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North Carolina Museum of Art: To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary American Indian Art

North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary American Indian Art features works by 75 Indigenous artists from over 50 tribes throughout the United States and Canada, including eight from North Carolina. The exhibition, composed exclusively of 3-D artworks, includes baskets made of blown glass, cars transformed into works of art, and cutting

$14 – $20

North Carolina Museum of Art: Community Threads: A Maker Space

North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

Community Threads is presented in conjunction with Layered Legacies: Quilts from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem. In this community quilt installation and maker space, visitors are invited to design and create quilt squares of their own design from Friday to Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm. Local artists Aliyah Bonnette, Patrizia Ferreira, and Michelle Wilkie, whose fabric works are on view, will sew the squares together to make one large community artwork. The room is stocked with 10-by-10-inch quilting squares and smaller colored shapes. Visitors can glue shapes to the quilting squares and leave them for our local artists to use. Bonnette, Ferreira, and Wilkie will sew, embroider, and attach all the squares to make one large community artwork. Visit multiple weekends to watch the community quilt progress. You may see your art incorporated and on the walls of the NCMA!  

Event Series “To Take Shape and Meaning” Community Day

“To Take Shape and Meaning” Community Day

North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

This exhibition features 3-D works by seventy-five contemporary Indigenous artists from throughout the United States and Canada, including eight from North Carolina. Form and design are two of the oldest elements in American Indian art. Artists use these to create culturally unique characteristics that convey meaning and function in ceramics, weaving, beadwork, and basketry. Tickets go on sale Thursday, February 8, at 10 am for members and Thursday, February 22, at 10 am for nonmembers. Free for Members. $20 Adults, $17 Seniors age 65 and older, $14 Youth ages 7–18, Free for children 6 and under and college students. This exhibit runs from March 2 - July 28, 2024, with additional exhibition programming on the following dates: Artist Panel: Indigenous Understanding of Shape and Meaning in American Indian Art Friday, March 1, noon–1 pm Free with registration Join us for a discussion moderated by guest curator Nancy Strickland Fields (Lumbee) with renowned artists Kenneth Johnson (Muscogee/Seminole), Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo), and Margaret Roach Wheeler (Chickasaw/Choctaw). NC Indigenous Artist Festival Saturday, March 2, 10 am–4 pm Free, including free admission to To Take Shape and Meaning Celebrate Indigenous arts and culture from across the state of North Carolina, meet artists and buy traditional crafts and contemporary […]

$14 – $20

North Carolina Museum of Art, Cat’s Cradle: WATCHHOUSE (FORMERLY MANDOLIN ORANGE)

North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

The NCMA and Cat’s Crade welcome Watchhouse back to the Museum Amphitheater. Starting over a decade ago playing coffee shops and local restaurants around North Carolina, Watchhouse, led by Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, is a bona fide folk music sensation and one of 21st-century indie music’s biggest grassroots success stories. They sell out iconic venues (Red Rocks, Ryman Auditorium) and attract hundreds of millions of streams while producing exploratory music that “redefines roots music for a younger generation” (Washington Post).

$35 – $60

North Carolina Museum of Art, Cat’s Cradle: American Aquarium

North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

For nearly two decades, American Aquarium has pushed toward that rare form of rock ’n’ roll that’s revelatory in every sense. “For us the sweet spot is when you’ve got a rock band that makes you scream along to every word, and it’s not until you’re coming down at 3 am that you realize those words are saying something real about your life,” says frontman BJ Barham. “That’s what made us fall in love with music in the first place, and that’s the goal in everything we do.”

$33 – $50

NCMA AND NC OPERA: OPERA IN THE PARK

North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

Join us for a spectacular evening under the stars when the NC Opera performs the greatest hits from opera’s most beloved masterpieces at the Joseph M. Bryan, Jr., Theater in the Museum Park. Come to hear the soaring arias of Verdi and Puccini and the enchanting melodies of Mozart and Bizet—the stunning vocals, captivating storytelling, and breathtaking backdrop of nature will have you cheering “Bravo!”

$23 – $300

Chamber Music Raleigh: Jennifer Curtis, violin Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano with Michael Nicholas

North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute’s powerfully and intricately crafted performances have earned her critical acclaim throughout North America and Europe. Her ability to communicate the essential substance of a work has led critics to describe her as possessing ‘razor-sharp intelligence and wit' and ‘subtle, complex, almost impossibly detailed and riveting in every way’ (The Washington Post) and as ‘an artist of commanding technique, refined temperament and persuasive insight.’(The New York Times). In 2006, she was honored as a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. The New York Times described violinist Jennifer Curtis’s second solo concert in Carnegie Hall as “one of the gutsiest and most individual recital programs.” She was celebrated as “an artist of keen intelligence and taste, well worth watching out for.” A “long-admired figure on the New York scene,” (The New Yorker), cellist Michael Nicolas enjoys a diverse career as chamber musician, soloist, recording artist, and improvisor. He is the cellist of the intrepid and genre-defying string quartet Brooklyn Rider, which has drawn praise from classical, world music, and rock critics alike. As a member of the acclaimed International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), he has worked with countless composers from around the world, premiering and recording dozens of new works.

$12 – $17

Event Series Chamber Music Raleigh: The String Queens

Chamber Music Raleigh: The String Queens

North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

Praised for its authentic, soulful, and orchestral sound,  The String Queens (TSQ) is a dynamic trio that creates stimulating musical experiences that inspire diverse audiences to love, hope, feel, and imagine! With an array of repertoire spanning from the Baroque era to the Jazz Age to today’s Billboard Hot 100 Chart, TSQ performs versatile programs that take listeners on a rousing musical journey through time and a multitude of musical genres.

$17 – $31
Event Series Chamber Music Raleigh: The String Queens

Chamber Music Raleigh: The String Queens

North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

Praised for its authentic, soulful, and orchestral sound,  The String Queens (TSQ) is a dynamic trio that creates stimulating musical experiences that inspire diverse audiences to love, hope, feel, and imagine! With an array of repertoire spanning from the Baroque era to the Jazz Age to today’s Billboard Hot 100 Chart, TSQ performs versatile programs that take listeners on a rousing musical journey through time and a multitude of musical genres.

$17 – $31

Chamber Music Raleigh: Vega String Quartet

North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

The Vega String Quartet, Quartet-in-Residence at Emory University, is cultivating a new generation of chamber music lovers through dynamic performances and innovative community engagement.  The New York Times raved that " playing had a kind of clean intoxication to it, pulling the listener along…the musicians took real risks in their music making" and the L.A. Times praised their “triumphant L.A. debut.”

$17 – $31