JULY
Monday July 1:
NC State LIVE: NC State LIVE announces its full 2024-25 season of adventurous performing artists. This year you can explore dance with a giant industrial robot by choreographer Huang Yi, jazz greats like vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater, global changemakers like DakhaBrakha and The Second City’s hilarious improv comedy is back for Wolfpack Welcome Week! Make sure you sign up for NC State LIVE’s e-newsletter to be the first to know about their events.
Crafts Center: Fall registration opens July 1 for NC State students and July 8 for faculty, staff and the general public. Keep in mind that the registration process has changed and registration times will vary depending upon the studio and medium. We also recommend that you set up an account in Reporter before you plan to register to save time during the registration process. Learn more and register at crafts.arts.ncsu.edu.
Tuesdays July 2, 9, 16, & 30:
Gregg Museum of Art & Design: Children’s Summer Art Program, 2nd-3rd grade. 11am.
Children will spend time in the galleries learning about Haitian flags through careful looking, observational prompts, and engage in an art making activity that children will take home at the end of the session. Registration is required and spots are full, but email education coordinator Tamara Velasco to be put on a waiting list: Tamara Velasco <tgvelasc@ncsu.edu>.
Thursday July 18:
Gregg Museum of Art & Design:Cyanotype workshop 10am-12pm.
Cyanotype is a 170-year-old photographic printing process that produces prints in a distinctive dark greenish-blue (the word cyan has a Greek origin meaning “dark blue substance”). In this workshop, you will learn about cyanotypes and get to make your own in the sunshine outside the museum. Registration is required, and spots are full, but email education coordinator Tamara Velasco to be put on a waiting list: Tamara Velasco <tgvelasc@ncsu.edu>.
Thursday, July 25
Gregg Museum of Art & Design: Recycled Art with the Scrap Exchange, 5-7 p.m.With inspiration from the Gregg’s exhibitions that incorporate reused materials, create a piece of art with the Scrap Exchange in the Gregg’s Pollinator Garden using recycled materials. Registration is not required.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
On view at the Crafts Center
Thomas Way – Oak City Street Photography features a collection of candid moments and portraits of the people who make up the urban fabric of downtown Raleigh. Explore themes of intrigue in ordinary life, storytelling and the true reality of the photographer’s experiences during the endeavor of this long term project.
On view at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design
Material Messages: The Tales That Textiles Tell explores how different cultures communicate both similar and distinct messages through their particular cloth making traditions and reveals the depth and breadth of the artistic visions of these multicultural makers.
In BABENGA – The Sacred Forest, Cameroonian artist Jean Michel Dissake’s sculptural works use found and recycled materials to represent a balance between nature and technology.
Drawing from the Gregg Museum’s collections of over 54,000 objects, Selections from the Collections displays a sampling of the many different kinds of art in its holdings.
IN THE NEWS
DASA: Benkert Named DPAT Department Head
The Department of Performing Arts and Technology is ready to march forward under permanent leadership. Stuart Benkert, who spent the past year as DPAT’s interim department head, will assume that title permanently, effective July 1.
DASA: Sara Segerlin To Lead Gregg Museum of Art & Design
The Gregg Museum of Art & Design will have new leadership starting July 1. Sara Segerlin, who spent the last several years at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, brings a wealth of experience working with art communities to NC State.
INDY Week: Grants from South Arts Will Fund Several Triangle Arts Programs
The INDY features a story about South Arts funding in the Triangle, including an interview with Liza Wade Green, NC State LIVE’s interim director about their 2024-25 residency with Dasan Ahanu. Eight Triangle area artists and arts organizations received grants from South Arts, a regional nonprofit group.
