The North Carolina Award, the state’s highest civilian honor, has recognized the following for their significant contributions to the state and nation in the fields of fine art, literature, public service, and science. Joseph Bathonti Literature Joseph Bathonti has written 10 volumes of poetry, three novels and a short story collection. He came to North Carolina with VISTA to teach [...]
Elders want to share their life experiences. Just ask them. Baby Boomers consider passing down family history and stories more important than leaving their children heirlooms or inheritances. In a 2012 survey by the Allianz Academy of Legacies, Baby Boomers, who were polled, prioritized family history and stories (85 percent) and life lessons and values (77 percent) over keepsakes, heirlooms [...]
Associated Artists of Winston-Salem has announced the following events to be held in the Womble Carlyle Gallery in the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. January 3 – February 7: AAWS Artist Spotlight A juried exhibition showcasing a select number of AAWS members’ recent bodies of work in an intimage gallery setting. Reception: January 6 from 5 – 7 [...]
When the Francescuccio Ghissi’s St. John Altarpiece goes on exhibit September 10 at the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA), it will be the first time all nine panels have been exhibited in more than 100 years. That's because the ninth panel was missing until NCMA decided to mount the exhibit. Three panels, including the one shown here, are in [...]
The permanent collection of Old Master British paintings and sculpture (1580 to 1850), titled “History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection,” is on exhibit through March 19, 2017, at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Anchoring the exhibition is an extraordinary group of nine Elizabethan and Jacobean aristocratic portraits from about 1580 to 1620, which have been the [...]
It’s one of early America’s enduring mysteries: What happened to the 100 English colonists who vanished from their Roanoke Island outpost in 1587? Now archaeologists have discovered new evidence that at least one part of the lost colony may have ended on the Chowan River in Bertie County, some 50 miles from Roanoke Island. Dozens of artifacts, including bale seals [...]
Raleigh photographer Jack Morton will share stories about his grandfather, Hugh Morton on Thursday, November 10, at the North Carolina Museum of History in conjunction with the free exhibit, “Photographs by Hugh Morton, An Uncommon Perspective.” The exhibit provides a tour of North Carolina’s past as recorded by Hugh Morton, probably the best promoter North Carolina ever had. He died [...]
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) will name its park in honor of Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park, in recognition of the family's unparalleled contributions to the NCMA and its Park over the past 20 years. As longtime supporters of NCMA, the Goodnights have acted as passionate advocates for the Park as well as for the Museum’s collection [...]
A dance teacher, a neuroscientist, and a group of Alzheimer’s patients meet at a barre. That’s not the setup for a joke, but rather the basis of a serious pilot study investigating the effects of improvisational dance on people with cognitive impairment. Christina Hugenschmidt, assistant professor, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and Christina Soriano, associate professor [...]
These are anxious times; times that make it seem the Four Horsemen may be galloping ever closer on the not-so-distant horizon. Sally Allen, literary guru and author of Unlocking Worlds: A Reading Companion for Book Lovers, offers a list of 10 classics to read when the weight of the world and a bleak news cycle get you down. The Iliad [...]
