Welcome to the Gregg Museum of Art & Design
at North Carolina State University
The Gallery of Art & Design has been officially renamed the Gregg Museum of Art & Design
The Gregg Museum of Art & Design is the art museum of North Carolina State University. NC State’s visual art holdings are as diverse as its course offerings. The Gregg’s collection reflects the curricula of the university’s Colleges of Design, Textiles, Engineering, and Humanities and Social Sciences. The objects provide research materials, inspire new and innovative design, and help explain the creative process.
Each year, the Gregg presents a series of changing exhibitions of the finest regional, national and international visual arts in NC State’s museum facilities in the Talley Student Center. All exhibitions and programs are free and open to the general public.
In addition to its exhibitions, the Gregg Museum of Art & Design maintains permanent collections of applied and decorative arts, including architectural drawings and works on paper, ceramics, paintings, photography, textiles, metal, furniture, and works by self-taught artists. Anyone may call and make arrangements to view objects from these collections for the purposes of research, inspiration, or their own enjoyment. Tours, educational programs, and a variety of internship opportunities are also available.
Current and upcoming exhibitions at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design:
August 21 – December 17, 2008
Frozen Music: Frank Gehry and the Walt Disney Concert Hall
This exhibition spotlights Gehry’s most recent visible accomplishment, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Frozen Music tells the story of the building’s design process, construction and completed form. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a series of more than 70 images by photographer Gil Garcetti, who was fascinated by the choreography of workers assembling the concert hall’s complex steel frame. He photographed the workers assembling the hall and then returned after the building’s completion to record a fabulous series of panoramic photos. Garcetti became well known as the District Attorney for Los Angles during the prosecution of O.J. Simpson. The exhibition organizer is the Virginia Center for Architecture, Richmond, Virginia.
August 21 – October 8, 2008
Charles Ritchie – Sketchbooks
The drawings, prints, and sketchbooks of Charles Ritchie find inspiration in the artist’s suburban home. Small in size and created in series, the drawings employ watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink. The prints are based on the artist’s drawings and engage the techniques and materials of printmaking to reinvent the image. The artist’s sketchbooks have been kept continuously since 1977 and chart his creative process.
October 23 – December 17, 2008 Let Me Call You Sweetheart: One Collector’s Vision (Sweetheart Jewelry from the Rhoda Berkowitz Collection)
In a day and age when war took soldiers away without the benefit of e-mail, video conferencing and phone calls, jewelry and other memorabilia was a tangible way to help loved ones pay tribute to their men and women overseas. In this exhibition one collector’s treasure trove of objects from World War II explores the many ways and forms that these pieces took shape.
