RALEIGH, NC (PNAN) – On view through April 10, 2022 at the North Carolina Museum of Art, “To Be Young: Coming of Age in the Contemporary” offers an introspective overview of coming of age across various communities throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition explores how youths process development through concepts, such as identity, community and kinship to form new perspectives on the world.
The exhibition works uses both figurative and abstract images from the Museum collection, which the viewer may query themselves for an answer on where does childhood and adulthood begin.
Nonetheless, the press release was spot on that generated many answers by AAPJ’s Editor and found the exhibit does focuses on individual narratives, it also challenges how society defines maturity as a collective and certainly questions how traditional rites of passage may change (Whatever Will Be Will Be) based on the current social climate stimulated by an ongoing racial justice movement and public health crisis.