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The North Carolina Museum of Art is one of Beverly Perdue Lloyd M. Yates At Progress Energy, we know our company’s our state’s greatest cultural gems. In 1947, the Governor, CEO and President, success is tied directly to the vitality of the General Assembly appropriated $1 million State of North Carolina Progress Energy Carolinas communities we serve. Our company and our for the purchase of works of art to establish a employees are committed to making our state state art collection, making the North Carolina and communities better every day. Museum of Art the first publicly funded art collection in the country. We have a long history of supporting and partnering with the North Carolina Museum Our commitment to the arts continues today. of Art, and we’re excited about the future of With the opening of this beautiful new home this unique asset in our capital city. for the permanent collection, I am proud that the North Carolina Museum of Art, as it has We are particularly pleased to be a partner for for more than 60 years, will continue to be a the Grand Opening of the new Museum facility transformative force in the lives of our citizens and for the Opening Festival that will showcase of all ages. our state’s rich cultural and artistic heritage.
As our name implies, we know something about energy. One thing we know is that it comes in many forms. And we’re pleased that the energy created by the North Carolina Museum of Art
This wonderful new building for the North Linda A. Carlisle and the new gallery building will sustain Carolina Museum of Art’s permanent collection Secretary, Department North Carolina and North Carolinians is in itself a work of art. We hope that you will of Cultural Resources for many years to come. come back often to enjoy a truly world-class art collection, as well as the urban oasis that is the Congratulations and thanks for a job well done. Museum Park.
In addition to enriching the state’s cultural character and enhancing its educational resources, arts and culture provide a significant contribution to our economy. All of us—citizens and schoolchildren of North Carolina, as well as visitors from around the country and the world—benefit from this outstanding Museum. DIRECTOR!S WELCOME
Lawrence J. Wheeler This is a great day for the arts in North Carolina and the enlightened leadership of our Director, North Carolina Carolina! The transformation of the North elected officials, who know that the arts are Museum of Art Carolina Museum of Art has been more than a essential to the prosperity, growth, and well-being decade in the making, and throughout that time of our great state. The North Carolina Museum we’ve been eagerly anticipating this moment. of Art is the people’s museum. It’s cause for With proud and happy hearts we open the doors celebration, and deep gratitude to all of you wide to welcome you back to your art museum. who have made this day possible.
Connections between art and nature, openness, It has been our privilege to partner with dynamic accessibility, light, and environmental awareness arts organizations throughout North Carolina to all define the building’s sense of place. These are make these programs possible, and we’re excited the values that inspired and guided architect to premiere a number of performances that have Thomas Phifer and his team after they had been created especially for this occasion. None thoroughly taken the measure of the NCMA of this would be possible without the generous story and surveyed the Museum’s setting in support of Progress Energy. its beautiful and varied landscape. As Tom observed, “We want everyone to feel they belong We hope you’ll delight in the discovery of our new at the Museum, own it, and want to explore galleries and courtyards, the wondrous works of every aspect of it.” art along winding trails through the Museum Park, and the many festivities around the I think you’ll agree that Tom has fulfilled our campus. shared mission with a feat of great vision and boldness. You’ll encounter our world-class This program booklet is your guide to the people collection as if for the first time, its transcendent and programs that usher in a new era in the life qualities heightened by the brilliant use of of the North Carolina Museum of Art. natural lighting and galleries without four corners. Thank you!
To celebrate this crowning achievement, our Grand Opening Festival is a tribute to the creativity and spirit of the people of North TRIANGLE BUSINESS JOURNAL ZUK, S ATHAN KA D / +,-!$ !& BY THE NUMBERS
DIMENSIONS 5 Courtyards surrounding the building 127,000 sq. ft. New construction, including 4 tunnel for art movement Acres of newly landscaped gardens and renovated pond 65,000 sq. ft. Daylit galleries 90,000 Gallons the cistern collects from 11,500 sq. ft. roof water for irrigating gardens Central sculpture hall and replenishing pools 5,650 sq. ft. 14 Plaza linking the two Granite boulders from western N.C. buildings and amphitheater in the Linear Garden 5 ft. 2 in. × 24 ft. 21 Each exterior anodized aluminum panel Native river birches creating a grove on the South Walk 16 ft. high Interior walls INTERIOR/COLLECTION 12 ft. high Movable art wall system 108 New or rarely seen works of art 100 × 25 ft. Reflecting pools intersecting the building 730 Works of art on view EXTERIOR/LANDSCAPING 148 New cases, bases, and platforms 50% constructed by NCMA sta# Exterior walls that are glass 40 Galleries, one flowing into 362 another to invite exploration Custom ceiling co#ers and skylights 230 Anodized aluminum panels on the exterior SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
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PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PLAZA MUSIC STAGE SALSA IN NORTH CAROLINA SALSA IN NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN MUSIC MOUNTAIN MUSIC BIG"BAND JAZZ BIG"BAND JAZZ with Orquesta GarDel with Orquesta GarDel with David Holt and with David Holt and with NCCU Jazz Ensemble with NCCU Jazz Ensemble (until 12:15 PM) (until 12:15 PM) Josh Goforth (until 1:15 PM) Josh Goforth (until 1:15 PM) (until 2:45 PM) (until 2:45 PM)
OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING ART!DANCE ART!DANCE ART!DANCE ART!DANCE ART!DANCE ART!DANCE site-specific dance site-specific dance site-specific dance site-specific dance site-specific dance site-specific dance performances by performances by performances by performances by performances by performances by Dendy DanceTheater* Dendy DanceTheater* Dendy DanceTheater* Dendy DanceTheater* Dendy DanceTheater* Dendy DanceTheater*
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ENTRANCE LEVEL, MUSEUM AUDITORIUM, ENTRANCE LEVEL, ENTRANCE LEVEL, ENTRANCE LEVEL, ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING EAST BUILDING EAST BUILDING EAST BUILDING EAST BUILDING EAST BUILDING EVOLVING ART AND MOVING LIFE EVOLVING ART AND EVOLVING ART AND EVOLVING ART AND EVOLVING ART AND DESIGN IN N.C.* premiere of new work by DESIGN IN N.C.* DESIGN IN N.C.* DESIGN IN N.C.* DESIGN IN N.C.* Carolina Ballet, followed by a conversation with the MUSEUM AUDITORIUM, MUSEUM AUDITORIUM, choreographer, Robert Weiss EAST BUILDING EAST BUILDING
ENTRANCE LEVEL, ART IN PERFORMANCE ART AND ARCHITECTURE EAST BUILDING conversation with conversation with architect N.C. Symphony Thomas Phifer and landscape EVOLVING ART AND Conductor Grant Llewellyn architect Walt Havener, DESIGN IN N.C.* NCMA Director Lawrence Wheeler, NCMA Planner Dan Gottlieb
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Outdoors Outdoors Outdoors Outdoors Outdoors PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PARK THEATER Outside West Building Art/Dance NATIVE VOICES NATIVE VOICES ECLECTIC HIP"HOP FESTIVAL CELEBRATION Short, intermittent, site-specific with Southern Sun Drum with Southern Sun Drum with The Beast Opening Ceremony, dance performances by Dendy (until 3:45 PM) (until 3:45 PM) (until 5 PM) Music, and Fireworks DanceTheater and young dancers from throughout OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING Lineup in order of appearance: North Carolina. ART!DANCE ART!DANCE ART!DANCE Carolina Brass Canopy between site-specific dance site-specific dance site-specific dance (6:30 PM Opening Ceremony ) East and West buildings performances by performances by performances by Tift Merritt The Art of Craft Dendy DanceTheater* Dendy DanceTheater* Dendy DanceTheater* Les Primitifs du Futur Demonstrations by potters, The Monitors ceramic sculptors, and a glass CANOPY BETWEEN EAST CANOPY BETWEEN EAST CANOPY BETWEEN EAST artist. AND WEST BUILDINGS AND WEST BUILDINGS AND WEST BUILDINGS Fireworks after sundown THE ART OF CRAFT* THE ART OF CRAFT* THE ART OF CRAFT* Upper Lawn, Park Theater Creation Stations UPPER LAWN, UPPER LAWN, UPPER LAWN, Hands-on activities for families PARK THEATER PARK THEATER PARK THEATER and visitors of all ages. CREATION STATIONS* CREATION STATIONS* CREATION STATIONS* Rodin Garden Picture Yourself RODIN GARDEN RODIN GARDEN RODIN GARDEN Photo opportunity among Rodin sculptures. PICTURE YOURSELF* PICTURE YOURSELF* PICTURE YOURSELF* Indoors Indoors Indoors Indoors Entrance Level, East Building ENTRANCE LEVEL, ENTRANCE LEVEL, ENTRANCE LEVEL, Evolving Art and EAST BUILDING EAST BUILDING EAST BUILDING Design in N.C. Art exhibitions, film screenings, EVOLVING ART AND EVOLVING ART AND EVOLVING ART AND fashion modeling, and DESIGN IN N.C.* DESIGN IN N.C.* DESIGN IN N.C.* performance art.
MUSEUM AUDITORIUM, EAST BUILDING SECCA: OFF THE HINGES with SECCA Director Mark Leach and Curator Steven Matijcio
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PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PARK THEATER GREAT DAY THE FRENCH CONNECTION THE FRENCH CONNECTION ROOTS OF LATIN MUSIC ROOTS OF LATIN MUSIC FESTIVAL FINALE IN THE MORNING with Les Primitifs du Futur with Les Primitifs du Futur with Charanga Carolina with Charanga Carolina Gustave Mahler’s Symphony with MLK All Children’s Choir (until 1:15 PM) (until 1:15 PM) (until 2:45 PM) (until 2:45 PM) No. 2, The Resurrection and the Gospel Jubilators Performed by UNC School (until 11:30 AM) OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING of the Arts Orchestra, Duke Chapel Choir, and the Choral ART!DANCE ART!DANCE ART!DANCE ART!DANCE Society Durham, conducted AM site-specific dance site-specific dance site-specific dance site-specific dance by UNCSA Chancellor 11 performances by performances by performances by performances by John Mauceri Dendy DanceTheater* Dendy DanceTheater* Dendy DanceTheater* Dendy DanceTheater* Outdoors Guide to Ongoing Programs CANOPY BETWEEN EAST CANOPY BETWEEN EAST CANOPY BETWEEN EAST CANOPY BETWEEN EAST PLAZA MUSIC STAGE Sunday, 11 AM–2:45 PM AND WEST BUILDINGS AND WEST BUILDINGS AND WEST BUILDINGS AND WEST BUILDINGS GREAT DAY THE ART OF CRAFT* THE ART OF CRAFT* THE ART OF CRAFT* THE ART OF CRAFT* Outdoors IN THE MORNING (until 2:45 PM) Outside West Building with the Gospel Jubilators UPPER LAWN, UPPER LAWN, UPPER LAWN, Art/Dance (until 11:30 AM) PARK THEATER PARK THEATER PARK THEATER UPPER LAWN, Short, intermittent, site-specific PARK THEATER dance performances by Dendy OUTSIDE WEST BUILDING CREATION STATIONS* CREATION STATIONS* CREATION STATIONS* DanceTheater and young CREATION STATIONS* dancers from throughout ART!DANCE RODIN GARDEN RODIN GARDEN RODIN GARDEN (until 2:45 PM) North Carolina. site-specific dance performances by PICTURE YOURSELF* PICTURE YOURSELF* PICTURE YOURSELF* RODIN GARDEN Canopy between Dendy DanceTheater* East and West buildings Indoors Indoors Indoors PICTURE YOURSELF* The Art of Craft CANOPY BETWEEN EAST ENTRANCE LEVEL, ENTRANCE LEVEL, ENTRANCE LEVEL, (until 2:45 PM) Demonstrations by potters, AND WEST BUILDINGS EAST BUILDING EAST BUILDING EAST BUILDING ceramic sculptors, and a glass THE ART OF CRAFT* Indoors artist. EVOLVING ART AND EVOLVING ART AND EVOLVING ART AND ENTRANCE LEVEL, Upper Lawn, Park Theater DESIGN IN N.C.* DESIGN IN N.C.* DESIGN IN N.C.* EAST BUILDING UPPER LAWN, Creation Stations Hands-on activities for families PARK THEATER MUSEUM AUDITORIUM, MUSEUM AUDITORIUM, EVOLVING ART AND and visitors of all ages. CREATION STATIONS* EAST BUILDING EAST BUILDING DESIGN IN N.C.* MOVING LIFE ARCHITECTURE AND (until 2:45 PM) Rodin Garden RODIN GARDEN premiere of new work by CULTURAL HERITAGE Picture Yourself MUSEUM AUDITORIUM, Photo opportunity among Carolina Ballet, followed conversation with architects EAST BUILDING Rodin sculptures. PICTURE YOURSELF* by a conversation with the Thomas Phifer and Philip choreographer, Robert Weiss Freelon SECCA: OFF THE HINGES Indoors Indoors with SECCA Director Mark ENTRANCE LEVEL, Leach and Curator Steven Entrance Level, East Building EAST BUILDING Matijcio Evolving Art and Design in N.C. EVOLVING ART AND Art exhibitions, film screenings, DESIGN IN N.C.* fashion modeling, and performance art. *Asterisk indicates Ongoing Programs
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Performers Christiana Barnett-Murphy Leigh Holtzman Anastasia Shumake Dana Bryan Heather Lee Brittany Troutman PLAZA MUSIC STAGE Savannah Cobb Megan Lucas Grayson Troxler Shaleigh Comerford Ian Meeks Sakarah Hall-Edge Teal Darkenwald Rebecca Pham Frankie Peterson Kimmie Grimes Elizabeth Reeves Andrew Lamar Jill Guyton Shannon Rudd Michael Haney Jess Shell Saturday, 11 AM–5 PM Sunday, 10 AM–2:45 PM Site-Specific Dance Performers, cont. Dendy DanceTheater Company The meeting of North Carolina’s diverse cultures, regions, and musical traditions is OUTSIDE NEW WEST BUILDING Catherine Miller highlighted on our Plaza Music Stage. From gospel, Appalachian, and Native American (Creative Assistant) Lonnie Poupard Jr. song to hip-hop, jazz, and Latin American rhythms, North Carolina resounds with the Colette Krogol passion and skill of our musicians. A select but broad spectrum of styles is presented here, setting the tone of joy and celebration. UNCSA Student Dancers Landon Beaty Julia Boyes David Potorti, arts tourism manager for the North Carolina Raven Joyner Arts Council, serves as master of ceremonies. Short performances: Meredith Robinson Jacob Stainback Saturday, 11 AM–5 PM Roxanne Palladino Sunday, 11 AM–2:30 PM Katheryn Walker Monica Williams Franklin Barefoot PLAZA MUSIC STAGE North Carolina’s most talented young dancers, including Stevie Burkes 45 students from the University of North Carolina School of Natalie Canizares the Arts, join dancer/choreographer Mark Dendy and Dendy Meghan Carmichael SALSA IN NORTH CAROLINA Jessica Cipriano Orquesta GarDel DanceTheater in site-specific performances inspired by the art Ben Coalter Saturday, 11 AM and architecture of the NCMA’s new West Building. The work Pierre Guilbault welcomes visitors and celebrates the relationship of art and Morgan Hayes Cody Hayman Presenter: Sylvia nature with vivid movement and color. Michaela Lackey Pfei#enberger Taylor Shepherd Shannon Sollars-White Mark Dendy is a native North Carolinian who received his Rachel Watson Sylvia Pfei#enberger is a early training at the University of North Carolina School of the Sierra Wingate-Bey freelance journalist and the Arts and the American Dance Festival. He has choreographed Emily Wolfe Brandon Woods host of Azucar y Candela, a performances for the Metropolitan Opera House, the Kennedy Brian Binion weekly Latin music program Center, and Radio City Music Hall and on Broadway. Dendy has Dean Biosca on WXDU 88.7 FM. She received many prestigious awards, including the Alpert Award in Lindsay Carter Samantha Clark wrote the Independent the Arts, an OBIE Award, and the “Bessie” New York Dance and Mary Clements Weekly’s June 2008 cover Performance Award for sustained career achievement. He is noted Paige DeBoer Sarah DeVinney story on Orquesta GarDel for the creation of site-specific work, most recently in collaboration Andre Drummond and regularly blogs about with the American Dance Festival at Golden Belt Artist Studios Regan Fairfield Latin music at Onda and the Durham Performing Arts Center. Megan Gerth Sarah Hepler Carolina. Hayley Holt Orquesta GarDel signals the arrival of a new generation of Latin These performances are cosponsored Kiera James music homegrown in North Carolina. Merging conservatory by the American Dance Festival. Raven Jones Margaret Kickerbocker training and street know-how, this 12-piece salsa band is made up Emma Lalor of recent alums of UNC and NCCU music programs, as well as Kiki McCleary Brielle Scully prominent Latin musicians who have long contributed to the local Artist’s Statement Adriana Uruena music scene. A creative powerhouse and dance floor favorite, Zoe Warshaw Site-specific work is very important to me because it gets Michael Wells Orquesta GarDel pumps new life into Nuyorican salsa standards back to the original function of dance, which is public and breaks ground with its original tunes in the funky timba style Costume Design of modern Havana. ritual. There was no tribal box o$ce; you didn’t get up in Melody Eggen, with special the morning and go down to the box o$ce and get your thanks to the University of North Carolina School of tickets for the rain dance. You went there with the rest of the the Arts costume collection community eager to ask for rain. Dance had purpose, real purpose, and function, in the people’s lives. For me, there’s no better place to engage in the public ritual of dance in this day and age than an art museum, especially this one. The architecture is so brilliant and so well put together, and the art is hung beautifully. This is the most fulfilling of the ...... site-specific works I’ve done, because it’s thrilling to see this impressive collection of art be given new life, and to be able to translate the visual art through dance. The art inspires our movement.
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PLAZA MUSIC STAGE PLAZA MUSIC STAGE NATIVE VOICES DANCE AND SHOUT Southern Sun Drum Saturday, 3 PM
Presenter: Joe Liles Southern Sun Drum has been referred to as the “o$cial drum of the Lumbee tribe”; however, its Southern Sun Drum members represent most of the tribes of North founder Joe Liles has Carolina. They hail from an area of Robeson devoted his life as an County, around the small town of Pembroke, that educator and artist to has been home to American Indian people for working with Indian more than 300 years. Southern Sun Drum collects PLAZA MUSIC STAGE communities throughout the traditional and contemporary songs of tribes MOUNTAIN MUSIC the United States and throughout North America, reflecting the evolution David Holt and Josh Goforth Canada. His e#orts to of the modern pan-Indian powwow movement. Saturday, 12:30 PM assist the Lumbee with the resurgence of their cultural The spirited sound of the fiddle, banjo, and guitar is Presenter: Wayne Martin identity were recognized welcomed throughout the state, but nowhere more in 1994 through a Lumbee so than in the western mountains. David Holt has Wayne Martin is the public adoption ceremony. spent more than 35 years learning songs, tunes, and longtime director of the stories from master folk musicians of the Blue Ridge Folklife Section of the North region. He’s the host of UNC-TV’s long-running Carolina Arts Council and Folkways series and often tours with the legendary an authority on traditional guitarist Doc Watson. stringband music.
Josh Goforth hails from Madison County, near Asheville. It’s a stronghold of Appalachian music traditions, and young Josh has mastered them all. He’s a leader among a new generation of mountain musicians who will keep the flame burning brightly deep into the 21st century.
PLAZA MUSIC STAGE BIG"BAND JAZZ North Carolina Central University Jazz Ensemble Saturday, 1:30 PM
The NCCU Jazz Ensemble recaptures the era Presenter: Ira Wiggins Presenter: Pierce Freelon PLAZA MUSIC STAGE of classic bebop, blues, and ballroom standards with enviable precision and dazzling soloists. The Jazz Ensemble’s director Pierce Freelon is a ECLECTIC HIP"HOP This 21-piece big band is the flagship of NCCU’s of 23 years, Ira Wiggins is performing artist and The Beast venerable Jazz Studies Program. The Ensemble has associate professor of music educator with adjunct Saturday, 4 PM received numerous first-place honors at out-of-state at North Carolina Central appointments at the competitions and has performed at major festivals University. He is a noted University of North Carolina Durham-based quartet The Beast is reimagining across the United States, Canada, and Europe. In saxophonist, flutist, and at Chapel Hill and North hip-hop performance through its visionary lyrics 2009, it was invited to play for the first time at the jazz educator. Carolina Central University. and musical eclecticism. Emcee Pierce Freelon, prestigious Newport Jazz Festival with Branford He has presented music keyboardist/programmer Eric Hirsh, bassist Peter Marsalis. workshops on three Kimosh, and drummer Stephen Co#man create continents for the U.S. their genre-bending improvisations through State Department in collective songwriting, drawing on their shared conjunction with the knowledge of jazz, funk, reggae, gospel, Latin, and Thelonious Monk Institute hip-hop. They frequently collaborate with members of Jazz in Los Angeles. of salsa band Orquesta GarDel, also featured in the Festival. +,!$(*' *%+ +,!$(*' *%+
PLAZA MUSIC STAGE DAY IN THE MORNING Sunday, 10 AM PLAZA MUSIC STAGE
On Sunday morning, we welcome visitors back to the Plaza Stage with an uplifting celebration of North Carolina’s rich heritage of gospel music, featuring the Martin Luther King All Children’s Choir and the Gospel Jubilators. DANCE AND SHOUT This program is presented by the NCMA Friends of African and African American Art. PLAZA MUSIC STAGE THE FRENCH CONNECTION PLAZA MUSIC STAGE LES PRIMITIFS DU FUTUR MARTIN LUTHER KING ALL CHILDREN’S CHOIR Sunday, NOON
The Martin Luther King All Children’s Choir is a Presenter: George Holt Les Primitifs du Futur’s hot jazz is flavored with American year-round community choir that has celebrated Martin blues, the gypsy guitar of Django Reinhardt, and other influences Luther King Jr.’s birthday in Raleigh each year since the George Holt is director of from around the globe. Cofounded by the American underground declaration of the holiday in 1986. Under the direction of performing arts and film cartoonist R. Crumb and led by guitarist Dominique Cravic, the Randy Shephard, more than 100 young people between programs at the North Paris-based ensemble made its U.S. debut at the NCMA Park the ages of six and 18 participate in the contemporary Carolina Museum of Art. Theater in 2005. We’ve invited the band back to the Museum gospel choir, which has performed in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the acquisition of more than 29 masterworks by Baltimore, New York, and Atlanta for dignitaries such as French sculptor Auguste Rodin, on permanent exhibition in Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Jesse Jackson, and the new building. President Bill Clinton and for the inaugurations of two North Carolina governors. Les Primitifs du Futur also perform on Saturday evening at the Theater in the Museum Park.
PLAZA MUSIC STAGE GOSPEL JUBILATORS
Durham’s Gospel Jubilators have been known to draw tears of emotion from listeners with their a capella arrangements of traditional spirituals. Using “only the instruments God gave them,” the Jubilators have kept the Jubilee tradition alive going on 40 years. Jubilee singing peaked in popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, but Jubilators founder William P. Conner rejuvenated the style in 1972 as a response to the growing commercialization of gospel music. Today, only one of the group’s original members, Rudolph Floyd, remains; he is joined by new voices Daniel Massenburg, Talbert Myers, James Shipman, PLAZA MUSIC STAGE Robert Sherrill, and Harry Leak, who keep the spirit moving. ROOTS OF LATIN MUSIC CHARANGA CAROLINA Sunday, 1:30 PM
Presenter: David F. García Charanga Carolina is a UNC ensemble modeled on early Cuban orchestras, which combined European strings and woodwinds Charanga Carolina founder with African drums. Although charangas have been central to the and director David F. García development of Latin music, they are extremely rare at American is assistant professor of music universities, making Charanga Carolina one of the few such at UNC–Chapel Hill. He has student orchestras in the country. Featuring guest artists from written a noted biography the local community, Charanga Carolina explores a breathtaking of the legendary Cuban range of Latin dance music, from the stately 19th-century danzon guitarist Arsenio Rodriguez. to lilting Puerto Rican bomba, feverish New York salsa, and the rambunctious timba of contemporary Havana. +,!$(*' *%+ +,!$(*' *%+
ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING FRESH LOOK: EVOLVING
ART ANAM PM D DESIGN IN N.C. Saturday, 11 –5 Sunday, 11 AM–2:45 PM
Art, design, and the artistic application of new technology are all evolving rapidly right here in North Carolina. During the Festival, the permanent collection’s former home in East Building will be transformed into a hive of new media arts, showcasing some of North Carolina’s most innovative young artists, filmmakers, and designers. Through the renovated lobby entrance, come inside and take a fresh look. ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING THE ANALOG DRUM MACHINE INVISIBLE, RHYTHM !""!
ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING Rhythm 1001 is the brainchild of Bart Trotman and Mark Dixon, who together form the Greensboro experimental ART, NATURE, LIGHT, AND SOUND art and music group Invisible. Seeking to birth new sounds NCSU COLLEGE OF DESIGN, and give life to strange or impossible ideas, Dixon and Trotman devise homemade instruments using salvaged ADVANCED MEDIA LAB and found materials, often incorporating electronics and audiovisual sampling in their musical installations. Projected computer animations are among the first works of art visitors experience in East Building. Several di#erent light and sound installations were created for the Entrance Level by the Advanced Media Lab at the North Carolina State University College of Design. Above the staircase, the animation series Wheels of Fortune displays nature imagery in parallax patterns, with synchronous ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING sounds. Farther inside, visitors’ movements trigger light and sound projections onto gallery walls PERFORMANCE ART through an invisible interface. ETC. COLLECTIVE, SKEWL
The etc. collective is a group of artists from around the country a$liated with the Elsewhere Collaborative, a living museum in a former thrift store in downtown Greensboro. During the Festival, etc. creates SKEWL, an interactive installation and performance in the Museum’s Education wing. Visitors are invited to wander through etc.’s visual re-creation of a school environment, made partly from recycled NCMA materials, and imaginatively engage with etc. artists teaching classes that illuminate the nature of learning and creativity. Go to recess, visit the cafeteria, watch hall monitors, and become part of the school yearbook that will form a record of the weekend’s investigations. +,!$(*' *%+ +,!$(*' *%+
ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING TAR HEEL SHORTIES FILM, VIDEO, AND ANIMATION SHORT SUBJECTS
Across the state of North Carolina, hundreds of artists now FRESH LOOK: EVOLVING consider film and video as their primary media. Taking advantage of increasingly inexpensive video technologies, a host of intrepid storytellers and visual provocateurs have attacked the moving image with incredible vision and wit. Filmmaker and artist Dan Brawley, director of the annual Cucalorus Festival of Independent Film ART AND DESIGN IN N.C. in Wilmington, now in its 15th year, curates this selection of short subjects by some of the state’s brightest directors. ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING FASHION FORWARD Information about contributing filmmakers ART TO WEAR: COLLECTION #$%$ will be available at the screenings.
Art to Wear is an annual, juried exhibition of fashion design at North Carolina State NORTH CAROLINA GLAXOSMITHKLINE University. The event is a collaborative production of the Colleges of Textiles and FOUNDATION EDUCATION GALLERY, Design and is run entirely by students. The show of eye-popping, imaginative runway EAST BUILDING art has gained tremendous popularity since its founding in 2002. For the NCMA Grand Opening, models wearing a selection of this year’s top Art to Wear designs will be onstage and roving throughout the Entrance Level. OBJECT LESSONS
Lauren Boynton, Senior, Art + Design, College of Design UNCSA VISUAL ART EXHIBITION Natalie Bunch, Senior, Landscape Architecture, The UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem comprises university study as College of Design well as a two-year curriculum for high school students. The UNCSA Visual Arts Program, one of five arts divisions at the school, has filled our back gallery with some Keely Cansler, Senior, Anni Albers Scholar* of the best paintings, drawings, sculpture, and mixed-media works produced by its students. Program director Greg Shelnutt and faculty members Pamela Gri(n Gennie Catastrophe, Senior, Art + Design, College of and Will Taylor curate this exhibition of works by some of the state’s most promising Design young visual artists.
Hannah Go', Senior, Textile and Apparel Management, Meet the artists and faculty on Saturday between 1 PM and 3 PM in the exhibition gallery. College of Textiles
Eleanor Ho'man, Senior, NORTH CAROLINA GLAXOSMITHKLINE Anni Albers Scholar* and Director, Art to Wear: Collec- FOUNDATION EDUCATION GALLERY, tion 2010 EAST BUILDING
Margaret Jamison, Senior, Environmental Design in ART OF COLLABORATION Architecture, College of Design An exhibition of student art demonstrates how middle Chase Kennedy, Junior, Fash- school teachers in North Carolina counties use visual ion and Textile Management, arts to engage students in learning across the curriculum. College of Textiles Art of Collaboration is an innovative educational program Kendal Leonard, Senior, developed by the NCMA. Textile and Apparel Manage- ment, College of Textiles
Laura Maruzzella, Senior, Art + Design, College of Design *Anni Albers Scholar: Joint Jeremy Medlin, Senior, Art + degree between Design, College of Design the College of Textiles and Kirk Smith, Senior, Food College of Science, College of Agriculture Design and Life Sciences
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AUDITORIUM, ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING ON POINT AUDITORIUM, ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING MOVING LIFE, WORLD PREMIERE DANCE ATIONS PERFORMANCE BY CAROLINA BALLET Saturday, NOON–5 PM Followed by a conversation with choreographer Sunday, NOON–2:45 PM Robert Weiss and Beverley Abel of WUNC Saturday and Sunday, NOON Witness a debut performance and participate in enlightening conversations with some of North Carolina’s most accomplished creators, including a classical music conductor, a ballet A new work by the Carolina Ballet graces the Auditorium stage: Moving Life, created director, and the architects and planners of the new permanent collection galleries. by artistic director Robert Weiss for the Grand Opening. A former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, Weiss breathes new life into classic productions and loves the Special thanks to North Carolina Public Radio–WUNC for assistance with these presentations. challenge of creating new works. The Raleigh-based company he established has become one of North Carolina’s most highly regarded arts institutions. Beverley Abel, WUNC producer and announcer, serves as master of ceremonies. Moving Life: I, II, and III Music by Erik Satie Choreography by Robert Weiss Lighting by Robert Auchter
I Gnossienne I Lola Cooper, Yevgeny Shlapko
II Gnossienne III Lola Cooper, Cecilia Iliesiu, Taisha Barton-Rowledge, Eugene Barnes, Richard Krusch, Yevgeny Shalpko
III Gymnopédie I 1. Eugene Barnes 2. Cecilia Iliesiu 3. Taisha Barton-Rowledge, Richard Krusch
Program Notes
Whenever I go to a museum, one word gymnopédies refers to dances of the genres of painting that performed for several days without particularly interests me is the still interruption by naked youths in ancient life. The juxtaposition of shapes, the Sparta. Gnossiennes, according to some arrangement of objects on a plane, and scholars, evokes half-remembered, long- where the light is from—how the whole vanished antiquity. One can imagine combination of forms fascinates the figures endlessly circling on a Grecian viewer. To me it is like a frozen moment urn. The ballet uses Gnossienne I to of choreography. open and Gnossienne III in the middle— both played on the piano as originally It has been in the back of my mind for composed by Satie—and closes with some time to do a ballet in an intimate Gymnopédie I as orchestrated by space, moving dancers on a plane in Debussy from the piano miniature. various configurations; juxtaposing the various shapes they make—and the Being a choreographer, I often hear shapes of their bodies—in the same music in my head when looking at a manner a painter sets up a still life. still life. As a matter of fact, in several documentaries about artists and their The Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes work, the music of Satie has been used. of Erik Satie seemed the perfect aural texture for this concept. The —Robert Weiss
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AUDITORIUM, ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING ART IN PERFORMANCE: TO CREATE OR RE"CREATE? Conversation with North Carolina Symphony Conductor Grant Llewellyn and Dick Gordon, Host of WUNC’s The Story Saturday, 1 PM
Grant Llewellyn explores the elusive nature of the conductor’s role in interpreting a composer’s musical creation. “Charlatans in the history of conducting have often taken it upon themselves left to right: Dan Gottlieb, Thomas Phifer, Larry Wheeler not just to interpret, but to reinterpret, in a very cavalier way, the composer’s intentions. What is fascinating to me as a conductor AUDITORIUM, ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING is trying to strike a respectful balance.” Llewellyn uses audio recordings to demonstrate historical extremes of interpretation and Walter Havener ART AND ARCHITECTURE: considers to what extent recent research may make it possible to rediscover and reproduce the original spirit of a work. RE"CREATING THE NCMA Conversation with Architect Thomas Phifer, Music director of the North Carolina Symphony since 2004, Landscape Architect Walter Havener, Grant Llewellyn has been praised by audiences and critics alike NCMA Director Lawrence Wheeler, for his “transcendent performances” and “graceful and expressive and Chief of Planning Dan Gottlieb direction.” Born in Tenby, South Wales, Llewellyn won a conducting Moderated by Frank Stasio, fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts in host of WUNC’s The State of Things 1985, where he studied with artists such as Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Saturday, 2 PM Ozawa, Kurt Masur, and André Previn. Llewellyn has conducted many major North American orchestras, including the symphonies Architect Thomas Phifer and landscape architect Walter of Boston, Houston, Montreal, Milwaukee, Saint Louis, Calgary, Havener join Museum Director Lawrence Wheeler and Toronto, and Nashville. He has also held several positions with Director of Planning and Design Dan Gottlieb for an European orchestras, including associate guest conductor with informal discussion of the development and design of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. the new gallery building.
Thomas Phifer formed Thomas Phifer and Partners in New York City in 1997, following a decade as design partner for the firm of Richard Meier & Partners, where he was responsible for the design of some of the o$ce’s most honored and visible public buildings and private residences. Phifer has received widespread critical praise and many honors for work that is sophisticated in its treatment of complex construction details, advanced in its application of new and ecologically sensitive technologies, and highly attentive to methods by which an atmosphere of serenity can be achieved through appropriate forms, materials, and innovative control of natural daylight.
After completing his MS degree in landscape architecture at Harvard, North Carolina native Walter Havener cofounded the firm Lappas + Havener, PA in 1993. Headquartered in Durham, the firm has completed more than 1,000 projects across the United States and won numerous design awards. Havener is committed to finding environmentally sustainable design solutions that link the enjoyment of natural beauty to a sense of place. +,!$(*' *%+ +,!$(*' *%+
AUDITORIUM, ENTRANCE LEVEL, EAST BUILDING CANOPY BETWEEN WEST AND EAST BUILDINGS
SA Saturday, 11 AM–5 PM Sunday, 11 AM–2:45 PM
Fine handcraft is a hallmark of our state’s cultural heritage, rooted in traditions that began with the many Native American tribes who occupied present-day OFF THE HINGES North Carolina. In more recent times, craft traditions have been nurtured, Conversation with SECCA Executive Director sustained, and advanced by world-renowned organizations such as the Mark Leach and Curator Steven Matijcio Penland School of Crafts, the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild, Saturday, 3:30 PM the John C. Campbell Folk School, and Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual. Sunday, 2 PM Pottery making is the crown jewel of North Carolina’s craft traditions and SECCA, the Southeastern Center for is demonstrated here by master potters and sculptors from throughout the Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, is the state. Glassmaking is demonstrated by Shane Fero of the Penland School. newest member of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources and is now formally a$liated with the NCMA. SECCA’s vision is unexpected, experimental, and always contemporary. Listen, see, and imagine as SECCA Executive Director Mark Leach and curator Steven Matijcio open the door to a new era at SECCA with a dynamic MARK HEWITT Potter new brand, renovated facilities, and expanded Mark Hewitt is a British-born potter who set up shop outside plans to bring North Carolina to the world. Pittsboro in 1983 to be near North Carolina’s thriving pottery community. He apprenticed with the distinguished English potter Michael Cardew and studied traditional techniques in Asia and Africa. Known for his magnificent large planters and jars, which he fires in a massive wood kiln, he has long been one of the state’s most influential potters. Hewitt was cocurator of the NCMA ARCHITECTURE AND exhibition The Potter’s Eye and demonstrates his prowess at CULTURAL HERITAGE the wheel on Saturday. Conversation with Architects Thomas Phifer and Philip Freelon and NCMA Director Lawrence Wheeler Moderated by Frank Stasio, host of WUNC’s The State of Things Sunday, 1 PM
Architect Philip Freelon joins architect Thomas Phifer and NCMA Director PAM AND TRAVIS OWENS Lawrence Wheeler to discuss the role of architecture in preserving and Potters educating about cultural heritage. Jugtown Pottery was established in the 1920s by Jacques and Juliana Busbee of Raleigh. Early Freelon formed the Durham-based Freelon Group in 1990 and notes that the champions of North Carolina’s production pottery JOEL QUEEN firm has “consciously focused our design energy toward projects that ultimately tradition, the Busbees employed Ben Owen and Potter and Sculptor serve the greater good of the community.” He is the principal architect for other traditional potters to bring international Joel Queen is a ninth- the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History recognition to this deeply rooted Tar Heel art form. generation Cherokee potter and Culture and the Atlanta Center for Civil and Human Rights. In 2009, he Jugtown’s reputation and influence are carried and sculptor who believes it is received the AIA Thomas Je#erson Award for Public Architecture and was forward by potters and owners Vernon and Pam “a gift from his ancestors to be named Tar Heel of the Year by the Raleigh News and Observer. Owens and their children, Travis and Bayle, who able to give meaning to clay, were recently featured on the awarding-winning to pick up earth and create Thomas Phifer formed Thomas Phifer and Partners in New York City in PBS series Craft in America. Pam and Travis are on something that symbolizes 1997, following a decade as design partner for the firm of Richard Meier & hand on Sunday to make examples of classic and Cherokee culture.” He Partners, where he was responsible for the design of some of the o$ce’s most contemporary Jugtown ware. demonstrates the ancient honored and visible public buildings and private residences. Phifer has received hand-coiled technique of widespread critical praise and many honors for work that is sophisticated in its pottery making, using carved treatment of complex construction details, advanced in its application of new wooden paddles to create and ecologically sensitive technologies, and highly attentive to methods by symbolic decorations on the which an atmosphere of serenity can be achieved through appropriate forms, surface of the work. He honors materials, and innovative control of natural daylight. tradition but intends for his work to “incorporate new ideas and reveal the vitality of my society.” +,!$(*' *%+ +,!$(*' *%+
VARIOUS LOCATIONS HANDS ON: ACTIVITIES FOR FAMILIES AND VISITORS OF ALL AGES Saturday, 11 AM–5 PM CANOPY BETWEEN WEST AND EAST BUILDINGS Sunday, 11 AM–2:30 PM THE ART OF CRAFT IN NORTH CAROLINA CREATION STATIONS
RODIN GARDEN PICTURE YOURSELF ON THE PEDESTAL MICHAEL SHERRILL Put yourself on a pedestal with Rodin’s finest. Strike Potter and Sculptor a pose and take home up to two photographs as Named Artist of the Year by souvenirs of the celebration. the Mint Museum of Craft + Design in 2003, Michael Sherrill UPPER LAWN, PARK THEATER transforms clay into luminous works of art inspired by the FRAME IT natural world. He is a frequent Embellish a commemorative frame for your instructor at the Penland School photograph or art. of Crafts and employs original techniques and tools to realize his visions. “My current work is UPPER LAWN, PARK THEATER about the moment of wonder, the act of seeing something for COLLECTION REFLECTION the first time.” Create a miniature collection of your NCMA favorites to enjoy at home.
UPPER LAWN, PARK THEATER PAPER DESIGNS SHANE FERO Design with positive and negative space by Glass Artist experimenting with a wide variety of cutters and The technique of flameworking glass goes back several millennia decorative papers. and predates glassblowing, says glass artist and historian Shane DAVID STUEMPFLE Fero. But it was only about 400 years ago in Murano, Italy, that Potter flameworking began its modern development. Fero, whose UPPER LAWN, PARK THEATER After years of apprenticeship glassworks are exhibited in major public and private art collections and training, including study worldwide, came to the Penland School in 1990 to develop its BRANCHING OUT in Europe and Asia, David flameworking program. Fusing powdered glass, in a painterly Craft your own tribute to sculptor Roxy Stuempfle established his own fashion, with molten glass rods and tubes, Fero sculpts birds Paine’s Askew using malleable silver wire. pottery studio near Seagrove. and other objects over his flameworking torch. Using local clays, wood-fired kilns, and an international perspective, he has helped take the North Carolina stoneware tradition toward a 21st-century expression. Stuempfle’s work was featured in the NCMA exhibition and catalogue The Potter’s Eye. He demonstrates his coil- building technique for making (very) large jars. +,!$ $ *,!'&+
MUSEUM PARK THEATER
Saturday, 5:30 PM
All eyes and ears turn to the Park Theater for an exhilarating evening of music and fireworks, with special remarks by NCMA Director Lawrence J. Wheeler; Linda A. Carlisle, secretary, Department of Cultural Resources; and Lloyd M. Yates, CEO and president, Progress Energy Carolinas. The music begins at 5:30 PM, followed by an opening ceremony at 6:30 PM, and more performances. Special thanks to Scott Freck, artistic director and general manager of the North Carolina Symphony, for his assistance with the fireworks soundtrack.
Program Notes Ceremonies for Brass Quintet was co-commissioned by the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild and the Carolina Brass for the opening of the new North Carolina Museum of Art. The design of the work requested by the Museum was to feature a single fanfare that could be extractable for use at the Opening Festival but that could also function CAROLINA BRASS as the beginning of a larger This performance is part of the NCMA Sights and Sounds work. After considering this, concert series, cosponsored by the Museum and the I realized that if the work led Raleigh Chamber Music Guild. us to a culmination, the final section could be a fanfare of Based in the Triad, Carolina Brass brings superb celebration. musicianship and wry humor to a diversity of musical styles, from elegant classical to hard-driving big band. Many people will hear the The group’s members have performed extensively on Doxology as the foundation national and international stages and include current of this work, and as much as principals of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and I would love to lay claim to the Winston-Salem Symphony. The program features having planned it this way— the premiere performance of Ceremonies for Brass the term does come from the Quintet, written for the occasion by North Carolina Greek meaning “glory word,” composer J. Mark Scearce. a short hymn of praise—it was the subconscious at work Timothy Hudson, trumpet in the creative process. The Dennis de Jong, trumpet Doxology of my childhood Robert Campbell, French horn is “Praise God, from Whom David Wulfeck, trombone All Blessings Flow,” which Matt Ransom, tuba itself was originally, in the 17th century, the final verse of two longer hymns. I enjoy this fact, as my "fanfare" that celebrates the reopening of the North Carolina Museum of Art and this wonderful new building is itself a final verse About the Composer of a closing hymn—in praise J. Mark Scearce is director of the Music Department at of art in North Carolina! Feel North Carolina State University. He has been the winner free to sing along! of six international competitions, including the 2009 Sackler Prize in Composition, and his works have been —J. Mark Scearce performed throughout the world. +,!$ $ *,!'&+ +,!$ $ *,!'&+
MUSEUM PARK THEATER TIFT MERRITT With pure voice and plainspoken storytelling, Raleigh native Tift Merritt takes her inspiration from the roads she’s traveled. A singer-songwriter in the tradition of Emmylou Harris and Patty Gri$n, Merritt performs songs that transcend the genres she draws upon: Americana, rock, country, and soul. Also a photographer and radio host, she interviews artists monthly on her Marfa Public Radio program The Spark. A perennial favorite at the Park Theater, Merritt returns to the Park Theater June 5 in support of her new CD See You on the Moon.
MUSEUM PARK THEATER LES PRIMITIFS DU FUTUR Les Primitifs du Futur’s hot jazz is flavored with American blues, the gypsy guitar of Django Reinhardt, and other influences from around the globe. Led by guitarist Dominique Cravic and cofounded by the American underground cartoonist R. Crumb, the ensemble made its U.S. debut in 2005 at the NCMA. We’ve invited the Paris-based band back to the Museum to celebrate the acquisition of more than 29 masterworks by French sculptor Auguste Rodin, which are on permanent exhibition in and around the new building.
Les Primitifs du Futur also perform on Sunday at noon at the Plaza Music Stage.
MUSEUM PARK THEATER THE MONITORS Eastern North Carolina has long been a hotbed of musical talent. The Monitors are a big-band jazz and R&B ensemble from Wilson that recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. The group counts two former “JBs”—members of James Brown’s legendary horn section—among its ranks. The Monitors have backed and toured with many international stars over the years, including Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Gladys Knight, Booker T and the MGs, and Roberta Flack. Their repertoire is a dance party of versatile grooves, spanning blues, gospel, soul and R&B, and beach music. +,!$ !&$
Program Notes MUSEUM PARK THEATER There are many reasons to celebrate the opening GUSTAV MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. # of North Carolina’s newest artistic treasure THE RESURRECTION with a performance by Sunday, 3 PM–5 PM young people of Mahler’s Symphony no. 2, The As a grand finale to our Festival celebration, Resurrection. First of all, it Chancellor John Mauceri conducts the was conceived by a young UNC School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra person in his 20s, and it in Mahler’s soul-stirring Symphony no. 2, The takes an epic journey that Resurrection. Singers from the Duke University explores every aspect of Chapel Choir and the Choral Society of Durham life and the eternal truth complete this sublime ensemble. that art transcends our individual lives through its In the event of rain, the concert will be held in East Building. process. Art is in a constant state of transformation. Having young people in the 21st century ask the same questions Gustav Mahler was asking in the last decades of the 19th century is the best way I know of understanding the meaning he found through his long About the Conductor and arduous compositional John Mauceri’s rich and journey. The answer comes varied career has taken him in one of the most uplifting to the world’s greatest opera and inspirational finales in companies and symphony all of music, and there is orchestras, to the musical no greater celebration of stages of Broadway and this triumph. The eminent Hollywood, and, in 2006, to German composer / Winston-Salem as chancellor conductor Richard Strauss of the University of North recognized this truth when, Carolina School of the Arts. Mauceri studied conducting with in 1902, he first conducted Leonard Bernstein and Carlo Maria Giulini and succeeded his mentor, his young colleague’s Leopold Stokowski, as music director of the American Symphony symphony—not in a concert Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. Mauceri has served as the music director hall, but in Basel’s glorious of four opera companies: Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy; the Scottish cathedral, surrounded Opera in Glasgow; the Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center; by great works of art and and the Pittsburgh Opera. In 1991, he revitalized the tradition of housed within its magnificent the popular Hollywood Bowl concerts, leading a new orchestra Gothic embrace. For all of there created especially for him by the Los Angeles Philharmonic these reasons, and those Association. In 16 seasons with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, he each audience member conducted more than 300 concerts, and he recently returned as its will find for him/herself, founding director to make his debut at L.A.’s Walt Disney Concert let these young musicians Hall. Mauceri is one of the world’s most accomplished recording rea$rm our commitment artists, with Grammy, Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, Edison, two Emmy, to Art as the transcendent and four Deutsche Schallplatten awards among his prestigious human expression of the recognitions. One of his first acts as chancellor was to pioneer the Fundamental and the portal school’s name change to University of North Carolina School of the to the Eternal. Arts, emphasizing its role in the UNC system as the nation’s first publicly funded conservatory. —John Mauceri +,!$(*' *%+ +,!$, &#+
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TO CLASSROOMS Honorary Grand Opening Chairs Partner Institutions Committee 100 Support North Carolina Joan and Dennis Gillings and Organizations Ms. Andrea Bazan students by donating colored American Dance Festival Ms. Debbie Behnke pencils, markers, and pastels Honorary Festival Chairs Carolina Ballet Mr. and Mrs. William J. Blanton NEAR THE THINKER SCULPTURE ON PLAZA Lee and Libby Buck Choral Society of Durham Ms. Lillian Grace Bradley to schools across the state. Phil and Nnenna Freelon Duke University Chapel Choir Dr. Melvin J. Carver Drop your donations here. Lloyd and Monica Yates Elsewhere Collaborative Ms. Valda Chauncey NORTH CAROLINA Meredith College Ms. Janice Christensen Art teachers are invited to North Carolina Arts Council Ms. Sylvia Clayton enter a special ra%e to win FACES AND PLACES North Carolina Central University Mr. Paul E. Coggins spectacular art supplies for A large-scale photo installation created by Wayne North Carolina Public Radio–WUNC Margaret and Reid Conrad North Carolina State University Ms. Lee Crosby the classroom. Prizes will Henderson reflects the people and places of North North Carolina Symphony Dr. James Walker Crow be awarded on the hour. Carolina and features photographs taken by people Penland School of Crafts Lt. Gov. and Mrs. Walter Dalton across the state. Raleigh Chamber Music Guild The Honorable and Southeastern Center for Mrs. N. Leo Daughtry Contemporary Art Mr. Don Davis and Ms. Peggy Wilks University of North Carolina– Mr. Steve Demastrie Chapel Hill Jane Doggett and David Evans University of North Carolina Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Dougherty School of the Arts Mr. and Mrs. John G. B. Ellison, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fain III North Carolina Department Mr. William Fick of Cultural Resources Ms. Marilyn Foote-Hudson Mr. and Mrs. Bowman Gray Marketing Partners Ms. Sylvia Greene Big Fat Film Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Grubb Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. Ms. Jo Ann Hart Metro Magazine Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hewitt Midtown Magazine Mr. and Mrs. Irwin R. Holmes The News & Observer Ms. Sherri Holmes ODDFellows Ms. Michelle Hooper Our State Magazine Ms. Leoneda Inge Mr. Emile Jackson Additional Support Mr. Hector Javier +,!$!& ' Blue Ridge Realty, Inc. Ms. Louise J. Johanson Carolina Livery Mr. and Mrs. John Alan Jones City of Raleigh Public Works Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Kadis Gregory Poole Equipment Company Mr. David Kennedy Grove Winery Mr. and Mrs. Carter T. Lambeth Food Vendors Lost and Found Krispy Kreme Dr. Stuart J. Levin and Museum Spa and Laser Center Ms. Sondra Panico Big Oak Catering NCMA Security will safeguard North Carolina Arts Council Dr. and Mrs. Walker Anderson Long Chubby’s Tacos any found items. PODS Dr. Spiro J. Macris Sunbelt Rentals Mrs. Jolene B. McGehee Hereghty Heavenly Delicious Triangle Rent-a-Car Mr. and Mrs. John F. Mitchell Mistti LLC Restrooms The Umstead Hotel and Spa Ms. Linda Noble and Neomonde Bakery and Deli Restrooms are located inside Mr. Craig McDu$e Special Thanks Molly K. O’Neill and Vicki Threlfall Only Burger both Museum buildings and in Our Grand Opening Festival is Ms. Kelly Paul and Mr. Paul Crellin Tea Gschwender the Park Theater. Temporary presented free of charge, thanks to the Ms. Hilda Pinnix-Ragland Whole Foods Market outdoor facilities are available generous support of Progress Energy. Mr. Anthony Poillucci Ms. Gloria Lopez Potichko as well and are identified on Special Recognition Mr. and Mrs. Orage Quarles III Visitor Services the site map. The sta# has put in years of planning, Dr. and Mrs. Stanley J. Robboy months of preparation, and many long Mr. and Mrs. James D. Romano First Aid hours to make the vision of the NCMA Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sandman First aid services are provided Accessibility expansion a reality. Each of us stands Mr. and Mrs. Willis G. Smith by Rex Healthcare’s Emergency All Museum facilities are proudly with you in celebration of the Mrs. Kari Stoltz grand opening. We would like to thank Mrs. Belinda A. Tate Response Team. Should you wheelchair accessible. If you our families and friends for their support Mr. Frank Thompson and need medical assistance, please need assistance, please inquire (and patience) as we worked to create Ms. Charman Driver contact any sta# person or with sta# or volunteers. an incredible new Museum experience Leah Goodnight Tyler and Runyon Tyler for all our visitors. Mr. Robert Venuti and volunteer you see. Mr. Robert Sandefur We are also enormously grateful for the Ms. Stacy Lynn Waddell contributions of time and assistance by Mr. Billy Warden and Ms. Lucy Inman Missing Children NCMA docents and volunteers, board Whitney Wilkerson and Children who become members, and countless others from our Raven Manocchio separated from their parents partnering organizations and community Ms. Julie Wood and Mr. Matthew Busch associations around the state, who have Ms. C. T. Woods-Powell or group will be looked after made this weekend celebration possible. Mr. and Mrs. G. Smedes York by Security personnel, who Carlos and Terri Union Zukowski may be contacted at (919) 664-6788. +,!$%(
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American Chronicles: Debut of the Fins and Feathers: Binh Danh: John James Audubon’s The Art of Norman Rockwell North Carolina Gallery Original Children’s Book In the Eclipse of Angkor The Birds of America November 7, 2010– Bob Trotman: Illustrations from The November 7, 2010– November 7, 2010 January 30, 2011 Inverted Utopias Eric Carle Museum of January 30, 2011 Ongoing $15 Adults November 7, 2010– Picture Book Art FREE FREE $12 Seniors, students (13+), March 27, 2011 November 7, 2010– military, groups of 10 or more FREE January 30, 2011 New work by Binh Danh Recently restored four-volume $7.50 ages 7–12 FREE investigates his Vietnamese set of The Birds of America FREE to members and Twenty works of art by heritage and the collective will be on view in a new children 6 and under figurative sculptor Bob Images of friendly and comical memory of war through gallery devoted to the famous Trotman, a North Carolina creatures celebrate the artistic his chlorophyll prints and 19th-century artist and naturalist. Vouchers on sale now native who describes his achievements of children’s daguerreotypes. at the Box O(ce sculptures as an “o#-balance book artists with 33 original Organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art. Support is provided by hybrid” of influences that storybook illustrations. Organized by the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University. The ex- the Henry Luce Foundation. This exhibi- A decade-by-decade include Norman Rockwell hibition and accompanying publication tion is also made possible, in part, by the installation of 40 original works among others. Organized by The Eric Carle Museum were made possible by the Frances Nie- North Carolina Department of Cultural of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Mass. Resources and the North Carolina of art, and a complete set of derer Artist-in-Residence Fund, Hollins In Raleigh support is provided by Rex University. In Raleigh support is provided Museum of Art Foundation, Inc. 323 Saturday Evening Post cover Organized by the North Carolina Healthcare. This exhibition is also made Museum of Art. Support is provided by by the North Carolina Museum of Art tear sheets spanning 47 years. possible, in part, by the North Carolina Friends of Photography. This exhibition The Windgate Charitable Foundation. Department of Cultural Resources and This exhibition is also made possible, in is also made possible, in part, by the the North Carolina Museum of Art North Carolina Department of Cultural Organized by the Norman Rockwell part, by the North Carolina Department Foundation, Inc. Resources and the North Carolina Mu- Museum in Stockbridge, Mass. The of Cultural Resources and the North seum of Art Foundation, Inc. exhibition has been made possible by Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc. a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Masterpieces Program. Publication support has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Media sponsorship has been provided by the Curtis Publishing Company and by the Norman Rockwell Estate Licensing Company. Conservation support has been provided by the Stockman Family Foundation. In Raleigh support is pro- FROM LEFT: Norman Rockwell, Art Critic, 1955, oil on canvas, 39 1⁄2 × 36 1⁄4 in., cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, April 16, 1955, vided by Duke Energy. This exhibition Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, NRM.1998.4, © 1955 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, Ind.; Bob Trotman, Martin, 2008, wood is also made possible, in part, by the and tempera, H. 41 × W. 23 × D. 23 in., Collection of Rick and Dana Martin Davis; Ashley Bryan, The Husband Who Counted the Spoonfuls (detail), circa North Carolina Department of Cultural 1980, from Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum (Atheneum, 1980), tempera on paper, 8 7⁄8 × 6 3⁄8 in., The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Gift Resources and the North Carolina of Ashley Bryan, © 1980, 1987 Ashley Bryan; Binh Danh, Ghost of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum #2 (detail), 2008, daguerreotype, 11 3⁄8 × 9 1⁄2 in., Museum of Art Foundation, Inc. Courtesy of the artist and the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University, © 2010 Binh Danh; John James Audubon, American Flamingo (detail), Havell CDXXI , 40 × 26 in., The Birds of America, 1827–38, hand-colored aquatint/engravings on paper, bound in 4 volumes, Transfer from the North Carolina State Library !%&% SUMMER CONCERT AND MOVIE SERIES
Wonderful music, films, and performing arts continue after the opening festival! Tickets are on sale now for our popular summer concert and movies series kicking o# May 21. GREAT ENTERTAINMENT AT THE NCMA ALL SUMMER LONG The Museum Park Theater SCHEDULE: www.ncartmuseum.org BOX OFFICE: (919) 715-5923 is the perfect setting for live entertainment, big-screen excitement, picnicking, and socializing. Here are some concert highlights for May and June.
May 21 The Swell Season Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, stars of the hit Irish film Once, perform their Academy Award–winning song “Falling Slowly” and songs from their new album Strict Joy.
June 2 Patty Gri(n and Buddy Miller Grammy-nominated singer- songwriter Patty Gri$n and Americana music master Buddy Miller bring the spirit with songs from their brilliant new album Downtown Church.
June 5 Tift Merritt Hometown favorite Tift Merritt celebrates the release of her brand new album See You on the Moon. Museum members get free admission to summer movies. Not a member? There’s no better time to June 12 join than today! Casual Classics II Following last summer’s Benefits include free tickets to exhibitions, discounts sensational debut concert, in the Museum Restaurant and Store, discounts on maestro Timothy Myers returns concerts, Preview magazine, and much more. with a new program of opera and Broadway classics. Join during the Grand Opening, and receive a commemorative poster or other special gifts. Outdoor Cinema It’s easy to join. Stop by the Information Desk in Each weekend throughout either building, call the Membership Department the summer, enjoy open-air at (919) 664-6754, or visit ncartmuseum.org. screenings of the best in recent and classic cinema. All movies are shown in 35mm on the biggest outdoor screen in the Triangle.