If guns could speak, what a story the Confederate Collection at the Greensboro Historical Museum could tell. The exhibit’s’ official name is the Murphy Confederate Firearms Collection, in honor of Dr. John Murphy and his wife, Isabelle Fournier Murphy who assembled the collection. Among its 140 firearms are some of the rarest and finest examples of Confederate longarms in [...]
The pure white clay that made the Wedgwood name synonymous with fine china throughout the world came from the western North Carolina mountains some three centuries ago. How North Carolina became part of Wedgwood’s fame began in 1765 in Staffordshire, England, where a ceramic craftsman named Josiah Wedgwood plied his trade. He was an excellent craftsman and apparently, a shrewd [...]
Collecting Carolina: 100 Years of Jugtown Pottery N.C. Museum of History in RaleighJanuary 21 - May 29, 2017 Would you believe the concept for Jugtown came after seeing a farmer’s entry of apples displayed in a “dirt dish” at the Davidson County fair in 1915? Jacques and Juliana Busbee, both from Raleigh, had a vision inspired by that “dirt dish” [...]
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is thrilled to offer an online course in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition Ansel Adams: Masterworks — the first NCMA online course available to the public. The self-paced course, which begins Saturday, January 21 and has rolling enrollment through May 21, features exclusive content including interviews with local contemporary NC photographers. “The Photography [...]
Ansel Adams: Masterworks February 4, 2017 – May 7, 2017 North Carolina Museum of Art East Building, Level B, Joyce W. Pope Gallery; Ticketed In a career that spanned five decades, Ansel Adams (1902–84) became one of America’s most renowned photographers. This exhibition focuses on his “Museum Set,” a collection of 48 photographs carefully selected and printed by Adams. Adams [...]
Glory of Venice: Renaissance Paintings 1470–1520 March 4, 2017 – June 18, 2017 North Carolina Museum of Art East Building, Meymandi Exhibition Gallery; Ticketed Glory of Venice: Renaissance Paintings 1470–1520 features 50 paintings and a significant group of printed books and individual pages that illustrate a crucial period in the history of Venetian art and culture, widely regarded as one [...]
Submissions for the North Carolina Humanities Council’s Linda Flowers Literary Award will be accepted ONLY electrically from March 10 - June 16 at [email protected]. Entries must be original, unpublished works of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry that offer an intimate, provocative, and inspiring portraiture of North Carolina, its people and cultures, bringing to light real men and women making their way [...]
Veteran journalist Ray Suarez, permanent host of Al Jazeera America’s daily Inside Story, will address the UNCG Friends of the Library annual meeting on March 29 in Elliott University Center. Ray Suarez has over 30 years experience in the news business, as a reporter for CNN and ABC, as well as the host of Talk of the Nation on NPR. [...]
A reproduction of the 1903 Wright Flyer is an impressive sight for visitors entering the three-story lobby of the North Carolina Museum of History (NCMH) in Raleigh. Suspended at a height of 12 feet, the height of the Wright brothers’ first flight on December 17, 1903, the Flyer is on exhibit at the NCMH while the Wright Brothers National Memorial [...]
Seven historic sites in the Triad and the Triangle are among the 16 historic places the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. The listing of a property in the National Register places no obligation or restriction on a private owner using private resources to maintain the property. As of [...]
