Opening first friday May 6 at the Fish Market
String Theory Fish Market will be open on May 6, 2011 for First Friday activities. The textile themed show, “String Theory” will showcase work from students at the College of Design. Fish Market is at student run gallery located at 133 1/2 Fayetteville Street on the corner of Hargett and Fayetteville in downtown Raleigh. Bike [...]
Townsend’s projects curated into international project Memefest
Associate Professor of Graphic Design Scott Townsend’s recent work has been curated into the international project Memefest for 2011. Founded in 2002, Memefest is a complex international, semi-online project that uses the form of a festival as a tactical, educational, research and communications tool. Memefest creates, thinks, researches, educates and works on the intersections of [...]
CAM Raleigh announces new executive director, inaugural exhibitions set to open April 30
RALEIGH – MARCH 25, 2011 – A lively evening of street-festival activities, an official ribbon-cutting ceremony, and a weekend of free admission and special programs mark the grand opening of CAM Raleigh, a museum for contemporary art and design in Raleigh’s historic Warehouse District. Elysia Borowy-Reeder, who begins as Executive Director on May 16, will [...]
Upcoming Events and Exhibitions in March and April 2011
March 21, 2011 – Architecture Lecture: ”Plain Space.” The Harwell Hamilton Harris Endowed Lecture by John Pawson of John Pawson Ltd., London. beginning at 6 p.m. in Burns Auditorium. For John Pawson, the process of making architecture always comes back to ideas about home. For him, architecture is about how we choose to live and how [...]
Townsend launches exhibition on Charlotte “microcosm”
Artist and Associate Professor of Graphic Design Scott Townsend currently has an exhibition at the McColl Center for Visual Arts in Uptown Charlotte that will run through April, 2011. Moving away from the typical “object driven” goal of making art for profit, Townsend exhibits work to create a more conceptual and interactive environment. Collective identities [...]
Lee Hansley Gallery Presents “Black & White/Color & Light: Photographs by Allen Weiss and Works by His Subjects”
January 24, 2011 (RALEIGH, NC) – Joe Cox, George Bireline, Herb Jackson, and Edith London are only four of the 11 prominent North Carolina artists, both living and deceased, whose portraits and works will be featured in a special exhibition at Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh beginning March 13. Entitled “Black & White/Color & Light,” [...]
Contemporary Art Museum Celebration and Grand Opening set for April 29-30
The Contemporary Art Museum in Downtown Raleigh is set to open with a Grand Opening Celebration on Friday, April 29, 2011 beginning at 7 p.m. Honorary Chairs Dr. and Mrs. James Goodnight will be in attendance at the opening celebration which will feature a first look inside the museum and a lively street festival with [...]
