The NCCU Art Museum was thrilled to present their summer exhibition, “Selections from the NCCU Permanent Collection,” showcasing an array of artworks from their esteemed collection. This exhibition was open to the public from Friday, May 31, 2024, through Wednesday, August 7, 2024.
The NCCU Art Museum was proud to present a featured exhibition showcasing the talents of the Department of Art and Design faculty. The exhibition opened on February 29 and ran through Friday, March 22, 2024, providing art enthusiasts with a unique opportunity to explore an array of artistic expressions.
NCCU proudly presented "An Artist's Passionate Journey." This exhibition recognized Professor Achamyeleh Debela, who is an internationally acclaimed artist and a former member of the faculty in the Department of Art and Design, within the NCCU College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.
NCCU announced the grand reopening of its newly-renovated NCCU Art Museum, with a significant exhibition entitled "Celebrating Ernie Barnes: A Homecoming," which was displayed from Friday, Nov. 3, to Friday, Dec. 15, 2023.
The NCCU Art Museum inaugurated the 2020–2021 academic school year with a virtual quilting exhibition featuring the works of North Carolina native Kimberley Pierce Cartwright. Cartwright is a quilter, folk art painter and entrepreneur who grew up in Hallsboro, NC. She began her artistic career as a quilter and painter in 2006.
As the child of a seamstress, she often had access to her mother’s scrap cloth materials that allowed her to produce hand-stitched dolls, as well as clothes for the dolls. This would encourage a lifelong love for sewing. She now sews regularly, producing one-of-a-kind and uniquely designed quilts, paintings, and mixed media projects that reflect her stance on social, political, and cultural issues.
Through the use of paint, reclaimed fabric, paper, and plastic, Cartwright explores topics of interest such as slavery, the African American Diaspora, the Civil Rights Movement, and Afro-Southern life in general. Cartwright exhibits her abilities through not only quilts, but the production of small whimsical fabric postcards, dolls, totems, and other items.
Hayes, whose sculpture, Cash Crop, was shown at the museum in 2011, used miscellaneous objects ordinarily considered worthless to develop his thought-provoking exhibit in which he asks viewers to reconsider their beliefs and venture into varying aspects of human exploitation.
Through meticulous craftsmanship and the repetitive use of corn, pawn chess pieces and horses, Stephen evokes an ideology that has shaped American society – and the challenges it imposes. His work is a symbolic conversation about race relations in America, both in the past and present. Hayes also delves into the subject of corporate identity and commodification of the human body, particularly the African-American body.
Hayes, a Durham native, received his Bachelor of Arts degree from North Carolina Central University in 2006 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in 2010. He has participated in residencies at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, N.Y., and the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, S.C.
Hayes work has been exhibited in well-known museums throughout the south, including the Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta, Ga., and the Harvey B. Gantt Center in Charlotte, N.C.
In recent years, his passion for visual art and a love of teaching led Hayes into the classroom at Georgia State University, Waterworks Visual Art Center in Salisbury, N.C., Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C., and Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in Rowan, N.C. Hayes’ teaches course covering sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, art conservation, exhibition planning and more.
