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In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers

Art + Science News

Oct 3, 2025

Your Brain on Art

Your Brain on Art: Reimagining the Gregg Museum Collection punctuates the phenomenal findings in Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross’s best-selling book, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us, which is changing the field of Neurosciences, Wellness and the Arts. Visitors embarked on a transformative journey through the Gregg Museum’s collection, guided by the…

Oct 3, 2025

From Pine Cones to Kilns: A Plant Biologist’s Passion for Pottery

Graduate school is a time for research, professional development and personal growth. Exemplifying this is Erin Emott, a Ph.D. student at NC State University studying plant biology whose pottery has won two Visual Artist Awards from Arts NC State in the past two years. Outside of her time in the art studio, Emott keeps busy…
NEW YORK, NY - February 10, 2015 - Huang Yi rehearses with robot 'Kuka' at 3-Legged Dog.

Oct 3, 2025

HUANG YI & KUKA

Dance partnered with robotics when acclaimed Taiwanese choreographer and inventor Huang Yi and his robot companion KUKA joined NC State LIVE for a week of events from November 11-16, 2024. Blending razor sharp precision and stunning artistry, harmoniously weaving together the art of modern dance and the science of mechanical engineering, Huang Yi and KUKA…
2025 Visual Artist Award winners. “Pastoral Embrace” by Sean Evans, “Groovy” by Erin Emott, and “Reykjavik Roamers” by August Hann.

Aug 13, 2025

Visual Artist Award Winners Selected During 2025 Student Art Sale

Written by Mallory Link, 4th year, History Major Arts NC State’s 2025 Student Art Sale took place on April 19 at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, and featured prints, crochet animals, jewelry, miniature clay decorations and more. The annual sale, which has taken place since 2015, is open to all current students, and…
Colllage image by Sasha Parfenova

Aug 6, 2025

Stephanie Ann Boyd’s Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals

Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals, is a vibrant new orchestral work by acclaimed American composer Stephanie Ann Boyd played by NC State’s own Raleigh Civic Symphony, under the direction of Peter Askim. Boyd, celebrated for her melodic explorations of the natural world, has crafted a powerful work that honors a menagerie of animals facing extinction…

Aug 6, 2025

Rooted: A Community Festival of Nature & Stories

On Nov. 8, 2025, the Gregg Museum of Art & Design is holding an evening-time celebration exploring the vital roles of plants in our lives through storytelling, art and community. The event will feature art exhibitions celebrating the connections between art and science, live art demos and performances rooted in nature and storytelling, creating art with…
Images of cyanotype art on a wall behind artist Leah Sobsey.

Aug 6, 2025

Cyanotype Workshop with artist Leah Sobsey

Leah Sobsey is an image maker, Assoc. Professor of Photography and curator and director of the Gatewood Gallery at UNC Greensboro. Her multidisciplinary photographic practice reaches into science, design, installation and textiles. Her photo-based work explores the natural world through archives and taxonomies. In October, 2025 she will lead students from Raleigh’s East Millbrook Magnet Middle…
Image of the artwork "Toward a Home Not Built Yet" by Claire Alexandre

Aug 6, 2025

‘The Halls of a Changing Sea’

The Gregg Museum is hosting ‘The Halls of a Changing Sea,’ an exhibition by artist Claire Alexandre from Aug. 12, 2025 through Feb. 28, 2026.  The exhibition highlights the artist’s process and practice of painting with natural plant pigments, portraiture, ancestral storytelling, land sovereignty and street art. Ms. Alexandre will be delivering an artist talk on…
Photo by Julie Lemberger

Aug 6, 2025

Rebecca Lazier’s NOLI TIMERE

Latin for ‘be not afraid,’ NOLI TIMERE is a soaring aerial dance performance set in a voluminous net sculpture custom-designed by renowned sculptor Janet Echelman and suspended 25 feet in the air! The innovative collaboration between Echelman, choreographer Rebecca Lazier, and Andrew Sageman-Furnas (Asst. Professor of Mathematics at NC State), with live music by acclaimed…
In Search of Thoreau's Flowers, design made by artist Robin Vuchnich

Aug 6, 2025

In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers

An immersive multidisciplinary experience that marries art and science through a modern artistic interpretation of Thoreau’s preserved plants. The exhibition invites visitors to experience emotionally resonant connections to the profound loss of natural diversity caused by human-induced climate change.  The exhibit was created by Marsha Gordon (NC State Professor of Film Studies), Emily Meineke (Asst.…