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An occasional list of exhibits, programs, and events at North Carolina museums. Sponsored by the North Carolina Museums Council.
NCMC Events From Around the State… March 23, 2015
1). NCMC
Art Section Nominations Needed! We are currently
seeking nominations for Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary of the NCMC Art
Section. Please feel free to nominate
yourself or a colleague for a specific position by emailing Denise Drury
Homewood, art section chair, at artsection@ncmuseums.org.
2). The
Battleship NORTH CAROLINA (www.battleshipnc.com)
invites you to a Battleship Easter Egg Hunt Carnival on Friday, April 3rd
from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (last ticket sold at 1:00 p.m.). Hippity Hoppity
down the Battleship trail for a fun Spring event with continuous games and egg
hunts throughout the day. Make sure to bring your camera and take pictures with
Buddy the Battleship Bunny. Offered again this year is a slower paced hunt area
for kids who need a less stressful environment or for children with special
needs who choose a slower paced environment.
Admission for the Easter Egg Hunt Carnival is only $5 per person, kids 2
and under are free. We've talked with the Easter Bunny and he told us that he
has even more surprises this year. Stay tuned as the eggs and festivities hop
out of the basket. This event is weather dependent. The Battleship NORTH
CAROLINA would like to thank Sunny 104.5 for their sponsorship of this event.
3). New
Winston Museum
(www.newwinston.org) will host “The
Winston-Salem Medicis,” a conversation with local artist and former director of
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Nicholas Burton Bragg on Thursday, March
26th at 5:30 p.m. Current Reynolda House Programming Director, Phil
Archer. Dr. Mike Wakeford, Division of Liberal Arts faculty at UNC School of
the Arts, will moderate. The discussion will give insight into the role that
members of tobacco and textile industry families played in supporting regional
arts and philanthropy. The speakers will compare local endeavors with similar
philanthropic efforts taking place in early 20th Century America. This event is part of New Winston Museum’s
2015 Salon Series calendar. The series continues on next month with the focus
of Medicine. This event is free and open to the public. For more information contact
the Museum at 336.724.2842 or info@newwinston.org.
4). The
Mount Airy Museum of Regional History (www.northcarolinamuseum.org)
presents the fifth program in a sports related series of History Talks: North
Carolina Humanities Council’s Hometown
Teams statewide scholar, Pamela Grundy with “Back Then, That Was the Thing To Do” North Carolina’s Women’s
Basketball at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday,
March 28th. This program will
be held on the 3rd floor of the museum and is Free to the public. Also on this morning will be the Easter
Bonnet/Hat workshop, Parade and Egg Hunt from 10-11:30 a.m. for ages 4-11.
Museum members are Free, $5 for non-members.
Workshop will be held in the 2nd floor classroom.
5). Greensboro
Historical Museum (www.GreensboroHistory.org) is
excited to announce that the Emancipation Proclamation is coming to the Museum.
On Saturday, March 28th the Greensboro Historical Museum is opening
its new exhibition, Emancipation
Proclamation: Voices to Freedom. Visitors will follow a path through
Greensboro’s history that includes powerful stories of 300 years of African
American experience seeking liberty and freedom. The highlight of this four
week exhibition is a Leland-Boker 1864 edition of the Emancipation Proclamation
signed by President Abraham Lincoln, on loan from the Lincoln Foundation
Collection of the Indiana State Museum. The Lincoln Financial Foundation, the
philanthropic arm of Lincoln Financial Group, has arranged for this rare
document and other Lincoln artifacts, including an inkwell and Matthew Brady
images from the Lincoln family album, to be loaned to the Museum. The exhibit will
include several special programs throughout its visit. Admission to all
programs is free, but reservations are highly recommended. To see the complete
program calendar or to make reservations, please call (336) 373-2982 or go to www.GreensboroHistory.org. This special exhibit will be on display until
Sunday, April 26th. Admission is free.
6).
Hands On!
(www.handsonwnc.org), a Child's Gallery
in Hendersonville, will host NanoDays Kick-off Celebration on Friday, March 27th,
and continue with nano exhibits and activities Tuesday, March 31-Friday, April
3rd. NanoDays at Hands On! is part of a nationwide festival of educational
programs about nanoscale science and engineering. NanoDays events combine fun
hands-on activities with presentations on current research. A range of exciting
NanoDays programs demonstrate the special and unexpected properties found at
the nanoscale, examine tools used by nanoscientists, showcase nano materials
with spectacular promise, and invite discussion of technology and society. Visitors
can experience the power of science fiction storytelling—creating their own
imagined future full of new nanotechnologies. Hands-on activities invite
visitors to explore polarized light, investigate how scientists use special
tools to study tiny things, and imagine how nanotechnology could change how we
eat! Other activities include experimenting with heat transfer and completing
an electrical circuit using the world’s thinnest material. Learn more by
visiting www.handsonwnc.org.
7). The
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum (www.ncmaritimemuseums.com)
will host the 2015 Underwater Heritage Symposium which will showcase
significant members of the diving community. The symposium will take place on
April 10th & 11th from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. During the two-day symposium, The Graveyard
of the Atlantic Museum will formally honor several divers who have impacted
their profession through their passion for diving, documenting shipwrecks,
lecturing and authoring books on their experiences, and mentoring new divers in
the field. Join The Graveyard of the
Atlantic Museum as they explore our underwater heritage through presentations
by twelve dive professionals, view artifacts from a private collection, meet
the experts, hear about their amazing adventures, and have books signed at this
exciting event. For more information,
call 252-986-2995, email maryellen.riddle@ncdcr.gov,
or visit www.ncmaritimemuseums.com.
The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum is located at 59200 Museum Dr., Hatteras,
NC 27943. From April through
mid-October, hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. From mid-October through March, hours are
Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
8).
Spencer Doll & Toy Museum (www.SpencerDollandToyMuseum.com)
invites you to the Antiques Appraisal Fair (Roadshow Style) on March 27th
and 28th from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. both days. Antiques dealer Michael Hanson will take a
look at your items and will offer advice and information regarding a broad
spectrum of general merchandise including toys. Bring in your family heirlooms
and yard sale bargains to find out the fascinating truths about these finds!
Cost is $5.00 per item. Limit 2 items per person. Members receive 2 free
appraisals annually. To become a member, call 704-762-9359.
9). The
Asheville Art Museum (www.ashevilleart.org) is pleased to present its latest
exhibit, Keep All You Wish: The
Photographs of Hugh Mangum. Inside or outside his photo studio,
Mangum created an atmosphere –respectful and often playful – in which hundreds
of men, women and children genuinely revealed themselves. Keep All You Wish features a selection of images of early 20th
century Southern society that show personalities as immediate as if they were
taken yesterday. Although the early 20th century American South in which he
worked was marked by disenfranchisement, segregation and inequality – between
black and white, men and women, rich and poor – Mangum portrayed all of his
sitters with candor, humor and spirit. Above all, he showed them as
individuals. Each client appears as valuable as the next, no story less
significant. Keep All You Wish will
be on display until July 12th.
10). The
High Point Museum (www.highpointmuseum.org) invites you to make Easter
Eggs with natural dyes on Saturday, March 28th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00
p.m. Get
ready for the Easter Bunny! We’ll provide eggs you can dip in dyes made from
plant material, like onionskins and blueberries. All ages welcome. $1 per egg. Limit 2 eggs per person.
Free for Historical Society members. Drop in! Also on Saturday, March 28th, stop by to
see a Blacksmith Demonstration anytime between 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. All
ages welcome. FREE. For more information on these events call 885-1859
or visit www.highpointmuseum.org.
NCMC Events From Around the State… March 16, 2015
1). NCMC
Art Section Nominations Needed! We are currently
seeking nominations for Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary of the NCMC Art
Section. Please feel free to nominate
yourself or a colleague for a specific position by emailing Denise Drury
Homewood, art section chair, at artsection@ncmuseums.org.
2). Page-Walker
in Cary (www.friendsofpagewalker.org) invites
you to Preserving America’s Memories:
Film, TV and Sound at the Library of Congress on Monday, March 23rd
at 7:30 p.m. at the Cary Theater. The
Packard Campus Audio Visual Conservation Center is a state-of-the-art facility
where the Library of Congress acquires, preserves and provides access to the
world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of films, television
programs, radio broadcasts, and sound recordings. Paul R. Klamer, Video Lab
Supervisor, will share “behind the scenes” information on how these unique
American cultural treasures are preserved and restored. For more information on this free lecture,
visit www.friendsofpagewalker.org
or call (919) 460-4963.
3). The
Mount Airy Museum of Regional History (www.northcarolinamuseum.org)
presents NASCAR, Dirt Track History, NASCAR Racers Roundtable and History Talks
all in one day on Saturday, March 21st! At 10 a.m. NASCAR Hall of
Fame historian Buz McKim will discuss the history of NASCAR; at 11 a.m. Dan Pierce author of “The Real NASCAR: White
Lightning, Red Clay and Big Bill France” will talk about early dirt track
racing and NASCAR; at 12noon Buz McKim will moderate the NASCAR Racers Roundtable
featuring 2015 Hall of Fame inductee Rex White; and at 2 p.m. History Talks:
Doug McDaniel presents “A Statistical History of the Mount Airy High School
Football Program.” All of these events
will be held on the 3rd floor of the museum and are FREE to the public.
4). The
High Point Museum Guild (www.highpointmuseum.org) is pleased to have Bernie Mann, owner
and publisher of Our State, speak at
its March monthly meeting. The meeting will be held Wednesday, March 18th
at 10 a.m. at the High Point Museum. Our
State magazine is North Carolina’s premiere travel, history and culture
publication. The Museum Guild welcomes new members to join and support the High
Point Museum. Annual dues are $25 which helps to fund wonderful programs which
are free except for the field trips as well as other Museum projects and
exhibits. To learn more about this event, call 885-1859 or visit www.highpointmuseum.org.
5).
Hands On!
(www.handsonwnc.org), a Child's Gallery
in Hendersonville, invites you to Switcheroo Zoo! on Wednesday, March 18
through Friday, March 20. If you ran the zoo, what kind of animals would you
engineer? Create real & imaginary animals in our switcheroo zoo. This
self-directed activity is available all day for all ages in our Party Room.
This new program is free with $5 admission/free for members and is generously
sponsored by Etowah Valley Veterninary Hospital. For additional information
about Hands On! educational programs and facility, please visit their website
at www.handsonwnc.org or call
828-697-8333.
6). The
Asheville Art Museum (www.ashevilleart.org) is pleased to present its latest
exhibit, Keep All You Wish: The
Photographs of Hugh Mangum. Inside or outside his photo studio,
Mangum created an atmosphere –respectful and often playful – in which hundreds
of men, women and children genuinely revealed themselves. Keep All You Wish features a selection of images of early 20th
century Southern society that show personalities as immediate as if they were
taken yesterday. Although the early 20th century American South in which he worked
was marked by disenfranchisement, segregation and inequality – between black
and white, men and women, rich and poor – Mangum portrayed all of his sitters
with candor, humor and spirit. Above all, he showed them as individuals. Each
client appears as valuable as the next, no story less significant. Keep All You Wish will be on display until
July 12th.
7). Museum
of Anthropology, Wake Forest University (http://moa.wfu.edu)
invites the public to the lecture Inscribing
the Present: The Semiotic Reoccupation
of Cherokee Country on Wednesday, March 18th at 7:00 p.m.
Drawing on collaborative work with Tom Belt and Hartwell Francis of
Western Carolina University's Cherokee Language Program, Dr. Margaret Bender,
Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wake Forest University, will discuss
several ways in which contemporary assertions of Cherokee culture--including
the promotion of traditional language-based pregnancy and birthing practices,
the reclamation of sacred and historic sites along the Tuckaseegee River,
tattooing, and the defiance of an attempt by Facebook to prohibit use of the
Cherokee syllabary--are physically and visually remaking Cherokee bodies and
Cherokee landscape. Admission is free.
8). North
Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (www.naturalsciences.org)
invites you to visit them on Wednesday, March 18th at 7 p.m., for a
special presentation by Paul Bogard titled “The End of Night.” Bogard seeks to
restore awareness of the spectacularly primal, wildly dark night sky and show
how it has influenced the human experience across everything from science to
art. This special program will be held in the main auditorium and is free to
the public.
9).
SECCA
(www.secca.org) invites you to the 2015
Connectivity Gala on Friday, March 20th at 6:00 p.m. You won't want to miss the best event in
town! Join SECCA for an inspiring evening with southern, national, and
international artists that imagine and build new forms of collectivity and
connectivity. This lively event will include hors d’oeuvres and a sit down
dinner, along with entertainment by UNCSA School of Dance. Buy your tickets now
at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/secca-connectivity-gala-tickets-15733498317.
10). Museum
of the Albemarle (www.museumofthealbemarle.com) and
Serenity Arts Studio invites you to Paint
and Cookie: Sunny Sky and Colorful Kite
on Friday, March 20th from 4-5:30 p.m. at the Museum of the
Albemarle. The Museum and Serenity
Studio Arts will join forces in creating a mixed-media canvas for April’s First
Friday Art Walk. School age
participants will paint a kite. The
masterpieces created by participants during the workshop will be highlighted at
Serenity Studio Arts, 601 East Main Street, on Friday, April 3, 2015 from 5:30
– 7 p.m. at First Friday Art Walk.
Limited space and supply fee. For More Information Call 252-335-1453.
NCMC Events From Around the State… March 2, 2015
1). The
High Point Museum (www.highpointmuseum.org) announces the showing of High Point: A Memoir of the African American
Community on Saturday, March 7th at 10:30 a.m. The documentary
is presented by Yalik's Modern Art and Custom Media Solutions Production. High
Point Museum, located at 1859 E. Lexington Ave. For more information, call
885-1859 or visit our website www.highpointmuseum.org.
2). Cowan Museum of
History and Science (www.cowanmuseum.org) presents “Old Rocks,
Young Minds,” February 13 – April 13, 2015, an exhibit developed by students of
the Duplin Early College High School and James Kenan High School. The show
explores the layered evidence of the earth’s rocks, minerals, and fossils,
which can be read almost like pages in a book when one understands the
different types of rocks and how they form and continually change. Visitors may
make their own fossil impression to take home. The Museum is open Tue. – Sat.,
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Admission is free.
3). The
Mount Airy Museum of Regional History (www.northcarolinamuseum.org)
presents the second program in a sports related series of History Talks: Mike
Wiley in “A Game Apart – A glimpse into the life of Jackie Robinson” on
Saturday, March 7th at 2 p.m.
This sports History Talks series will be held on Saturdays during the
Smithsonian exhibition of Hometown Teams:
How Sports Shape America. For more
information, visit www.northcarolinamuseum.org.
All History Talks are FREE to the public. Also happening this weekend at the Museum, the
first of two Batik Easter Egg Workshops for adults. This first workshop will
take place on Saturday, March 7th from 1-4 p.m. The second workshop
will be on Saturday, March 21st.
$10 for museum members, $15 for non-members. Preregistration is required. Call 336-786-4478.
4). The
Museum of the Albemarle (www.museumofthealbemarle.com)
invites you to have history for lunch!
Their next History for Lunch program is Wednesday, March 4th
at 12:15 p.m. and will be presented by Dr. Glen Bowman on “A Look Back to 1915:
Prominent African-American Baptist Educators from northeastern North
Carolina.” Dr. Bowman’s presentation
will address Calvin Scott (C.S.) Brown and Waters Normal Institute, which he
founded in Winton; Peter Weddick (P.W.) Moore, founding principal of the
Elizabeth City State Colored Normal School (in 1915 called State Normal School,
now Elizabeth City State University), and Elizabeth City’s Roanoke Institute,
which was founded as a private secondary school in 1896 on what is today
Roanoke Avenue. This presentations will
be supported by photos and documents that were located at the North Carolina
State Archives in Raleigh, the Jackson Davis Papers at the University of Virginia,
and the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina—Chapel
Hill. This is a free program. For more information call 252-335-1453.
5). Kings
Mountain Historical Museum (www.kingsmountainmuseum.org) invites you to celebrate National
Women’s History Month in March with a riveting program by award-winning author,
storyteller, and Road Scholar Randell Jones. “Famous and Infamous Women of
North Carolina” lecture & book signing by Randell Jones, will take place on
Wednesday, March 4 at 6:00 p.m. North
Carolina has been home to many notable women who have made their mark on
history. This program will draw
audiences into extraordinary and fascinating tales about some of these women,
including a child bride, a Confederate soldier, a pirate, and a pioneering
parachutist. This will be the second program in Kings Mountain Historical
Museum’s 2015 Women’s History Lecture Series, in conjunction with their new Pioneering Women of Cleveland County exhibit. The exhibit is open Tuesdays - Saturdays from
10:00 a.m. until 4:00 pm, from now until May 23rd.
6). The
Matthews Heritage Museum (www.matthewsheritagemuseum.org)
announces its next exhibit, Widgets and
Thing-a-ma-Jigs: An Exhibit of the Mostly Unknown. It will be on display until April 18,
2015. Have you ever come across an
object and didn’t know what it is? A
tool from another time, no longer used by the general public? Well, The Matthews Heritage Museum has a
whole exhibit of items that might stump even antique lovers! We hope you can learn about some of these
tools of yesteryear and come to recognize some useful utensils with which our
ancestors were familiar. The items will
be on display without benefit of a label in order to challenge your
knowledge. However, a key with a
description of each item and how it was used will be provided for those
interested. Those guessing all items
correctly will be entered into a drawing from which one will be chosen to
receive a free membership to the Matthews Historical Foundation for a year that
includes free entrance to the museum among other benefits. This is an excellent
exhibit for school children, home schoolers, scouts and senior groups. Matthews Heritage Museum is open to the
public Thursday – Saturday from 10 to 4:30.
A small admission fee is charged.
Children under 10 are free. The
first Saturday of every month is Free for all.
7). The
Asheville Art Museum
(www.ashevilleart.org) is thrilled to
be hosting an exciting lecture on landscape architecture on Thursday, March 5th,
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Diana Wortham Theatre. The lecture will illustrate the
role landscape architecture plays to reveal, frame, and sustain the powerful
forces of ecology and culture that shape our world. This event is FREE for
Museum members and students with ID, but you must call the Museum at
828-253-3227 to RSVP for the event. Non-member tickets are $5 and may be purchased
online at www.ashevilleart.org or by
calling the Museum.
8).
Joel Lane Museum House (www.joellane.org)
is proud to present a lecture by Mike Helms, "Evolution of Firearms from
the Late 1700s to the Civil War " on Thursday, March 5th at 7 p.m.
Admission will be $16 for the general public and $11 for members of the Joel
Lane Historical Society. Refreshments will be served. Seating is limited, and
advanced payment is required. Please visit Eventbrite.com to purchase tickets.
Be sure to include the names of all in your party; nametags will serve as
tickets. Tickets are non-refundable unless we must cancel the event. For more information: tel: (919) 833-3431;
email: joellane@bellsouth.net; Website: www.joellane.org
9).
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum (www.ncmaritimemuseums.com)
announces On Stage: The Suloide, Door
Handle and Plate, March 1st – 31st. The Suloide met its fate March 26, 1943
off Bogue Banks. The transport steamship was loaded with manganese and on its
way to New York. Visit the Museum to see a door handle and plate from the
vessel, and discover why it never made it to its destination. For more information, call the Graveyard of
the Atlantic Museum at 252-986-2995 or visit www.ncmaritimemuseums.com. Graveyard
of the Atlantic Museum, 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, N.C. 27943.
10).
New Winston Museum (www.newwinston.org) invites you to come
out on Thursday,
March 5th at 5:30 p.m. for “Tobacco Unionism and Civil Rights”. Local expert
Will Cox and former State Senator, Earline Parmon, will discuss the links
between Winston-Salem’s tobacco Unionism and the growth of political &
Civil Rights activism that followed.
Event is free and open to the public. Overflow parking is available at
the Old Salem Visitors Center and on Marshall Street. For more information
please visit our Web site at www.newwinston.org
or call 336.724.2842 ext. 101. Admission
to the New Winston Museum is free; Donations are greatly appreciated.