Past Programs

Below you can browse through programs that we have had in the past. If you have any questions about these or other programs, please contact Curator of Education Zoe Starling at zoe_starling@ncsu.edu or 919.513.7244.

2024 PROGRAMS

Thursday, November 14, 6-8:30 p.m. | Terrain Dance Project
Friday, November 8, 11-12:30 a.m. | Challenging Times Series: Connecting Through Creativity and Conversation
Wednesday, October 30, 6:30-8 p.m. | Outdoor Film screening of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Tuesday, October 22, 1-3 p.m. | Beginners Weaving Workshop with Kate Nartker
Friday, October 18, 2-4 p.m. | Challenging Times Series: Connecting Through Creativity and Conversation
Thursday, October 17, 6 p.m. | Curator talk with Precious Lovell
Wednesday, October 16, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Mindfulness in the Museum: Yoga in the Gardens
Friday, October 11, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Challenging Times Series: Connecting Through Creativity and Conversation
Thursday, October 3, 4:30-7:30 p.m | Mix & Mingle at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design
Thursday, October 3, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | Bryant Holsenbeck Workshop: Wrapping Wild—Making imaginary animals out of textiles and other materials
Thursday, September 26, 6 p.m. | Curator talk with Marriott Sheldon
Friday, September 20, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m | Challenging Times Series: Connecting Through Creativity and Conversation
Wednesday, September 18, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Mindfulness in the Museum: Yoga in the Gardens
Friday, September 6, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Challenging Times Series: Connecting Through Creativity and Conversation
Friday, August 23, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Wolfpack Welcome Week: Pollinator Census in the Garden
August 16th-23rd, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. | Poster Invasion Sale at Talley Student Union
Thursday, August 1, 5 p.m. | Recycled Art with the Scrap Exchange
Tuesdays in June & July | Children’s Summer Art Program for elementary school children
Thursday, July 18, 10 a.m. | Cyanotype Workshop led by Cynthia Cukiernik
Thursday, June 27, 2 p.m. | Curator led tour of BABENGA–The Sacred Forest guided by Marriott Sheldon
Thursday, June 20, 10 a.m. | Yoga in the Garden: Summer Solstice led by Alaina Ruggery in partnership with the Alexander YMCA
Thursday, June 6, 6 p.m. | Tour of Material Messages: The Tales that Textiles Tell led by Interim Director, Mary Hauser
Thursday, May 16, 6 p.m. | BABENGA – The Sacred Forest Opening Reception
Thursday, May 9, 10 a.m. | Mindfulness in the Museum: Tai Chi in the garden led by Imari Colón, director and founder of East Cloud Kungfu
Tuesday, April 23, 5 p.m. | End of Year Student Party
Tuesday, April 16, 10 a.m. | Storytime in the Garden for children 3-5
Thursday, April 11, 6 p.m. | Leading by Design closing reception
Thursday, April 4, 6 p.m. | Tour of Material Messages: The Tales that Textiles Tell led by Guest curator Precious Lovell
Thursday, March 28, 6 p.m. | College of Design, History and Highlights: Architecture Presentation by Kristen Schaffer, Ph.D. and Burak Erdim, Ph.D., in conjunction with Leading by Design: Celebrating 75 Years of the College of Design
Thursday, March 21, 6 p.m. | Material Messages: The Tales That Textiles Tell opening reception
Thursday, February 22, 6 p.m. | Film Screening of MANA–beyond belief including introduction and Q&A with co-director Roger Manley
Tuesday, February 13, 3:30 p.m. | Wellness Day: Yoga in the Galleries
Thursday, February 8, 6 p.m. | Artist Talk with Ceramicist Paul Devoti, a ceramicist whose work Twenty Day Turtles is on display in Selections from the Collections in the Historic Residence
January 23rd – 27th at 10 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. | BLOW UP II Inflation and Deflation Viewing
Thursday, January 25, 6 p.m. | Film Screening of The Red Balloon (1956)

2023 PROGRAMS

Thursday, January 25, 5 p.m. | Thirst4Architecture Happy Hour with NCMordernist
Thursday, January 16, 6 p.m. | Third Thursday Tour of True Likeness
Thursday, February 2, 6 p.m. | Double Exhibition Opening Reception for This is Not: Aldwyth in Retrospect and True Likeness
Thursday, February 9, 10 a.m. | Mindfulness at the Museum: Morning Yoga in the Lobby with Jeff Manning
Thursday, February 16, 3 p.m. | Mindfulness at the Museum: Slow Looking Tour of Exhibitions in support of NC State’s Wellness Day
Thursday, February 23, 6 p.m. | Workshop: The Drawing Room with Raleigh artist Bill Thelen in conjunction with True Likeness
Thursday, March 2, 6 p.m. | Film Screening of Aldwyth: Fully Assembled with Introduction by director Olympia Stone
Thursday, March 9, 6 p.m. | Curator Talk with Lia Newman and Tom Stanley, co-curators of True Likeness
Thursday, March 16, 6 p.m. | Third Thursday Tour of This is Not: Aldwyth in Retrospect
Thursday, March 23, 10 a.m. | Mindfulness at the Museum: Morning Yoga in the Lobby with Jeff Manning
Thursday, March 30, 6 p.m. | Artist Talk by Kameron Neal, a multidisciplinary artist and designer working in video, installation, and performance, whose work is featured in True Likeness.
Tuesday, April 4, 3 p.m. | Eco Film Series Screening of The Human Element, a documentary highlighting Americans on the front lines of climate change, inspiring us to re-evaluate our relationship with the natural world.
Wednesday, April 5, 3 p.m. | Eco Film Series Screening of RiverBlue, a groundbreaking documentary that examines the destruction of Earth’s rivers, its effect on humanity, and the solutions that inspire hope for a sustainable future.
Thursday, April 6, 6 p.m. | Eco Film Series Screening of 2040, a hybrid feature documentary that looks to the future and conjures a positive portrait of what ‘could be’ instead of the current dystopian future we are so often presented.
Thursday, April 20, 6 p.m. | Staff-Guided tour of True Likeness
Tuesday, April 25, 10 a.m. | Mindfulness at the Museum: Morning Yoga in the Garden with Jeff Manning
Thursday, May 18, 6 p.m. | Curator Tour: Art History and Aldwyth, led by Mark Sloan, curator of This is Not: Aldwyth in Retrospect
Thursday, June 1, 6 p.m. | First Thursday Film Screening: The Killers (1946). In promotional images for the film, Gardner dons a pair of brown suede elbow-length gloves that are now part of the Gregg Museum’s permanent collection.
Thursday, June 15, 3 p.m. | Third Thursday Tour of Exhibitions: True Likeness
Thursday, June 22, 10 a.m. | Mindfulness at the Museum: Morning Yoga in the Lobby
Thursday, July 6, 6 p.m. | First Thursday Film Screening: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) by Lotte Reiniger
Thursday, July 20, 3 p.m. | Third Thursday Tour of Exhibitions: Selections from the Collections
Thursday, July 27, 10 a.m. | Mindfulness at the Museum: Morning Yoga in the Lobby
Thursday, August 3, 6 p.m. | Film Screening: Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine in conjunction with This is Not: Aldwyth in Retrospect
Thursday, August 17, 3 p.m. | Wolfpack Welcome Week Tour of Exhibitions: Selections from the Collections
Thursday, September 7, 6 p.m. | Exhibition Opening Reception of Leading by Design: Celebrating 75 Years of the College of Design
Thursday, September 14, 6 p.m. | Curator Tour of This is Not: Aldwyth in Retrospect led by Mark Sloan
Tuesday, September 19, 2:30 p.m. | NC State Student Wellness Day program: Sound Bath Meditation led by LA Adkins of Reconnect With You, PLLC.
Thursday, September 21, 6 p.m. | CANCELED Artist Talk: Susan Harbage Page in conjunction with Selections from the Collections
Thursday, September 28, 2:30 p.m. | NC State Student Program: Cyanotype Workshop led by Cynthia Cukiernik
Thursday, October 5, 6 p.m. | Staff-Guided Tour of This is Not: Aldwyth in Retrospect
Saturday, November 4, 1p.m. | Exhibition Opening Reception of BLOW UP II: Inflatable Contemporary Art
Thursday, November 9, 6 p.m. | Architecture Lecture: Shawn Protz in collaboration with NC State’s College of Design
Thursday, December 7, 3 p.m. | Staff Guided tour of BLOW UP II: Inflatable Contemporary Art

2022 PROGRAMS

Thursday, January 6, 6 p.m. | Guided Tour of Chris Hondros: Conflict Photography
Thursday, February 3, 6 p.m | Artist Virtual Interview Series: Director, producer, and cinematographer Rex Miller joined the Gregg Museum for a virtual discussion and screening of his short film, Dark Sea of the Soul, on view in crossed kalunga by the stars & other acts of resistance through March 12, 2022.
Thursday, February 10, 6 p.m | Virtual Artist Talk: Athlone Clarke joined the Gregg for a discussion about his work in crossed kalunga by the stars & other acts of resistance, live-streamed from the galleries.
Thursday, February 17, 6 p.m | Virtual Artist Talk: Renée Stout joined the Gregg from Washington, D.C. to discuss her work in crossed kalunga by the stars & other acts of resistance.
Thursday, March 3, 6 p.m. | Collage, Assemblage, and Bricolage: Sustainability in Art presented by Gregg Education Staff. This event was in conjunction with the Gregg Museum’s exhibition Frank Lee Craig – Near Distance and part of NC State’s Sustainable Development Goals Action and Awareness Week.
Thursday, March 24, 6 p.m. | Live from the Galleries: Frank Lee Craig Virtual Tour
Thursday, April 7, 10 a.m. | Yoga in the Garden
Thursday, April 16, 1 p.m. | Dance Performance: REDACT, in collaboration of NC State
Wednesday, April 27, 10 a.m. | Yoga in the Garden
Thursday, May 5, 6 p.m. | Opening Reception of Frank Lee Craig – Near Distance, Eric Serritella – Sharing Spaces, and Across the Threshold of India
Thursday, May 19, 3 p.m. | Staff-Guided Tour of Exhibitions
Thursday, June 16, 10 a.m. | Tai Chi in the Garden
Thursday, July 14, 6p.m. | Lecture by Dr. Margret Kentgens Craig
Thursday, August 25, 10 a.m. | Wolfpack Welcome Week Tour of Exhibitions
Thursday, September 1, 6 p.m. | Film Screening: The Tentmakers of Cairo
Thursday, September 15, 6 p.m. | Author Discussion: Martha Strawn and Vijaya Nagarajan
Thursday, September 22, 10 a.m. | Tai Chi in the Garden
Thursday, September 29, 2 p.m. | Family Program: Reading in the Galleries. Public reading of How the Sphinx Got to the Museum by Jessie Hartland
Thursday, October 6, 10 a.m. | Yoga in the Garden
Thursday, October 13, 6 p.m. | Tea Ceremony Demonstration with Eric Serritella
Thursday, October 20, 6 p.m. | Staff-Guided Tour: Across the Threshold of India
Thursday, October 27, 6 p.m. | Lecture by Art Historian and Egyptologist Jennifer Butterworth
Thursday, November 17, 6 p.m. | Lecture by Dr. Sam Bowker, “The Egyptian Tent: Past, Present, and Future”

2021 PROGRAMS

Thursday, January 21, 4 p.m. | Welcome Week Guided Virtual Tour
Thursday, January 28, 4 p.m. | Artist Virtual Interview Series: Andy Nasisse. Colorado ceramic artist and photographer Andy Nasisse talks about his work and process in conjunction with his current exhibition Animate Earth: Adventures in Mimetolithia.
Thursday, February 4, 4 p.m. | YouTube launch – Thoughts from the Artist: Daniel Johnston, Part 1. Gallery walk-through of A Thousand Throws and interview with master ceramic artist Daniel Johnston.
Thursday, February 11, 4 p.m. | Virtual Studio Visit: Stephen Althouse Artist-photographer Stephen Althouse joins the Gregg Museum from his studio in Pennsylvania to discuss his artistic process and local Amish influences.
Thursday, February 25, 4 p.m. | YouTube launch – Thoughts from the Artist: Daniel Johnston, Part 2. Gallery walk-through of A Thousand Throws and interview with master ceramic artist Daniel Johnston.
Thursday, March 4, 4 p.m. | YouTube launch of “behind the scenes” interviews with Gregg staff featuring Art Preparator Matthew Gay
Thursday, March 11, 4 p.m. | YouTube launch – The Architecture of Installation. Gallery discussion with NC master potter Daniel Johnston and renowned NC architect Frank Harmon. Harmon and Johnston explore architectural elements in the Gregg Museum installation A Thousand Throws.
Thursday, March 18, 4 p.m. | Virtual Guided Tour of Objects of Intention, led by sculptor-photographer Stephen Althouse
Thursday, April 1, 4 p.m. | YouTube launch – Show & Tell: Callot Soeurs Evening Dress. A stunning dress the Callot sisters made more than a century ago (and now in the Gregg’s permanent collection) reveals the obsession with mummies and all things Egyptian.
Thursday, April 8, 4 p.m. | Virtual film screening – NC State Premiere of All the Possibilities . . . Reflections on a Painting by Vernon Pratt, a documentary meditation on Pratt’s most ambitious painting, a 1,400 square foot systematic abstraction. Live via Zoom, join Marsha Gordon, Louis Cherry, William Dodge, and Arts NC State Executive Director Rich Holly for an online panel discussion after the screening.
Tuesday, April 20, 4 p.m. | Virtual Guided Tour of exhibitions at the Gregg Museum. “Walk through” current exhibitions at the Gregg Museum with a live guide from the museum staff, via Zoom.
Thursday, April 22, 4 p.m. | Earth Day Virtual Screening: Chasing Coral. Using footage from thirty countries, director Jeff Orlowski spent three years creating a film that seeks to raise awareness of a global climate catastrophe already well underway.
Thursday, May 6, 4 p.m. | YouTube Launch of Show & Tell: Tokoname “Redware” Urn, a Show & Tell video that examines a single object.
Thursday, May 20, 4 p.m. | Guided virtual tour.
Beginning Tuesday May 25 | Silent Film Celebration A film series highlighting women, people of color, and explorations in silent film. All summer through August 29.
Thursday, May 27, 4 p.m. | YouTube launch – Gregg Staff “behind the scenes” interview with Assistant Registrar Jordan Cao.
Thursday, June 3, 4 p.m. | YouTube launch – Show & Tell: Chris Hondros Liberian Government Troops Push Back Rebels.
Friday, June 4, 3 p.m. | In Concert: Kirsten Jermé, Cellist
Thursday, June 10, 4 p.m. | YouTube launch – Fantastic Fans: The Collection of Emma Hanford Smith
Thursday, June 17, 4 p.m. | Virtual Tour of Animate Earth: Adventures in Mimetolithia by Andy Nasisse
Thursday, June 24, 10 a.m. | Socially Distanced Yoga in the Rose Jackson and Evelyn Thiem Garden
Thursday, July 8, 4 p.m. | Virtual Tour of Bob Trotman: Business as Usual
Thursday, July 15, 4 p.m. | Virtual Screening of The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) and presentation on the work of Władysław Starewicz.
Thursday, July 29, 4 p.m. | Virtual Screening of The Angel that Stands by Me and Q&A with director Allie Light.
Thursday, August 12, 3:30 p.m. | Wolfpack Welcome Week Staff-Guided Tour of Pastels and Drawings by Will Henry Stevens and Conflict Photography by Chris Hondros.
Thursday, August 19, 6 p.m. | Staff Lecture, “The Fantastical & Feminist Films of Germaine Dulac,” presented by Educational Programs & Communications Coordinator, Christina Wytko Marchington
Thursday, September 2, 6 p.m | Staff-guided tour of crossed kalunga by the stars in the Adams and Woodson galleries.
Thursday, September 16, 6 p.m. | Staff-guided tour of Chris Hondros – Conflict Photography in the Historic Chancellor’s Residence.
Thursday, October 7, 6 p.m. | Artist Talk: André Leon Gray – Raleigh self-trained multidisciplinary artist André Leon Gray talked about his work and answered questions about individual pieces in crossed kalunga by the stars and other acts of resistance.
Thursday, October 21, 6 p.m | Film screening: HONDROS with an introduction by film director Greg Campbell.
Thursday, November 4, 6 p.m. | Staff-guided tour of crossed kalunga by the stars & other acts of resistance
Thursday, November 18, 6 p.m. | Staff-guided tour of crossed kalunga by the stars & other acts of resistance
Thursday, December 2, 6 p.m. | Live performance by the Philharmonic Association’s United Strings of Color
Thursday, December 16, 6 p.m. | Screening of H.G. Wells’ 1936 film, Things to Come

2020 PROGRAMS

Thursday, January 9, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. | Wolfpack Winter Welcome Week: Guided tours of the museum and its current exhibitions.
Thursday, January 16, 6 p.m. | Poetry reading with Jeffery Beam, from An Elizabethan Bestiary Retold. Ippy Patterson’s illustrations also featured.
Thursday, January 23, 6 p.m. | Double exhibition opening reception for All That Glitters—Spark and Dazzle from the Permanent Collection and Design by Time.
Thursday, January 30, 6 p.m. | Sketching in the galleries led by Education Program Assistant, Christina Wytko.
Thursday, February 6, 6 p.m. | Guest lecture with Adam Hartstone-Rose. “Visualizing Past and Future Species.”
Friday, February 7, 5:30-7 p.m. | First Friday: NC State Woodwind Quintet
Thursday, February 13, 6 p.m.| Film screening: Tom Tykwer’s Sundance prizewinner Run Lola Run.
Friday, February 21, 6 p.m. | Snow date – Exhibition opening reception for All is Possible— Mary Ann Scherr’s Legacy in Metal.
Thursday, February 27, 6 p.m. | All Is Possible Highlight Tour with curator Ana Estrades of All is Possible—Mary Ann Scherr’s Legacy in Metal.
Thursday, March 5, 6 p.m. | Short lectures in conjunction with Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology
Friday, March 6, 5:30-7 p.m. | First Friday: Irish Sessions at NC State
Tuesday, March 10, 3 p.m. | Highlight Tour of All is Possible—Mary Ann Scherr’s Legacy in Metal.
Thursday, March 12, 6 p.m. | Docent tours of all the open exhibitions.
Thursday, March 19 | CANCELED Guest lecture: “Of Space Suits and Gas Masks: The Biosensing Jewelry of Mary Ann Scherr” by Kayleigh Perkov
Thursday, March 26 | CANCELED Yoga in the Garden.
Thursday, April 2 | Virtual Tour: All is Possible—Mary Ann Scherr’s Legacy in Metal
Tuesday through Thursday April 7, 8, 9 | CANCELED 2020 Eco Film Series
Tuesday, April 14 | CANCELED Highlight tour of All is Possible—Mary Ann Scherr’s Legacy in Metal.
Thursday, April 16 | CANCELED Artist talks: From Design by Time, and Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology
Thursday, August 4, 4 p.m. | Virtual Guided Tour of current or previous exhibitions
Thursday, August 11, 4 p.m. | Virtual Guided Tour of current or previous exhibitions
Thursday, August 20, 4 p.m. | Virtual Guided Tour of current or previous exhibitions
Thursday, September 3, 4 p.m. | YouTube Premiere of “A Conversation About Art: Part I,” an interview with Gregg Museum Director Roger Manley.
Thursday, September 17, 4 p.m. | Virtual Guided Tour
Thursday, October 1, 4 p.m. | YouTube Premiere of “A Conversation About Art: Part II,” an interview with Gregg Museum Director Roger Manley.
Thursday, October 15, 4 p.m. | Virtual Artist Talk with sculptor-photographer Stephen Althouse in conjunction with his exhibition, Objects of Intention.
Thursday, October 22, 12 p.m. | Artist Talk and Interview with Dr. Susan Harbage-Page about her previous exhibition at the Gregg Museum, Evidence from the Rio Grande
Thursday, October 22, 4 p.m. | Virtual Guided Tour: Borderlands – Evidence from the Rio Grande, photographs by Susan Harbage Page
Thursday, November 5, 4 p.m. | YouTube Premiere of “A Conversation About Art: Part III,” an interview with Gregg Museum Director Roger Manley.
Thursday, November 19, 4 p.m. | Virtual Guided Tour of current or previous exhibitions
Thursday, December 17, 4 p.m. | Virtual Guided Tour of current or previous exhibitions