this exhibition immerses viewers in Henry Thoreau’s study of plant life and extinction. It is co-curated by a creative team including Marsha Gordon, Emily Meineke, Robin Vuchnich and Leah Sobsey, in collaboration with NC State’s Science Engagement Director, Jory Weintraub, and the Office of Interdisciplinary Programs. The project features a creative exchange with artist-in-residence Leah Sobsey and the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative.
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A deeply moving solo exhibition by artist Claire Alexandre. This exhibition is a heartfelt reflection of Alexandre’s journey in creating natural paint pigments, her impactful work in portraiture, and her profound connection to ancestral storytelling.
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WORDS = POWER weaves together the written word, visual art, and spoken performances to inspire empathy and deep reflection on themes of beauty, destruction, and the resilience of communities.
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A colorful fiber sculpture focusing on the role butterflies and other pollinators play in our Earth’s ecosystem. Janet Echelman’s colorful fiber sculpture is a 1/9 scale maquette for a 186 ft. long permanent sculpture in Frisco, Texas which is located on the migration pathway of the Monarch butterfly, titled Butterfly Rest Stop. This art installation comes to the Gregg Museum in collaboration with NC State LIVE’s InterweaveFest, Oct. 6-11.
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As part of its 2025 celebration, Art2Wear showcases archival garments that symbolize creativity, boldness, and innovation. These pieces reflect diverse themes from their eras, allowing visitors to appreciate the evolution of Art2Wear and the craftsmanship of NC State students. View exhibition. 

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 embark on a transformative journey through the Gregg Museum’s collection, guided by the quotes from the book
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An outdoor textile installation by artist Danielle Hatch, who explores the Gregg Museum’s location as a meeting point between the NC State campus and the broader Raleigh community. Hatch examines the ‘town and gown’ concept and its ties to NC State’s textile history, emphasizing patterns and dressmaking as expressions of feminine identity.
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A sound art installation by Craig Colorusso that revitalizes NC State’s public spaces with a mesmerizing sound bath experience. The artist and the Gregg Museum of Art & Design co-curated this traveling installation in partnership with Centennial Campus Placemaking and NC State University Libraries. This self-guided outdoor art experience invites participants to connect with public spaces in a new way through meditation and exploration.
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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 pieces in its holdings. View exhibition.

An immersive installation by Carl Joe Williams combining painting, video, and found objects to guide viewers through exploring humanity’s complexities and challenging the notion of race as a social construct. Amazing Grace, Confronting the Enduring Legacy emerges as a visionary art installation that seeks to bridge divides through collaborative creation. This transformative project, conceived as a partnership between students and faculty, aims to illuminate our shared humanity while catalyzing vital conversations about our collective future.

Williams marks the relaunch of the Gregg Museum’s artist residency program designed to engage NC State’s campus communities in discussion community dialogue around social impact through arts by elevating meaningful dialogue, creative arts-based solutions to real-world challenges, and ethical practice.
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For thousands of years cultures around the world have used cloth as a means of visual communication—a way to document, celebrate, commemorate, and depict events large and small.
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North Carolina native John Mark Hall moved to New York in 1975 after earning his bachelor’s degree in architecture from NC State. This exhibition is drawn from some of Hall’s favorite works, hung in his personal studio and New York apartment. View exhibition.

Celebrating 75 Years of the College of Design.
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Cameroonian artist Jean Michel Dissake’s sculptural works use found and recycled materials to represent a balance between nature and technology by weaving natural objects such as wood, vines, termite dust, water hyacinths, and palm fronds together with computer boards, aluminum wire, license plates, and car parts.
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Exploring the medium of inflatable art with figurative, conceptual, and abstract imagery. View exhibition.

This retrospective spans nearly seventy years of Aldwyth’s work, beginning with photography and moving through experimental painting, assemblage, and collage while touching on personal themes and fascinations that have remained remarkably consistent throughout her career.
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Portraits serve as expressions of identity, popular taste, social standing, and as documents of who, when, and where.
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Architect, artist, and musician Frank Lee Craig (1952-2009) grew up at the other end of NC State’s original campus in a small residential neighborhood later demolished to make way for University Towers apartments and the Dan Allen parking deck. View exhibition.

Photographs by Martha Strawn. View exhibition.

Egyptian tentmaking has been a colorful and unique feature of the streets of Cairo for many centuries. View exhibition.

Trompe l’oeil ceramics.

crossed kalunga by the stars & other acts of resistance features work by seven contemporary artists who evidence transformative and contested circumstances in their production. View exhibition.

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Adventures in Mimetolithia by Andy Nasisse. View exhibition.

Mary Ann Scherr’s Legacy in Metal. A retrospective exhibition, curated by Ana Estrades, of the visionary industrial, graphic and jewelry design created by Mary Ann Scherr. The exhibition included custom jewelry designs, body monitors, and other objects created throughout her long career. Catalogue. View exhibition.

Spark and Dazzle from the Permanent Collection. The Gregg Museum not only showcases some of the most visually stunning objects in its holdings, but uses them as points of departure to probe some of the deeper cultural, psychological, and even evolutionary impulses that may have brought about their creation in the first place.
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From the Pratt Institute, curated by Judith Hoot Fox and Ginger Gregg Duggan of curatorsquared. Catalogue.
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Sculptor-photographer Stephen Althouse begins with art pieces he creates using man-made objects, cloth, tools, and simple farm machinery. He then records images of them using large format film cameras and highly specialized printing and development processes. The resulting prints are quite large (up to 9 feet wide), and display exquisite detail and rich tones, commanding a sculptural presence. These mystic, almost sacred depictions of the human experience are further enriched by the artist through the addition of deftly embedded messages in the images themselves.
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The first exhibition of its kind of the furniture of master carver and NC native Tilden Stone. Catalogue. View exhibition.

Featuring lithographs and taxidermied examples of ‘Creative Zoology’ as envisioned by artist Beauvais Lyons.
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Christina Weisner’s scientifically-based sculptures and installations centering on asteroids, ocean seismometers, and other scientific objects and instrumentation. Catalogue.
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An “anti-archive” of photographs and objects from the U.S.-Mexico border, as collected by Susan Harbage Page. Catalogue. View exhibition.

An exhibition of outsider art from the permanent collection of the Gregg Museum of Art & Design. View exhibition.

From the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston. A joint exhibition with the Power Plant Gallery. Part of the Southbound Project. View exhibition.

A joint exhibition with NC State University Libraries and the Genetic Engineering and Society Center (GES). View exhibition. Catalogue.

The first complete exhibition of Pratt’s 256-canvas magnum opus, “All The Possibilities of Filling in Sixteenths (65,856),” with accompanying music, “Denominators” composed by Arts NC State Executive Director Rich Holly. View exhibition.

Exhibition of works made at the renowned Mountain Lake workshops from such luminaries as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Howard Finster, Sally Mann, James De La Vega, Jiro Okura, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. View exhibition.

Photographs by Timothy Duffy. Wet plate collodion prints of portraits of traditional musicians, through the Music Maker Foundation.
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The creative lives of Robert Black and Ormond Sanderson. View exhibition. Catalogue

Herd Jackson paintings.
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Celebrating the Gregg Museum’s Collections. View exhibition. Catalogue

Selections from the Drs. Norman and Gilda Greenberg Gift. View exhibition.