Category: Crafts

The North Carolina Museum of Art is one of our state’s great treasures, and its goal of bringing the fine arts to everyone and engaging with its surrounding community is exemplary. I was so pleased to get to tour NCMA on Tuesday morning during a media preview of the entirely reorganized and revitalized (not to mention rebranded!) museum. The central purpose of this visit was to view what NCMA is calling The People’s Collection, Reimagined; its current display of over 1000 artworks that include gifted works, original commissions, and international loans.

Exciting new changes in the West Building include better wayfinding and organization – including bilingual English and Spanish signage), through galleries that have been creatively diversified. Director Valerie Hillings spoke about the opportunity the NCMA has had to examine new perspectives and tell new stories through the reorganization of the museum, presenting new and underrepresented artists and contextualizing the historical pieces to make them more accessible to modern audiences. She reminded that “all art is contemporary when it is made,” so it was important for the curators to focus on how the artworks were utilized, displayed, or considered both at their creation and over time.

The North Carolina Museum of Art is one of our state’s great treasures, and its goal of bringing the fine arts to everyone and engaging with its surrounding community is exemplary. I was so pleased to get to tour NCMA on Tuesday morning during a media preview of the entirely reorganized and revitalized (not to mention rebranded!) museum. The central purpose of this visit was to view what NCMA is calling The People’s Collection, Reimagined; its current display of over 1000 artworks that include gifted works, original commissions, and international loans.

Exciting new changes in the West Building include better wayfinding and organization – including bilingual English and Spanish signage), through galleries that have been creatively diversified. Director Valerie Hillings spoke about the opportunity the NCMA has had to examine new perspectives and tell new stories through the reorganization of the museum, presenting new and underrepresented artists and contextualizing the historical pieces to make them more accessible to modern audiences. She reminded that “all art is contemporary when it is made,” so it was important for the curators to focus on how the artworks were utilized, displayed, or considered both at their creation and over time.

The North Carolina Museum of Art is one of our state’s great treasures, and its goal of bringing the fine arts to everyone and engaging with its surrounding community is exemplary. I was so pleased to get to tour NCMA on Tuesday morning during a media preview of the entirely reorganized and revitalized (not to mention rebranded!) museum. The central purpose of this visit was to view what NCMA is calling The People’s Collection, Reimagined; its current display of over 1000 artworks that include gifted works, original commissions, and international loans.

Exciting new changes in the West Building include better wayfinding and organization – including bilingual English and Spanish signage), through galleries that have been creatively diversified. Director Valerie Hillings spoke about the opportunity the NCMA has had to examine new perspectives and tell new stories through the reorganization of the museum, presenting new and underrepresented artists and contextualizing the historical pieces to make them more accessible to modern audiences. She reminded that “all art is contemporary when it is made,” so it was important for the curators to focus on how the artworks were utilized, displayed, or considered both at their creation and over time.