Exhibitions

This exhibition features monumental drawings, intimate portraits, and studies by artist Christopher Holt (b. 1977, Asheville, N.C.; lives Weaverville, N.C.) for the Haywood Street Beatitudes fresco completed in September 2019. The fresco is the result of a two-year community project led by Holt with the Rev. Brian Combs, founder of the Haywood Street congregation in Asheville. 

The purpose of the Haywood Street fresco is to honor everyday people and emphasize the church’s ministry, which focuses on helping members of the community who live in poverty and often on the margins of society. The congregation is encouraged to live by the Beatitudes (the blessings recounted by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount), which is also the subject of the fresco. In the Haywood Street Beatitudes, Holt gracefully incorporates powerful portraits of the local community and members of the congregation in his contemporary depiction of the narrative of the Beatitudes. In the Rev. Combs’s words, “What poverty makes invisible, art makes immortal.”

Visit this exhibition in person: The Museum is open with updated hours, Wednesday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm, required free timed tickets to encourage social distancing, and increased health and safety procedures including required cloth masks.

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With our new NCMA Virtual Exhibitions Subscription, you can also explore virtual versions of the eight special exhibitions now on display at the North Carolina Museum of Art. These virtual portals are available for you to experience on your own time and at your own speed, for a one-time access fee.

Note: This virtual exhibition will be released online on November 13. 

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Organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel.

The NCMA would like to thank the following individuals for their support of the Museum’s spring and summer 2020 exhibitions highlighting North Carolina artists:

Carole and Cloyce Anders
Ruth and Bill Barnett
Mary Charles and Robert Boyette 
Marion Johnson Church
Grubb Ventures
Carol and Rick McNeel