November 7 marked another major milestone in the history of the NCMA—East Building reopened as a dynamic center for special exhibitions, education, and programs. With five inaugural exhibitions and dozens of programs, we can’t wait for you to see and do all that the transformed NCMA has to offer. Use this helpful Guide to the Exhibitions to plan your visit.
Your Guide to the Exhibitions  American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
Through January 30, 2011
Featuring 40 original paintings and all of Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post covers, American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell offers an in-depth look at Rockwell’s six-decade career and the impact of his images on popular culture.
Fast Fact: In 1916 Rockwell painted his first cover for The Saturday Evening Post at the young age of 22!
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Bob Trotman: Inverted Utopias
Through March 27, 2011
The North Carolina native’s amusing yet disquieting wooden figures confront what the artist calls “an illusion of instability.” The 20 sculptures debut in the new North Carolina Gallery.
Fast Fact: Trotman is a self-taught furniture maker, a vocation he held for decades before transitioning to art in the '90s.
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 Fins and Feathers: Original Children’s Book Illustrations from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Through January 30, 2011
Featuring daydreaming fish, stately egrets, and day-tripping chickens, the illustrations in Fins and Feathers are hung at a height of 55”. The standard height for installation is 60”. This lower height better accommodates our younger visitors making the exhibition perfect for a family outing.
Fast Fact: Eric Carle’s books have been translated into 47 languages.
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Binh Danh: In the Eclipse of Angkor
Through January 30, 2011
Using chlorophyll prints, found butterfly specimens, and daguerreotypes, the artist’s work reconstructs memory and history, both personal and collective, of war in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Fast Fact: Binh Danh uses negatives and photosynthesis to imprint his images on leaves, a method of his own creation.
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 John James Audubon’s The Birds of America
Ongoing
With Audubon’s four-volume ornithology, he sought “to complete a collection not only valuable to the scientific class, but to please every person.” The Museum’s set is on view for the first time following its major restoration.
Fast Fact: Audubon spent some time as a taxidermist, learning skills he used throughout his collecting career.
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Join in the Fun The Front Porch
Step back to a simpler time with music and storytelling on the Museum’s own Front Porch. The east corner of Level B has been transformed into a front porch gathering place using imagery from a home in Raleigh. Enjoy playing a friendly game of checkers, reading an old Saturday Evening Post, or just relaxing between visits to all the exhibitions. Take a few minutes to watch the rotating display of visitors' favorite front porch images. Submit your own before you come, and perhaps you'll see it on the big screen!
Caption This!
Be a curator for a day and write your own captions! In a sentence, tell us what’s going on in select works of art. Look for the Caption This! symbol on labels in the exhibitions. See captions submitted by others on the big screen on the Front Porch.
| Plan Your Visit Tickets
Admission is charged only for the Rockwell exhibition. The other four exhibitions, and entrance to West Building, are free.
Online: ncartmuseum.org/tickets
By phone: (919) 715-5923
In person: NCMA Box Office in East Building
Audio Tours
Audio tours of American Chronicles are available in adult, family, and Spanish versions at the entrance to the exhibition. Cost: $5.
Dining
Step back in time in the Rockwell Café with old-fashioned fare and staff outfitted in 1950s-era attire. On Level C in East Building, the café offers lunch, dinner, or a quick snack.
Shopping
Get your holiday shopping done now and take home a goody for yourself. The Exhibition Store in East Building features books, postcards, calendars, ornaments, gifts, and more.
Accessibility
All exhibitions are wheelchair accessible, with two elevators servicing East Building.
Spanish and large-print label copy for all exhibitions is available at the entrance to American Chronicles.
Assistive listening devices are available for lectures and gallery talks.
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Rockwell, Audubon, and Fins and Feathers each feature reading tables for visitors to explore more about the artists and the exhibitions.
On Level A, walk past the elevator, and on the wall on your left, look for Rain: The Ice Cream Parlor by Erwin Olaf. It is a recent addition to the Museum’s collection and take on one of our current exhibitions. You figure out which one!
Visit the Student Exhibition Teens Riff on Rockwell on Level A. In a partnership with the Governor’s School of North Carolina, the Museum features the work of 20 high school students who responded collaboratively to paintings by Norman Rockwell.
The Fall Film Series features movies evoking the world of Rockwell. Paired with dinner at Rockwell Café, this makes a great Friday date night.
Join the Museum between now and January 22 and you will see three exhibitions for free—Norman Rockwell, 30 Americans, and Rembrandt!
Images Left, top to bottom:
Norman Rockwell, Christmas Homecoming, 1948, cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, December 25, 1948, Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, ©1948 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, Ind.
Eric Carle, Green Frog, Green Frog, What do you see?, 1984, from Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Henry Holt, 1967, 1984), written by Bill Martin Jr, Collection of Eric and Barbara Carle, courtesy of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, © 1967, 1984 Eric Carle
John James Audubon, American Flamingo, from The Birds of America, 1827–38, North Carolina Museum of Art, Transfer from the North Carolina State Library
Right:
Bob Trotman, Cake Lady, 2002, Collection of Rick and Dana Martin Davis, © 2002 Bob Trotman
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