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NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
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 Exhibition Opening: Solidary & Solitary
Thursday, February 22, 10 AM – 9 PM Admission is free to all every Thursday
The Nasher Museum presents a major nationwide touring exhibition that offers a new perspective on the critical contribution that artists of African descent have made to the evolution of abstract art from the 1940s to the present. Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection is the first large-scale public exhibition to bring together a lineage of visionary black artists. Learn More.
Presented by The Helis Foundation.   Storytelling in the Gallery: Courtside
Thursday, February 22, 6 PM Enjoy a storytelling hour with poet Jaki Shelton Green, public radio journalist John Biewen and writer Daniel Wallace, inspired by images in Courtside: Photographs by Bill Bamberger, within The Collection Galleries.
 Haiku in the Gallery
Thursday, February 22, 7 PM Join five haiku poets from the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective in the exhibition Solidary & Solitary. The poets will read haiku poetry in response to works of art on view, and also from their new book, One Window’s Light, available at the Nasher Museum Store.
 Member Event: Celebrating Solidary & Solitary (Invitation Only)
Wednesday, February 28
Nasher Museum members at the Sustainer level and up are invited to an exclusive celebration of Solidary & Solitary. The evening will include a panel discussion with collector Pamela Joyner, artist Shinique Smith and exhibition co-curators Katy Siegel and Christopher Bedford, both from Baltimore Museum of Art, followed by a reception with host bar. Not a Sustainer member yet? Don’t miss out on this event! Please visit our website to join or upgrade your membership, or call (919) 684-3411.
 Upcoming tour of Disorderly Conduct
Sunday, February 25, 2 PM Join gallery guide Kate Newman for a special themed tour, "Defying Abstract Expressionism," in our exhibition Disorderly Conduct.
 SPECTACLE: Nasher Museum Spring Benefit 2018
April 20, 7:30 PM – 11 PM
This is not your typical gala. No black tie. No sit-down dinner. No polite applause.
LIVE MUSIC: Nick Sanborn (Made of Oak/Sylvan Esso). Heavy hors d'oeuvres. Host bar. Complimentary valet parking. Purchase tickets 
Norman Lewis (1909–1979). Afternoon (detail), 1969. Oil on canvas; 72 x 88 in. (182.9 x 223.5 cm). © Estate of Norman W. Lewis; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY. Members of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective, including L. Teresa Church, Ph.D, whose work has appeared in Simply Haiku and The Heron’s Nest, among many other publications; Lenard D. Moore, who received the Haiku Museum of Tokyo Award (1983, 1994 and 2003) and the North Carolina Award for Literature (2014); Crystal Simone Smith, author and adjunct assistant professor of English at Elon University and Greensboro College, managing editor of Backbone Press; Sheila Smith McKoy, Ph.D, author and professor of English at Kennesaw State University; Gideon Young, whose poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku and Obsidian, among many other publications. Photo by Sherri Young. Photos by J Caldwell Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection is presented by The Helis Foundation and organized by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art. 
Contributing sponsorship is provided by The Lambent Foundation and The Holt Family Foundation. At the Nasher Museum, this exhibition is made possible by the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Fund for Exhibitions; Ann Chanler and Andrew Scheman; Katie Thorpe Kerr and Terrance I. R. Kerr; Lisa Lowenthal Pruzan and Jonathan Pruzan; and Gail Belvett. Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the late Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, the late Frank E. Hanscom III, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the Courtney Shives Art Museum Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family Fund, the Trent A. Carmichael Fund for Community Education, the Neely Family Fund, the E. T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Gibby and Michael B. Waitzkin Fund, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the Nasher Museum of Art General Endowment, the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University. The Collection Galleries is made possible by Nasher Annual Fund donors with special support from Anita and John Schwarz. 2001 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27705 (Map) | nasher.duke.edu | 919-684-5135 Visit Exhibitions Calendar Café Join Support © 2000-2018 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Unauthorized use is prohibited |