Events
Lectures, Panels, Films, and Other Special Events
Fall 2012
The Ancestors Return
Thursday – October 11 6pm
Cannon Gallery, 2nd floor Talley Student Center
Babalawo Ifaniyi Akintunde, chief priest and founder of the Temple of Light and Progress, leads an African cultural presentation featuring Yoruba, Lucumi, Santeria, and Kemetic traditional ancestor veneration ceremonies that include song, dance and the spoken word. Akintunde is an initiate of the priestly societies of Egungun, Osun, Ogboni, and Egbe Akikonju.
Art Without Artists
Tuesday – October 16 12noon
Foundations Gallery, 2nd floor Talley Student Center
Join Roger Manley, Gregg Museum director and co-curator of Art Without Artists, for a walk through discussion of the exhibition that asks whether art really is in the eye of the beholder. You decide!
The Future of Traditional Pottery
Thursday – October 18 6pm
Ballroom, 2nd floor Talley Student Center
South Africa-born Garth Clark, one of the world’s foremost contemporary ceramics critics, lectures on traditional pottery and hosts questions from the audience. Clark’s visit is coordinated by Mark Hewitt and Matthew Jones, and co-sponsored by the Mint Museum (Charlotte) and Penland School of Crafts.
Film: A Man Named Pearl
Wednesday – October 24 6pm
Foundations Gallery, 2nd floor Talley Student Center
Screening of 2006 documentary about internationally renowned South Carolina topiary artist Pearl Fryar. The following Sunday, Fryar himself will be on hand at Art Outside the Box to help sculpt the hedges fronting the former chancellor’s residence, dramatically revealing the home of the future Gregg.
Art Outside the Box
Sunday – October 28 12-4pm 1903 Hillsborough St., Raleigh (across from Locopops)
A free event celebrating the Gregg’s upcoming move into the long-hidden 1928 chancellor’s residence, one of Raleigh’s best-kept secrets. The festive gathering includes refreshments, topiary demos, hands-on workshops with potters, painters, and jewelers, and jazz, rock, soul, country, and a capella music performances. Tour inside the old architectural gem that will soon become the new Gregg.
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Film: MANA—Beyond Belief
Thursday – November 8 6pm
Foundations Gallery, 2nd floor Talley Student Center
An entertaining, award-winning feature documentary about the power of precious objects, which asks, “What do Elvis Presley’s guitar, African voodoo and the Shroud of Turin have in common?” Filmed on five continents. Co-director Roger Manley will be on hand for Q&A following the screening.
Trailer: www.mana-the-movie.com
The Way Things Go
Wednesday – November 28 12-8pm
Bryan Room lobby, 2nd floor Talley Student Center
Continuous loop film installation of Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go) by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Take a break during the last week of classes and de-stress before exams by watching the world’s longest chain reaction, as actual objects fly, crash, explode or dissolve in acid without benefit of special effects. Wordless but hilarious, the action remains truly riveting: What could possibly happen next? The domino effect at its most extreme and bizarre!
Spring 2012
Thursday, Jan 19 | 6-8pm
Opening reception for Barkcloth, Bras, and Bulletproof Cotton: the Powers of Costume and Textiles of Exile
6:45pm Gallery talks: Textiles of Exile co-curators Molly Johnson Martinez and Precious Lovell
Thursday, February 2 | 6pm
Skip Elsheimer from A/V Geeks presents Clothing Makes The…
An evening of short films about clothing and fashion and how they affect the wearer, including:
Replay- the Arrow Shirt Company embraces hippies
Twenty Dollar Miracle- a brief history of dresses and how they got so cheap
Fur Coat Club- two little girls with a fur fetish explore NYC
This short film program coincides with the publication release of Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States, edited by Devin Orgeron, Marsha Oregeron and Dan Streible, who will be on hand with copies.
Thursday, February 23 | 6pm
What Happens When Good People Do Bad Things to Paintings: A Restorer’s Perspective
Professional art conservator Chris Allen talks about how paintings can be harmed by their environment, handling, and misguided attempts to pretty them up-and what to do to prevent damage or fix it. Come with questions about how to save your own precious works of art!
Thursday, March 15 | 6pm
Natalia Nekrassova, Curator of Collections and Research, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, will speak about a selection of “war rugs” from Afghanistan on loan from the museum for Textiles of Exile. Nekrassova was formerly the Keeper of Rugs and Decorative Art collections at the State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow.
Thursday, March 29 | 6pm
Asheville furniture maker and Penland artist-in-residence- Toms Shields speaks about his work using the Gregg’s recently acquired piece, Family Bench, as a point of departure.
Thursday, April 19 | 6pm
Lee Talbot, Associate Curator of the Eastern Hemisphere Collection at the Textile Museum, Washington DC, speaks about the power of East Asian textiles In conjunction with Barkcloth, Bras, and Bulletproof Cotton: the Powers of Costume. (This event will be presented with sign language interpretation.)
Fall 2011
Thursday, September 22 | 6-8pm Opening Reception
Earth With Meaning: the Photographs of Alan Cohen.
Friday, September 23 | 1-4pm McKimmon Center, Rm 232
Writing Workshop–Image and Value: Down-to Earth Writing, facilitated by Dr. Jim Clark in conjunction with Earth With Meaning: the Photographs of Alan Cohen (Space is limited to 20 participants and registration is required–please contact Hilary Kinlaw, Program Assistant, Gregg Museum, hilary_kinlaw@ncsu.edu to sign up).
Wednesday, October 12 | 6pm Film Screenings
Three short documentaries on photographers Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, and William Eggleston.
Thursday, October 27 | 6pm Panel discussion Image and Meaning: Challenging History & Photography
Moderated by NC State Professor of English Literature John N. Wall (www.southphotography.blogspot.com), the panelists include a range of major figures in the world of photography: Brooks Jensen (publisher and editor of the journal LensWork and author of Letting Go of the Camera: Essays on Photography and the Creative Life); Tom Rankin (Director of Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies and author of Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta); Shannon Johnstone (associate professor of Studio Art at Meredith and Critical Mass Top 50 two years running); Frank Konhaus (founder of KONTEK Systems, Inc. and co-director of Cassilhaus artist residency and exhibition program); Burk Uzzle (LIFE Magazine’s youngest photographer and former president of Magnum Photos); and Allen Thomas, Jr. (manager of Thomas & Farris P.A. and Chair, CAM Raleigh Foundation Board).
Tuesday, November 8 | 6pm Film M.C. Richards: The Fire Within
A funny, inspiration-provoking encounter with the influential Black Mountain College poet-potter investigates the ur-source of creativity. Her art-of-many-genres wove together community, agriculture, craft and spiritual ideas. Richards regarded the end of life as only another fulfilling adventure, “living toward dying, blooming into invisibility.”
Thursday, November 17 | 6pm Gallery Talk
Alan Cohen, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, returns to the Gregg to talk about his starkly beautiful black and white photographs in Earth with Meaning.
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Thursday, June 9 | 6-8 PM Opening Reception for THEN..ABSENCE–After Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward, and Renaldo in the land of Rocaterrania. Screening of Rocaterrania- a documentary about Kuhler directed by Brett Ingram.
Wednesday, June 15 | 3:30 PM Matinee screening of The Mouse That Roared, directed by Jack Arnold.
Wednesday, June 22 | 6 PM John Rosenthal Gallery Talk and walk through discussing photographs included in THEN..ABSENCE
Wednesday, July 6 | 3:30 PM Matinee screening of Always For Pleasure, directed by Les Blank.
Wednesday, July 13 | 3:30 PM Matinee screening of Trouble The Water, directed by Tia Lessen and Carl Deal.
Wednesday, July 20 | 6 PM Photographic responses to natural disasters: Bryce Lankard: Land of Dreams– Donn Young: 40 Days and 40 Nights.
Wednesday, July 27th | 3:30 PM Matinee screening of The Axe in the Attic, directed by Ed Pincus.
Saturday, August 20th | 6 PM Screening of Rocaterrania- a documentary about Kuhler directed by Brett Ingram.
Wednesday, August 31st | 6 PM Junebug, directed by Phil Morrison.
Thursday, September 15th | 6-8 PM Opening reception for Earth with Meaning: the photographs of Alan Cohen.
2011 Symposium
The Trace Evidence Symposium (for content related to and about the Symposium search for “symposium” in the search box)
- Guest Curator: Barbara Lee Smith
- March 24 – 26, 2011
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Gregg has planned a symposium to explore thoughts of how textiles serve as an accessible and suitable medium for communicating the interconnected traceries of the paths we travel. A number of layered elements comprise this event. There will be panel discussions, a keynote address by Dr. Glenn Adamson, Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies, Victoria and Albert Museum, and a lunch address by Dr. Blanton Godfrey, Dean, NCSU College of Textiles. Panels will focus on the Creative Community, Moving Into New Terrain, Challenging Assumptions, and Artist and the Environment. Noted textile artists and College of Design faculty Susan Brandeis, Vita Plume and Jan-Ru Wan will serve as panelists together with artists in the Traces exhibition. In addition to the Gregg’s exhibition, a number of institutions throughout the Raleigh area are hosting textile exhibitions during the symposium. Shuttle service will be provided to take participants around to the various locations. Tour stops include: College of Design, Artspace, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, College of Textiles, and Meredith College, among others.
Symposium Schedule:
- Thursday, March 24, 2011
6-8pm: Opening Reception
Traces artists and guest curator Barbara Lee Smith will be on hand to answer questions. Free and open to the public.
- Friday, March 25, 2011
8-8:45 a.m.: Check-In & Coffee (sponsored by The Nonwovens Institute, NC State)
8:45 – 9 a.m.: Welcome: Lynn Ennis
9-10:30 a.m.: Panel — Moving into New Terrain: Responding to Different Environments
Moderator: Barbara Lee Smith. Panelists: Marian Bijlenga (recent work in Mali); Dorothy Caldwell (research in Canadian Arctic and Australia); Mary Edna Fraser (work from ariel perspective); Vita Plume (work in Latvia); and Gail Rieke (travels in the far east).
10:30-11 a.m.: Break
11am-12:30 p.m.: Panel — The Creative Culture: Using Community for Inspiration
Moderator: Aly Khalifa. Panelists: Cynthia Deis (Ornamentea); Andrea Donnelly (artist); Anne Porterfield (PhD. student and designer).
12:30-1:30 p.m.: Lunch with fashion show from The Collection by students from the College of Design and College of Textiles
1:30-5 p.m.: Concurrent Venue Tours (shuttle provided)
Gregg Collection, Meredith College, Artspace, Raleigh Denim, College of Textiles, LUMP, DesignBox, NC Museum of Natural Sciences, College of Design, NC Museum of History, The Umstead
5 – 6 p.m.: Reception (sponsored by Artspace) —
Artspace is located at: 201 E. Davie Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
7 p.m.: Keynote Address — Affective Objects: The Re-invention of Craft
located in NC State Stewart Theatre, Talley Student Center.
Introduction: Roger Manley. Dr. Glenn Adamson, Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK). Reception to follow.
Free and open to the public.
- Saturday, March 26, 2011
8-8:45 a.m.: Check-In & Coffee
8:45 – 9 a.m.: Welcome: Lynn Ennis
9-10:30 a.m.: Panel — Closer to Home: Artists and the Environment
Moderator: Ann Marie Kennedy. Panelists: Susan Brandeis (visual language of materials and techniques found in nature); Lou Cabeen (explores maps of the Seattle area watershed); Nancy Erickson (affects of human encroachment on the environment); Susan Lordi Marker (art developed while restoring a section of prairie).
10:30-11 a.m.: Break
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Panel — Challenging Assumptions: Artists Who Work Outside Traditional Materials
Moderator: Bryant Holsenbeck. Panelists: Carol Ann Carter (video, found materials); Kyoung Ae Cho (slices of wood, natural materials); Marc Dombrosky (found papers); Clare Verstegen (industrial felt, silk screen, wood burning tools); and Jan-Ru Wan (coffee filters, fishhooks, rusted needles).
12:30-1:45 p.m.: Box lunch (sponsored by NC State College of Textiles)
Speaker — The New World of Textiles
Dr. Blanton Godfrey, Dean, NC State College of Textiles.
2-5:30 p.m.: Tours
Dinner in small groups (costs not included)
