NCMC Events From Around the State… April 27, 2015

1). The N.C. Department of Cultural Resources (www.ncculture.gov) invites you to Cultural Resources Sites & Museums Professional Development Day on Monday, May 18^th from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Join them for a day of intense training and learning led by industry leaders. This special Development Day is free. For more information, please contact Kimberly Kandros at 919-807-7391 or kimberly.kandros@ncdcr.gov. To register or review the agenda, please visit www.ncdcr.gov/portals/0/documents/international-museums-day-agenda.pdf.

2).  The Museum Trustee Association (www.museumtrustee.org) will hold its spring Trustee-Director Forum on Friday, May 1st at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. This forum is a great opportunity for museum directors, staff and board members to strengthen their boards and have important dialogue on museum leadership. The Museum Trustee Association holds meetings at major museums around the country – don’t miss your chance to participate while it is in North Carolina. For more information, please contact Mary Baily Wieler by calling 443-956-4490 or by email at mary@museumtrustee.org. To register or to see the full schedule of the forum, please visit www.museumtrustee.org. 

3). Mount Airy Museum of Regional History (www.northcarolinamuseum.org) invites you to History Talks: Moravian historian Rod Hall will talk about early Moravian History (1400-1723) and the Renewed Moravian Church (1723-1867) at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 9^th.  History Talks are FREE to the Public and held on the 3rd floor of the museum.

4). North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher (www.ncaquariums.com/fort-fisher) is helping to share the love with mom this Mother’s Day.  Aquarium admission is free for all mothers on Sunday, May 10^th. Create memories while strolling through the gardens, catching a dive program or meeting a sea turtle. Make the day more special by treating mom to a Mother’s Day Brunch and take-home craft 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.  The prix fixe menu, catered by Bon Appetit, is $24 per adult, $22 for children 3-12, $5 for two year olds, and free for children one and younger. N.C. Aquarium Society members are $13 and children two and younger are free. Reservations are required for the brunch. Space is limited. In addition, various tours and classes are offered during the holiday weekend including Surf Fishing and Behind the Scenes tours. For more information, pricing and registration for tours visit http://www.ncaquariums.com/fort-fisher.

5). Asheville Art Museum (www.ashevilleart.org) is excited to host a special screening of Prime Time: Third Annual New Media Juried Exhibition on Friday, May 1^st at 5:30 p.m. The new media artists whose work is featured in the exhibition will be present to discuss their work. The screening is being hosted in conjunction with May’s First Friday Art Walk, when the Museum is open from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. and admission is pay-as-you-wish. The new media artists – who are from across North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia – all responded to a call to artists in December 2014 and submitted their work for Prime Time. Fourteen finalists, at various stages in their careers, were chosen for inclusion by a jury. This exhibition was organized by the Asheville Art Museum.

6). Page-Walker Arts & History Center (www.townofcary.org) invites you to “National Train Day in Cary”, part of AMTRAK Train Days 2015, on Saturday, May 9^th at Cary Train Depot & Page-Walker Arts & History Center from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (rain or shine). Visit the depot filled with family-friendly activities, displays, vendors and giveaways. Then tour the 1868 Page-Walker Arts & History Center to learn about its history as a 19th century railroad hotel and see model train displays. Co-sponsored by the Heart of Cary Association, AMTRAK and the Town of Cary.  For more, visit www.amtraktraindays.com  or call (919) 460-4963. This is a free event.

7). Cleveland County Arts Council (www.ccartscouncil.org) invites you to Jazz and Juleps on the Terrace on Saturday, March 2^nd at 2:00 p.m. Join them as they help send Cleveland County children to art camp. Suggested donation levels of $25, $50, and $100+ are most welcome and appreciated.  Live jazz, mint juleps and hors d’oeuvres. For more information visit www.carillonassistedliving.com/blog/carillon-set-to-host-jazz-and-juleps-event-statewide/. To RSVP, call 704-471-2828 or email RSVP.Shelby@carillonassistedliving.com.

8). North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (www.naturalsciences.org) invites you to their new exhibit Dig It!  How much do you know about the world beneath your feet? Dig It! The Secrets of Soil, a new traveling exhibition that explores the profound ways soil supports our lives, opens on May 16. Generous support from BASF, the Soil Science Society of America, and other NC donors enables free entry to this exhibition. Using videos, hands-on models, interactive displays and real soil samples, the exhibition presents an eye-opening and engaging story about soil, the “skin of the earth.” Developed by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the majority of the exhibition explores the extensive role of soil in agriculture, architecture and construction, art and rituals, medicine, water filtration, and much more. The Dig It! exhibition runs through August 16.

9). SECCA (www.secca.org) invites you to Alternative Modernisms a Talk @ SECCA Series event on Thursday, May 7^th at 6:00 p.m. at Overlook Gallery (please enter through the Historic Hanes House).  Dr. Ian Taplin, Professor of Sociology, Management and International Studies at Wake Forest University will examine the ways in which capital flows in and through art, beginning with Harun Farocki’s film “Still Life” and touring through other historical and contemporary artworks.

10). Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum (www.ncmaritimemuseums.com) presents “More than Meets the Eye: Artifacts from the Sediments at Site 31CR314, Queen Anne’s Revenge” on Wednesday, May 6^th at 11:00 a.m.  The excavation of an eighteenth century shipwreck identified by the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources as the Queen Anne’s Revenge, off Beaufort, NC, produced innumerable small artifacts from the sediment. These micro-artifacts provide another layer of evidence, corroborating the current hypotheses regarding the site formation process, namely that the site represents a grounded vessel and that it was exposed to repeated periods of scour and reburial over nearly three hundred years. The evidence provides a model for the formation of shipwreck sites in similar dynamic sand bar environments.  Presenter: Franklin H. Price, Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research.  Free program.  The program will also be streamed LIVE during a 6 p.m. online presentation at http://csi.northcarolina.edu/ustream. For more information, please call 252-986-2995.