tours
?Explore the Collection?
Tuesdays?Fridays, 1:30 pm
Saturdays and Sundays, 11:30 am and 1:30 pm
Free; no reservations necessary.
A daily docent-led tour of Museum highlights. Meet at West Building Information Desk. For individuals and groups smaller than 10.
?Meet Your Museum? Tours
Fridays, 6 pm and 7 pm
Saturdays, 11 am, noon, 2 pm, and 3 pm
Sundays, 2 pm and 3 pm
Free; no reservations necessary.
Meet at East Building Information Desk. Guided tour introduces visitors to the Museum buildings, Plaza, and related works of art.
?Storytelling in the Galleries? Weekend Family-Friendly Tours
Saturdays and Sundays, 10:30 am
Free; sign up that day; first come, first served.
Meet at West Building Information Desk. Half-hour tours for kids age 5 to 10 and their adult companions. Join a Museum guide for a lively discussion and activities in the galleries.
special events
kids at the ncma: preschool playshop
What?s in the Box?: Parts of Art
Thursday, March 1 | 10:30 am, 11 am, and 11:30 am
East Building, Education Studios 1 and 2
Free for members
$3 Nonmembers
Tickets required from Box Office; first come, first served.
Come to the Museum to explore a part of art. What will be in the box this week? Lines, shapes, colors, textures, or patterns? Preschoolers, ages 2?4, and their caregivers discover a new adventure in the box each time and experience fun and engaging ways of looking at art together in the Museum and at home. Activities are designed to stretch the imagination while children explore materials and make personal connections with art and their world.
free tour: friday night art encounters
Friday Night Art Encounters
Friday, March 2 | 6 pm and 7 pm
Free; no reservations necessary.
Meet at West Building Information Desk. Enjoy a lively introduction to the Museum?s collection with 30-minute gallery conversations that take you through a variety of explorations.
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Film: The Mollycoddle
Friday, March 2 | 8 pm
East Building | Museum Auditorium
$3.50 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members
$5 All others
An expatriate dandy must reclaim his red-blooded manhood to defeat a gang of diamond smugglers in the last of Fairbanks?s modern adventures before he became a full-time swashbuckler. Silent film with live music by David Drazin. Tickets are available online at www.ncartmuseum.org, through the Museum Box Office by phone at (919) 715-5923, and in person (East Building).
kids at the ncma: childrens performance
American Dreams with Bright Star Touring Theatre
Saturday, March 3 | 11 am and 1 pm
East Building, Museum Auditorium
$3 Members
$5 Nonmembers
Bright Star Touring Theatre welcomes audiences of all ages to this fast-paced introduction to America and the American Dream told through a variety of uniquely American stories. This production touches on patriotism, citizenship, diversity, and civic pride. Tickets available through the Museum Box Office at (919) 715-5923. Children ages 5 and up (children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult).
kids at the ncma
Drop-In Studio
Saturday, March 3 | 11 am?3 pm
East Building, North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Gallery
Free, all ages welcome.
free tour: friday night art encounters
Friday Night Art Encounters
Friday, March 9 | 6 pm and 7 pm
Free; no reservations necessary.
Meet at West Building Information Desk. Enjoy a lively introduction to the Museum?s collection with 30-minute gallery conversations that take you through a variety of explorations.
art in the evening
Invisible: The New Obsolete
Friday, March 9 | 5:30?8 pm
West Building Lobby
Free
Invisible is the brainchild of Greensboro-based musicians/artists/designers Bart Trotman and Mark Dixon. They?ve created the most amazing sound-and-music machine from old technology and six channels of video. The installation is as much fun to see as it is to hear. Their latest project, The New Obsolete, features their wildest invention yet, Selectric Piano, which allows a typist to become an experimental pianist. Invisible was a highlight of the Museum?s 2010 grand opening celebration; don?t miss this much-anticipated return! Performance art and music sponsored by SignalFest.
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Film: Vitaphone Varieties
Friday, March 9 | 8 pm
East Building | Museum Auditorium
$3.50 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members
$5 All others
In early talkie days, many vaudevillians stepped offstage to immortalize their acts on film. Journey back in time as Jay C. Flippen, Dora Maughan, Dick Rich, Al Lyons, Jack White and the Montrealers, Billie ?Swede? Hall, and Jason Robards Sr. each have their one reel of immortality. Tickets are available online at www.ncartmuseum.org, through the Museum Box Office by phone at (919) 715-5923, and in person (East Building).
friends of the judaic art gallery
Purim Madness: An Evening of Fun, Food, and Dancing
Saturday, March 10 | 7:30 pm
West Building
$54 General admission
Join the Friends of the Judaic Art Gallery for a colorful evening of food, music, and entertainment to celebrate Purim. Designed for adults, this event features tapas-style hors d?oeuvres, beer, wine, and a specialty cocktail. Masks and other festive attire are encouraged, but costumes are not required. Proceeds benefit the Judaic Art Fund. For information about sponsorships, call (919) 664-6807, or register online at www.ncartmuseum.org/ersvp. Space is limited; advance reservations are required.
senior sampler
Senior Sampler: ?Drawing the Line?
Tuesday, March 13 | 1:30?3:30 pm
Meet in West Building Lobby
$15 Members (each session); $80 (all six sessions)
$20 Nonmembers (each session); $110 (all six sessions)
What does an artist need to consider when arranging a composition? Gain a deeper understanding of the underlying structure of a work of art while sketching selected pieces in the galleries. Each session offers an informal gallery discussion paired with a studio experience exploring subjects in paintings and sculpture. Supplies provided. To register call the Museum Box Office, (919) 715-5923.
free tour: friday night art encounters
Friday Night Art Encounters
Friday, March 16 | 6 pm and 7 pm
Free; no reservations necessary.
Meet at West Building Information Desk. Enjoy a lively introduction to the Museum?s collection with 30-minute gallery conversations that take you through a variety of explorations.
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Film: The Match King
Friday, March 16| 8 pm
East Building | Museum Auditorium
$3.50 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members
$5 All others
Wolfish William plays an industrialist who corners safety match production with epic financial shenanigans. Warner Bros. proclaimed that plots for their films were ?torn from today?s headlines??this one could easily be torn from ours, as well. Tickets are available online at www.ncartmuseum.org, through the Museum Box Office by phone at (919) 715-5923, and in person (East Building).
lunch and lecture
Lecture: ?Edward Durell Stone: American Modernist?
Saturday, March 17 | 11 am
East Building | Museum Auditorium
$23 Members
$28 Nonmembers
Edward Durell Stone, designer of the NCMA?s East Building, was one of the first American architects to experiment with European modernism in the early 1930s with a series of prominent homes in the Northeast and in his design for the Museum of Modern Art. In this slide lecture, Stone?s youngest son and biographer, Hicks Stone?himself a practicing architect?documents the breadth of his father?s life and career. The discussion continues over a lunch catered by Iris, the Museum Restaurant. To register call (919) 664-6785. Registration and payment for the combined program required by 4 pm on the Wednesday before the event.
El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa Members Opening
Saturday, March 17 |7?9:30 pm
East Building
$30 Members
$40 All others
Drums! Dance! Costumes! Song! Story! Join other Museum members and Durham?s own The Magic of African Rhythm at the first major retrospective of El Anatsui?s work. To celebrate the work of contemporary artist El Anatsui, the Museum presents a colorful evening of music and dance spanning many cultures of the African continent.? Performances include Balankora, a melodic duo of traditional griot instruments backed by African diasporic percussion instruments and singing, and Djembe Fire!, featuring djembe and dundun drumming, dance choreography, singing, and audience participation. African-inspired hors d?oeuvres, South African wines, beer, and nonalcoholic beverages included. The exhibition will be open for viewing. Performances take place at 7:30 pm and 8:15 pm.
artist discussion
?Artist to Artist?
Saturday, March 17 | 10 am
East Building, Museum Auditorium
Free; ticket from Box Office required
For nearly a year, the NCMA has enjoyed an extended loan from Bennett College of a work by Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas. Artist Stacy Lynn Waddell leads a discussion about Douglas?s Harriet Tubman that considers Douglas in the context of art history and as an illustrator and master draftsman.
kids at the ncma: family fun saturday
Family Fun Saturday: Traveling through Time
Saturday, March 17 | 10 am and 1 pm
East Building, Education Studio 2
$3 Members
$5 Nonmembers
Join us for a workshop that travels through space and time to learn about art from different cultures. At this gallery tour plus studio workshop for families with children ages 5-11, kids and adults delight in exploring the Museum?s collection, creating projects together, and discovering one another?s creativity. For more information or credit card reservations, call the Museum Box Office, (919) 715-5923. Space is limited; advance purchase is strongly suggested.
Sketchbook Saturday
Saturday, March 17 | 10:30 am?noon
$7 Members
$10 Nonmembers
Ages 11?14
Teens and tweens are invited for an in-depth exploration of tools and techniques used in keeping an artist sketchbook. We?ll be inspired by work in the galleries and Museum Park, and then head back into the studio to play with a variety of materials. Price includes one sketchbook per participant (not per session). Registration is required; space is limited. For more information or credit card reservations, call the Museum Box Office, (919) 715-5923.
Lecture: ?El Anatsui: A Curator?s Perspective?
Dr. Lisa Binder, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum for African Art
Sunday, March 18 | 2:30 pm
East Building | Museum Auditorium
Free; ticket from Box Office required
Dr. Lisa Binder discusses the work of artist El Anatsui, highlighting some of the stunning sculpture, paintings, prints, and drawings in the retrospective exhibition El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa.?The lecture includes a history of the artist?s career and a discussion of his recent projects, including Lines That Link Humanity in the Museum?s permanent collection.
lunch and lecture
Curator?s Highlights: El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
Friday, March 23 | 11 am
East Building | Museum Auditorium
$23 Members
$28 Nonmembers
Linda Dougherty, chief curator and curator of contemporary art, explores the five-decade long career of contemporary African artist El Anatsui and his ability to transform simple materials?bottle caps, milk tins, cassava graters, wood trays, clay pots?into stunning works of art that tell both personal and universal stories. The discussion continues over a lunch catered by Iris, the Museum Restaurant. To register call (919) 664-6785. Registration and payment for the combined program required by 4 pm on the Wednesday before the event.
free tour: friday night art encounters
Friday Night Art Encounters
Friday, March 23 | 6 pm and 7 pm
Free; no reservations necessary.
Meet at West Building Information Desk. Enjoy a lively introduction to the Museum?s collection with 30-minute gallery conversations that take you through a variety of explorations.
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Film: BUtterfield 8
Friday, March 23 | 8 pm
East Building | Museum Auditorium
$3.50 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members
$5 All others
A party girl wakes up in a strange bed and ?borrows? a mink coat for the taxi ride home, jump-starting this sizzling adaptation of John O?Hara?s novel. Liz won an Oscar for playing restless Gloria Wandrous. Tickets are available online at www.ncartmuseum.org, through the Museum Box Office by phone at (919) 715-5923, and in person (East Building).
kids at the ncma: family fun saturday
Family Fun Saturday: Transforming Everyday Materials
Saturday, March 24 | 10 am and 1 pm
East Building, Education Studio 2
$3 Members
$5 Nonmembers
Reuse, recycle, repurpose! Come learn how to transform the ordinary into extraordinary. At this gallery tour plus studio workshop for families with children ages 5-11, kids and adults delight in exploring the Museum?s collection, creating projects together, and discovering one another?s creativity. For more information or credit card reservations, call the Museum Box Office, (919) 715-5923. Space is limited; advance purchase is strongly suggested.
Sketchbook Saturday
Saturday, March 24 | 10:30 am?noon
$7 Members
$10 Nonmembers
Ages 11?14
Teens and tweens are invited for an in-depth exploration of tools and techniques used in keeping an artist sketchbook. We?ll be inspired by work in the galleries and Museum Park, and then head back into the studio to play with a variety of materials. Price includes one sketchbook per participant (not per session). Registration is required; space is limited. For more information or credit card reservations, call the Museum Box Office, (919) 715-5923.
12th annual abram and frances pascher kanof lecture
Lecture: ?John Singer Sargent?s?Israel and the Law: The Key to a Missing Keynote?
Dr. Sally Promey, Professor of American Studies and Professor of Religion and Visual Culture, Yale University
Sunday, March 25, 2 pm
East Building | Museum Auditorium
Free; ticket from Box Office required
Israel and the Law holds a crucial place in John Singer Sargent?s mural cycle at the Boston Public Library.?In multiple ways this one painting exemplifies the artist?s hopes for the shape of religion?s ?triumph? in secular modernity in a pluralist society. This lecture examines Israel and the Law in the context of its roles in Sargent?s larger mural cycle, from this panel?s 1916 installation through the controversy that ensued in 1919 and the recent conservation and restoration of the mural cycle.
A reception follows the lecture.
senior sampler
Senior Sampler: ?Taking Shape?
Tuesday, March 27 | 1:30?3:30 pm
Meet in West Building Lobby
$15 Members (each session); $80 (all six sessions)
$20 Nonmembers (each session); $110 (all six sessions)
How do artists use positive and negative shapes in a work of art? Explore shapes within a composition and make a collagraph using a printing plate made from collaged materials.
kids at the ncma: preschool playshop
What?s in the Box?: Seasons and Nature
Thursday, March 29 | 10:30 am, 11 am, and 11:30 am
East Building, Education Studios 1 and 2
Free for members
$3 Nonmembers
Tickets required from Box Office; first come, first served.
It?s spring! Come to the Museum to celebrate and explore the seasons. Preschoolers, ages 2?4, and their caregivers discover a new adventure in the box each time and experience fun and engaging ways of looking at art together in the Museum and at home. Activities are designed to stretch the imagination while children explore materials and make personal connections with art and their world.
Auction Preview
Friday, March 30 |5:30 pm
Free
The Auction Preview?combines live music, tasty bites, and beverages with an opportunity to preview the works of art to be auctioned at Art of the Auction benefit on April 14. Enjoy?the eclectic stylings of local jazz quintet Peter Lamb and the Wolves and mingle with many of the artists, who will be in attendance to discuss their?work. This is your chance to see all the exceptional works of art, many by North Carolina artists, that can be?yours to take home from the auction! This?event is part of Art of the Auction.
free tour: friday night art encounters
Friday Night Art Encounters
Friday, March 30 | 6 pm and 7 pm
Free; no reservations necessary.
Meet at West Building Information Desk. Enjoy a lively introduction to the Museum?s collection with 30-minute gallery conversations that take you through a variety of explorations.
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Film: Lover Come Back
Friday, March 30 | 8 pm
East Building | Museum Auditorium
$3.50 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members
$5 All others
A prissy virgin gets ready to sacrifice her virtue to land the advertising account for a mysterious product called VIP. Day frantically woos the virile Jerry, played with great charm and not a little irony by Rock Hudson. Tickets are available online at www.ncartmuseum.org, through the Museum Box Office by phone at (919) 715-5923, and in person (East Building).
Source: http://triangleartsandentertainment.org/event/nc-museum-of-art-calendar-events-march-2012/
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