1). UNC-G Weatherspoon Gallery presents “Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey” June 15 - September 7, 2008. For the past fifteen years, Dawoud Bey has made striking, large-scale color portraits of students at high schools across the United States. Depicting teenagers from a wide economic, social, and ethnic spectrum, Bey creates compelling portraits of contemporary youth that transcend stereotypes. The forty photographs included in this exhibition are accompanied by personal statements that are alternately touching, humorous, and harrowing. Together the words and images in Class Pictures deepen our appreciation for young adults and the challenges they face in the twenty-first century.

2). High Point Museum presents “Alexander’s Battalion Field Hospital” on Saturday, June 14, 10 am to 4:00 pm (rain date: June 21). Find out what would have been in store for you if you were a wounded Civil War soldier. Re-enactors will be interpreting the life of a Confederate Army surgeon and other medical personnel as well as demonstrating 19th century medical procedures and equipment. All ages welcome; free.

3). Historic Bethabara Park will host a French & Indian War Encampment on Saturday, June 14, from 10:30 until 4:30, featuring NC Provincials from Fort Dobbs State Historic Site and the Rowan County Mounted Militia. Join costumed re-enactors as they interpret the French and Indian War, a conflict that had a great impact on colonial Bethabara and the Moravians living there. During the day the NC Provincials will demonstrate infantry drills, the mounted militia will discuss their role in the conflict, and civilians will describe how their life was changed by the war. Randell Jones, author of “In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone and In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett”, will speak on Daniel Boone in the Historic Bethabara Park Visitor Center. The event is free to the public and is being held in partnership with Fort Dobbs State Historic Site.

4). The King’s Mountain Historical Museum is pleased to announce the opening of our newest exhibit, “A Stitch in Time: Quilts and Needlework Pre 1960.” The exhibit features decorative as well as utilitarian quilts dating from the 1840s. Needlework examples include embroidery, crewel, crochet and needlepoint. The exhibit runs through August 23, 2008.

5). Cameron Art Museum presents “Art and Social Conscience: Holocaust” from May 2 – October 19, 2008. An exhibition of art work in all mediums created or submitted in response to the theme of the mid-twentieth century genocide known as the Holocaust, this exhibition is the first in a series of projects entitled “Art and Social Conscience”. The exhibition includes work by art faculty members from 16 institutions of the University of North Carolina system---work addressing or responding to the Holocaust and its larger context of mankind’s inhumanity to man. This initiative, a collaborative project of the UNCW Office of Cultural Arts, UNCW Art & Art History and the Cameron Art Museum, represents the important contribution made by artists to our understanding of our collective humanity, and the political and social issues of our times.

6). Port Discover —“Fabulous Fossils” is the focus of Port Discover’s Make-It-Take-It for June. Visit Port Discover and learn all about fossils. What are fossils? How do they get left behind? Children visiting Port Discover can examine fossilized specimens, search for fossils in fossil “dirt,” and make their own fossil imprint. Make-It-Take-Its are available during the hours Port Discover is open and is free, thanks to a grant from the City of Elizabeth City.