NCMC Events From Around the State… October 25, 2010

1). Tryon Palace presents Garden Lecture: Fallscapes – Adding Fall Interest to your Garden with speaker Helen Yoest on Saturday, November 6 at 10:00am. Fall gardening seems to be the forgotten season, yet it is the best time to be in the garden to enjoy the sights, sounds and colors. It is also the best time to prepare for the next growing season. Helen’s presentation will cover designing fallscapes, suggests plants and plant combinations to extend the growing season past first frost, and tackles tasks to be done in the fall to tuck your garden in for the winter and how to add more WOW for your spring garden.

2). Reynolda House Museum of American Art Reynolda House Managing Curator Allison Slaby will lead a Gallery Talk on Tuesday, Nov. 2 at 5:30 p.m. Slaby organized the “Virtue, Vice, Wisdom & Folly” exhibition, which includes paintings from the Reynolda House collection and loans from several prominent museums in the southeast. The exhibition features 19th-century genre art, or scenes of everyday life, replete with advice on how to live a good life―or not.

3). Cameron Art Museum Treat yourself to the hottest Halloween ticket in Wilmington – HAUNT at the Cameron Art Museum on October 29 from 8:00 p.m. to midnight. The Museum’s wildly irreverent funraiser/ fundraiser returns this year better than ever: with dancing, music, performances by My Wonderful Machine, retro-dance performance by Forward Motion Dance Company, Fortune-Teller/comedian (Super Kids comedy troupe) Jonathan Guggenheim, fire-eating belly-dancing by Sweet Ma Ree and Mr. Serious, fabulous food, signature “Hauntini” drinks, and the much anticipated costume and haunted hair contest!

4). Asheville Art Museum Join the Asheville Art Museum for Up For Discussion: A Continuous Broken Line with Mary Emma Harris and Amanda Burdan on Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the Asheville Art Museum. This event is $5 for Museum Members and students and $7 general admission. Black Mountain College scholar and author Mary Emma Harris and Amanda Burdan, the Tatum Curatorial Fellow at the Florence Griswold Museum, will talk about the history of the college and present lessons learned from Josef Albers that directed Sewell Sillman’s experimentation throughout his career as both teacher and artist.

5). Turchin Center for the Visual Arts Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at noon Turchin Center staffers Brook Bower and Hank Foreman invite you to join them on a journey of discovery to Mexico's central mountain region. The two traveled there in April 2009 with private funds allocated to research a 2010 exhibition focusing on contemporary art from Mexico. The lecture will be located in the TCVA Lecture Hall. This event is presented as part of the Lecture Series program in conjunction with the Turchin Center exhibition In the Shadow of the Volcanoes: Contemporary Art from the Mountains of Central Mexico.

6). Port Discover It’s CSI—Crime Scene Investigation—Port Discover Style, at Port Discover’s Afterschool Science, Thursday, October 28 from 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Joining Port Discover CSI will be Investigator Brent McKecuen from the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office and agents from the State Bureau of Investigation who will demonstrate for children the science behind crime scene investigations.

7). Mount Airy Museum of Regional History The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History and Old North State Winery present the annual Boo Bash held at the Old North State Winery, 308 N. Main Street, Mount Airy. Food, Drink and "Live" Music by Rain Jacket. Tickets are $7 per body in advance and $10 at the castle door. Costumed boys and ghouls are welcomed. All admission proceeds benefit the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History.

8). Museum of the Albemarle The Museum of the Albemarle’s Junior Docents will present a Night at the Museum on Thursday, October 28th from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Come visit as characters from the Museum’s exhibits interact with guests giving them a glimpse of the story behind the artifacts. A special hands-on theme (making masks) will be available. This is a free family program.

9). N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences Take a giant step back …in time, as the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts Fossil Fair on Saturday, November 6, 9am–5pm. The state’s largest event dedicated to fossils and paleontology returns to the Museum for the first time in three years, and features dozens of displays, activities and presentations about fossils from North Carolina and around the world. Free.