Unboxed: Art beyond the Museum
Overview
This group exhibition launches the NCMA Winston-Salem downtown art space by bringing together artists who have contributed to the Museum’s Portable Gallery.
Unboxed: Art beyond the Museum launches the NCMA Winston-Salem downtown art space by bringing together artists who have contributed to the Museum’s Portable Gallery. Developed as an education outreach initiative, the Portable Gallery provides students access to contemporary art by bringing original works by North Carolina artists directly into schools. Last year, more than 2,000 students across regional school districts experienced the Portable Gallery.
Unboxed presents artists at different career stages, each concerned with place, identity, and imagination. Some have come to North Carolina recently; others have made homes here for much of their lives. Their works reflect a range of subjects, materials, and techniques as diverse as North Carolina itself.
The Portable Gallery reimagines what a museum is and what it can do for its community. With every classroom visit, it reaffirms the importance of presence, representation, and exploration in the lives of students. We open our new art space with works from the artists who have made the Portable Gallery possible because we believe this new endeavor is born of the same idea: that everyone deserves access to great art.
