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cover: Veneto region craftsmanship (Padua?), Barber’s bowl, early 17th century, majolica, painted and glazed, H. 5.3 × Diam. 14.6 in., Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - Museo Correr, CI. IV n. 0180
MANAGING EDITOR
Laura Napolitano
DESIGNER
Dan Ruccia
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Christopher Ciccone, Vann Powell, Keith Quick
CONTRIBUTORS
Cameron Allison, Lori Cowherd, Wale Ejire, Laura Finan, Nicole Flynn, Moses T. A. Greene, Miles Hall, Molly Hull, Sabrina Hurtado, Karen Kelly, Courtney Klemens, Angela Lombardi, Lizzie Newton, Jamie Parker, Philip Pledger, Bryanne Senor, Jill Taylor, Janis Treiber, and Oliver Wagner
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Exhibitions in Preview are made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for these exhibitions is made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel.
The North Carolina Museum of Art is a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, D. Reid Wilson, secretary.
The NCMA’s mission is to steward and share the people’s art collection and inspire creativity by connecting our diverse communities to cultural and natural resources. Its vision is to be a vital cultural resource for the entire state and a national leader in creating a welcoming experience of belonging and joy.
The NCMA visual mark is inspired by Thomas Sayre’s Gyre (1999), a site-specific work of environmental art in the 164-acre Museum Park.
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From the Director
Dear Friends,
Education is embedded in the very fabric of the North Carolina Museum of Art. It is woven into everything we do as an organization, from the collection galleries, exhibitions, and programs we offer to the outreach and experiences we provide. In this issue we take a moment to celebrate the NCMA as a place of learning, highlighting the exhibitions, initiatives, and events that bring our campuses in Raleigh and Winston-Salem to life each and every day.
This fall we are pleased to invite visitors to explore art history across multiple time periods, mediums, and cultures. Featuring art of past centuries in Venice and the Ottoman Empire (pages 2–5) and Samurai: The Making of a Warrior (pages 6–9) and contemporary works in Forever and Never: Photographs by Dan Estabrook, JP Jermaine Powell—Leadership Reimagined: Share Your Journey (page 10), and Allana Clarke: Tender (pages 22–23), the exhibitions in both Museum locations offer a variety of opportunities for discovery and exploration.
This season also includes compelling programming related to our exhibitions and collections, including many lectures (see pages 5, 9, and 18–19); several film series; and playful events such as NCMA After Hours and outdoor movie double features (pages 12–13). Central to this issue’s back-to-school theme is a feature on the NCMA’s participation in the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) initiative Learning Happens Here (pages 14–15) and the announcement of the NCMA, Winston-Salem’s new continuing education series, Nite School, launching in September (page 23).
For over 50 years, the DNCR has inspired a lifelong love of learning through its museums, parks, historic sites, and more. As part of the DNCR family, the NCMA is thrilled to be among the department’s many organizations that can say, “learning happens here.”
With appreciation and my best,
Valerie Hillings
Visit dncr.nc.gov/learninghappensherelanding for more information and resources.
top: In fall 2023 during Peter Marin's residency at North Garner Middle School, he helped students decorate their calaveras. These highly decorative skulls are an important element in the ofrenda they developed for their display at Dia
de Oakwood.
bottom: Marin discusses a sculpture of a dog in the Museum's ancient American collection to make connections between ancient Mexico and the cultural traditions in Día de Muertos.
RICH DISCOV RIES in VENICE and the
lyle humphrey
Associate Curator of European Art and Collections History
The exhibition Venice and the Ottoman Empire explores the relationship between two interconnected empires over four centuries: the Republic of Venice and Ottoman Empire (circa 1400–1800). The first was a city-state that dominated commerce in the eastern Mediterranean for centuries, the second a transcontinental empire extending from eastern Europe to Africa and western Asia. Through 190 works representing diverse media, Venice and the Ottoman Empire documents interactions between the two rival states across multiple cultural arenas—political, diplomatic, economic, artistic, technological, and culinary.
More than half of the exhibition works come from the vast collections of Venice’s civic museums (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia). Selections include paintings by Vittore Carpaccio and Gentile Bellini as well as an array of Venetian and Ottoman textiles, clothing, ceramics, metalwork, glassware, armor, nautical maps, and early printed books. Related works from the NCMA and other local collections broaden the visual and material representation of the periods and cultures under examination.
The Venetian loans are joined by a trove of objects salvaged from a major Adriatic shipwreck—the large Venetian merchant ship Gagliana Grossa that sank en route from Venice to Istanbul in 1583. These spectacular items, destined for trade in the Ottoman world, have never been exhibited outside Croatia, the country that houses the wreck.
The assembled objects transport viewers to the capital cities of Venice and Istanbul as well as the seas in between. Initial sections focus on diplomacy and trade; merchants and sailors between Venice and Istanbul; and dining and diplomacy. The latter includes a station where visitors can smell flavors associated with Ottoman and Venetian cooking. The exhibition continues with a section examining the Ottoman influence on Venetian décor and dress, followed by installations of luxury Ottoman and Venetian textiles. A room
dedicated to Ottoman revival in 20thcentury Venice, featuring patterned silks designed by Mariano Fortuny (1871–1949), concludes the presentation.
This exhibition is organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and The Museum Box. The guest curator is Stefano Carboni, a leading authority on the reception of Ottoman art and material culture in Venice and formerly CEO of the Museums Commission of the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2019–23); director and CEO of the Art
SHIPWRECK ST SH
Among the highlights of Venice and the Ottoman Empire are some spectacular objects representing a famous 16thcentury shipwreck discovered off the coast of Croatia in the early 1960s. The ship in question, a large Venetian merchantman carrying trade goods from Venice to Istanbul, sank in the notoriously treacherous waters of the Pašman Channel in northern Dalmatia in 1583.
The cargo voyage was commissioned primarily to transport an enormous quantity of circular windowpanes (rui) ordered from Venetian glassmakers by Sultan Murad III (ruled 1574–95) for the rebuilding of the harem quarters of Topkapi Palace. It also included other valuable European goods destined for Ottoman patrons, such as jewels, glass vessels and beads, bales of silk damask, brass chandeliers, artists’ pigments, and eyeglasses with leather frames.
Gallery of Western Australia (2008–19); and curator and administrator in the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1992–2008).
Venice and the Ottoman Empire is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with essays by 11 scholars that offer new perspectives on the intermingling of Venetian and Ottoman cultures, available in the Exhibition Store.
top: Petros Baronyan (al-Barun al-Mukhtari), Qibla (Mecca indicator) finder panel with case, 1738, ink and tempera on paper glued on wood, framed in painted wood, H. 33.9 × W. 32.7 × D. 2.6 in. (open); H. 30.1 × W. 14.2 × D. 1.6 in. (qibla dimensions), Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - Museo Correr, Cl. XXIX, n.0053; bottom: Mariano Fortuny’s textile factory in Venice, Fragment of printed cloth, first half of 20th century, printed silk velvet, 21.7 × 47.3 in., Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - Palazzo Fortuny, T0118
opposite: Venetian craftsmanship, Plate with the Barbarigo family coat of arms, end of 15th–beginning of 16th century, blown and partially molded glass, free-blown, enameled, and gilded, H. 1.1 × Diam. 8.5 in. (max.), Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - Museo del Vetro, Cl. VI n. 00434
page 2: Gregorio Lazzarini (and his workshop), Doge Francesco Morosini Offers Venice the Conquered Morea, late 17th–early 18th century, oil on canvas, 70.1 × 50 in., Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - Museo Correr, Cl. I n. 2301
page 3, clockwise from top left: Ottoman Turkish craftsmanship, Bath clogs, 17th century, wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl, studded leather, each 2.8 × 9.1 in., Venice, Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, Inventory: Cl. XXIV n. 119; Venetian
September 28, 2024–January 5, 2025
East Building, Level B, Meymandi Exhibition Gallery
TICKETS
Reserve at visit.ncartmuseum.org/Venice free for Members
$20 Adults
$17 Seniors age 65 and older
$12 Students (ages 7–22) free for children 6 and under
Through January 5, 2025, Venice and the Ottoman Empire and Samurai: The Making of a Warrior are ticketed together. From January 5 through February 2, Samurai: The Making of a Warrior will be open on its own.
Questions about ticketing? Email help@ncartmuseum.org
The exhibition is organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and The Museum Box.
In Raleigh additional support is made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel.
craftsmanship, Cuoridoro fragment of wall decoration with pomegranate and tulips, 17th century, gilded and silvered leather, embossed and painted, 18.7 × 12 in., Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - Museo Correr, Cl. XXI n. 0263; Venetian painter (from model in the sphere of Paolo Veronese), Portrait of Mehmed I, early 17th century, oil on canvas; 26 × 19.3 in. (with frame), Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - Museo Correr, Cl. I n. 0856; Decorated window glass recovered from Gnalić shipwreck in 2016 (windowpanes: University of Zadar, GN.2016.361), Photo: B. Vukičević; Glass goblets with lion-mask stems recovered from Gnalić shipwreck in 1967, 1972, and 1996, Photo: I. Asić, Croatian History Museum, Zagreb; Mercury sulfide (cinnabar) chunks recovered from Gnalić shipwreck in 2014 (cinnabar: University of Zadar, GN.2014.S1), Photo: S. Govorčin; Cleaning of barrels filled with iron oxide–based coloring material, Photo: S. Govorčin, courtesy of the Department of Archaeology, University of Zadar, Croatia
exhibition opening
Venice and the Ottoman Empire
Thursday, September 26, 7:30–9:30 pm
Ticket purchase required
Join us for a Venetian-inspired cocktail and light hors d’oeuvres before you wander through the exhibition, taking in the interconnected worlds of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. Includes one drink ticket and cash bar.
Member Preview Day
Friday, September 27, 10 am–5 pm free for members
Join fellow members for an early glimpse at our latest exhibition on a day reserved for our most dedicated supporters.
Opening Lecture: Stefano Carboni
Friday, September 27, noon–1:30 pm free with registration
Dr. Stefano Carboni, exhibition guest curator, explores the themes of the exhibition. Carboni is one of the world’s most eminent scholars on this topic and curator of the Met’s seminal 2007 exhibition Venice and the Islamic World.
Family Renaissance Fair
Sunday, September 29, 11 am–4 pm
free
Hear ye, hear ye! Visit the NCMA for an afternoon of merriment. Enjoy thrilling combat demonstrations, discover medieval and Renaissance crafts, watch engaging performances, and access Venice and the Ottoman Empire free of charge.
Music in Venice: A Lecture Recital
Saturday, October 5, 3–4:30 pm
Ticket purchase required
Join Dr. Peter Kairoff, professor emeritus at Wake Forest University, as he performs compositions of the Renaissance and baroque eras to highlight how musical tastes often parallel those for the visual arts of the same period.
Venice and the Ottoman Empire
Docent-Led Adult Tours
Offered Wednesday–Sunday starting October 9
free with purchase of exhibition ticket; registration required
Come explore this cross-cultural exhibition that documents four centuries of encounters between the Venetian Republic and Ottoman Empire. This docent-led 50-minute tour includes thematic examinations of paintings, ceramics, textiles, glassware, and more.
Invisible Cities Made Visible with Zack Storm
Saturday, October 12, 1–3 pm
Ticket purchase required
Explore imaginative world-building inspired by Ottoman-Venetian embellishments. Create unseen worlds and become cartographers of your inner empires, drawing inspiration from Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities
Venice and the Ottoman Empire Tour in ASL
Saturday, October 19, 10 am–noon free with purchase of exhibition ticket; registration required
This guided 90-minute tour of Venice and the Ottoman Empire in American Sign Language (ASL) is intended for adults who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing; no English is spoken.
The 14th-Century
Venetian Painter’s Studio
Saturday, November 9, 10 am–4 pm
Ticket purchase required
Join artist Chris Holt to explore Venetian egg tempera painting. Prepare wood and paper substrates, mix pigment colors, and create a small artwork, experiencing 14th-century techniques. All supplies included.
Venice and the Ottoman Empire
Audio Description Tour
Saturday, November 9, 10:30 am–noon free with purchase of exhibition ticket; registration required
This guided 90-minute tour of Venice and the Ottoman Empire with audio description is intended for visitors who are blind, have low vision, or have a learning need that would benefit from an experience that includes AD.
humber lecture
Empire, Commerce, and Faith in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands
Wednesday, November 13, 6–7:30 pm free with registration
Venetian-Ottoman borders were crisscrossed by spies, renegades, engineers, missionaries, mercenaries, and merchants. Monique O’Connell explores the complexities of the Venetian-Ottoman relationship in the early modern era, balancing commercial exchange with imperial competition and religious differences.
ncma cinema
Topkapi (1964)
Saturday, November 16, 2–4 pm
Ticket purchase required
Directed by Jules Dassin, adventure/comedy/crime, 2 hr., NR
A con man gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jeweled dagger.
RELATED VENTS
MORE THAN
WAR
SAMURAI AT THE NCMA
The People’s Collection does not include archaeological or historical collections of East Asian material culture to speak of, and in this age of decolonizing museums and cultural repatriation, the NCMA is not going to start collecting now.* Thus, it is through exhibitions that we can engage with Asian heritage and culture and celebrate the diversity in our community.
This fall the NCMA presents Samurai: The Making of a Warrior, its first exhibition of East Asian material culture since 1988. Curating from scratch an exhibition on Japan’s premodern warriors when one is not an expert is by no means an easy feat. Yet, it is possible because the Triangle is teeming with incredible resources: universities with Japanese studies programs and experts, private collectors, museums and libraries with wonderful holdings of Asian material culture, and local Japanese groups who are all eager to help. The collegiality, camaraderie, support, and
caroline m. rocheleau
Curator of Ancient Collections and Exhibition Curator
resourcefulness are palpable. At the Museum, staff are buzzing with excitement as well.
Why an exhibition on samurai warriors? Japanese sense of aesthetics has made the samurai armor one of the most recognizable in the world. Every part could be embellished to showcase the status, rank, and wealth of its owner—and their unique personal taste—without decreasing its military effectiveness. (Extravagant parade armor, however, was rather impractical.) In daimyo (warlord) and other wealthy samurai families, armor and swords were collected and displayed to showcase wealth and lineage. Armor and swords were part not only of the visual identity of the samurai but the very reason for their existence. They were art forms to be admired, and many swords and armor became sacred objects, national treasures to be cherished, and family heirlooms passed down through generations. While we should
* The Museum’s holdings include a small collection of art from the South Pacific (Oceanic art) and some antiquities from the ancient Near East (Southwest Asia) not currently on view. These collections need to be studied before they can be displayed. The contemporary art collection includes Asian and Asian American artists, and the NCMA is actively collecting in this area.
not forget that its intended purpose was for war, the material culture presented in the exhibition can be appreciated for its aesthetics and technical prowess. Indeed, the life and afterlife of objects can be vastly different.
Samurai: The Making of a Warrior departs from typical exhibitions featuring exclusively armor and swords by providing historical, political, cultural, and religious context. The show features 72 samurai arms and armor from an exceptional private collection in Greensboro, NC, displayed alongside 20 visually compelling objects associated with art, culture, and religion borrowed from the Ackland Art Museum, Nasher Museum of Art, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Rubenstein Library, Harvard Art Museums, and a private collection of Buddhist books. The exhibition thus paints a more nuanced view of samurai culture and history by contrasting the material culture of war with other types of objects that played an integral role in samurai life.
Samurai: The Making of a Warrior is divided into four main sections. The first (The Making of the Status Group) provides the historical and political circumstances that led to the creation of the samurai status group. This history spans roughly a thousand years (794–1868), but the objects in the exhibition date between 1330 and 1900.
The second section (The Making of the Warrior) is dedicated to the arts of war and peace, revealing the rigorous instruction of samurai warriors and their families. Samurai culture beyond martial arts is seldom featured in exhibitions, yet cultural ceremonies and activities were part of broader patterns of politics and social
competition in these warriors’ lives. Additionally, several cultural activities—like the tea ceremony—tie into Buddhist religious practices. Within this section there is an important display that focuses on the life of women of samurai status, some of whom saw action on the battlefield alongside men.
The third and fourth sections highlight the craftsmanship and evolution of armor and arms. The Making of the Armor is dedicated to the colorful protective gear of the premodern Japanese warrior, an armor made for maximum mobility. The Making of the Sword is devoted to the weapon most strongly associated with the samurai today—his sword, whether it be a great sword (tachi), long sword (katana), or short sword (wakizashi).
Another important theme is presented in the second half of the exhibition: the import of foreign materials and skills as well as knowledge and ideas from other Asian nations and the West. This provides an overture for the discussion of the introduction of firearms to Japan, which were as important as swords in samurai warfare from the mid-16th century to the early 17th century. A digital interactive game allows visitors to create their own armor by choosing protective gear for different parts of the body and then check whether their armor is battle-ready by selecting one of various types of weapons. Would you survive with the digital armor you create?
Samurai: The Making of a Warrior invites visitors to consider the original purpose of the material culture of war presented in the exhibition and see its connections with history, art, culture, and politics.
left: Matching armor and helmet (kabuto) with feathers, Edo period, circa 1650, iron, leather, lacquer, silk, horsehair, hemp(?), and feathers, H. 59.8 × W. 30 in., Collection of Gary Grose page 6, top: Bizen Masamitsu (attributed), Sword and matching mountings (koshirae) featuring birds over waves, Muromachi period, circa 1394–1428, steel, wood, lacquer, gold, other metals, stingray skin (same), and silk, H. 5.1 × L. 90 in., Collection of Gary Grose. bottom: Saotome school, Saotome
Iechika (signed), Helmet (kabuto) with red-eared monster, Edo period, circa 1700, iron, leather, lacquer, silk, wood, and horsehair, H. 18.1 × W. 12.2 in., Collection of Gary Grose page 7: Utagawa Kunimasa, Actor Iwai Kumesaburô I as Tomoe Gozen, Edo period, 1797, ink and color on paper, 14.9 × 10.1 in., Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel (1933.4.520)
October 19, 2024–February 2, 2025
East Building, Level B, Joyce W. Pope Gallery
TICKETS
Reserve at visit.ncartmuseum.org/Samurai free for Members
$20 Adults, $17 Seniors age 65 and older, $12 Students (ages 7–22) free for children 6 and under
Through January 5, 2025, Samurai: The Making of a Warrior and Venice and the Ottoman Empire are ticketed together. From January 5 through February 2, Samurai: The Making of a Warrior will be open on its own. Questions about ticketing? Email help@ncartmuseum.org
Organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art.
This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel.
RELATED EVENTS
Fall Exhibitions Evening Reception
Monday, October 28, 7:30–9:30 pm
Ticket purchase required
Join us for a wine and cheese reception celebrating three fall exhibitions: Samurai: The Making of a Warrior, Forever and Never: Photographs by Dan Estabrook, and JP Jermaine Powell—Leadership Reimagined: Share Your Journey
The Art of Wine: Sake and Samurai
Friday, November 8, 6:30–8:30 pm
Ticket purchase required
The NCMA, Vitis House, and Catering Works present a sensory experience that explores history, tradition, and process with curator Caroline Rocheleau and wine educator Doreen Colondres. The presentation features ancient art objects and outstanding wines with food pairings.
educator webinar
Samurai: The Making of a Warrior
Tuesday, November 12, 4–5 pm free with registration
Join curator Caroline Rocheleau for an introduction to the material culture of war associated with samurai and learn about connections with history, art, culture, and politics in Japan.
lecture
Samurai as Patrons: Governance, Martial Arts, and Zen Buddhism in 17th-Century Japan
Sunday, November 24, 2–3:30 pm free with registration
Morgan Pitelka (UNC–Chapel Hill) and Matthew Hayes (Duke University) discuss how samurai in 17th-century Japan reconciled their martial practice with Zen Buddhism against the background of a strong warrior government and highly stratified social structure.
AT A GLANCE
Forever and Never
Photographs by Dan Estabrook
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
East Building, Level B, Photography Gallery 1 (Julian T. Baker Jr. Gallery) and 2 (Allen G. Thomas Jr. Gallery)
September 7, 2024–January 19, 2025
Estabrook uses 19th-century photographic printing processes and materials to examine history and memory in contemporary images. Adopting a familiar language of the passage of time, he utilizes stains, spills, tears, folds, fading, and discoloration to create the appearance of age.
JP Jermaine Powell
Leadership Reimagined: Share Your Journey
East Building, Level B, Gallery 3 October 19, 2024–March 9, 2025
Leadership Reimagined encapsulates the journey of JP Jermaine Powell as artist in residence at the NCMA. Throughout the exhibition he reflects on and pays tribute to the remarkable work of NCMA staff, critically acclaimed artists, and everyday heroes who have dedicated themselves to making the state art scene vibrant and productive.
JP Jermaine Powell, Crown II: The Law of Kindness - Spirit of Ecstasy (Triptych), Portrait of Sanjé James, Local Artist and Photographer, 2024, acrylic, gold leaf, metal, jewels, dried flowers, and paper on canvas, H. 60 × W. 96 × D. 21/4 in., Courtesy of the artist; © 2024 JP Jermaine Powell
Park Billboards
Steven Paul Judd
Museum Park, Capital Area Greenway trail Through October 2024
Self-taught artist and filmmaker Steven Paul Judd (Kiowa/Choctaw) works across media, creating paintings, murals, mosaics, street art, posters, stickers, and T-shirt designs. His work disrupts American Indian stereotypes, often using humor, and reinterprets Native imagery through a pop culture lens.
Steven Paul Judd (Kiowa/Choctaw), Untitled, 2024; © 2024 Steven Paul Judd, Courtesy of the artist
NCMA Outreach
The Artist Innovation Mentorship Program
East Building, Education Gallery Through November 10, 2024
NCMA AIM provides support for after-school workshops for middle schoolers in rural communities statewide. Young artists learn new techniques and flex their creative problem-solving skills as they work with artists in their own communities. On display are artworks created during 12 different residencies.
Installation view of exhibition
Dan Estabrook, Forever and Never, 2004, unique pencil on calotype and salt print, each 5 × 7 in., Gift of Allen G. Thomas Jr. in honor of Linda Johnson Dougherty
Museum Store
Partnering with North Carolina artists and artisans across the state
Paintings by Yuko Nogami Taylor
I have used painting as a medium to merge the heart of Japan with the soul of this land. Japanese painting is an ancient art form that seems to have its roots in the painstaking use of meditation, precision, and beauty. I dare to express the blessings of the gracious Southern land in a modern way and express a cosmic view of the meaning of the world in the margins.
Available at the Museum Store and by mail through help@ncartmuseum.org
The NCMA is proud to present an unconventional tour of the People’s Collection in this abundantly illustrated handbook that explores 5,000 years of art at the NCMA.
Not a traditional march through chronological art history, this dynamic publication presents 118 artworks in thematic groupings that offer stories connecting cultures and creativity, whether ancient or contemporary. The People’s Collection also includes a series of interpretations written by members of our community, many of which debuted in the 2022 reinstallation of the NCMA galleries.
Take advantage of your member discount in the Museum Store to grab an extra copy for friends and family before the holiday rush begins.
PERFORMING ARTS AND FILM
Joseph M. Bryan, Jr., Theater in the Museum Park
Presented by
SEPTEMBER
7 film Wonka (2023) 12 The NCMA and NC Opera present Opera in the Park 13 film Kung Fu Hustle 14 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Double Feature 27 film Mamma Mia! and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Double Feature 28 Guster All
Tickets
ncartmuseum.org /performances
OCTOBER
4 film Batman (1989) in Concert with Live Symphony Orchestra 5 film Spirited Away 12 film Sister Act and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit Double Feature IN CELEBRATION OF LATINX AND HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH, NCMA CINEMA PRESENTS
The Mole Agent (2020)
Saturday, September 28, 2 pm
Directed by Maite Alberdi, documentary, 1 hr. 24 min., NR
A private investigator in Chile hires a mole at a retirement home where a client suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.
East Building, SECU Auditorium; ticket purchase required Both films are spoken-language Spanish with English subtitles.
Chico and Rita (2010)
Saturday, October 12, 2 pm
Directed by Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, and Fernando Trueba, animation/crime/drama, 1 hr. 34 min., NR
Chico is a piano player with big plans. Rita is a singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and desire unite them as they chase their dreams.
outdoor films include opening captioning. Wonka includes audio description.
Image: Courtesy of Gravitas Ventures
Image: Courtesy of GKIDS
JEWISH FILM SERIES
Thursdays this fall
East Building, SECU Auditorium Ticket purchase required
Rabbi on the Block (2023)
September 5, 6:30 pm
Directed by Brad Rothschild, documentary, 1 hr. 29 min., NR
This documentary profiles the visionary Rabbi Tamar Manasseh, who is devoted to building bridges between the Black and Jewish communities on Chicago’s South Side.
No Name Restaurant (2022)
September 19, 6:30 pm
Directed by Stefan Sarazin and Peter Keller, comedy, 2 hr., NR
An ultra-Orthodox Jew and a Bedouin guide’s car breaks down in the desert while en route for Passover rituals, forcing them to unite for survival.
Between the Temples (2024)
November 21, 6:30 pm
Directed by Nathan Silver, comedy, 1 hr. 51 min., NR
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher becomes his new Bat Mitzvah student.
JOIN US AFTER HOURS at
the NCMA
Thursday, November 14, 5–9 pm
NCMA After Hours
is your chance to spend time at the Museum once your workday is over. Meet up with friends, have that first date, celebrate a special occasion, or find a new sense of calm and connection wandering the galleries. The galleries at night offer a chance for a more intimate viewing of the artworks, more space for conversations, and a chance to encounter a sampling of programs to come.
• Enjoy free entry to Venice and the Ottoman Empire and Samurai: The Making of a Warrior
• Sip an exhibition-inspired signature cocktail
• Join local artist tours of their favorite works
• Relax to music
• Make dinner reservations at NCMA Café
• Step into the Museum Store to browse works by North Carolina artists
Save the date for the next NCMA After Hours on Thursday, February 13
Image:
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
Photo: Mina von Feilitzsch Photography
Learning Happens
Here
michelle harrell Director of Education
At the NCMA learning happens in the galleries, Museum Park, online, and in classrooms across our state. I’m passionate about what I do because I’ve seen the impact. Museum objects serve as catalysts to spark curiosity, learning, and discussion. Art museums offer students ways to connect to cultures across time and place and broaden their world views. We are excited to join other museums, parks, zoos, and historic sites in North Carolina’s Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) as we celebrate that “learning happens here.”
DNCR’s Learning Happens Here initiative aims to increase awareness of the diverse resources within the agency to support teachers and engage students. In addition, Governor Cooper has declared 2024 the Year of Public Schools in North Carolina. These two initiatives align with the Museum’s work in the governor’s HomeTown Strong rural communities. Public art projects, artist residencies (see NCMA AIM on page 10), art kits, and student exhibitions are just a few examples of projects in the past three years that began as small pilots in partner communities and evolved into larger, ongoing outreach efforts.
The NCMA’s education team collaborates with a broad network of state and local partners to foster learning for K–12 public schools. We strive to make the collection accessible to all. Everyone deserves access to learning through art and culture, and we value educators as partners in achieving our mission as a vital cultural resource. I’ve been privileged to collaborate with our state’s finest educators since I joined the NCMA’s teacher advisory in 1997 as a middle school art teacher. I look forward to connecting with old and new faces within this community of practice at our annual Educator Expo, this year on October 10.
Photo: Andrea Akin
Learning happens when schools, community partners, and statewide institutions come together to center the needs of K–12 students. Readers may remember Raleigh artist Peter Marin’s massive art installation during the exhibition Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism. It included student work from three artist residencies in Sampson and Wake County schools. Last fall we returned to North Garner Middle School for another residency for the Dia de Oakwood celebration. The school’s ofrenda included over 160 calaveras (decorative skulls), 300 cempasúchil paper flowers, 50 sheets of papel picado (tissue paper with cut-out designs), and 100 blessings and memories. All materials were made by sixth and eighth grade students who then attended the five-day event with their families. For this year’s festival, we’ll work with Marin for eight residencies and share related resources with our educator community and at fall festivals with the help of our Governor's Advisory Council on Hispanic/ Latino Affairs.
This fall high school art teachers can enroll their classes in a program culminating in a student exhibition at the NCMA. For decades the Museum has sponsored opportunities for high school students to show their art and write about how they were inspired by a work in the collection. This year’s program, Artists in Process, includes guided access to NCMA resources, online forums for discussion, and a museum visit. We look forward to seeing and sharing evidence of learning through a 2025 summer exhibition.
Learn more about what our state art museum offers educators and schools by exploring our educational website, NCMA Learn (learn.ncartmuseum.org).
Educator Expo
Thursday, October 10, 4–7 pm free with registration
The Educator Expo celebrates educators and helps them feel connected to the Museum and the larger purpose of their work. Teachers enjoy refreshments, network, participate in activities designed especially for them, gather resources from partners in the community and DNCR, and have after-hours access to the Museum’s galleries and exhibitions.
Dia de Oakwood
October 26–November 2
Historic Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh
Wake County students learn about Mexican cultural traditions through artist residencies, culminating in the event Dia de Oakwood. Dia de Oakwood was born as a collaboration between organizers of the Day of the Dead 5K Angela Salamanca and Natalia Campbell, Oakwood Cemetery director Robin Simonton, and artist Peter Marin. Kristin Smith, the NCMA's manager of school programs, collaborated with Marin to develop curriculum and provide materials for artist residencies. This celebration will take place at Historic Oakwood Cemetery over five days, with several activities open to the public.
Scan the QR code to learn about the cultural traditions celebrated through this partnership.
learn.ncartmuseum.org/resources /dia-de-oakwood
Photo: Kent Ohlman
Photo: Michelle Harrell
in the people’s collection
Over the past year, the NCMA has added numerous textile and fiber works to our Judaic, American, and Contemporary collections by artists including April Bey, Basil Kincaid, Esther Kohenet, Suchitra Mattai (promised gift), John Paul Morabito, Leola Pettway, Lakea Shepard, and Estelle Witherspoon. These artists express their lived experiences and cultural traditions through practices like weaving and quiltmaking, demonstrating the breadth of fiber art across time.
Taken together, the works support the Museum’s continued efforts to foreground underrepresented narratives while dismantling traditional hierarchies of media. By collecting textiles, the Museum is inherently embracing important works by women and people of color—those for whom fiber arts and needlecraft have historically been more readily available tools for artistic expression than, say, painting and sculpture.
Quiltmaker Estelle Witherspoon was a founding member, longtime manager, and sustaining force of the Freedom Quilting Bee (FQB), a quilting cooperative based in Rehoboth, Alabama, with overlapping membership in the nearby Gee’s Bend collective. Witherspoon, like many other FQB founders, was a civil rights activist who participated in the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 in support of voting rights amid segregationist voter suppression across the American South. During this time many Black residents faced harassment and discrimination for demonstrating and registering to vote, and as a result tenant farmers were evicted, debtors were unfairly jailed, and many lost their jobs. The FQB was born from these circumstances, established by a group of local women led by Witherspoon in 1966 as a way to provide income for their families. It was later credited for inspiring a nationwide quilting revival.
Fiber Art Challenges Hierarchies
lauren applebaum
Jim and Betty Becher Curator of American Art
Associate Curator of Contemporary Art
maya brooks
above right: April Bey, HAVE I NOT GIVEN EVERYTHING?!?!?!, 2023, woven tapestry, short pile velvet, metallic thick thread, opalescent yarn, embroidery floss, tulle, sequins, synthetic canvas, plastic beads, and wooden clothespins with metal springs, 72 × 521/2 in., Gift of Alan and Benjamin King
opposite top: Estelle Witherspoon, “Housetop” Nine-Block Variation, 1968, cotton and cotton/polyester blend, 84 × 82 in., Purchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
opposite bottom: Leola Pettway, “Star” Variation 1978, cotton fabric and cotton and polyester thread, 83 × 84 in., Purchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Quilts such as Witherspoon’s “Housetop” Nine-Block Variation and Leola Pettway’s “Star” Variation are a part of the rich tradition of patchwork quilting that has been passed down through generations, from enslavement in the pre-Civil War South to the Jim Crow era and the civil rights movement on into the present. There are indeed many opportunities to display these quilts alongside works from our modern and contemporary collection. While scholars have long drawn connections between the quilts of Gee’s Bend and abstract art of the mid-twentieth century, many contemporary artists have cited these quilts as objects of immense inspiration.
Many of the recent acquisitions by contemporary artists interpret global histories and introduce new ways of approaching intersecting identities. For example, interdisciplinary artist April Bey creates immersive installations that tap into Black Americans’ documented embrace of space travel and extraterrestrial visioning—a cultural movement dating back to the late 1960s and later termed Afrofuturism. Through this Afrofuturist lens, Bey reflects on subjects like queerness, feminism, and pop culture by combining speculative fiction with social critique. HAVE I NOT GIVEN YOU EVERYTHING?!?!?! is an edition of Bey’s two-dimensional mixed-media work from her ongoing Atlantica series that brings together her Bahamian upbringing and study of postcolonial heritages. These new works reflect traditional craft that is often passed down generationally or shared communally. They support the NCMA’s intentional efforts to broaden historical definitions of who is considered an artist and what belongs in art institutions and to question how those decisions have been and continue to be made. As art museums continue to grow and change, we want to ensure that the NCMA’s collection reflects more inclusive practices, and one way to do that is by dismantling the ways in which textiles have been devalued by institutions based on their association with domestic labor and craft making, especially among women and communities of color.
MY NCMA
The Museum offers many types of accessibility accommodations for events and tours. To find out what is available or request an accommodation, contact Accessibility and Inclusion Coordinator Molly Hull, mhull@ncartmuseum.org. Please note that requests require a minimum two-week notice.
FALL EVENTS
The events in My NCMA represent a selection of programs taking place at the Museum in September, October, and November 2024. Watch for email newsletters and go to ncartmuseum.org/programs for details and to find more.
ADULT PROGRAMMING
Tickets, registration, and additional events: ncartmuseum.org/adultprograms
The Other Betty Parsons Gallery Wednesday, September 4, 6–7:30 pm free with registration
Rachel Federman discusses dealer and artist Betty Parsons. She was best known for her recognition of abstract expressionist artists, but there was more going on at the Betty Parsons Gallery, which embraced a range of artists, including many women.
Hone Your Voice:
Creative Writing at the NCMA
Thursday, September 5, October 3, November 7, 10–11:30 am
Ticket purchase required
Are you a creative writer? This is for you! Would you like to be? This is for you too! Participants respond to visual art in poetry or prose. Taught by professor Helena Feder.
Landscape Painting Essentials: Light, Color, and Composition
Saturday, September 7, 1–4 pm
Ticket purchase required
Learn to paint realistic landscapes with artist Noelle Gunn. Explore color mixing, composition, and brush techniques in this beginner-friendly outdoor workshop. All levels welcome.
Drawing Meditation Workshop with Maureen O’Neill
Saturday, September 14, 10 am–noon
Ticket purchase required
During this class in the Museum Park, participants connect with the present moment and nature through guided meditation and breathing, mantra repetition, and meditative mark making (drawing). No art experience is necessary.
Drawing
and Staining with Walnut Dye with Ann Marie Kennedy
Saturday, September 21, 10 am–1 pm
Ticket purchase required
Students learn how to gather and make their own dye from black walnuts to create abstract drawings. Participants also learn how to stain paper with walnut to draw or use in bookbinding later on.
docent endowment lecture
Rachael Z. DeLue
Sunday, September 29, 2–3:30 pm free with registration
Professor DeLue discusses her research on American art, including the natural history illustrations of John James Audubon, landscape paintings of George Inness, collages by Romare Bearden, and images of the natural world in contemporary photography. Reception follows.
Director’s Circle Luncheon
Tuesday, October 1, 11 am–1 pm free, RSVP required
Valerie Hillings invites Director-level and above members to enjoy lunch in West Building during her talk “Presenting Art for the Ages: Conservation at the NCMA.” Look for your invitation in the mail in early September.
friends of greek art lecture From the Stage to the Grave: The Distinctive Imagery of South Italian Vase Painting Sunday, October 6, 2–3:30 pm free with registration
Keely Heuer (SUNY-New Paltz) discusses the unusual iconography of South Italian red-figure ceramics, including scenes inspired by long-lost tragic plays, scenes of Italic warriors and female companions, elaborate representations of funerary monuments, and depictions of the underworld.
Color Harmony in Painting with Patricia Savage
Saturday, October 12, 10 am–4 pm, and Sunday, October 13, 10 am–2 pm
Ticket purchase required
Learn to use color for visual and emotional impact. This class covers hue, temperature, value, and chroma through
new acquisition: Richard Pousette-Dart, Betty Parsons, 1948, gelatin silver print, 131/4 × 101/4 in., Gift of the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation
demonstrations and individual instruction. Students practice color interactions and create impactful color studies.
Journals and Sketchbooks:
Long-Stitch Binding Workshop
Saturday, November 9, 1–4 pm
Ticket purchase required
Join Gerald Ward for a hands-on workshop on long-stitch bindings. Learn the history and traditional methods and create a beautiful flat-opening book. No experience is needed. Materials are provided.
kanof lecture
More Than Just Mosaics:
The Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee Sunday, November 10, 7–8 pm free with registration
Professor Jodi Magness has directed excavations of a late Roman (circa 400 ce) synagogue building paved with stunning mosaics in the ancient village of Huqoq. In this illustrated lecture, she describes exciting finds at the site.
Seeing Red : My Mother Warned Me about Things Colored Red
Saturday, November 16, 11–11:45 am free with registration
Join Director of Conservation Perry Hurt for a lecture that takes a close look at the dyes and pigments artists have used throughout history that give us insights into our deep feelings about red.
MINDFUL MUSEUM
Tickets, registration, and additional events: ncartmuseum.org/mindfulprograms
Fall Slow Art Appreciation
Wednesday, September 18, 6–7 pm
free with registration
Slow art is a practice to mindfully observe and communally appreciate art. Participants are guided through a brief centering practice followed by an intentional observation of a single work from our collection.
Virtual Sensory Journey through Art
Thursday, October 10, 7–8 pm
free with registration
Join us for a virtual journey inspired by art. Intended for adults who have blindness, low vision, or a learning need that would benefit from a sensory-style experience. Registration includes a small kit of sensory objects.
Fall Meditative Moments with Art
Wednesday, October 16, 6–7 pm
free with registration
Drawing on themes from works in our collection and qualities of autumn, we inspire you to turn deeper within. An intentional observation of art is followed by a guided meditation to create opportunities for moments of calm and self-reflection.
Fall Creative Self-Care
Wednesday, November 20, 6–7:30 pm
Ticket purchase required
Take time out to connect with yourself and the season through art and free expression. A variety of art-making materials and other tools guide you through this creative exploration of self-care and community connection.
PERFORMING ARTS AND FILM
See page 12 for more event listings.
Tickets, registration, and additional events: ncartmuseum.org/performances
HaMapah/The Map
Saturday, November 9, 7–9 pm free with registration
HaMapah/The Map is a genealogical dance journey tracing the intersections of former Alvin Ailey dancer Adam McKinney’s African American, Native American, and
Image: Courtesy of GKIDS
Jewish heritages. It weaves contemporary dance with archival materials, interviews, songs, and video.
ncma loves anime Weathering with You (2019) Saturday, November 23, 2–4 pm
Ticket purchase required
Directed by Makoto Shinkai, animation/drama/fantasy, 1 hr. 52 min., PG-13
Hodaka runs away to Tokyo, where the weather is unusually rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. Then one day he meets Hina, who has the ability to stop the rain and clear the sky.
NCMA Loves Anime Winter Bazaar
Saturday, November 23, 11 am–5 pm free
Join us for a day of anime fun with community members and vendors. Matinee Weathering with You ticketed separately.
PARK
Tickets, registration, and additional events: ncartmuseum.org/parkprograms
Adaptive Tai Chi in the Park: Mindful Movement for Everyone Thursday, September 5, October 3, November 7, 5–6 pm free with registration
HaMapah/The Map; Photo: Courtesy of DNAWORKS
The ancient Chinese martial art of Tai Chi combines slow and gentle movements with focused attention. During this accessible class, participants are guided through visually and vocally descriptive cues and have the option to sit or stand throughout.
Pollinator Station:
Honey and Wildflowers with Bee Downtown
Thursday, September 19, 6–7 pm free
Join our partners at Bee Downtown for a honey tasting and native pollinator planting station in the Museum Park. Learn about pollinators, discover different honey varieties, and pot your own perennial wildflower seeds.
Fall Service Project in the Park
Saturday, September 21, 9–11 am free with registration
Help steward the Museum Park by supporting staff in their restoration initiatives. After a brief introduction, volunteers plant native species around the Park to increase biodiversity and provide habitat for wildlife. save the date!
Winter Lantern Walk
Saturday, December 14, 4:30–6:30 pm free with registration
Shine your light at our annual lantern walk! Bring a homemade lantern and come together as we honor the quiet beauty of the approaching winter season
with a magical paper lantern procession through the Museum Park.
FAMILIES
Tickets, registration, and additional events: ncartmuseum.org/familyprograms
What’s in the Box?
Wednesday, September 4, October 2, November 6, 10–11 am Wednesday, November 6, 2–3 pm
Ticket purchase required
Meet a work of art, enjoy movement and play, and get your creative juices flowing in these artful workshops for 3- to 5-year-olds and their caregivers.
What’s That Sculpture?
Saturday, September 7, September 21, 10:30–11 am free with registration
These playful outdoor tours create family time to explore a work of art or two that might be an old favorite or a new discovery. Best for kids ages 5–11 with adult caregivers.
NCMA to Go Activity Kits
Saturday, September 14, November 2, 10 am–noon free with registration
Get creative with NCMA art and artists at home! Reserve an activity kit with materials for a complete hands-on project plus written instructions. Kits are designed for all ages. In English and Spanish.
Story Time in the Garden
Wednesday, September 18, 10:30–11 am
free with registration
Join us for a lively story time surrounded by nature! Look, listen, and move to children’s books with our featured readers in a beautiful outdoor garden. Best for children ages 18 months to 4 years and their adult caregivers.
Family Studio
Saturday, October 5, 10 am–noon or 1–3 pm
Ticket purchase required
Guided by expert artists, look closely at original works of art and find inspiration to create your own projects during these two-hour studio workshops. Best for families with children ages 5–11.
Pop-Up Art
Sunday, October 13, November 17, noon–3 pm free
Enjoy the fun of drop-in art-making activities for all ages popping up across the Museum galleries and Park. Check ncartmuseum.org for specific activities and locations.
Artful Story Time
Wednesday, October 16, November 20, 10:30–11 am free with registration
Story time with an artful twist! Come look, listen, and move as we make connections with original works of art and children’s books. Best for children ages 18 months to 4 years and their adult caregivers.
Advanced Handmade
Paper Lantern Workshop:
Pyramid Lights
Saturday, November 16, Sunday, November 17, 10:30 am–3:30 pm
Ticket purchase required
Make a magical paper lantern to bring to our Winter Lantern Walk on December 14! This advanced workshop guides you through making a beautiful and sturdy willow-branch pyramid lantern. Ages 10 and up.
TEENS AND COLLEGE
Interested in learning more about the Teen Arts Council or the College Advisory Panel? Keep up-to-date with all happenings on our Teens and College programs web pages.
Tickets, registration, and additional events: ncartmuseum.org/teencollegeprograms
Teens Sketch the Galleries
Saturday, September 7, October 5, November 2, noon–2 pm free with registration
Spend time sketching with other teens in the galleries. Bring a pencil and your sketchbook and follow prompts or find your favorite sketching spot with a friend. For ages 13–18.
NCMA College Days
Friday, September 20, October 11, November 22, 11 am–4 pm free with registration
Explore the galleries with your friends, meet student and professional artists, and immerse yourself in a variety of activities and tours.
NCMA Teen Days
Saturday, October 5, November 2, noon–4 pm free with registration
Create something, immerse yourself in the galleries, and learn about our Museum Teen Ambassadors. Find pop-up art activities and enjoy a day at the Museum with the Teen Arts Council.
TOURS
The NCMA offers free private tours of the People’s Collection to school, youth, and adult groups. To select and request the right tour for you, visit us at ncartmuseum.org/visit/tours.
NCMA Public Tours
Thursdays and Saturdays, 1 pm free
Join us on a 50-minute tour of the People’s Collection. Meet your docent in West Building to explore several galleries, focus on specific artists, or delve into the elements of art. All ages are welcome.
Park Tours
Saturdays, 10:30 am free with registration
Enjoy art and nature on a two-mile walk with our Park Guides. This tour begins at the Welcome Center and leads you through the Museum Park, past sitespecific works of art and sustainable natural areas.
Museum Tour in ASL
Saturday, September 21, November 16, 10 am–noon free with registration
This two-hour docent-led tour in American Sign Language is intended for adults who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing; no English is spoken. It takes place in both buildings, and the theme varies each month.
Family-Friendly Tours
Saturday, October 5, November 2, November 16, 10:30–11 am free with registration
Find new favorites alongside old friends on these playful tours. Tours are 30 minutes long and are best for kids ages 5–11 with their adult companions.
EDUCATORS
Additional information: learn.ncartmuseum.org
Online Course: Art and SEL
Tuesday, October 1–Tuesday, December 10 Ticket purchase required
Art and SEL introduces educators to artbased strategies that will support them in developing inclusive classroom environments based on the core competencies of social emotional learning (SEL).
Fall Teacher Tuesday: Special Exhibition Access for Educators
Tuesday, November 19, 4–7 pm free with registration
Educators enjoy exclusive access to the NCMA’s fall exhibitions. This is a selfguided program; tickets are limited and are available on the hour at 4, 5, or 6 pm
CULINARY EVENTS
Reservations: opentable.com
Autumn Tea
Sunday, September 15, October 13, November 3, 10 am–3 pm Advance payment required
This afternoon tea experience features a fixed price menu that includes savory canapés, finger sandwiches, and autumninspired pâtisserie. Premium teas or coffee included.
Cider, Mead, and Art Experience: What’s the Buzz?
Thursday, September 19, 6:30–8:30 pm
Advance payment required
The NCMA and Catering Works are partnering with NC Wine for a delicious and thoughtful pairing of local cider and mead, tasty bites, and art. This open house–style event includes docent-led tours and over 10 tasting stations.
THIRD PLACES and the NCMA, Winston-Salem
william j. carpenter Executive Director, North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem
For decades now, sociologists have been defining and studying third places, community spaces that enable meaningful social interactions beyond home and work. Third places can be coffee shops, libraries, sports fields, city parks, and museums—anywhere people can gather and engage in shared interests. Whatever their form, third places prove vitally important to the health of individuals and communities, as they promote inclusion, creativity, and cooperation.
At the NCMA, Winston-Salem (formerly SECCA), we are leaning completely into the concept of third places to inform our offerings. You can see this work in the way we plan and present our exhibitions. Taking cues from our guests’ and community’s interests, we have curated fall shows that explore processes and materials for creating art. Allana Clarke’s Tender explores trauma and healing in large sculptures formed with hair bonding glue and cocoa butter. In Domestic Imaginaries Tyler Mitchell presents a site-specific installation of furniture pieces, photographs, and textiles that create a utopian, dreamy landscape. Jordan Nassar’s embroidered works show how color palettes and composition choices inform one another. Inspired by German expressionism and historical texts, John Brooks creates with oil paints and graphite to ask questions about identity and memory.
This emphasis on processes and materials deepens the conversations around these artists and works. It moves us from asking “what” to “how” and, ultimately, to asking “why?” In the third places that
Photo: Jess Blackstock
Allana Clarke: Tender Potter Gallery
Through September 15, 2024
are the galleries, visitors might find themselves exploring big questions together and finding new and shared perspectives. Finding something new is the central theme to our programming in adjoining Hanes House, and this fall we are presenting a full slate of performances, social events, and continuing education programs. Guests can hear music from national acts at our Lakeside outdoor concerts, catch up with local musicians in our Southern Idiom series, and dance to electronic beats at our Night Moods shows. We are excited to close out the fourth season of Lyrics by the Lake and to see all our friends at our end-of-summer House Hangs.
In September class is in session as we launch Nite School, a collection of adult
continuing education programs and seminars. Nite School includes our monthly Fireside conversations with art professionals and our book club. New this season is Vinyl Lounge, a bring-your-own-records listening party hosted by Winston-Salem’s own hi-fi experts Ember Audio + Design. For those wanting deeper dives, we offer a selection of intensive seminars on topics such as creativity theory, art and wellness, and contemporary fiction, all led by artists and scholars.
Taken together, these exhibitions, performances, and programs represent our best efforts yet to meet the promise of third places: to enable and encourage social interaction and cultural inquiry in ways that are welcoming and revelatory. I hope to see you here soon.
Tyler Mitchell: Domestic Imaginaries Main Gallery
September 12–December 29, 2024
John Brooks and Jordan Nassar Potter Gallery
October 17–December 31, 2024
Admission contributions support exhibitions and programs
Wednesday–Sunday, 11 am–4 pm (open until 8 pm on Thursdays)
750 Marguerite Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27106 (336) 725-1904
info@secca.org secca.org
Installation view of Allana Clarke: Tender; Photo: Jess Blackstock
Membership Matters
ART & COMMUNITY
DON’T MISS
IGNITE YOUR CURIOSITY
Come play in East Building this fall. On Level B you’ll find three stations that invite you to engage with our exhibitions in new ways. Follow clues to solve a Museum mystery and claim a prize in the Exhibition Store. Play ArtSpeak, a card game that teaches you how to talk about art. Cast your vote in a playful poll with questions that change weekly. It’s your turn!
NOT YET A MEMBER?
One year of NCMA membership starts at $50! ncartmuseum.com/support/members membership@ncartmuseum.org | (919) 664-6754
Museum members’ unwavering support continues to bolster the NCMA’s mission. We are grateful for your dedication, which allows us to bring the world’s art and cultures to our community. This fall, take advantage of your membership benefits to experience Venice and the Ottoman Empire and Samurai: The Making of a Warrior.
As a member, you play a vital role in making exhibitions like these possible. Your contributions ensure that we can continue to offer educational programs, preserve our collections, and create engaging experiences for all visitors. In appreciation of your support, we are excited to offer members exclusive preview access to Venice and the Ottoman Empire before it opens to the public. On Friday, September 27, join us for Member Preview Day. This special event includes a lecture by Dr. Stefano Carboni, the leading authority on the reception of Ottoman art and material culture in Venice.
Thank you for being a part of the NCMA family. Together, we are making art and culture accessible to everyone and enriching our community in meaningful ways.
Vittore Carpaccio, Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan, 1501–5, tempera and oil on panel, 26.4 × 20.1 in., Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia - Museo Correr, Cl. I n. 0043
Plan Your Visit
ALL THE WAYS TO PLAY
HOURS
EAST AND WEST BUILDING GALLERIES, MUSEUM STORE AND EXHIBITION STORE, NCMA CAFÉ
Wednesday–Sunday, 10 am–5 pm
EAST CAFÉ
Wednesday–Sunday, 11 am–4 pm
ANN AND JIM GOODNIGHT MUSEUM PARK Daily, dawn to dusk
WELCOME CENTER
Wednesday–Sunday, 10 am–5 pm (weather permitting)
TICKETS
Admission to the People’s Collection is free. Members receive free admission to ticketed exhibitions.
For exhibition, performance, and program tickets, go to ncartmuseum.org.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
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Please contact us via email during open hours for the quickest response.
ACCESSIBILITY
The Museum seeks to make a welcoming space for all. Visit ncartmuseum.org/accessibility-and-inclusion for details about on-site accommodations and more information.
Dining
AT THE NCMA
Join us for autumn tea on September 15, October 13, or November 3
NCMA CAFÉ
West Building
Reservations encouraged for table service
EAST CAFÉ
East Building
Sandwiches, entrées, snacks, crafted coffees, cold drinks
Closed for dining on the days of Outdoor Performing Arts and Film events
Picture Perfect
Sunflowers in the Museum Park in bloom September–October