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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, 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