ncmuseums

An occasional list of exhibits, programs, and events at North Carolina museums. Sponsored by the North Carolina Museums Council.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

The Green Hill Center for N.C. Art, Greensboro, will open its Textile Monuments exhibit on Saturday, March 10, including an opening reception from 5:30 to 7:30 that day. The exhibit will run through April 28th and is free and open to the public.

The Mint Museums, Charlotte, will feature thirteen pieces from the Barnett Aden Collection of Charlotte Bobcats majority owner Robert Johnson, in honor of Black History Month. The works will be on view from Feb. 26th through March 11th.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art will open its Abstract/Object: Mid-Twentieth Century Art from the Reynolda House Collection exhibit on Tuesday, Feb. 27th. The exhibit will remain through June 17.

The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences will host a lecture by David Hurst Thomas on Those Elusive Spanish Missions: Romance and Reality in America's Mythical Mission Past, at 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 3. The lecture is free, but space is limited -- RSVP to audra.slaymaker@ncmail.net or (919) 807-7858.

Discovery Place
will hold its Second Annual Health Festival, All About You, on Saturday, Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the museum in Charlotte.

On Saturday, Feb. 24, Old Salem, Winston-Salem, will celebrate Black History Month with a concert by the Ambassadors for Christ Choir at the St. Philips African American Church Complex. The 7:30 p.m. concert is open and free to the public.

Ink Making and Quill Pen Writing will be the demonstrations in the High Point Museum historical park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 10, and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 11. Free; drop-in.

The Mountain Gateway Museum and Heritage Center, Old Fort, will hold Collectors' Day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 17 (free admission).

At the Olivia Raney Library in Raleigh, at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 18, the subject of Professor John Shelton Reed's lecture will be What's Southern about the South? Hosted by the Wake County Historical Society.

Events at the N.C. Maritime Museum, Beaufort, include Sustainable Seafood (March 8, 11 a.m.); Encyclopedia of North Carolina book signing by Dr. William S. Powell (March 15, 2 p.m.); and Collectors Day (March 17 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.).

Art historians and curators David Brauer and Jim Edwards will lecture on the impact of British and American Pop artists at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 3 at the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington -- admission by donation. On Sunday, March 4, there's a Gallery Talk with quilter Karen King Carter at 3 p.m. -- admission by donation.

The Honorable Patricia Timmons-Goodson, State Supreme Court, will lecture at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 10, in the Senate Chamber, N.C. State Capitol, Raleigh -- free and open to the public.

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