Check out all new gallery and museum showings for February.

Let Us March On

Raleigh City Museum

Through February

Join the Raleigh City Museum in February to celebrate Black History Month and their newly re-designed core exhibit, Let Us March On: Raleigh’s Journey Toward Civil Rights!

Featuring colorful graphics, new photographs, and updated information, Let Us March On explores our city’s struggle against racial inequality from 1930-1970, focusing on how local individuals made a difference—fighting to desegregate public schools, participating in sit-ins and protest marches, or joining their neighbors against racism.

On Thursday, February 2, 2012, members can join us from 6-9pm for a special preview of the exhibit. Then, on Friday, February 3^rd, the public is invited for First Friday and a Grand Opening Celebration from 6-9pm. Entertainment and libations will kick off the exhibit re-design with a blast!

Saturday, February 4^th, Raleigh City Museum along with Jack and Jill of America will welcome Randy Shepard, co-founder and Founding Artist Director of the Martin Luther King All-Children’s Choir of Raleigh for an educational program at 2pm. Jack and Jill of America strives to “create a medium of contact for children which will stimulate growth and development and provide children a constructive educational, cultural, civic, health, recreation and social programs.”

Sunday, February 5^th, they will be open for viewing by Church members from 2-4pm, and from February 6^th-February 10^th, we will be hosting various local universities’ students and staff from 5-8pm.

Saturday, February 18^th, at 2pm, meet Joe Holt, the first African American student to try to integrate the Wake County Public School system. Mr. Holt will share his 37 minute documentary, “Exhausted Remedies: Joe Holt’s Story”, following with a Q&A session with museum guests and Mr. Holt.

Saturday, February 25^th, the museum will be hosting children’s author Kelly Starling Lyons from 1-4pm. Ms. Lyons has published two books; NEATE: Eddie’s Ordeal. That story explores the relationship between a thirteen-year-old African-American boy who loves to play basketball and his civil rights veteran dad. Her next book, One Million Men and Me emerged from her memories of attending the Million Man March. As she walked through a sea of men and boys, she saw a father holding hands with his little girl. Her eyes sparkled like diamonds. She looked like a princess among kings. Kelly Starling Lyons has two forthcoming books with G.P. Putnam’s Sons that explore African-American history and family relationships. The first, Ellen’s Broom, illustrated by Daniel Minter, will debut on January 5, 2012. The second, Tea Cakes for Tosh, will debut fall 2012.

The Raleigh City Museum is located in the Historic Briggs Building at 220 Fayetteville Street.  The museum is open Tuesday through Friday, 10am to 4pm and on Saturday, 1- 4pm. Admission to the museum and its programs is free.

 For more information call Stormi Souter at 919.832.3775 ext. 23 or visit their website at raleighcitymuseum.org

 Screened: New Work by the Printmakers of North Carolina

Durham Arts Council

Through April 15

 

“Screened” is a collection of screen prints organized by Judy Jones. Exhibited artists include Aaron Wallace, Brandon Sanderson, Cary Brief, Cherish Gregory, Delia Ware Keefe, Denee Black, Shane Hall, Maury Beckman, Vidabeth Bensen, Matthew Egan, Heather Muise, Jovian Turnbull, Judy Jones, Kristen Lineberger, Kristianne Ripple, Martha Sisk, Soni Martin, and Jason Leighton.

 

Galleries are open 9am-9pm Monday-Saturday and 1-6pm Sundays. The exhibit can be seen at the Allenton and Semans Galleries in the Durham Arts Council, 120 Morris Street, Durham. Call 919.560.2787, or e-mail Lindsay Gordon, DAC Artist Services Manager, at lgordon@durhamarts.org. The website is durhamarts.org.

Body & Soul: Birth • Death • Religion • Myth

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill

Through March 4

 

Feb. 2 – Peter Filine, featured artist, “The Ghost in the Camera” - How photographs can suggest the metaphysical.

Feb. 9 – Charron Andrews, “The Transforming Power of Art,” a personal presentation about why she makes shrines.

Feb. 16 – Engaging with “Body & Soul,” a tour with visitors. Walk through the exhibit and then sit down to converse with the FRANK artists.

Feb. 23 – Alex Harris and Paula Enrlich, “The Time of Our Lives: Living with Brain Cancer,” photographers from the Center of Documentary Studies present their innovative project about how patients and their families live their daily lives knowing they have a limited time together.

Mar. 1 – Danielle Koppel – singer, songwriter performs.

 

NCSU’s Gregg Museum of Art & Design

Through May 12

Barkcloth, Bras, and Bulletproof Cotton: The Powers of Costume – According to a Biblical story in Genesis, after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and became self-aware, the very first thing they did was make themselves something to wear. Using amazing objects from the Gregg Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition explores not only how clothing serves to protect, shelter, shield, and modify the human body, but also how what we wear helps us lure, seduce, dominate, segregate or manipulate others, discover spirituality and personal self awareness, proclaim our individuality or group membership, or just express ourselves. Photographs, artifacts, jewelry, and a dazzling array of outfits ranging from military uniforms, gangster wear and tribal shaman’s garb, to executive power suits and ultra-high fashion evening gowns, offer a fascinating foray into how clothes can do so much more than merely “make the man.” Guest curated by Janine LeBlanc and Gregg Museum staff.

 

Textiles of Exile: Fiber arts made by immigrants, refugees and displaced persons – All around the world, individuals have responded to displacement by making textiles that reflect their difficult new lives in unfamiliar environments. Working with fibers is one of the oldest of human activities, one of the easiest to seize and carry in an emergency (needle and thread are far lighter and more compact than pottery wheels, carpenter tools or blacksmith forges), one of the easiest to hide, one of the most comforting to engage in, and the craft most closely associated with storytelling. Due to various factors like these, links between the loss of home and place and the fiber arts are found almost everywhere. In Textiles of Exile, the Gregg displays examples from illegal Hispanic immigrants in California, Afghan refugees in Pakistan, threatened women in Peru, relocated Laotian Hmongs in Thailand, and prisoners in the American justice system; all call attention to the universality of the “silent scream” of homesickness. Co-curated by Molly Johnson Martinez, Precious Lovell and the Gregg Staff.

 

The Gregg Museum of Art & Design is located at 2610 Cates Ave, Talley Student Center, Room 3302, Raleigh. For more information visit ncsu.edu/gregg.

Worth a Look

Benjamin Frey: Wax Pencil Drawing

Little Art Gallery and Craft Collection

Through February 26

Images of circuses, carnivals and travels created on a background of antique book pages and acrylic paint.

The Little Art Gallery is located at 432 Daniels Street in Raleigh. For more information visit littleartgalleryandcraft.com or call 919.890.4111.

Photographs of Allan Tannenbaum

Emerge Fine Art, Cary

Through February 25

The retrospective New York in the 70s is a personal collection of photographs documenting the heady exuberance of the era- from SoHo and the art world to the city’s politics and society while he was chief photographer and photo editor of the SoHo Weekly News. This award winning photographer has been published in Rolling Stone, Life, Newsweek, SoHo Weekly News and others while on assignment across the globe.

Emerge Fine Art is located at 200 South Academy Street, Suite 110 in Cary. For more information please visit emergefineart.com or call us at 919.380.4470.