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The Repast
Funeral traditions vary around the world, but food is always involved.
Wake, Karamu, Funeral Luncheon, Kich’vo, Mercy Meal, Repast…
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Closing Reception for Death Planted A Garden
Alia El-Bermani, Echo/Departed diptych, Oil, 2019
Closing reception for Death Planted A Garden. Free and open to the public.
Artful Endings: Funeral and Estate Planning Through Craft and Reflection
Teddy Devereux, Mother Nature's Daughters
This creative, hands-on workshop will guide participants through the fundamentals of estate planning and funeral planning...
Registration required.
Artists’ Talk for Death Planted A Garden
Teddy Devereux, My Memory Palace, Glass, 2015
Meet the artists. Free and open to the public.
Artists’ Talk for Death Planted A Garden
echo hower, wait(weight), Homemade watercolor and mixed media on paper, 2024
Meet the artists. Free and open to the public.
Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett for Death Planted A Garden
Slow Art Tour: A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Facilitated by Gail Belvett. Free and open to the public.
Artful Endings: Funeral and Estate Planning Through Craft and Reflection
Gadisse Lee, The Yawning Grave
This creative, hands-on workshop will guide participants through the fundamentals of estate planning and funeral planning...
Registration required.
Third Friday Durham for Death Planted A Garden
Catherine Edgerton, Peach Stone, Illustration, Stop Motion GIF by Jax
Third Friday Durham. Free and open to the public.
Creative and Legal Psychiatric Advance Directives
Patrizia Ferreira, A Crevice in the Garden of Eden, Fiber Art, 2023 (Detail)
Durham Art Asylum presents a workspace to learn about Creative and Legal Psychiatric Advance Directives. An advance directive articulates care you wish to receive (or not receive) if you become unable to advocate for yourself due to mental health challenges.
The Durham Art Asylum is a web of artists living with and loving through mental health challenges. We create and share resources we need to be well and make magic. Join us to work on a psychiatric advance directive that includes poetry, art, spaciousness, and prompts about safety, music, food, and systems of support that make and keep us well.
$10-$20 Suggested donation to the Durham Art Asylum; nobody turned away!
Opening Reception for Death Planted A Garden
Saba Taj, Everything is Embarrassing, Mixed Media, Oil, 2024
Free and open to the public.
Death Planted A Garden
Jim Lee, Ossuary for the Agile One, Photography, 2019
Twenty-two Triangle-based artists traverse seascapes, dreamscapes, space-scapes, and soundscapes that span—out, up, inward, and underground—from the moment of a death.
Visual, sound, literary, and multidisciplinary creators explore their lived experiences of loss: loss of a loved one, a culture, an identity, a pet, a neighborhood, a potted fern, a coral reef. How do these deaths connect us to rage, to echo, to breath, to hauntology, to the yellow Dollar General Sign on a hill once-wooded?
Meet the Artist with Mavis Gragg
Meet artist Jim Lee. Image by Jim Lee. Free and open to the public.
Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett For upstART Gallery: A Jim Lee Project
Slow Art Tour: A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Facilitated by Gail Belvett. Free and open to the public.
Art Supply Giveaway by DurmPAC
Art supply giveaway by DurmPac. Free and open to the public.
Opening Reception for upstART Gallery: A Jim Lee Project
Image by Jim Lee. Free and open to the public.
upstART Gallery: a Jim Lee project
upstART Gallery is a 1:12 scale miniature space. The gallery provides a real opportunity for artists to make work especially scaled for this space. Image by Jim Lee. Free and open to the public.
Meet the Artist with Mavis Gragg
Meet photographer and exhibit curator Kennedi Carter. Free and open to the public.
Closing Reception for In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter
Closing reception for In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter. Free and open to the public.
Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett for In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter
Slow Art Tour: A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Facilitated by Gail Belvett.
Free and open to the public.
Screening of La Principessa Nuda (1978)
Screening of La Principessa Nuda (1978): Ajita Wilson plays an African diplomat who comes to Milan to head a trade delegation. At the delegation she feels haunted by her past in which she appeared in a pornographic magazine. In a series of psychedelic scenes, we learn the sordid secrets of her racy past.
Free and open to the public.
Screening of Shakedown (2018)
Screening of Shakedown (2018): From 2002 to 2015, filmmaker Leilah Weinraub documents explicit performances in an underground lesbian club in Los Angeles. Free and open to the public.
Opening Reception for In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter
Opening reception for In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter. Free and open to the public.
Screening of Girl 6 (1996)
Screening of Girl 6 (1996): A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator. Free and open to the public.
In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter
In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget is an archival exhibition curated by Kennedi Carter that examines the legacy of Black women in pin-up.
On view eight days only!
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Slow Art Tour For We [don’t] Care
Join us for a Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett of We [don't] Care: reclaiming our environment.
A slow art tour presents a philosophical and literal alternative to the way visitors have traditionally consumed art. The tour challenges the notion that one needs to ‘know’ about art to appreciate it. A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Free and open to the public.
Meet the Artists with Mavis Gragg
“Meet the Artist” is a conversation series hosted by Pop Box Gallery cofounder, Mavis Gragg. Mavis sits down with an artist or arts professional to discuss their work, providing practical tips for collecting art.
In this special edition of the series, Mavis will lead a panel discussion with some of the featured artists in our current exhibit, We don't Care: reclaiming our environment. Free and open to the public. Image: Jessica Clark, Dark Water 6, 20.5” x 26.5”, 2021
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Opening Reception for We [don’t] Care
Celebrate the opening of We [don't] Care: reclaiming our environment, curated by Gail Belvett on Earth Day. Free and open to the public. Image: Honeyed Gardens Open by Saba Taj, 66” x 78”, 2021
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We [don’t] Care: reclaiming our environment
We [don't] Care: reclaiming our environment affirms the ancestral, spiritual, and physical connection to nature while rewriting false narratives about environmental apathy among BIPOC communities. Featuring works by Saba Taj, Derrick Beasley, Claire Alexandre, Jim Lee, Renzo Ortega, Jessica Clark, We [don’t] Care is an open call show that invites artists in the community to share their work in solidarity with those committed to the protection and preservation of our environment. Curated by Gail Belvett. Image: Renzo Ortega, Camino Nocturno, Acrylic on canvas, 64” x 48”, 2020
Slow Art Tour
Join us on Saturday, November 19 at 1pm for a Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett. Gail will facilitate a one-hour conversation about a work of art in Zaire McPhearson’s exhibit, For Colored Girls, at Bright Black. Free and open to the public.
Third Friday Durham Opening Reception
Join us for an opening celebration of Zaire’s exhibit at Bright Black’s new Creators Studio during Third Friday Durham on November 18.