On-going events for February, 2012
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| Cape Fear Treasures: Shoes | 01-15-2012 through 07-15-2012 |
Glimpse a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection.
Imagine walking in our shoes as you view a sampling of the Museum’s collection of footwear from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, leather wing tips, suede wedges, Air Jordans, and US Air Force combat boots.
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| Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art | 01-28-2012 through 03-15-2012 |
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art highlights the beauty of coiled basketry and shows how a basket can be viewed simultaneously as a work of art, object of use and container of memory.
This exhibition features more than fifty baskets and related objects and images. It traces the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and America starting from the domestication of rice in Africa two millennia ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. Audiences will learn about the creativity and artistry of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.
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| Learning Center: African Art | 02-11-2012 through 02-11-2012 |
Discover the African influences in Lower Cape Fear art and culture. Explore African geography. Uncover the origins of Lowcountry basketry then make a basket to take home. Find out how African artisans helped design local historic architecture. Create your own art using African-influenced symmetry and design in the style of local artist Minnie Evans.
Free for members or with general admission.
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| Learning Center: African Art | 02-18-2012 through 02-18-2012 |
Discover the African influences in Lower Cape Fear art and culture. Explore African geography. Uncover the origins of Lowcountry basketry then make a basket to take home. Find out how African artisans helped design local historic architecture. Create your own art using African-influenced symmetry and design in the style of local artist Minnie Evans.
Free for members or with general admission.
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| Cape Fear Skies: African Skies | 02-19-2012 through 02-19-2012 |
3-2-1-Blast off! Cape Fear Skies offers your family a realistic planetarium experience the third Sunday of each month. Venture into outer space as you hear mythical tales and explore stars, planets, and more. Parental participation is required.
Compare and contrast the local night sky to that seen in Africa.
Free for members or with general admission.
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| Cape Fear Skies: African Skies | 02-19-2012 through 02-19-2012 |
3-2-1-Blast off! Cape Fear Skies offers your family a realistic planetarium experience the third Sunday of each month. Venture into outer space as you hear mythical tales and explore stars, planets, and more. Parental participation is required.
Compare and contrast the local night sky to that seen in Africa.
Free for members or with general admission.
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| Cape Fear Skies: African Skies | 02-19-2012 through 02-19-2012 |
3-2-1-Blast off! Cape Fear Skies offers your family a realistic planetarium experience the third Sunday of each month. Venture into outer space as you hear mythical tales and explore stars, planets, and more. Parental participation is required.
Compare and contrast the local night sky to that seen in Africa.
Free for members or with general admission.
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| Community Conversations: The Home Front | 02-21-2012 through 02-21-2012 |
This program will be facilitated by Dr. Jane Turner Censer, who writes prize-winning articles on the history of women and teaches at George Mason University, and Dr. Jaime Martinez, UNCP, whose work on the Civil War explores the effects of slave impressment in North Carolina and Virginia. Discover how mothers, wives, and children responded to the absence of fathers, husbands, and brothers. Discuss what happened to slaves during the war. Explore how the home front functioned during wartime.
*Program begins at 6:45 PM
$5 for Museum members; $7 for non-members; Student admission free (limited to 25 pre-registered). Call 910.798.4362 for tickets/to register.
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| Learning Center: African Art | 02-25-2012 through 02-25-2012 |
Discover the African influences in Lower Cape Fear art and culture. Explore African geography. Uncover the origins of Lowcountry basketry then make a basket to take home. Find out how African artisans helped design local historic architecture. Create your own art using African-influenced symmetry and design in the style of local artist Minnie Evans.
Free for members or with general admission.
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