VISUAL ARTS
Ascension Art Gallery
Founded in 2024, Ascension Gallery and Fine Art Services is dedicated to showing modern and contemporary works by artists of the African Diaspora. We serve a broad local, regional and national cultural platform as a gallery that showcases BIPOC artists.
The gallery will feature trendsetting exhibitions by black and brown artists, engaging programming and arts outreach. Our exhibits will include work that reflects community and modernity. The fine arts services will feature corporate and private collecting, fine arts transit and artist management.
Ascension Gallery looks to elevate artists to their potential by offering innovative advice, career guidance and access to a broad network of curators, collectors and sustainers in the field.
416 South McDowell Street, Raleigh
(984) 389-7680
www.ascensiongallery.org
Ella West Gallery
Ella West is a contemporary gallery dedicated to diverse, underrepresented artists from around the world who are committed to pushing the boundaries of art that will redefine art history. For decades, there has been an outsized focus on the European male experience in art history. Ella West Gallery will work to reorient that focus by creating space for Black people, people of color, women, and other marginalized communities who have been historically underrepresented based on race, sex, national origin, sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, or disability.
104 W. Parrish Street, Durham
(919) 485-9602
www.ellawestgallery.com
Hayti Heritage Center
The Hayti Heritage Center opened in 1975 under the management of the St. Joseph Historic Foundation. The Center is a cultural enrichment and arts education facility that promotes cultural understanding through diverse events, activities and programs that preserve the heritage and embrace the experiences of Americans of African descent. The Hayti Heritage Center presents art exhibitions in its Lyda Moore Merrick gallery.
Old Fayetteville Street, Durham
(919) 683-1709
www.hayti.org
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
The Nasher Museum opened in 2005 as a major center for the arts on Duke University’s campus and in the surrounding Research Triangle area. The Museum's collecting strategy focuses on those who may be emerging or undervalued, but have nonetheless created some of the most important work of our time. The growing collection also has a special interest in artists of African descent. The museum regularly presents African and African American art exhibitions. These include Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey, Romare Bearden, Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, Color Balance: Paintings by Felrath Hines and Alma Thomas, Africa and Picasso and Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool.
2001 Campus Drive, Durham
(919) 684-5135
www.nasher.duke.edu
North Carolina Central University Art Museum
The North Carolina Central University Art Museum is a teaching and cultural enrichment institution in Durham. Its permanent collection focuses on the work of African American artists and works dealing with the Black Experience. Past exhibitions include: Draftsman, Illustrator and Painter Tyrone Geter at NCCU Art Museum,Ivey Hayes Exhibit Opens at NCCU Art Museum, Photography Exhibit Highlights African-American Resistance, Cash Crop and Ernie Barnes.
1801 Fayetteville St, Durham
(919) 530-6211
www.nccu.edu/artmuseum
North Carolina Museum of Art
Opened in 1956 the North Carolina Museum of Art encompasses a collection that spans more than 5,000 years of artistic work from antiquity to the present, an amphitheater for outdoor performances, and a variety of celebrated exhibitions and public programs. The Museum features more than 40 galleries including an African gallery. Its permanent collection includes significant works from African and African American artists. These include Acha Debela, John Biggers, Romare Bearden, Hank Willis Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Beverly McIvers, Allison Saar, Andre Leon Gray and Mickalene Thomas.
2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh
(919) 839-6262
www.ncartmuseum.org
Triangle Cultural Art Gallery
The Triangle Cultural Art Gallery in Raleigh, NC cultivates and exhibits art that reflects the triangle’s diverse cultural heritage and artistic expression. Through the engagement of cultural art awareness and events, we help build our local community. We invite everyone to come and share in this cultural experience and this visual celebration.
8320 Litchford Rd Ste 138, Raleigh
(919) 900-8055
www.triangleculturalart.com
Ascension Art Gallery
Founded in 2024, Ascension Gallery and Fine Art Services is dedicated to showing modern and contemporary works by artists of the African Diaspora. We serve a broad local, regional and national cultural platform as a gallery that showcases BIPOC artists.
The gallery will feature trendsetting exhibitions by black and brown artists, engaging programming and arts outreach. Our exhibits will include work that reflects community and modernity. The fine arts services will feature corporate and private collecting, fine arts transit and artist management.
Ascension Gallery looks to elevate artists to their potential by offering innovative advice, career guidance and access to a broad network of curators, collectors and sustainers in the field.
416 South McDowell Street, Raleigh
(984) 389-7680
www.ascensiongallery.org
Ella West Gallery
Ella West is a contemporary gallery dedicated to diverse, underrepresented artists from around the world who are committed to pushing the boundaries of art that will redefine art history. For decades, there has been an outsized focus on the European male experience in art history. Ella West Gallery will work to reorient that focus by creating space for Black people, people of color, women, and other marginalized communities who have been historically underrepresented based on race, sex, national origin, sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, or disability.
104 W. Parrish Street, Durham
(919) 485-9602
www.ellawestgallery.com
Hayti Heritage Center
The Hayti Heritage Center opened in 1975 under the management of the St. Joseph Historic Foundation. The Center is a cultural enrichment and arts education facility that promotes cultural understanding through diverse events, activities and programs that preserve the heritage and embrace the experiences of Americans of African descent. The Hayti Heritage Center presents art exhibitions in its Lyda Moore Merrick gallery.
Old Fayetteville Street, Durham
(919) 683-1709
www.hayti.org
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
The Nasher Museum opened in 2005 as a major center for the arts on Duke University’s campus and in the surrounding Research Triangle area. The Museum's collecting strategy focuses on those who may be emerging or undervalued, but have nonetheless created some of the most important work of our time. The growing collection also has a special interest in artists of African descent. The museum regularly presents African and African American art exhibitions. These include Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey, Romare Bearden, Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, Color Balance: Paintings by Felrath Hines and Alma Thomas, Africa and Picasso and Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool.
2001 Campus Drive, Durham
(919) 684-5135
www.nasher.duke.edu
North Carolina Central University Art Museum
The North Carolina Central University Art Museum is a teaching and cultural enrichment institution in Durham. Its permanent collection focuses on the work of African American artists and works dealing with the Black Experience. Past exhibitions include: Draftsman, Illustrator and Painter Tyrone Geter at NCCU Art Museum,Ivey Hayes Exhibit Opens at NCCU Art Museum, Photography Exhibit Highlights African-American Resistance, Cash Crop and Ernie Barnes.
1801 Fayetteville St, Durham
(919) 530-6211
www.nccu.edu/artmuseum
North Carolina Museum of Art
Opened in 1956 the North Carolina Museum of Art encompasses a collection that spans more than 5,000 years of artistic work from antiquity to the present, an amphitheater for outdoor performances, and a variety of celebrated exhibitions and public programs. The Museum features more than 40 galleries including an African gallery. Its permanent collection includes significant works from African and African American artists. These include Acha Debela, John Biggers, Romare Bearden, Hank Willis Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Beverly McIvers, Allison Saar, Andre Leon Gray and Mickalene Thomas.
2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh
(919) 839-6262
www.ncartmuseum.org
Triangle Cultural Art Gallery
The Triangle Cultural Art Gallery in Raleigh, NC cultivates and exhibits art that reflects the triangle’s diverse cultural heritage and artistic expression. Through the engagement of cultural art awareness and events, we help build our local community. We invite everyone to come and share in this cultural experience and this visual celebration.
8320 Litchford Rd Ste 138, Raleigh
(919) 900-8055
www.triangleculturalart.com