ncmuseums

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

Thursday, January 17, 2008

If you haven't already done so, be sure to check out the program offerings, schedule and registration information for the upcoming NCMC Annual Meeting & Conference, to be held March 4-7 in Fayetteville: www.ncmuseums.org/ncmc/conference/2008/index.html.

Events from around the state:

1). Sunday, January 27 at 2:30 pm - Olivia Raney Library - Wake County Historical Society hosts Dr. Walt Wolfram, William C. Friday Distinguished Professor at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) at NC State University. Dr. Wolfram has pioneered research on a broad range of vernacular dialects across North Carolina. He will share his findings.

2). Reynolda House Museum of American Art presents a concert by the Carolina Piano Trio on Friday, January 25 at 8 p.m. in the Babcock Auditorium. Members of the ensemble include Barbara McKenzie, piano, Jacqui Carrasco, violin, and Elizabeth Anderson, cello. The program includes Frank Martin's Trio on Irish Folk Melodies, Graces, Furies by American composer Michael Alec Rose, and Mozart's Trio in C Major, K548. For information and to purchase tickets, please call 336-758-5150.

3). "Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection," on view at the Mint Museum of Art: The cross-cultural connections between Asia and the West are vividly displayed in the extraordinary exhibition, Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur, which chronicles the history of Chinese export porcelain from 1550 to 1850. The exhibition will be on view from January 26 to April 20, 2008 at the Mint Museum of Art.Made in China showcases approximately 150 superbly crafted plates, tureens, vases, sculptures and other wares from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection of Chinese export porcelain at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.

4). The North Carolina Aquariums will celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by waiving admission fees. This year's holiday falls on Monday, January 21. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is one of two holidays each year that the aquariums reserve for the public to visit without an admission charge. The other "free day" is Veterans Day (Nov. 11). The aquariums are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 362 days each year. Normal admission charges are: $8 adults; $7 seniors; $6 ages 6-17. The aquariums offer free admission for: age 5 and under; registered groups of N.C. school children; N.C. Aquarium Society members.

5). In September 2007 the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail officially dedicated a new permanent display about the trail in the W. Kerr Scott Dam & Reservoir Visitor Center in Wilkesboro, NC. The project was a joint partnership between the National Park Service and the Army Corps of Engineers. There is an article with photos about the exhibit in the 2007 Progress Report for the trail -- go to the website, click on the "Management" link, then "Our Partners." The Progress Reports for the last four years are posted (including the one for 2007).

6). The Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NC State University is pleased to present RANDY SHULLCROSSING BOUNDARIES: A mid-career survey of the work of Asheville, NC, designer and craftsman Randy Shull. Randy Shull is nationally known for his work in furniture making and design, and is becoming increasingly well-known and respected for his work as a landscape architect and exterior designer. Based in Asheville, NC, Randy was recently featured in American Craft Magazine in "A Tale of Two Houses", an article about the redesign and renovation of his and a friend's homes in Asheville. The exhibit will run from January 24 - May 11, 2008. The exhibition will then travel to San Francisco, Bellevue, WA, and New Orleans. The exhibition and its travel plans were made possible by a generous grant from the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

7). The N.C. Transportation Museum received some positive, much-anticipated news as the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources announced receipt of $2,159,500 from the General Assembly for the restoration and preservation of the Museum's Power House, which will complete an important phase in the Back Shop restoration project. The Power House, which once generated electricity for the entire Spencer Shops facility, is being restored both to preserve the unique structure and the historic generators and machinery it houses, and as a component of the Back Shop Complex restoration. Once completed, the building will have exhibit areas on its original uses, and house the heating and cooling units for the Back Shop.

8). Lorraine Walsh, Chair of Multimedia Arts and Sciences at UNC-Asheville, will talk about digital methodologies and computing in drawing at the Asheville Art Museum's WNC Resource Center on Thursday, January 31 from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Admission to this event is free with Museum membership or admission. This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Lines of Discovery: American Drawings, which is on view in the Museum's Appleby Foundation Gallery through Sunday, February 10, 2008.

9). The Hickory Museum of Art recently completed construction of a new gallery honoring the life and work of the Museum's founder and first director, Paul W. Whitener. The Paul Whitener Gallery will officially be unveiled during a ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday, January 19 at 2 PM. A reception and open house will immediately follow from 2 - 4 PM. The public is invited to attend. (E-mail: KAllen@HickoryMuseumofArt.org).

10). Reynolda House Museum of American Art presents a Gallery Talk by Allison Slaby, the Museum's assistant curator, on Tuesday, January 29 at 5:30 p.m. The talk will center on the exhibition, Wordplay: Text and Modern Art, on view in the West Bedroom Gallery of the historic house. This exhibition explores the ways in which artists have integrated words and text into their designs as well as the rich material that language introduces to their work. Artists featured in the exhibition include Lorna Simpson, Shusaku Arakawa, Jasper Johns, Robert Cottingham, Glenn Ligon, and Edward Ruscha. The Gallery Talk will be followed by a cash bar reception. For information, please call 336-758-5150 or see the website. Admission is $5.

11). Maud Gatewood: Catching the Moment will be on display at the Asheville Art Museum Friday, January 25 - Sunday, May 18, 2008. This exhibition is organized and curated by the Asheville Art Museum, and is sponsored in part by the Midgard Foundation, Drs. Robert and Priscilla Bleke and Mr. & Mrs. Russell E. Newton Jr. An opening reception will be held at the Museum Friday, January 25 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Light hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served. This event is free for Museum members or with Museum admission.

12). On Saturday, Jan. 26, visitors to the N.C. Transportation Museum (NCTM) can learn how the shipwreck graveyard of the Atlantic shaped the destiny of the Outer Banks. Kevin Duffus, author of Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks-An Illustrated Guide, will show documentary clips and present a wide-ranging discussion of North Carolina shipwrecks and their legacy at 1 p.m. in the museum's Roundhouse Orientation Theater.

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