is for everyone” and bringing in others to help us sing that chorus. —JSE

WE LOVE HOSTING A SUNDAY AFTERNOON PARTY IN THE PARK

The secret sauce to Party in the Park is simple: come as you are, slow down, and savor time with family and friends. Everything about Party in the Park is designed to be easy. Stretch out on Mint Museum Randolph’s green lawn. People watch. Groove out to the local band playing all afternoon. Pick up your favorite cold drinks, and lunch and dessert from local food trucks on site. Stroll into the museum free of charge and discover galleries filled with art of the ancient Americas, African art, North Carolina potters, European paintings, decorative arts, and more.

Party in the Park’s activities are mellow and change each month. See a local painter create a work or go on an art safari with a seek-and-find gallery guide, or do a simple art activity outdoors. Party in the Park takes place 1–5 PM the last Sunday of each month at Mint Museum Randolph. —Cynthia Moreno, director of learning and engagement

WE FIND UNIQUE WAYS TO NATURALLY MAKE CONNECTIONS

The difficulties of the past few years drove museum educators to seek new ways to connect to the community in a safe environment. That often led them outdoors, finding creative ways to program outside the museum walls. A partnership with environmental educators from Stevens Creek Nature Preserve, part of the Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation system, resulted in creative programs for audiences of all ages. This summer, educators from Stevens Creek Nature Center returned to Mint Museum Randolph’s Wild Wednesdays to share their scientific knowledge with family visitors via animal encounters and teaching materials like snakeskins and skulls. Fascinated visitors explored connections between art and the natural world. Some families incorporated a walk or bike ride on the nearby Briar Creek Greenway into their visit.

This fall, Mint educators will join groups onsite at Stevens Creek Nature Preserve in Mint Hill to lead several beginner painting sessions en plein air or “in the open air” of the nature preserve. Environmental educators will share information about the natural habitat, while museum educators will bring their expertise in facilitating creative artmaking experiences. —LS

OUR COLLECTION IS ACCESSIBLE FROM THE COMFORT OF HOME

Public Virtual Tours offer opportunities for visitors near and far to engage remotely with the museum and its collection. These tours offer ways for visitors to engage with well-known works of art from the Mint’s collection, as well as lesser-known works of art. For each offering, a trained docent leads a thematic, hour-long tour that encourages questions and comments. Public Virtual Tours take place three times per month, with morning, afternoon offerings,

WE STRETCH MINDS AND BODIES!

Grab your mat, your water, and your friends and join in a yoga class Tuesday evenings at Mint Museum Uptown and Saturday mornings at Mint Museum Randolph hosted by Dancing Lotus Yoga and Arts. All abilities and levels are invited to flow for 60 minutes. Each class is streamed through DropSound noise-isolating headphones enabling you to tune into your breath and tune out the distractions. The classes are free for Mint members and $10 for nonmembers. Details online at mintmuseum.org/events. —MH

and look at various topics including, but not limited to: “The Power of Words,” “The Art of Dining,” “Reflections on Glass,” and “Museum Highlights.”

Public Virtual Tours are free for Mint members and $5 for nonmembers. For more details and to register for a virtual tour, please check out our calendar at mintmuseum.org/ events. —Molly

Humphries, tour programs coordinator

ARTISTS TRAVEL FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE TO TALK TO OUR COMMUNITY

In May, internationally acclaimed and Ireland-based maker Joseph Walsh and Stanford University professor and maker Hideo Mabuchi visited the Mint during the opening celebration of Craft in the Laboratory: The Science of Making Things to discuss how science, technology, engineering, and math are used in their design processes. In collaboration with Müller Corporation and Craft + Trade Academy in recognition of the United Nations designation of 2022 as the International Year of Glass, Argentine glass artist Silvia Levenson also presented a talk about glass and printing techniques. —MH

SCHOOL TOURS ARE BACK IN-PERSON AND BETTER THAN EVER

With the start of a new school year, we are excited to welcome students and teachers back to the gallery spaces to experience art from our diverse collections and upcoming special exhibitions. Through a host of new and refreshed school tour experiences created around the reinstallation and reinterpretation of works in the Mint’s permanent collection and our diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives, students are guaranteed to see something new.

The Mint Museum devotes significant resources to the K-12 student field trip experience and partnerships with local and regional schools. Facilitated single-visit art museum school tour programs provide unique opportunities for students to engage with original works of art in a different learning environment. Current research shows that engaging with works of art in an art museum has a stronger impact on students than looking at reproductions in the classroom.

Select thematic school tour programs include “African American Art and Identity,” featuring works from the American and contemporary art collection; “Art in the Americas: Ancient to Contemporary;” “Experience Craft: STEAM concepts,” featuring works of art from Craft in the Laboratory: The Science of Making Things; and “Face-toFace,” featuring American and contemporary art portraiture.

Beyond the single-visit school tour experience, we are partnering with Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools to engage high school visual art students with the upcoming special exhibition Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds and Bearden/Picasso: Rhythms and Reverberations. Before and after engaging with works from the exhibition, students and teachers will be able to connect exhibition themes to classroom curriculum. We will also continue to offer select virtual school tour programs to insure access for all school audiences. —Joel Smeltzer, head of school and gallery programs

NEW ACQUISITIONS BY ARTIST JAMES CALLOWHILL ADDED TO THE DECORATIVE ARTS COLLECTION

BY BRIAN GALLAGHER

The Mint Museum recently acquired two beautiful examples of 19th-century English porcelain for its permanent collection, each of them decorated by the talented artist James Callowhill (1838–1917).

Callowhill was born into a large, extended family of artists and potters in Worcester, England. (Fun fact: The Callowhill residence had been owned by the family since the reign of King Henry VIII.) At the age of 15, James became apprenticed as a decorator to the Worcester Royal Porcelain Company, which in turn sponsored his artistic training at the Worcester Government School of Design. His younger brother, Thomas Scott (1840–1934), soon joined him at the Worcester porcelain factory, and the brothers quickly earned much praise for the quality of their work. James and Thomas Scott specialized in richly elaborate techniques, such as using paste coated in gold to create delicate relief patterns on an object’s surface. James effectively employed that technique to form the elaborate network of veins on the ewer’s painted leaves and the stylized blossoms sprinkled across the plate’s surface.

The Callowhill brothers worked for the Worcester factory from the mid-1850s to 1883. It was toward the end of that period that James decorated the ewer. From the 1870s, James also ran an independent decorating studio in the town of Worcester, where he painted the plate. In the mid-1880s, James and Thomas Scott emigrated from England to the United States, where they worked

at several factories in the mid-Atlantic region, including Faience Manufacturing Company in Brooklyn, New York, and Willets Manufacturing Company and Ceramic Art Company, both in Trenton, New Jersey. The Mint owns three examples of James Callowhill’s works from his tenure at Willets, and they are now complemented by the ewer and plate as representative examples of his work in England.

The full group of Callowhill objects enable the Mint to illustrate the vital roles played by foreign craftsmen in helping to invigorate the creative output of manufactories in the late 19th-century United States. Look for the ewer and plate, along with other Callowhill-decorated objects, when the Mint-organized exhibition Walter Scott Lenox and American Belleek opens at Mint Museum Randolph in September 2023.

ABOVE : J. Callowhill & Company (Worcester, England, circa 1870–85). Plate, circa 1882, soft-paste porcelain, diameter 9 inches. Museum purchase with funds from the Charles W. Beam Accessions Endowment. 2022.16.2. Worcester Royal Porcelain Company (Worcester, England, 1751–2008); James Callowhill, decorator (English, 1838–1917). Ewer, circa 1875, soft-paste porcelain, height 7 1/2 inches. Museum purchase with funds from the Charles W. Beam Accessions Endowment. 2022.16.1

Brian Gallagher is senior curator of decorative arts.

AMERICAN MADE: PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE FROM THE DEMELL JACOBSEN COLLECTION

JOURNEY THROUGH TWO CENTURIES OF AMERICAN ART AND ARTISTS

BY JONATHAN STUHLMAN, PHD

American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection opens September 10 at Mint Museum Uptown and features more than 100 paintings and sculptures from the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation. Though many of objects from the DeMell Jacobsen collection have been on view at other museums, ranging from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum to Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, and the NelsonAtkins Museum of Art, this is the first exhibition featuring a comprehensive selection of the collection’s finest works.

The foundation’s mission “to carefully research and obtain American masterpieces, provide restoration (if necessary), and facilitate long-term loans to accredited museums and traveling exhibitions,” is abundantly represented in American Made.

18th- and 19th-century delights

The exhibition begins with Colonial-era portraits by masters including Benjamin West, Thomas Sully, and Sarah Miriam Peale, before moving on to highlight the development of mid-19th-century landscape painting. Viewers can discover works depicting the United States from coast to coast by such artists as Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Jasper Francis Copsey, and even a monumental arctic scene by William Bradford.

ABOVE: Patrick Henry Bruce (1881–1936). Peinture/Nature Morte (detail), circa 1924, oil and pencil on canvas. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation. REVERSE: John Frederick Kensett (1816–72). Singing Beach & Eagle Rock, Magnolia, Massachusetts (detail), 1864, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation.

A FRUITFUL RELATIONSHIP

The Mint’s relationship with the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation began when Senior Curator of American Art Jonathan Stuhlman, PhD, worked with the foundation to borrow its painting by John Leslie Breck for the Mint’s recent exhibition John Leslie Breck: American Impressionist . It continued with the arrival of the Mint’s President and CEO Todd Herman, PhD. Herman collaborated with the foundation to host the exhibition The Art of Seating: 200

Years of American Design at not one, but two museums at which he had previously worked. Over the past few years, Herman and Stuhlman have worked closely with Diane Jacobsen, PhD, and the foundation staff to develop American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the Demell Jacobsen Collection , the first-ever exhibition of highlights from the deep holdings of the foundation and Jacobsen’s own personal collections of American paintings and sculpture.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Robert Henri (1865–1929). Chow Choy (detail), 1913, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation. William J. McCloskey (1859–1941). Basket of Apples, 1896, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation. Edward Redfield (1869–1965). Birches and Harbor, Maine (detail), circa 1920, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation. Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007). Play at Dark, 1935, oil on canvas board. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation.

Sumptuous still lives are also represented in American Made. Enticing images of fruits, flowers, and other delights by Severin Roesen, John Francis, Charles Ethan Porter, Elizabeth Williams, and Adelaide Coburn Palmer will be featured alongside trompe l’oiel (“fool the eye”) examples by William Michael Harnett, John Haberle, and John Peto.

A number of charming and moralizing genre scenes, often packed with fascinating narrative detail, are also included in the show, including masterpieces by Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau, Seymour Guy, and Daniel Huntington. The American experience in Europe is represented too, featuring many of the most important American artists who traveled abroad to seek training and patronage in the decades leading up to the 20th century. Striking canvases by Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and their fellow overseas travelers are certain to delight visitors.

A rich abundance of 20thcentury art

In the early 20th century, many artists who worked in urban centers chose refuge in coastal locations and rural countrysides. Canvases created in these places by artists like John Sloan, Marsden Hartley, and Bror Nordfeldt, who mingled and shared ideas with their peers, will be on view in American Made

The DeMell Jacobsen collection beautifully illustrates the divergent styles, approaches, and subject matter of artists during the first half of the 20th century. While some artists like Robert Henri, Patrick Henry Bruce, Raymond Jonson, Suzy Frelinghuysen, and Charmion von Wiegand pushed the boundaries of color and form, some eventually embracing a non-objective approach to subject matter, others like Luigi Lucioni, Paul Cadmus, Robert Gwathmey, and Molly Luce remained committed to capturing representational images of American life. Fascinating works from these artists include striking images of urban and rural landscapes and America’s inhabitants.

Accompanying the show is a beautiful catalogue of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen, PhD, Foundation’s entire collection of fine art. Published by D. Giles Ltd., available in the museum shop. And stay tuned: In the fall of 2023 the museum will present another delightful exhibition drawn from the foundation’s holdings: its celebrated collection of American seating furniture.

Jonathan Stuhlman, PhD, is senior curator of American art.

ABOVE : Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923). Sunflowers (detail), circa 1880s, oil on linen canvas. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation.

THE ANATOMY OF FASHION

FASHION REIMAGINED: THEMES AND VARIATIONS

1760-NOW CELEBRATES THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MINT’S FASHION COLLECTION

BY ANNIE CARLANO

Opening December 10 at Mint Museum Uptown, Fashion Reimagined: Themes and Variation 1760-NOW honors the 50th anniversary of the founding of the “Costume Collection” at the Mint by the Mint Museum Auxiliary. The exhibition acknowledges the breadth of the Auxiliary’s vision, and includes 50 fantastic fashions spanning four centuries, from 18th-century aristocratic formal wear to contemporary casual attire.

The Mint Museum has organized and hosted exhibitions featuring leading contemporary fashion designers from private collections and designer’s archives in the past few

Minimalism

Mood: quiet, contemplative, with a little drama around the corner, and an element of surprise

Designers and makers of clothing in the West have been influenced by cultural mores, pervading attitudes about health and gender, art and architecture, world events, trade, and technologies. While most of the historic fashions in Fashion Reimagined were made in Europe or the United States, the fabrics of which they are made — and the people who cut, assembled, and sewed the garments — tell a more global and less glamorous narrative.

Enticed into the galleries by dynamic graphics, passing through the introductory space, the visitor encounters two rows of seven fashions that appear to be floating into infinity. Dresses, suits, and outfits express each designer’s focus on silhouette, contour, and simplicity of the garment, achieving a particular concept and feeling through construction over decoration.

Pattern + Decoration

Mood: upbeat, groovy

Fashions reflecting a distinctive design approach in which the color and surface ornamentation are of primary interest are in this section of the exhibition. Developed centuries ago, simultaneously throughout the world, methods of dyeing and embedding motifs into dress fabrics through resist techniques resulted in deeply saturated cloth with abstract and naturalist patterns.

Printing directly on woven fabric was done by hand by means of carved wood blocks, roller plates, or screen printing. The youthful subculture psychedelic vibe was captured most vividly by fashion designers like Emilio Pucci, whose colorful swirling patterns and acid colors in body-hugging silhouettes swathed the body in an ebullient energy. Color and pattern can also be created in the weaving process, inserting assorted colors of thread, and forming abstract or figurative designs on looms, with gold and silver threads often inserted to create a sense of sparkle and texture.

years. These exhibitions allowed Mint staff and outside consultants time to organize, assess, research, conserve, and photograph the museum’s own illustrious fashion holdings leading to the creation of the exhibition Fashion Reimagined: Themes and Variations 1760-NOW

Fashion Reimagined looks at the Mint’s fashion collection through three pervasive themes: minimalism, pattern and decoration, and the body reimagined, each eliciting a distinct mood.

British East India Company.

Unknown Maker. Neoclassical mull dress, 1810, cotton, cotton thread. Collection of The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. Museum Purchase: Auxiliary Costume Fund. 2009.33.2.

REVERSE: Iris van Herpen (Dutch, 1984–). Labyrinthine Dress (detail), Spring 2020, silk organza. Collection of The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Ann and Michael Tarwater. 2022.22.1.

The morning dress depicted here is an exquisite example of the popularity of reductive ancient Greek and Roman dress, in fashion from about 1790 to 1820. The simple columanar high waisted design is made of the finest most sheer cotton muslin, called mull, the work of extraordinary spinners and weavers in Bengal, India who worked under horrendous conditions, with scant remuneration, under the control of the

During the 1960s and 1970s, major couture houses appropriated Central Asian ikat, Senegalese tie dye, Indonesian batik, and Japanese paste resist and shibori from do-it-yourself crafters and small hippie boutiques.

Roy Halston Frowick (American, 1932–90). Evening Caftan, circa 1970, silk. Collection of The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. From a Southern Collection. 1999.65.69.

Wale Ojejide for Ikre Jones, utilizes a variety of fabric types and references various cultures and historic periods in his contemporary men’s fashions. Worn by the protagonist in the film “After Migration: Calabria,” the bold designs and opulence of the garments underscore the powerful narrative of disenfranchisement and redemption.

Walé Oyéjidé (Nigerian-American, 1981–). Man’s Suit. Collection of The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Clay and Deidre Grubb. 2022.18.1-4.

The Body Reimagined

Mood: exaggerated, extravagant, lavish

An intimate curvilinear space that feels like a big hug, “The Body Reimagined” is the closing section of the exhibition where fashion designs expand and exaggerate the body — or parts thereof — with an emphasis on the garment as kinetic sculpture.

The architecture of this space serves its theme. At ground level, one is surrounded by voluminous gowns, such as a rare English 18th-century sack back while niches above contain dresses where one part of the body and one detail of garment construction is emphasized, such as the upper arm and large puffy sleeves of spectacular evening dresses.

Ceremonial dress, fashions designed for special occasions, and rites of passage, including wedding ensembles, were — and continue to be — lavished with extra construction elements and fine fabrics. The most voluminous fashions on the platforms are two wedding ensembles from the mid- and third-quarter of the 19th century. Made in the United States, these wedding dresses cover layers of body shaping devices, hoops and bustles, and layers of petticoats, and express both wealth and fecundity in the wide bell-shaped skirt, and amplitude of the derriere. Today, innovative designers from throughout the globe continue to reimagine the body and create transformative experiences for the wearer and audience.

This spectacular evening dress by the legendary French couturier Mme. Gres is on view in “The Body Reimagined” section of Fashion Reimagined.

Madame Alix Gres (French, 1903–1993). Evening Sheath with Matching Neck Scarf, circa 1970-1975, silk. Collection of The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. Museum Purchase: Auxiliary Costume Fund. 1997.125A-B.

THE MAKING OF FASHION REIMAGINED

Fashion Reimagined: Themes and Variations 1760NOW required the expertise of many knowledgeable and skilled individuals to accomplish this gargantuan task, with each team member working on their own and collectively to create of a breathtaking experience for the museum visitor.

The exhibition is designed by DLR architects Andrew Gale, Emily Moore, and Vanessa Kassabian. Consulting costume and textile specialist Tae Smith served as conservator and dresser. Julia Kraft, registrar for the exhibition, handled a myriad of details and complex tasks.

The exhibition catalogue is produced by Dan Giles UK. Thank you to Jay Everette and Wells Fargo Wealth and Investment Management for believing in this project and ongoing support of the Mint’s fashion initiatives. Special thanks also to the Mint Museum Auxiliary, and Liz Shuford, as well as Bank of OZK for their generous support of the exhibition.

A LOOK BACK AT 50 YEARS OF FASHION AT THE MINT

BY ELLEN SHOW

This year marks 50 years since the Fashion Collection at The Mint Museum was established. Three members of the Mint Museum Woman’s Auxiliary are credited with founding what they called the “Costume Collection” in 1972. Lillian Crosland, Ruth Lucas, and Hannah Withers conceived of the collection to preserve family heirloom garments at a time when antique clothing was not valued as history or art.

They formed the first Costume Collection Committee of the Woman’s Auxiliary and led a group of volunteers in soliciting donations and repairing and displaying the donated fashions. In those early days, they accepted all donations of historic men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing. Arthur J. “Pete” Ballard, curator of the costume collection at Reynolda House Museum of American Art in WinstonSalem, advised the committee on a volunteer basis. He also taught classes in garment restoration to many volunteers who maintained the burgeoning collection during the 1970s and early 1980s, as well as designing and curating costume exhibitions with the Costume Committee.

The Mint Museum of Art hosted its first costume exhibition, Fashions 1840-1940, in 1976. The exhibition featured 101 garments and accessories exclusive to the Mint’s collection. The costume committee also supplied dressed mannequins for displays outside the museum, including several of the annual Woman’s Auxiliary Antiques Shows, the 1977 Southern Christmas Show, and a 1982 Charlotte Symphony post-gala dessert party.

When The Mint Museum of History opened on July 3, 1976, its Historical Fashion Gallery became the main exhibition space for the Costume Collection. Exhibitions with

evocative titles like You Bet Your Bloomers and Don’t Go Near the Water: Bathing Suits Old & New continued almost yearly until 1985. Touring exhibitions also originated at The Mint Museum of History during this period.

In 1987, The Mint Museum of Art hired its first staff curator of costumes, Patricia Roath, through the generosity of an anonymous donor. She curated the 1989 inaugural exhibition of The Mint Museum of Art Costume Gallery: Quiet Grace and Liveliness: Cotton Print Dresses 18251865. Jane Starnes succeeded Roath in 1989, and two years later, the museum established costume as a distinct curatorial department.

Charles Mo, hired in 1984 as curator of fine arts, assumed responsibility for the Historic Costume Collection in 1996. It was later renamed the Historic Costume and Fashionable Dress Collection as garments by designers, such as Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Oscar de la Renta, were donated or purchased, chiefly with funds provided by the Mint Museum Auxiliary.

In 2013, Annie Carlano, senior curator for craft, design, and fashion, accepted the stewardship of what is now called the Fashion Collection. With her guidance and the continuing support of the Mint Museum Auxiliary and generous donors, the collection continues to grow in quality and stature.

Ellen Show is the director of library and archives.

Annie Carlano is the senior curator of craft, design, and fashion.

MINT TO CREATE

THE FIRST EXHIBITION SOLELY CURATED WITH WORKS BY MUSEUM STAFF

BY MICHELE HUGGINS

In June, the Mint opened its first exhibition showcasing employee artwork. Titled Mint to Create , more than 40 Mint staffers — from the museum librarian, registrars, educators, and even the Mint’s CEO — have works in the first-ever employee art show on view to the public. All Mint employees were invited to submit works of art to the exhibition, resulting in a showcase of talented creatives that inspire and are inspired by art themselves. Some of the employees who have works on view are professional artists who work at the Mint, while others make art as hobby in their free time. Works range from still-life paintings to woven textiles, photography to ceramics and charcoals.

Mint to Create is on view and open to the public through September 15 in the Star Gallery on the Mezzanine Level at Mint Museum Uptown.

Michele Huggins is the associate director of marketing and communications.

OPPOSITE: Laura Lynn Roth (New York City, 1962–). Prodigal Son (detail), 2016, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.

WHO’S WHO AND WHAT DO THEY DO?

GET TO KNOW SOME OF THE MINT’S NEWEST STAFF, THEIR INTERESTS AND HOW THEY ENJOY TIME OUTSIDE THE MUSEUM

Since August 2022, The Mint Museum has added 30 employees filling roles throughout departments in the museum. From the guest services associates who greet visitors to marketing, development, collections and exhibitions, human resources, curatorial, and learning and engagement, team members in each

department are integral to making the museum experience exceptional. These individuals put their talents to use at the museum each day, but life goes on beyond the museum walls. Here we share a few things that might surprise you about some of the newest Mint employees.

MARGARET MAULDIN

Assistant Head of School & Gallery Programs

HOMETOWN: Winter Park, Florida

FUN FACT: I do a pretty good impression of a baby alligator call. If I had a superpower, I would love to know the history of an object just by touching it. It would make interpretation of historical artifacts really fun.

CLAYTON SEALEY

Senior Director of Marketing & Communications

HOMETOWN: Charlotte

FUN FACT: If I had not gone to art school at Savannah College of Art and Design, I would have gone to music school to be a concert trumpet player. I love music and I grew up playing in punk, ska, and surf punk bands.

JAMILA BROWN

HOMETOWN: Raleigh, North Carolina

FUN FACT: I have a dream of living on an island and growing my own fruits and food one day.

WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST STAFF MEMBERS

ACCOUNTING

Ulanda Brister

Jennifer Williams

ADVANCEMENT

Amy Tribble

COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS

Chris Georgalas

Che Machado

Sara Renaud

Scott Waltz

Meghann Zekan

CURATORIAL

Jamila Brown

Jennifer Winford

GUEST SERVICES

Cecelia Atwood

Romario O. Brown

Alex Guiterrez-Mendez

Prenisha Reid

LEARNING & ENGAGEMENT

Aslin Chavarria Ayala

Molly Humphries

Margaret Mauldin

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Arionna Johnson

Shelby McVicker

Clayton Sealey

THE MINT MUSEUM STORE

Mary Kate Decot

Jack Gustafson

Randy LeCompte

Kayla Lucas

Miguel Ramos

Millicent Read

SPECIAL EVENTS

Carl Brown

Andrea DiBiasio

Becca Mendelsohn

Aliya Saengchanh

Curatorial Assistant

OPPOSITE: Jamila Brown in front of a work by Naudline Pierre at James Cohan Gallery during a Contemporary Collector group trip to New York City.

SARA RENAUD

Visual Resources Coordinator

HOMETOWN: Ankeny, Iowa

FUN FACT: I taught myself archery at 15.

ARIONNA JOHNSON

Digital Strategist

HOMETOWN: Dayton, Ohio

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ROMANTICIZING THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE

A CONVERSATION WITH ARTIST STACY LYNN WADDELL ABOUT HER WORK LANDSCAPE WITH RAINBOW AS THE SUN BLASTS THE SKY (FOR R.S.D.) 1859/2022, NOW PART OF THE MINT COLLECTION

In 2021, Art Papers published an article about a new series of works by Durham-based artist Stacy Lynn Waddell in which she examines the history of landscape through the work of 19th-century English American painter Thomas Cole and self-taught Black Pittsburgh-based sculptor Thaddeus Mosley. The Mint’s Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art Jen Sudul Edwards, PhD, took notice.

As an extension of the series influenced by Cole and Mosley, Waddell created Landscape with Rainbow as the Sun Blasts the Sky (for R.S.D.) 1859/2022: an homage to American artist Robert S. Duncanson’s 1859 painting Landscape with Rainbow, which is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and was displayed in the United States Capitol Rotunda in 2021 in honor of the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden. Duncanson was one of the most important Black artists of the 19th century. This event brought significant national attention to Duncanson, who remains little known beyond art history circles.

The Mint Museum is pleased to have acquired Waddell’s tribute to Duncanson: Landscape with Rainbow as the Sun Blasts the Sky (for R.S.D.) 1859/2022, which will be a part of an upcoming reinstallation of the American galleries at Mint Museum Uptown in 2023. Mint curators Jonathan Stuhlman, PhD, and Jennifer Sudul Edwards, PhD, caught up with Waddell to discuss her inspiration behind the work. Lightly edited for brevity and clarity.

Jonathan Stuhlman, PhD: We are doing a rotation in the Mint’s permanent collection galleries next summer, shifting focus from different approaches to portraiture to different approaches in landscape. I am really looking forward to including Landscape with Rainbow as Sun Blasts the Sky (for R.S.D.) 1859/2022 in that. There are earlier works in this series dedicated to Thomas Cole and Thaddeus Mosley. What made you decide to extend it beyond them to Duncanson and to this painting in particular?

Stacy Lynn Waddell: I was given an opportunity to show work in a four-page spread in the publication Art Papers. I thought it was a perfect opportunity to examine the core of the romantic idea of how we have come to be as a country. We know there are holes in all of that — it is moth-eaten — but thinking about Thomas Cole and Thaddeus Mosley was really about access. How do I reconfigure or have people take another look at some of Cole’s most important paintings by inserting Mosley and his works into the scene, and drawing parallels between the lives of the two men as naturalists. The other thing was to bring forward an interest in landscape. One of the things that I have thought a lot about, especially during 2020, was access. You couldn’t go places. Once we realized that outside was a safe space to convene, then I feel like the doors were blown off in terms of how people thought about being outside.

JS: Suddenly, everyone is an outdoorsman.

SLW: Everybody! So, I was thinking about that, too: how we do not necessarily consider the space that we have. We do not consider our dependency upon nature and how we have disrespected that relationship.

JS: Then you shift from the Cole/Mosley series to Duncanson. Was it because of his importance as the first and best-known Black American landscape painter?

SLW: Yes. When the painting was rededicated, I thought, “yeah, this is the moment.” Think of the biblical significance around a rainbow and the promise — just this idea of a promise. Another thing that the pandemic did was push us to keenly focus on political discourse. To have this painting emerge during the inauguration as a kind of promise, it just struck me as something that seemed important.

Also, the fact that here is a Black man (Duncanson) at a time when Black people had no access. This painting was made in 1859, American slavery was still the order of the day, yet Duncanson was able to access and occupy spaces in America and abroad. I found that to be fascinating. It stood as an emblem of possibility for the onlooker and me as a Black woman from the South functioning as an artist.

JS: Duncanson’s painting, and the rainbow’s landing on the cabin in the wilderness, has been interpreted as symbolizing divine blessing on westward expansion, yet we were doing so at the expense of all the people who originally lived on the land. There is an irony there as he was a Black artist painting on the eve of the Civil War. Duncanson soon thereafter just got the heck out and went to England by way of Canada and left the country for several years. So, to me, it is a painting that is loaded with so many tensions and ironies.

STACY LYNN WADDELL

Photo by Jay Caldwell

What led you to pick the tondo (circular) format for these works and the details in the way that you have done — piecing in the panels in the sky with the rounded swirl. To me, it calls to mind the arc of the rainbow, but I’d love to know more about how you landed on the bit of the picture you chose and the way that you put it together.

SLW: I started thinking about how I would intervene upon the original painting. What would make the most sense for me, someone who loves to appropriate. I do a lot of that in my art. I find photographs and other images that I take and insert a different meaning or myself into the work. Tondos are typically formats of paintings that we ascribe to religious works. The circle points to an internal way of connecting to something. My pieces are works on handmade paper made in India that is very irregular with deckled edges, but still round. So, you still fall into that place.

My drawings are created by burning paper. I am burning paper and then I am adding gilded (gold) material. I love surface texture. I thought, “why don’t you just reinterpret paintings in your materials that are all about surface interest?”

The paintings I am referencing in this also call attention to the environment. Gold leaf is tough on the environment. It is metal. It is gold pounded into sheets with a decorative pattern inlaid. All the alchemy and all the gathering of metals happen before I get the material to use it. So, when I’m using this material, I’m thinking about science, the environment, and the optical illusion of seeing a rainbow.

It is interesting to me to overlay a lot of our contemporary concerns onto a painting that was about an ironic look at a promise. What is it that we really stand for as a country? What is it? What direction are we really going in? It is natural for me to take what I do and lay it on top of something else and then hope that someone gathers something from it.

Hopefully, what the viewer can extract from looking at this series is going well beyond looking at a landscape and even beyond the Duncanson references. The materials may lead them back to some of the concerns: the environment, the landscape, their relationship to it, and what, if anything, are they doing to protect these spaces.

Jen Sudul Edwards, PhD: One of the things that I find so interesting about Duncanson is that with romanticism over the last 100 years, we have been much more critical about it as a practice, of it being nostalgic to avoid reality, whitewashing history to erase crimes against humanity that were going on at the time. You mention the irony that is embedded in Duncanson’s treatment of it, but I also find a kernel of a reminder in Duncanson, and in your series, that romanticism was also created because of a need for

hope. Was that a consideration of your series, which was started during the pandemic and has the need for a rainbow at the end.

SLW: Artists are romantics, especially the idea of romanticism as a longing or looking at something lovingly or looking back at something and thinking that there is always hope. It is what we do every day in the making of the work. To be an artist, you are pulling things out of thin air with the hope that someone will come along and find interest in it — just to create a relationship with it through the eye and through the gut. But then also, to maybe buy it and show it and talk about it and write about it. I think that at the heart of all of us, we are all romantics.

I mean, for me, I grew up in the rural South. I ran through fields and grew up on a farm and have a clear relationship to the out of doors, to the land, to owning land. It is not a foreign idea for me to know that people can own land and own large parts of it. My great grandfather, Zollie Coffey Massenburg, owned hundreds of acres at a time when a Black man in rural North Carolina, did not. When he passed, his 14 children all got large plots of land, one of them being my maternal grandmother. When I pass an open field, immediately, there is something that is pricked in me about remembering, longing, and wanting that to be kept whole. No one’s going to buy this and build on it. If we could just have green spaces. The idea of romanticism is deeply embedded in me.

I think when people stand in front of work, there is a romantic gesture that is happening internally with whatever work they are looking at. You bond with it. You are creating a relationship. Whether you realize it or not, you are siphoning through your personal and psychic experiences. It is a romantic way of engaging with something.

So yes, I come to everything as a romantic, as someone who has a longing. I think my interest in appropriation is a romantic gesture to see something and want to make it not better, but to make conditions better and add my voice to that, to envision a better world. The only way that I know how to do that is just with the materials and things that I love working with.

REVERSE: Stacy Lynn Waddell (American, 1966–). Landscape with Rainbow as the Sun Blasts the Sky (for R.S.D.), 1859/2022, burned handmade paper with blue pencil, variegated metal and composition gold leaf, 16 inches in diameter. Photo by Kunning Huang.

THE DEIA MINDSET IS ALIVE AT THE MINT

BY RUBIE BRITT-HEIGHT

From board and qualified staffing selections, to exhibitions, programming, and contractors ranging from artists, musicians, and photographers, the Mint has implemented numerous diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) programs and initiatives in 2022.

The American Alliance of Museums praised the Mint's DEIA work as part of its re-accreditation review. The commission specifically lauded the Mint's attention to diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion, DEIA staff engagement, and community engagement.

Following are a few behind-the-scenes highlights from the Mint’s DEIA initiatives.

Growing equitable strategies

The museum’s in-house DEIA Leadership Advisory Council, led by Human Resources Director Ebony HouseBradshaw and myself, is comprised of staff across museum departments and serves as the internal DEIA clearing house for perspectives, policies, and planning. The group ensures DEIA presence is respected and successfully implemented.

In spring of 2022, a group of Mint department heads joined the Community Building Initiative’s five-week equity impact circle with other Charlotte cultural leaders. The goal of the program is to provide participants with knowledge, skills, and courage to fight bias, remove barriers to opportunity, and build a more equitable and just Mecklenburg County. In fiscal year 2023, the Mint will host a series of training sessions on anti-bias and antiracism for staff and volunteers.

Staffing diversity

In fiscal year 2022, 28% of the Mint’s staff were classified as being diverse and staff diversity rose by 8%.

Justin Williams joined us as the Mint’s human resource coordinator. He brings several years experience as a visitor services staffer at the Mint and is a UNC Charlotte graduate

in African American studies/history. He, along with HouseBradshaw, create a regular DEIA newsletter for staff that highlights significant history month achievements, gallery scavenger hunts, book readings, and more.

Programming with purpose

This summer, staff were invited to gather for our “Let’s Talk About It” program to discuss issues and concerns related to art, race, gender, and bias. DEIA inclusion also is evident in the museum’s staff exhibition Mint to Create — the first-ever staff exhibition with an employeeengagement focus.

The Mint is working to become more welcoming and accessible for those with hearing, vision, and/or mobility issues. Davidson College interns Sarah Orchard and Sarah Zhang have been researching broader accessibility measures for both museum locations. Part of their work includes creating fact sheets and drafting label copy for our cultural permanent collection: the African Gallery, Mayan textiles, and Chinese Robe installations.

Sustainable support

In addition to building DEIA measurable outcomes into the museum’s latest strategic plan and designating DEIA operational funding in the Mint's budget, the Mint is actively seeking grants and donors to widen our circle of support. Some additional funding resources include the American Rescue Grant, the Coveted Couture gala paddle raise, and the Arts and Science Council Endowment Grant.

Rubie Britt-Height is director of community relations and co-leader of the DEIA Leadership Advisory Council.

DEIA outside the museum walls

Community engagement is one of the many ways the museum is striving to make art and artistic programming available to all. Community relations programming like Mint to Move Cultural Dance Night, Community Conversations, and Bilingual Stories and Music highlight ethnicities and cultural contributions throughout the Queen City.

The Mint actively supports CharlotteMecklenburg Schools students and teachers by partnering to offer Free Art Kits to the Community in Schools program. Each month, the Learning and Engagement Family Program team creates and distributes the Mint's distinctive free art kits, reaching far across Mecklenburg County. Each kit features a color reproduction of work from the Mint's collection, materials, tools, and instructions. Over 6,000 kits have been distributed to Communities and Schools.

The Grier Heights Youth Arts program also is a regular art kit recipient. Now in its 18th year, the Grier Heights Youth Arts Program uses the arts to teach students in grades 4-12 self and mutual respect, social and emotional skills, wellness, nutrition, and engaged citizenship. The Grier Heights Neighborhood Improvement Organization assisted with door-todoor delivery of food, supplies, and art projects created by Mint staff and local artists. Staff and volunteers organized the Stuff the Bus and Coat, Hat, and Glove Drive to numerous organizations, including the Boys and Girls Club and Center for Community Transitions.

IMAGES: ( From top left) Community Volunteer Jeanette Price with participants from the Grier Heights Youth Arts Program; Making art during a Summer Session; Bilingual Stories and Music; Criss Cross Mangosauce co-founders Irania Patterson and Ana Lucia Divins; Live Painting with Julio Gonzalez; and Dances of India.

THE MINT MUSEUM BIDS FAREWELL TO TWO BELOVED MUSEUM AFFILIATES

BY MICHELE HUGGINS

The Mint Museum’s affiliate organizations provide Mint members even more opportunities to become involved and contribute to the museum in meaningful ways. These groups are passionate about art and support the museum’s growth in a multitude of ways. Here, we tip our hats and thank the Delhom Service League and Friends of the Mint, two long-time affiliate groups, for their groups’ dedication and support throughout multiple decades as affiliates of the Mint.

Delhom Service League

For 50 years, beginning in 1972, the Delhom Service League served as the ceramics affiliate to The Mint Museum. Organized in 1972, following the arrival of Miss M. Mellanay Delhom and her outstanding collection of historical pottery and porcelain, the Delhom group has had a profound impact in supporting key projects of the museum’s decorative arts program.

DSL was the principal sponsor for Portals to the Past: British Ceramics 1675-1825, and fully funded the catalogue related to the installation. The Delhom group also fully funded the catalogue for the Mint’s 2020 special exhibition Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries and have committed to fully funding the Mint’s 2023 exhibition Walter Scott Lenox and American Belleek. Potters Market at the Mint was its signature fundraising event that attracted expert potters and pottery-lovers from throughout the state and beyond, and the group shared virtual tours of potters at work in their studios during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The Delhom Service League has been a vital part of the Mint community for 50 years. They have sponsored countless public programs by renowned speakers, funded many wonderful acquisitions for the Mint’s permanent collection, and of course founded and then organized every year the perennially popular Potters Market at the Mint,” says Brian Gallagher, senior curator of decorative arts at The Mint Museum and museum liaison to the DSL. “I am personally very grateful for the Delhom’s generous support of key projects in the museum’s decorative arts department.”

The Friends of the Mint

Offering great minds-on, salon-style programming from 1965 to 2022, the Friends of the Mint were art trailblazers, says Cynthia Moreno, director of learning and engagement and liaison to the Friends of the Mint.

Fueled by the Friends’ efforts, the Charlotte community connected with an exciting array of international and local artists and curators through engaging public programs on a wide variety of arts-related topics, and inspired many passionate museum-loving “friends” to step up and actively support the Mint and the greater Charlotte art scene.

“The events connected us to what was happening in our Charlotte backyard, from showcasing residency artists creating custom works for the CATS (Charlotte Area Transit System) light rail to visiting scholars like Erica Hirshler, curator of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, speaking on John Leslie Breck,” Moreno says. “I love the intellectual energy and verve that the Friends stimulated with their lineup of stellar guest artists and curators.”

In May of 2022, the Friends of the Mint officially dissolved due to declining membership. As a parting gift, the Friends of the Mint gave Jon Stuhlman, PhD, senior curator for American art at the Mint, a 19th-century period frame for the Mint’s portrait of Suzanne Hoschede-Monet Sewing by Impressionist artist John Leslie Breck.

Michele Huggins is associate director of marketing and communications.

AFFILIATES IN ACTION

Charlotte Garden Club

It was another record-breaking year for the Charlotte Garden Club’s Art in the Garden Tour, with more ticket sales, sponsor donations, and new members joining than ever before. The annual showcase of spectacular private gardens drew over 900 tour-goers and wrapped up with a party at Mint Museum Randolph that showcased canvases from plein-air artists painting in the gardens. Now 350-plus members strong, the club’s lineup of internationally known speakers kicks off September 19 with Kelly Norris, an award-winning author and plantsman featured in The New York Times , Better Homes and Gardens , Martha Stewart Living, and Fine Gardening. Follow all the happenings on Instagram and Facebook @CLTGardenClub.

Docents of the Mint

Museum docents are excited to welcome a new class of docent candidates to engage with K-12 students and adult audiences in the Mint’s gallery spaces, as well as through virtual tours, in the 2022-23 academic year. Working with the museum’s Learning and Engagement team, a host of new and refreshed tour program experiences and new themes are planned around upcoming special exhibitions and the museum’s permanent collection. Some highlights: Craft in the Laboratory: The Science of Making Things tour programs, thematic adult tours like “Art of Reading,” and school tours of the upcoming Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds exhibition opening in February 2023.

Mint Museum Auxiliary

The Mint Museum Auxiliary is excited for its upcoming season of events. On November 16, the auxiliary welcomes Adam Lippes for the Fall Enrichment Forum. Lippes grew up in Buffalo, New York, and studied at Cornell University and the American University in Paris. After a brief flirtation with investment banking, he began his fashion career at Ralph Lauren before joining Oscar de la Renta, where he became one of the youngest creative directors of a luxury fashion house. After his tenure at Oscar de la Renta, he launched his own fashion line. Widely published for fashion, interiors and travel, Lippes is a tastemaker who provides an authentic point of reference for the brand’s audience who will share his story when visiting in November.

Young Affiliates of the Mint

The Young Affiliates of the Mint is looking forward to its annual Charlotte YP Mixer September 14. The citywide event welcomes young professionals in Charlotte interested in learning about the interests and missions of different Charlotte-area young professional organizations. This mixer has consistently been one of the most well attended young professional mixers in the city.

The YAMs Fall Ball returns November 5 to Mint Museum Uptown. The annual signature black-tie gala attracts several hundred young professionals for a night of delicious food, specialty cocktails, and live entertainment.

Mark your calendar for Derby Days May 6, 2023 at Mint Museum Randolph. The Kentucky Derby-themed celebration brings together hundreds of friends old and new to enjoy live music, lawn games and, of course, bigscreen viewing of the Kentucky Derby.

Pottery demonstrations, live bluegrass, food trucks, a cash bar, and hundreds of pieces of pottery for sale by North Carolina artists — it can only mean one thing — Potters Market at the Mint is back at Mint Museum Randolph. Considered by many to be the premier ceramics event in the state, Potters Market at the Mint features pottery for every taste, including functional ware, abstract sculptures, and decorative pieces.

Organized by The Delhom Service League — The Mint Museum’s ceramics affiliate for half a century — Potters Market has been a celebrated annual program since 2005. Last year’s event was attended by more than 2,000 pottery enthusiasts and first-time buyers alike.

The annual event holds a special place in the heart of Brian Gallagher, senior curator of decorative arts at The Mint Museum. “Since it was founded by the Delhom Service League in 2005, the annual Potters Market at the Mint has played an instrumental role in exposing North Carolinians and others to the state’s incredibly rich ceramic tradition and immensely talented potters. As you walk through the tent each year, you cannot help but be impressed by the wide variety of superbly crafted ceramic objects on display.” He muses, “Although ‘turning pots’ dates back for centuries in the state, there is no denying that the tradition remains just as vibrant and innovative today as it always has been.”

For Annie Carlano, senior curator of craft, design and fashion at the Mint, her passion is the area’s pottery history, and event’s reach.

FIRED UP!

POTTERS MARKET AT THE MINT RETURNS SEPTEMBER 24

BY CLAYTON SEALEY

“North Carolina is known nationally as a clay state — our rich natural resources providing the clay and kaolin for hand built-and-turned utilitarian and sculptural works,” she says. “Throughout the state, from Seagrove to the mountains, neighborhoods of potters include generations of makers, as well as those who have moved to the region recently, from as far as Japan, for both the quality of the clay and the collaborative spirit of the ceramics communities. Their creativity is astounding, and their work is increasingly gaining a national audience.”

Visitors to the Potters Market that want to take a step back in time and go on a historic journey through North Carolina pottery can visit the installation The Cole Family: A Dynasty of North Carolina Potters on view at Mint Museum Randolph. The installation, which opened in May, features 60 pieces from 18 individuals, covering six generations of the Cole family that have been potting in central North Carolina for more than 200 years. Potters Market ticketholders have free admission to Mint Museum Randolph throughout the weekend of the event.

Potters Market has been proudly presented by the DSL for the past 18 years and has been one of the most wellreceived events at the Mint since its establishment. Following this year’s dissolution of the DSL, the Mint is pleased to continue the tradition of organizing Potters Market and supporting North Carolina potters from Murphy to Manteo.

Clayton Sealey is the senior director of marketing and communications.

FEATURED POTTERS INCLUDE:

MARK ARNOLD

ANJA BARTELS

CHRISTINA BENDO

BENYO POTTERY

RENEE CALDER

NAOMI DALGLISH AND MICHAEL HUNT

WILL DICKERT

GILLAN DOTY

HOG HILL POTTERY

TERRY GESS

MIKE HAMLIN

PHIL HARALAM

DEBORAH HARRIS

JASON HARTSOE

HARRY HEARNE

CANDICE HENSLEY

MARK HEWITT

TRISTA HUDZIK

JOHNSTON AND GENTITHES STUDIOS

CHRISTINE KOSIBA

NANCY KUBALE

LEAH LEITSON

BECKY LLOYD

ANDREW MASSEY

JENNIFER MECCA

ROBERT MILNES

LARA O’KEEFE

BEN OWEN POTTERY

GILLIAN PARKE

PARADOX POTTERY

PARMENTIER POTTERY

RON PHILBECK

GRETCHEN QUINN

JOHN RANSMEIER

BARRY RHODES

DAVID ROSWELL

JOSEPH SAND

GREG SCOTT

GALEN SEDBERRY

KEN SEDBERRY

JOEY SHEEHAN

JENNY LOU SHERBURNE

ANDY SMITH

GAY SMITH

ANDREW STEPHENSON

DAVID STUEMPFLE

JOY TANNER AND WILLIAM BAKER

KATE WALTMAN

EVELYN WARD

MELISSA WEISS

JULIE WIGGINS

POTTERS MARKET AT THE MINT WILL BE HELD 10 AM–4 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 UNDER THE BIG TENT ON THE FRONT LAWN OF MINT MUSEUM RANDOLPH. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT POTTERSMARKETATTHEMINT.COM

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TRAVEL WITH THE MINT

THE CROWN SOCIETY TRAVEL PROGRAM CONNECTS MEMBERS TO ART AND INSPIRATION WORLDWIDE

The Crown Society Travel Program offers our most generous and loyal Crown members art-infused experiences that delight, enrich, and inspire even the most seasoned traveler. Our trips are about seeing fabulous art, and enjoying the culture of new destinations, while strengthening friendships with fellow Mint supporters and staff.

From Bentonville to Berlin, Dresden to Durham, the 2022–2023 Mint trip roster features special access to museum exhibitions, private collections, and studio visits,

which only the Mint can organize with help from curators, artists, and colleagues in the art world. Our guests will stay in the most chic of accommodations and enjoy fabulous group meals with attention paid to every detail. For more information or to inquire about eligibility for a particular trip, please reach out to Kitty Hall at kitty. hall@mintmuseum.org or 704.337.2034. Note that some details may change as we make preparations, and that an e-vite will go out to members of our Crown Society well in advance of each trip.

CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

BERLIN

Venice to Milan: Splendors of Northern Italy

October 23–30, 2022

Travelers will join Venetian art expert and Mint President and CEO Todd Herman, PhD, and Chief Curator Jennifer Sudul Edwards, PhD, for a once in a lifetime experience specially curated for The Mint Museum. Beginning in Venice, highlights include an after-hours visit to San Marco, tours of the famous Venice Biennale, and a private visit and dinner at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum. In Milan, guests will have after-hours access to Leonardo’s famous Last Supper, private access to one of the most beautiful villas on stunning Lake Como, and an exclusive dinner at a home and museum in Milan. This trip is currently sold out.

Raleigh and Durham

November 10–11, 2022

Join friends for a short road trip and overnight to see Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960 at the Nasher Museum in Durham, and A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from The Phillips Collection at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. Guests will stay and dine at the lovely Umstead Hotel in Raleigh.

Silver Circle+ / $1,180 per couple based on double occupancy or $925 for a single

Bentonville, Arkansas

April 4–6, 2023

The Mint is returning to Bentonville and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Whether you visited with us in 2017, or this is the first time, you’ll want to be part of the group seeing the museum’s phenomenal permanent collection, as well as the special exhibition Diego Rivera’s America , which will be on view at the time. The Crystal Bridges campus also includes a home by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, sculpture-filled nature trails, and the museum’s space for contemporary art, The Momentary. Accommodations will be at the chic, artfilled 21-c Museum Hotel Bentonville.

Silver Circle+ / $1,950 per couple based on double occupancy or $1,375 for a single

Berlin and Dresden

July 10–18, 2023

Join Mint President and CEO Todd Herman, PhD, for an in depth tour of two of Germany’s — and Europe’s — most significant artistic and architectural splendors. In Berlin, travelers will see the Baroque city center with its grand squares and boulevards built by the 17th- and 18th-century Kings of Prussia. Visitors will see important WWII, Third Reich, and Cold War sites, visit private homes and collections, and spend time in many of the most important museums in Europe. In Dresden, the group will enjoy visits to private collections, as well as the 300-year-old collection of jewels at the Green Vault museum.

Platinum Plus Circle+ / Pricing to be determined

Chicago

August or September 2023, exact date TBC

Guests will enjoy a visit to Monique Meloche Gallery, a private art collection, the Chicago Botanic Garden, and the treasure-filled Art Institute of Chicago.

Silver Circle+ / Pricing to be determined

EVENTS AT THE MINT

WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE: QC GARMINT DISTRICT

In February, More than 600 visitors attended the runway fashion show QC GarMINT District featuring works by fashion designers Tara Davis, Megan Lagueruela, Gordon Holliday, Brehon Williams, and Gege Gilzene. The event was coordinated in partnership with Davita Galloway, co-owner of DUPP&SWATT; and Charlotte-based professional model and runway coach Jennifer Michelle, owner of J Model Executives. Charlotte influencer Ohavia Phillips emceed, music was provided by DJ Dammit Wesley, plus an additional performance by B&C Ballroom. Wednesday Night Live is generously presented by Bank of America.

The finale runway walk with models wearing designs by Gege Gilzene. Runway turns in fashion designs by Tara Davis.

Designer Megan Lagueruela (far right) behind the scenes with models wearing her megan.ilene designs.

Designer Gordon Holliday with Brandon Crooms and designer J. Reid.

A model wearing a design by Gordon Holliday.

Models strut the runway in designs by Brehon Williams.

COVETED COUTURE GALA 2022

The highly anticipated 2022 Coveted Couture Gala and Closing of The World of Anna Sui was an incredible success. Guests, including designer Anna Sui, enjoyed an evening filled with fashion, socializing, music, and dancing to support The Mint Museum. A special thank you to presenting sponsor PNC Bank, gala co-chairs Marty and Weston Andress, the host committee, and all our gala and exhibition sponsors.

Todd Herman, PhD, president at CEO at the Mint; Hillary Cooper, chief advancement officer at the Mint; and gala attendee Harry Gerard.

Designer Anna Sui with her niece Isabelle Sui.

Gala guests dressed to the nines for a night of socializing in support of the Mint.

Ranzeno Frazier and Hade E. Robinson Jr.

Theresa Johnson with Mint board of trustees member Manuel Rodriguez.

Coveted Couture Gala co-chairs Marty and Weston Andress.

JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION WITH ARTIST NELLIE ASHFORD

Artist Nellie Ashford’s Generations and Juke Joint were dedicated on Sunday, June 19 at the Mint Museum Uptown. “A Juneteenth Day Celebration with Artist Nellie R. Ashford and Friends” drew over 200 guests with art, music, desserts, and fellowship.

The group of women donors who supported the acquisition of Generations and Juke Joint toast artist Nellie Ashford

Artist Nellie Ashford with Mint Board of Trustees immediate past chair Natalie Frazier Allen.

Two Charlotte newcomers join Dr. Don G. Timpton and his daughter.

Mint president and CEO Todd Herman, PhD, with Nellie Ashford.

DIEDRICK BRACKENS: ARK OF BULRUSHES

VIP OPENING

Diedrick Brackens: ark of bulrushes opened July 16 at Mint Museum Randolph. The exhibition opening included brunch and a panel conversation with artist Diedrick Brackens and Lauren R. O’Connell, curator of contemporary art at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

Artist Diedrick Brackens with Lauren R. O’Connell, curator of contemporary art at SMoCA; and Jen Sudul Edwards, PhD, chief curator and curator of contemporary art at the Mint.

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CURATOR’S PICK

The ceramic sculpture Mpondo Zophukile (Broken Horns) by Madado Fani has a large curvaceous form inspired by traditional African functional wares, specifically Zulu beer pots. The rotund ceremonial vessels were made for rites of passage, and filled with sorghum beer, believed to be a favorite of the ancestors. Fani uses centuries-old techniques to create objects that are bold in form with intricate rhythmic surface design. His 2021 collection of 12 hand-coiled and incised ceramics titled iQweqwe, saw his patterned carvings become an all-encompassing ‘skin’ in this series. Eschewing color and glazes, Fani learned how to burnish clay with a stone from Jabu Nala, the daughter of celebrated Zulu beer-pot maker Nesta Nala, and mastered smokefiring techniques under the guidance of Nic Sithole. Mpondo Zophukile (Broken Horns) is on view at Mint Museum Randolph. —Annie Carlano, senior curator

of craft, design, and fashion.

Madoda Fani (South African, 1975–). Mpondo Zophukile (Broken Horns), 2021, burnished terracotta, 35.43 x 20.47 x 21.65 inches. Gift of Beth and Drew Quartapella, 2022.44. © Madoda Fani and Southern Guild. Images courtesy of Southern Guild. Photographer: Hayden Phipps.

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