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To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary
The North Carolina Museum of Art Announces Spring 2024 Exhibition Schedule, Featuring To Take Shape
"Raleigh, NC — The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is pleased to share its upcoming spring season, on view from February through July 2024 and featuring the Museum’s first major exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art. The exhibitions invite audiences to consider multilayered storytelling and contemporary materials spanning three centuries of American art history. To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary American Indian Art will celebrate its opening on March 2 with the NCMA’s second annual NC Indigenous Artist Festival.
Organized by guest curator Nancy Strickland Fields (Lumbee), director and curator of the Museum of the Southeast American Indian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary American Indian Art will be on view at the NCMA from March 2 to July 28, 2024. Featuring works by 75 Indigenous artists from over 50 tribes across the United States and Canada, this exhibition is a testament to the enduring elements of form and design in American Indian art. In an exhibition composed exclusively of 3-D artworks, each piece reflects both traditional American Indian craftsmanship and contemporary culture.
The show includes baskets made out of blown glass, cars transformed into works of art, and cutting-edge fashion ensembles embellished with goose feathers and turkey quills, which reveal transitions of place, experiments in materiality, and meanings blended from present-day and traditional beliefs. Curator Fields states, "For thousands of years, Native artists have manipulated their materials into fantastic expressions of art. The contemporary artists featured in the show are among the most acclaimed in their genres and are credited with pushing their art forms in ways that retain meaning and continue to evolve culture.” To Take Shape and Meaning will be accompanied by an NCMA–published exhibition catalogue with essays by Fields, artist Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo), and Stephen Fadden (Mohawk), director of programming at Poeh Cultural Center in Pojoaque, New Mexico.
On Saturday, March 2, the Museum will celebrate the opening of To Take Shape and Meaning with the NC Indigenous Artist Festival and free admission to the exhibition. Community Days will occur on Saturday, April 20;
Sunday, May 19;
Sunday, June 16; and
Sunday, July 21, from 10 am to 5 pm. Exhibition programming details include:
Artist Panel: Indigenous Understanding of Shape and Meaning in American Indian Art Friday, March 1, noon–1 pm. Free with registration. Join us for a discussion moderated by guest curator Nancy Strickland Fields (Lumbee) with renowned artists Kenneth Johnson (Muscogee/Seminole), Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo), and Margaret Roach Wheeler (Chickasaw/Choctaw).
NC Indigenous Artist Festival Saturday, March 2, 10 am–4 pm Free, including free admission to To Take Shape and Meaning Celebrate Indigenous arts and culture from across the state of North Carolina, meet artists, and buy traditional crafts and contemporary jewelry, and drop in for free workshops and a performance by Lumbee culture dancers.
Meet the Curator: Nancy Strickland Fields Free on Community Days: Saturday, March 2, April 20, 1–2 pm Free with ticket to the exhibition (must register): Saturday, May 18, June 8, 1–2 pm Meet Nancy Strickland Fields, director/curator of the Museum of the Southeast American Indian and guest curator of this celebration of contemporary Indigenous art, who leads a tour of To Take Shape and Meaning.
To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary American Indian Art:
March 2–July 28, 2024 NCMA, East Building, Level B, Meymandi Exhibition Gallery
Free for Members, $20 Adults, $17 Seniors age 65 and older, $14 Youth ages 7–18, Free for children 6 and under and college students
To Take Shape and Meaning
A decade in the making, "Art in Bloom" SPring '24
A DECADE IN BLOOM: THE NCMA CELEBRATES 10TH ANNUAL ART IN BLOOM, PRESENTEd by PNC Bank
"Raleigh, NC — The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is thrilled to announce the 10th edition of its annual Art in Bloom festival, a five-day Museum fundraising event showcasing local and national floral designers who interpret in flowers the works of art in the People’s Collection. Presented by PNC Bank, this highly anticipated celebration of creativity will take place March 13–17, 2024. All funds raised by Art in Bloom support the Museum’s public programming, annual exhibitions, and the NCMA Foundation, Inc. Art in Bloom tickets went on sale to NCMA members on Thurs., Jan. 18, and will go on sale to non-members at 10 am, Thurs., Feb. 8. With limited capacity and time slots expected to sell out, those interested in attending are encouraged to join as members for early ticket access. All 2024 Art in Bloom tickets also includes free entry to the NCMA’s special exhibition To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary American Indian Art. Over the past decade, Art in Bloom has been sponsored by PNC Bank and has displayed over 400 floral installations, welcomed over 130,000 attendees, and featured nearly 200 North Carolina floral artists..”
“As one of the Triangle’s most anticipated and cherished annual events, Art in Bloom continues to inspire visitors, create local economic impact, and support the NCMA, an institution that is integral to our region’s cultural landscape,” said Jim Hansen, PNC Regional President for Eastern Carolinas. “All of us at PNC are proud to have supported this successful event since its inception and look forward to helping welcome visitors during this special milestone year of creativity and artistry.” In honor of the event’s 10th year and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the North Carolina State Art Society, whose passionate advocacy led to the establishment of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Art in Bloom 2024 will showcase 10 feature installations themed per decade from the 1920s to the 2020s. NCMA Director Valerie Hillings expresses her excitement, stating, “Art in Bloom has become a cornerstone of artistic expression and community engagement, and we are thrilled to mark this significant milestone by celebrating in parallel one hundred years of support of the arts in North Carolina.” In celebration of this year’s Art in Bloom, the Museum Store will feature a selection of local artisan collaborations with Cathy Boytos, Sophia Woo, Vietri, Layla Christie, and more. Dining options include Art of Tea in Bloom in East the ding, a garden grill menu in the West Building, and a gelato and popcorn cart in the Museum’s Gipson Plaza (weather permitting). Residents of the Triangle can also expect to see a series of NCMA community engagements with giveaways and pop-up floral displays in the weeks leading up to Art in Bloom."
Art in Bloom Ticket Details and Hours
● $40 Members
● $50 Nonmembers
● Free for children 6 and under
Art in Bloom tickets are on sale to NCMA now to members and nonmembers.
Tickets for related events are sold separately.
During the five days of Art in Bloom, the Museum’s West Building will operate on a special schedule, as follows:
● Wednesday, March 13, 10 am–3 pm
● Thursday, March 14, 10 am–5 pm
● Friday, March 15, 11 am–7 pm
● Saturday, March 16, 10 am–7 pm
● Sunday, March 17, 10 am–5 pm
For more information, including transportation updates, tours, and membership information, please visit ncartmuseum.org/bloom or by emailing help@ncartmuseum.org.
Related events, including select workshops, presentations, and other special programs, will be ticketed separately.
East Building galleries are open 10 am–5 pm, East Building will be on view and free to the public during this time.
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A Must See it to Believe it: 10 Years of Art IN Bloom 2024
Capturing Moments: The NCMA 's Decade of Art In Bloom
Pedestal #34 - Terry Godfrey, AIFD, Washington, D.C. Inspiration: Venus Rising from the Waves, François Boucher and studio NCMA sponsor: Latin students at Broughton High School
Pedestal #42 - Terry Godfrey, American Institute of Floral Designers, Washington, D.C. Inspiration: Three Graces: Les Trois Femmes Noires, Mickalene Thomas NCMA sponsor: Debbie and Larry Robbins
Floral artist: Alicia Springfield, Floral Expressions of Chapel Hill Inspiration: Saint John the Baptist, Jusepe de Ribera, 52.9.183
Pedestal #34 - Terry Godfrey, AIFD, Washington, D.C. Inspiration: Venus Rising from the Waves, François Boucher and studio NCMA sponsor: Latin students at Broughton High School
Pedestal #26 - Brandi Dennison, NCCPF, and Amber Cassle, Brandi’s Botanicals, Youngsville, N.C. brandisbotanicals.com NCMA sponsor: Cree Inc. and Wolfspeed
Pedestal #31 - Jane Owen Barbot, Garden Club of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C., gardenclubofnc.org Inspiration: Reverie, Robert Frederick Blum NCMA sponsor: Adele McGugan, Anita Summers, and Sara Summers in memory of their mother, Marie Summers
Pedestal #6 - Sherri Suttle, NCCPF, Bostic Florist, Bostic, N.C. Inspiration: New Orleans: Ragging Home, Romare Bearden NCMA sponsor: Gary and Laura Robinette
Pedestal #2 - Erica Winston, Garden Club of North Carolina Judges Council, Cary, N.C. Inspiration: The Emperor, David Salle NCMA sponsor: McGuireWoods LLP
Lisa McPherson Ruf, EMC, Goodness Graciious Florals Inspiration: Mask of Man with Broken Nose, Auguste Rodin, 2009.1.1
Pedestal #28 - Catherine Mangum Phelps, Garden Club of North Carolina Judges Council, Hillsborough, N.C. Inspiration: British School, Portrait of a Gentleman Wearing a Breastplate