N.C. Museum of Art Exhibition Offers Rare Opportunity to Watch Conservator at Work Conservator Noelle Ocon will work on Flemish painting in Museum gallery Beginning February 20, 2016, the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) presents Actual State, a rare opportunity for Museum visitors to watch a conservator restore a painting in the galleries. On select days during the exhibition, [...]
The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County has launched its 2016 Annual Campaign and publically introduced its two co-chairs. Leading the campaign this year will be prominent local civic leaders, Marybeth Wallace, special assistant to President Nathan Hatch at Wake Forest University, and Leslie Hayes, Executive Vice President at Wells Fargo & Company and Business Banking Division Manager for [...]
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) will open two exhibitions on March 19: American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals and Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. American Impressionist features 39 oil and watercolor paintings created by Childe Hassam on the Isles of Shoals, while Marks of Genius includes drawings, watercolors, [...]
Enjoy a little history with your lunch at noon on the second Wednesday of each month at the North Carolina Museum of History. History à la Carte offers a series of 50-minute informal lectures about a variety of historical topics – the Civil War, North Carolina pottery, the lost colonists, famous North Carolinians, etc. You bring your lunch; the Museum [...]
PineCone and the North Carolina Museum of History are partnering to present Music of the Carolinas, a series of free concerts on the second Sunday of each month from January through June. The series, performed in Daniels Auditorium, features some of the state’s finest folk musicians with program notes, and lecture-demos. On Sunday, February 14, Amythyst Kiah will perform at [...]
Biltmore, the unique 8,000 acre estate nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, has been a location for weddings and romantic getaways since George and Edith Vanderbilt married in 1898. From February 12 – July 4, to celebrate this history, the estate is hosting “Fashionable Romance: Wedding Gowns in Film”, a costume exhibition of wedding dresses and attire from major motion [...]
By Shelby Stephenson, NC Poet LaureateShelby Stephenson, North Carolina Poet Laureate, says, “There were two books in the plankhouse I was born in: the Sears-Roebuck Catalog and the Bible. My teachers were the dogs and the streams, the jumping fish in the creek, the singing trees.” His love of poetry came out of the old hymns he heard at Rehobeth [...]
Leonardo da Vinci, Codex Leicester (Sheet 1A, folio 1r), 1508–10, ink on paper, 11 2/3 x 8 1/2 in., Courtesy of Bill Gates, © bgC3 The North Carolina Museum of Art has an extraordinary treat for visitors beginning October 31: The Codex Leicester, a 500-year-old notebook of largely scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci. Named after Thomas Coke, (later [...]
The North Carolina Museum of Art exhibit through January 17, 2016, will be The Worlds of M. C. Escher: Nature, Science, and Imagination. Comprising approximately 125 woodcuts, lithographs, wood engravings, and mezzotints, as well as numerous drawings, watercolors, woodblocks, and lithographic stones never before exhibited, it will survey Escher’s entire career, from his earliest print to his final masterpiece. [...]
A $3.9 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust has been awarded Wake Forest University to fund a search for moral superstars. The Beacon Project, a three-year initiative to find and define the morally exceptional and better understand how to improve moral character, will be led by Wake Forest professor of psychology William F. Fleeson. The team includes R. Michael [...]
