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Mindful Museum: Art-Making Demonstration

Wednesday, March 3 | 7 pm

Unwind while seeing art created. This mesmerizing hour-long virtual experience guides you through a brief centering practice and lets you watch, live and up close, a local...

Virtual Sights and Sounds Concert Series

Virtual Sights and Sounds Concert Series: Pacifica Quartet

Wednesday, March 3 | 8 pm

Recognized for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often-daring repertory choices over the past 26 years, the Pacifica Quartet has achieved international...

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Virtual Studio Workshop: Laura Moriarty: Encaustic Arts Past and Future

Saturday, March 6 | 1:30 pm

Encaustic paintings from ancient Egypt are still on view today. What makes their colors so vibrant and marks so expressive? Learn how to begin painting with wax from a...

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Virtual Weinberg Lecture of Egyptology: Learning from Egyptian Mummies

Sunday, March 7 | 2 pm

The evolution of diseases and their role in human history can be discovered through archaeological evidence provided by the study of mummies. This is done using traditional...

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Mindful Museum: Virtual Art and Mortality Workshop

Tuesday, March 9 | 7 pm

Drawing upon themes from Golden Mummies of Egypt, this two-hour virtual workshop intimately explores death, dying, and life transitions, and it’s actually not morbid at...

Virtual Lunchtime Lecture: Change the Face: Finding Power in Identity

Thursday, March 11 | Noon

Join us this Women’s History Month as we consider the intersections of power and identity via the NCMA’s contemporary art collection. Hear from Mellon Foundation Assistant...

Mindful Museum: Virtual Sensory Journey through Art

Thursday, March 11 | 7 pm

Join us for a sensory journey to Africa while exploring Lines That Link Humanity by El Anatsui. We’ve partnered with Arts Access and On My Way Bartending to offer this...

Mindful Museum: Slow-Art Appreciation

Wednesday, March 17 | 7 pm

Slow art is a growing movement to mindfully observe and communally appreciate art. This hour-long virtual program offers centering techniques and a breathing practice...

NCMA Film Club

NCMA Film Club: !Women Art Revolution

Friday, March 19 | 7 pm

If you enjoy watching and talking about films, join us for a virtual meeting of the NCMA Film Club! To celebrate Women’s History Month, we are featuring the documentary...

Virtual Workshop for Teens; Live from the Studio: Scribble, Paint, Glue with Ursula Gullow

Saturday, March 20 | 1:30 pm

Use paint and mixed-media materials in unexpected ways to create expressive works of art. Working with random prompts, tap into your wild and wonderful subconscious. This...

Virtual Sights and Sounds Concert Series

Virtual Sights and Sounds Concert Series: Pinchas Zukerman, violin Shai Wosner, piano

Saturday, March 20 | 8 pm

Violin and viola soloist, conductor, and chamber musician Pinchas Zukerman is known for the expressive lyricism of his playing, singular beauty of tone, and impeccable...

Mindful Museum: Virtual Family Growga Moment

Monday, March 22 | 4 pm

Kids experience movement, mindfulness, and connection through fun and engaging virtual Growga programming. Each monthly 30-minute class, inspired by the Museum's...

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Virtual Sights and Sounds Concert Series: Aizuri Quartet

Monday, March 22 | 8 pm

Praised by the Washington Post for “captivating” performances that draw from its notable “meld of intellect, technique and emotions,” the Aizuri Quartet was awarded the...

Mindful Museum: Virtual Spring Astrology and Meditation Workshop

Tuesday, March 23 | 6:30 pm

The Yoga Almanac, co-authored by Raleigh yoga teacher Andrea Rice, aligns yoga with the astrological seasons. Join Rice for this two-hour virtual experience to embody the...

NCMA in Dialogue: Seeking Self

Wednesday, March 24 | 7 pm

Tune in to NCMA in Dialogue for thought-provoking conversations with artists, musicians, and filmmakers as we approach the timely and important topics of society and...

Virtual Freedom Seder

Wednesday, March 24 | 7 pm

Join the NCMA and the Friends of the Judaic Art Gallery for the inaugural Freedom Seder, a time to recognize freedom from slavery, remember stories of liberation, and lift...

Virtual Humber Lecture: A Century of Women: The NCMA’s Collection of Female Artists

Thursday, March 25 | 7 pm

Women artists have been marginalized for centuries and underrepresented in most museums, including the NCMA. The Museum is working to challenge and change this oversight...

Online Minicourses: Art and Science

Tuesday, March 30 | 8 am

The NCMA offers educators a series of minicourses on the connections between art and science accessible Tuesday, March 30 through Tuesday, May 25. Participants explore...

Mindful Museum: Virtual Poetry Hour

Wednesday, April 7 | 7 pm

Join writer-scholar Jameela F. Dallis to write poems inspired by the Museum’s collection. Ekphrasis means description in Greek, and ekphrastic poems are often vivid...

Virtual Lunchtime Lecture: A Date with Director Hillings

Thursday, April 8 | Noon

NCMA Director Valerie Hillings reflects upon various milestones in the Museum’s history and previews some exciting future plans. 

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Virtual Studio Workshop; Sacred Geometry with Peter Marin

Saturday, April 10 | 1:30 pm

Examine the evolution of sacred art—from ancient Egyptian to contemporary. Learn about significant mathematical and historical themes that influenced art making, such as...

Virtual Sights and Sounds Concert Series

Virtual Sights and Sounds Concert Series: Juilliard String Quartet

Saturday, April 10 | 8 pm

Hailed by the Boston Globe as “the most important American quartet in history,” the Juilliard String Quartet draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics while...

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Virtual Lecture with an Egyptologist: Flinders Petrie on Golden Mummies, Race, and Faces

Saturday, April 17 | Noon

British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie was keen on matching skulls with mummy masks and portraits and identifying what he believed to be racial types. Join Dr. Campbell Price...

NCMA in Dialogue: Environmental Art in a Time of Crisis

Wednesday, April 21 | 7 pm

Tune in to NCMA in Dialogue for thought-provoking conversations with artists, musicians, and filmmakers as we approach the timely and important topics of society and...

Mindful Museum: Slow-Art Appreciation

Wednesday, April 21 | 7 pm

Slow art is a growing movement to mindfully observe and communally appreciate art. This hour-long virtual program offers centering techniques and a breathing practice...

Mindful Museum: Virtual Family Growga Moment

Monday, April 26 | 4 pm

Kids experience movement, mindfulness, and connection through fun and engaging virtual Growga programming. Each monthly 30-minute class, inspired by the Museum's...

Virtual Studio Workshop; Abstract Painting from Memory with Zach Storm

Saturday, May 8 | 1:30 pm

Take a more intuitive approach to painting as you learn to let loose and paint your mind’s-eye impressions of memories, dreams, and landscapes. Follow step-by-step demos...

Virtual Sights and Sounds Concert Series

Virtual Sights and Sounds Concert Series: Gavilán Brothers

Saturday, May 8 | 8 pm

The Havana-born Gavilán Brothers perform original music from their breathtaking album, Brothers, composed by Aldo López-Gavilán and arranged for violin and piano by Ilmar...

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Virtual Lunchtime Lecture: Golden Mummies: Adapting Funerary Beliefs and Traditions

Thursday, May 13 | Noon

Gilded faces and stunning portraits, fancy wrappings and colorful trappings were synonymous with hope for the afterlife and the continuation of millennia-old traditions in...

Virtual Sights and Sounds Concert Series

Virtual Sights and Sounds Concert Series: Verona Quartet with Jordan Bak (viola) and Nicholas Mariscal (cello)

Saturday, May 15 | 8 pm

The recipient of Chamber Music America’s coveted Cleveland Quartet Award in 2020, the Verona Quartet is no stranger to the Triangle, having completed residencies in Durham...

Mindful Museum: Slow-Art Appreciation

Wednesday, May 19 | 7 pm

Slow art is a growing movement to mindfully observe and communally appreciate art. This hour-long virtual program offers centering techniques and a breathing practice...

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NCMA in Dialogue: Art, Death, and Rebirth

Wednesday, May 19 | 7 pm

Tune in to NCMA in Dialogue for thought-provoking conversations with artists, musicians, and filmmakers as we approach the timely and important topics of society and...

Virtual Panel Discussion: To Be Young: Coming of Age in the Contemporary

Thursday, May 20 | 7 pm

This panel discussion on the exhibition To Be Young: Coming of Age in the Contemporary features photographers Faith Couch and Jaylan Rhea in conversation with exhibition...

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Golden Mummies Family Day

Saturday, May 22 | 10 am

Discover the exhibition Golden Mummies of Egypt with special activities just for families! This family day takes place both virtually and in person.

On the NCMA’s campus,...

Mindful Museum: Virtual Family Growga Moment

Monday, May 24 | 4 pm

Kids experience movement, mindfulness, and connection through fun and engaging virtual Growga programming. Each monthly 30-minute class, inspired by the Museum's...

Virtual Humber Lecture: Foundations of the NCMA: 1924–1960

Thursday, May 27 | 7 pm

In the early 1950s, North Carolina invested $1 million in a state art collection, leading to the creation of the North Carolina Museum of Art in 1956. Lyle Humphrey,...

Virtual Teen Art Portfolio Development Workshops

Wednesday, June 23 | 1 pm

Work in small groups to share the art in your portfolio with peers, NCMA staff, and college art faculty members. Get support and helpful feedback as you prepare to submit...

Virtual Teen Art Portfolio Development Workshops

Wednesday, July 21 | 1 pm

Work in small groups to share the art in your portfolio with peers, NCMA staff, and college art faculty members. Get support and helpful feedback as you prepare to submit...

Virtual Teen Art Portfolio Development Workshops

Wednesday, August 18 | 1 pm

Work in small groups to share the art in your portfolio with peers, NCMA staff, and college art faculty members. Get support and helpful feedback as you prepare to submit...