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N.C. Arts Council’s Museum in a Minute: The Mint Museum of Craft and Design
Posted on: November 23, 2010
The North Carolina Arts Council featured The Mint Museum of Craft and Design in its latest Museum in a Minute.
The North Carolina Museum of Art, one of the most distinguished museum in the South, recently completed a significant three-year expansion and reopened to the public on April 24, 2010. Located in Raleigh on a 164-acre park, the museum seamlessly blends art, architecture and nature.
The museum first opened to the public in 1956 in a renovated state office building in downtown Raleigh. Since its inception, the museum’s collection has grown to include European paintings from the Renaissance to the 19th century, Egyptian art, sculptures and vase paintings from ancient Greece and Rome, American art from the 18th to 20th centuries and international contemporary art, as well as various others. Click the image to the left or follow this link to view a slideshow of samples from the collections.
Admission to the Museum’s permanent collection and Museum Park is free; however, there is a charge for some special exhibitions.
The Wilmington area is expected to fully develop a local arts council by the end of 2011. Its predecessor, the Arts Council of Lower Cape Fear, was forced to close its doors in 2002 due to financial difficulties.
Nevertheless, a steering committee in collaboration with staff of the N.C. Arts Council has released a report that details the steps left to take to make a council a reality. Financial backers seem optimistic about the plans.
“We have so many people here who are passionate about their art, but there is no real channel for their creativity. It needs to be fostered,” said Kim Adams, of Wilmington’s Development Services department and a steering committee member.
The Carrabus Arts Council–who provide grassroots arts grants–has awarded $22,910 in grants to 11 community organizations for art programs or activities that enhance the quality of life in Carrabus County.
According to Noelle Rhodes Scott, president and CEO of the Cabarrus Arts Council, “It is this beautiful network of arts councils and Grassroots funding that has given North Carolina its great reputation as a state filled with the cultural arts.”
In a time when drawing may seem slow and tedious, The Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art in Greensboro is currently hosting an exhibit entitled Drawing Revisited, which surveys North Carolina artists working in mediums such as graphite, ball point ink and conté crayon.
The exhibition will run until Oct. 31–visit the site for more information.
No Boundaries Inc. was founded in 1998 by Wilmington artists Pam Toll, Gayle Tustin and Dick Roberts to gather local artists with those from around the world to participate in an international artist colony for two weeks in November every two years in Wilmington and on Bald Head Island.
Previous participating artists have come from many countries including Macedonia, Bulgaria, Canada, Holland, France, Scotland, Germany, Iraq, Switzerland, Turkey, Italy, Denmark, Austria, Serbia, Peru, Argentina, and Wilmington’s Sister Cities in Barbados, China and England.
This year, the organization will host a 12-year retrospective showcase of the colony’s work at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
The following video showcases artwork that was produced in the colony in 2008.
Located on the University of North Carolina Greensboro campus, the Weatherspoon Art Museum was founded in 1941 and has since grown from a university teaching gallery to a full scale art museum including collections of modern and contemporary art.
The North Carolina Museum of Art is located in Raleigh, N.C. Image courtesy of Creative Commons.
The North Carolina Museum of Art is attempting to feature an exhibit in October 2011 that contains more authentic Rembrandt paintings than any American museum.
Located in Raleigh, N.C., the museum is borrowing Rembrandt pieces from nearly two dozen museums across the United States, such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The total value of the exhibit is undisclosed, but according to museum officials, it will “exceed anything the museum has put together before, including blockbuster exhibitions of Picasso, Matisse Monet and Rodin.”
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