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In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers

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.…