Cupcakes and Art – Welcome to the Gregg Museum
As part of Winter Welcome Week, the Gregg hosts an art party and cupcake bar on January 10 at 6pm. Visitors will explore their crafty side and play some art games as part of the
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Guided Tour of the Gregg Tonight!
5:30pm. This staff-led tour offers stories behind the art and the museum itself. Exhibitions featured are “All the Possibilities of Sixteen” by Vernon Pratt, and “Left-Handed Liberty”, works from the permanent collection. Free and open
Left Handed Liberty Exhibition Now Open Through June 23
The self-taught North Carolina artists featured in “Left-Handed Liberty” sometimes achieved recognition as innovative creative minds, but often started out exploring their art in deeply personal ways. They made art in their homes, their workshops,
Holiday Hours at the Gregg
The museum will be closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. We will otherwise be open for normal exhibition hours.
Rural Avant-Garde Closes December 30
This exhibition – features art from, among many others, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Sally Mann. Works shown include Cage’s “STEPS” (featured image), an interdisciplinary work blending music, dance and painting, and smoke paintings made
Jazz from Thomas Taylor
Featuring selections from his newest recording The Seeker. Concert is free and open to the public, starting at 7:30pm in the Grand Lobby.
Artist’s Lecture Nov. 29 Russian Renaissance Revival Jewelry
A lecture by jewelry historian Ana Estrades explores the fascinating world of 19th century Renaissance Revival jewelry in “Reinhold Vasters: Forging the Renaissance in the Museum.” Estrades, who recently taught the first Gems and Jewelry semester course at
CHECK OUT AN ART TOTE!
The tote bag includes drawing pencils, drawing paper, a viewfinder and a magnifying glass. Anyone can check out an art tote and sketch in the galleries or the pollinator garden.
Fall Weather is here. Come enjoy the garden.
Our Pollinator Garden is the perfect spot for taking a break from a busy day, meeting for lunch, or simply relaxing while you study.
Hallowe’en at the Gregg!
Come in costume and perhaps win a prize! On Halloween night, Jodi Wille, documentary filmmaker, curator, and book publisher presents WE ARE NOT ALONE (2016), her short film about the unconventional Unarius Academy of Science
RENDERED SMALL Weds, Oct 24 by Marsha Gordon & Louis Cherry
A fascinating documentary about collectors of scale model American folk art buildings. Collectors Steven Burke and Randy Campbell will be on hand to answer questions, and to show some of the actual collection!
Museum Events As Scheduled
Hurricane Michael is scheduled to enter our area sometime on Thursday with heavy rain and strong winds. As of today, Museum events are continuing as scheduled, but please stay tuned for any updates.
October Events at the Gregg
Some great events coming up: NC State’s Marsha Gordon screens her documentary, Rendered Small Oct 24 LA Filmmaker Jodi Wille screens 4 of her short films on social subcultures Oct 31
“Hondros” showing this Thursday
6pm, James B. Hunt Library Auditorium. The documentary by Greg Campbell about war photographer and NC State alum Chris Hondros, killed in Libya in 2011. In partnership between the Gregg Museum, NCSU Libraries, Alumni Association,
STEPS by John Cage performed by NCSU Dance Company
In collaboration with the NCSU Dance Program and facilitated by painter and founder of Mountain Lake Symposium Ray Kass, the NCSU Dance Company and dancer Justin Tornow performed John Cage’s “Steps”, a composition for a