North Carolina Museum of Art - Affiliate Membership Groups

MEMBERSHIP

Individual Membership | Corporate | The Contemporaries | The Connoisseurs | Friends of African and African American Art | Friends of Greek Art | Friends of the Judaic Art Gallery | Join or Renew On-line

AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP GROUPS

For more information or to charge your membership by phone, please call the Membership Office at (919) 664-6754.

The Contemporaries

The Contemporaries is a group of young adult Museum members, 20-to 40-something who promote the Museum and increase membership through sponsoring lively social and educational fundraising events. You may join the contemporaries at any level. Simply add $15 for each member to the membership category that you chose. For additional information visit www.contemporaries.org.

Benefits include:

All museum membership benefits for your current membership level
Invitations to all Contemporaries events
Free admission to all Art After Hours (4 per year)
Discounted admission to all other Contemporaries events, including MicroBlues.

The Connoisseurs

For members who are 40 and older, the Connoisseurs group offers fun social events that promote and raise funds for the Museum. You may join the Connoisseurs at any membership level. Simply add $20 per person to the membership category you choose.

Benefits include:

All museum membership benefits for your current membership level
Invitations to all Connoisseurs events.

Friends of African and African American Art

In an effort to enhance the North Carolina Museum of Art's collection of African Art and African American Art and related educational programming, the Museum has a special membership category devoted to this endeavor, Friends of African and African American Art.

Currently, the Museum's collection includes works by North Carolina artists Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Minnie Evans, Beverly McIver, and other artists such as Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence. A work by Skunder Boghossian, a contemporary Ethiopian artist, marks the Museum's first work by a contemporary African artist, while the Museum's African collection covers a wide spectrum of the African continent.

Strengthening acquisitions for these galleries and programs is an important role for this advocacy group. In addition to your Museum membership, individual Friends membership is $50 annually, and family Friends membership is $90 annually. Friends membership is tax deductible.

Benefits Include:

All regular Museum membership benefits
Invitations to Friends meetings
Invitations to Friends social events
Free admission to selected Friends events
A role in building the Museum's collections of African and African American art.

Friends of Greek Art

A group devoted to preserving and enhancing the Museum's collection of classical art through social fundraising events. The group is informally organized and meets on an irregular basis. Museum membership is not required, but a donation toward the group's efforts is expected. For more information please call Mary Ellen Soles, curator of classical art, at (919) 664-6764 or Camille Patterson, membership officer, at (919) 664-6760.

Friends of the Judaic Art Gallery

The NCMA boasts one of the finest collections of Jewish ceremonial art in the United States. This Friends group hosts social fundraisers designed to acquaint people with the Judaic collection and the funds needed to preserve and enhance it. Museum membership is not required, but a donation toward the group's efforts is expected. For more information please contact Sue Finkel, co-chair, at (919) 884-5311 or Mary Blake, development officer, at (919) 664-6807.