The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh has scheduled five special spring exhibitions featuring North Carolina painters, site-specific installations from Leonardo Drew, photography and videos by Thai artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, and Senegalese jewelry and fashion.
The five exhibitions are opening on the Museum’s ticketed exhibition floor in two phases.
Opening March 7, 2020 are: Front Burner: Highlights in Contemporary North Carolina Painting and Christopher Holt: Contemporary Frescoes/Faith and Community, a behind-the-scenes look at Christopher Holt’s fresco for the Haywood Street Congregation in Asheville, paired with Art in Translation by Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, which captures the artist’s efforts to introduce framed reproductions of western art into rural villages, markets, and Buddhist temples in her native Thailand.
Starting April 7, these exhibitions will be joined by Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women and an indoor-outdoor exhibition by Leonardo Drew.
Each phase includes an opening reception and events such as artist lectures, panel discussions, and workshops through the spring. All exhibition and related event tickets are on sale now; a full list of events is available at www.ncartmuseum.org/spring2020.