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Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture
551 South Tryon Street Charlotte, NC 28202 (704) 547-3700 http://www.ganttcenter.org/ The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlotte has a 35-year history beginning as Charlotte’s Afro-American Cultural Center. Today, its new location at the Levine Center for the Arts is...

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Mint Museum Uptown

Mint Museum Uptown
500 South Tryon Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704-337-2000 http://www.mintmuseum.org/ The Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte brings together the holdings of the former Mint Museum of Craft + Design with collections from the Mint Museum on Randolph Road, including American Art, Contemporary Art and selected works...

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The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
420 South Tryon Street Charlotte, NC 28202 (704) 353-9200 http://www.bechtler.org The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte features more than 1,400 works of art created by major figures of 20th-century modernism including Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miro, Edward Degas, Pablo Picasso, Jean Tinguely, Max...

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Weatherspoon Art Museum at University of North Carolina Greensboro

Weatherspoon Art Museum at University of North Carolina Greensboro
500 Tate St PO Box 26170 Greensboro, NC (336) 334-5770 http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu Weatherspoon Art Museum at University of North Carolina Greensboro features one of the foremost collections of modern and contemporary art in the Southeast. Its permanent collection of nearly 6,000 objects focuses on...

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Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Reynolda House Museum of American Art
2250 Reynolda Road Winston-Salem, NC 27106 (336) 758-5150 www.reynoldahouse.org Reynolda House Museum of American Art, built in 1917, was originally the family home of Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. It opened to the public as an...

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Mark Dendy at the N.C. Museum of Art

Mark Dendy at the N.C. Museum of Art
Mark Dendy performs at North Carolina Museum of Art Choreographer Mark Dendy of Dendy DanceTheater brings an original site-specific dance installation to the grand re-opening of the North Carolina Museum of Art on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25, 2010. Dendy’s untitled work will be performed by...

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North Carolina Pottery Center

North Carolina Pottery Center
250 East Avenue Seagrove, North Carolina (336) 873-8430 www.ncpotterycenter.com The North Carolina Pottery Center, which opened its doors in 1998, is the first state pottery center in the nation. With a mission to promote public awareness and appreciation of the history, heritage and ongoing tradition of...

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North Carolina Museum of Art

North Carolina Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Road Raleigh (919) 839-6262 www.ncartmuseum.org When the North Carolina Museum of Art was founded, the state legislature appropriated $1 million to establish a collection, making it the first state in the nation to use public funds to purchase art. Since then, the collection has grown to span...

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The Mint Museums

The Mint Museums
2730 Randolph Road (Art) 220 N. Tryon Street (Craft and Design) Charlotte (704) 337-2000 www.mintmuseum.org On Randolph Road in the Eastover neighborhood, the Mint Museum of Art features four centuries of European and American art (including a number of works by Charlotte-born Romare Bearden) and important...

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Gregg Museum at NC State

Gregg Museum at NC State
Talley Student Center North Carolina State University Cates Avenue Raleigh (919) 515-3503 gad.ncsu.edu With over 25,000 objects in its collections, the Gregg Museum produces temporary exhibitions and permanent displays of architectural drawings, ceramics, paintings, works on paper, furniture, textiles,...

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Asheville Art Museum

Asheville Art Museum
2 South Pack Square Asheville (828) 253-3227 www.ashevilleart.org Located high in the mountains of western North Carolina, Asheville is always high on the lists of best art towns and small towns in the country. With its collections of studio craft, work by Black Mountain College artists, and examples by...

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Ackland Art Museum

Ackland Art Museum
Intersection of S. Columbia and E. Franklin Streets UNC-Chapel Hill (919) 966-5736 www.ackland.org Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Ackland Art Museum on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus is one of the leading public university art museums in the country. The Museum’s collection includes more than...

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