Refresh Mind, Body, and Spirit at the Museum You have spent an entire school year providing for others. Take time this summer to enjoy the North Carolina Museum of Art just for yourself. Whether you bring your bike to enjoy the new works of art in the Museum Park or escape from the heat in the exhibitions, we invite you to refresh and reenergize. With a variety of workshops, lectures, and guided tours, we hope to help you get ready for a new school year. Free Workshop: Mapping Connections  Saturday, August 6
9:30 am–3:30 pm
Need help incorporating art into your curriculum? This free workshop will model strategies for making connections between NCMA works of art and concepts you teach in the classroom. Be the first to try out a new and exciting online tool that helps you map curricular connections and build integrated lesson plans. Gather ideas and share feedback. 0.5 CEU credit will be provided. Open to K–12 educators of all subjects.
Session is limited to 15 participants. Participants will be selected to ensure that different grade levels, content areas, and counties are represented. If you are interested in participating, please e-mail your name , grade level, subject area, county, and phone number to Ashley Weinard by July 11. Participation will be confirmed by July 15.
Free! Learning from 30 Americans  Teacher-guided and docent-guided school groups of 10 to 60 people may visit the 30 Americans exhibition free of charge, with a reservation made at least four weeks in advance. One chaperon is admitted free for each 10 students; additional chaperons need to buy tickets ($8). Contact Jen Coon at (919) 664-6820 or email.
Interested in Distance Education? The North Carolina Museum of Art is seeking educators with experience or interest in distance education for a collaboration with North Carolina Virtual Public Schools. We are specifically looking for educators with backgrounds in videography, marketing, art, math, social studies, and earth science. Both contracts and CEU credits are available. For more information, e-mail Michelle Harrell or call (919) 664-6853. North Carolina Writers of African Descent  Literary Reading and Discussion
Thursday, June 30, 7 pm
Take a look at African American culture and 30 Americans with members of the Carolina African American Writers Collective.
In Partnership with Carolina African American Writers Collective and Obsidian Magazine
Lunch and Lecture  Women Portraying Women
Friday, August 12, 11 am
How do North Carolina artists portray women in today's culture? Join Jennifer Dasal, curator of the exhibition Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women, for a lively session to find out. Discussion continues over a lunch catered by Iris, the Museum Restaurant. Reserve your place today!
Tell your Students!  Sketchbook Saturdays - New!
July 23 and August 20
Ages 11–14
An in-depth exploration of tools and techniques used in keeping an artist sketchbook. Register in advance by calling (919) 664-6785.
Digital Photography Workshop
Ages 14–18
June 20–24, 1–5 pm
Express yourself through digital photography in a hands-on art experience with digital photography and image manipulation. Sign up by calling (919) 715-5923.
 Artist Trading Card Swap and Workshop:
What It Means to Be a Woman
Deadline for free swap:
Monday, August 8
Workshop: Saturday, August 13
The Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women exhibition is our inspiration for this swap and workshop. Send three handmade ATCs by August 8 with a self-addressed stamped envelope to receive three cards from other swap participants.
Swap, then come to the workshop! Join us for an in-depth ATC workshop. Tickets may be purchased online or by calling (919) 715-5923.
Teen Advisory Council
Educators, encourage your teen students interested in art to apply for the NCMA’s Teen Advisory Council. As part of an exciting group that creates and plans new teen programs, they'll have a backstage pass to catch the action in exhibition and event planning for other high school students across the state. For more information contact Michelle Harrell at (919) 664-6853 or by email. Apply by September 1.
 College Student Exhibition Opportunity
College students are invited to submit original self-portraits for inclusion in a special juried exhibition Self, Observed, in conjunction with Rembrandt in America October 30, 2011 through January 31, 2011. Students should submit images of their work by August 31. For more information, visit Tumblr. A Walk in the Park  Be sure to visit the Museum Park this summer to enjoy the latest set of billboards. To correspond with Alter Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea on view inside the Museum, the artist has created three images for the Park Pictures series. These works—Guardian, Ocean, and Ghost Ship—are on display along the paved trail through the end of the summer.
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Images, top to bottom
Main Body:
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and The Church of S. Giorgio Maggiore, circa 1750, oil on canvas, 66 x 45 in., Purchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2008, fabric, fiberglass, and metal, H. 102 × W. 36 × D. 28 in., Rubell Family Collection, Miami, © 2010 Nick Cave
Katie Claiborne, Self Portrait (Naples) II, 2009, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in., Collection of the artist, © 2011 Katie Claiborne
iona rozeal brown, Untitled (after Kikugawa Eizan’s ‘Furyu nana komachi’), 2007, acrylic and paper on wooden panel, 12 x 14 5/8 in., Rubell Family Collection, Miami, © 2010 iona rozeal brown
Emily Scott Beck, Churn, 2009, digital video and components, dimensions variable, Collection of the artist, © 2011 Emily Scott Beck
Artist Sketchbooks
Artist Trading Card
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait, about 1629, oil on wood, 17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in., Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Clowes Fund Collection, C10063
Anthony Goicolea, Ocean, 2008, digital print on vinyl, 5 × 12 ft., Commissioned by the NCMA, funded by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina as part of the ongoing outdoor series Art Has No Boundaries in the Museum Park, © 2008 Anthony Goicolea
Sidebar: Claude Flynn Howell, Ocracoke Harbor, 1964, oil on canvas, 25 x 40 in. (63.5 x 101.6 cm), Gift of Frances M. and William R. Roberson Jr. |
