The Museum is open with updated hours, Wednesday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm, required free timed tickets to encourage social distancing, and increased health and safety procedures including required cloth masks. Learn more about these updates at ncartmuseum.org/covid19. Museum from Home programming continues, including the NCMA Virtual Exhibitions Subscription and virtual events.
Golden Mummies of Egypt
Virtual Studio Workshop: Laura Moriarty: Encaustic Arts Past and Future
Saturday, March 6, 2021 | 1:30 pm
Encaustic paintings from ancient Egypt are still on view today. What makes their colors so vibrant and marks so expressive? Learn how to begin painting with wax from a modern master of the technique, Laura Moriarty, a painter and sculptor whose innovative approach takes the medium to new expressive heights. This virtual workshop consists of two 90-minute sessions (Saturday, March 6 and 13, 1:30–3 pm each day).
Suggested Supply List
• R&F Encaustic Paint Starter Kit
• Skillet or griddle for melting wax
• Heat gun or small torch for fusing
As with all virtual workshops, you may choose to purchase supplies and work along with the artist, or you may simply observe to decide if this is a medium you would like to pursue in the future.
Golden Mummies of Egypt
Ancient lives, eternal gold. This exhibition presents eight extraordinary, gilded mummies and more than 100 related objects, including papyri, jewelry, ceramics, and deity works that connect the daily lives of these Greco-Roman Egyptians to the religious world of the gods.
EVENTS IN THIS SERIES:
- Virtual Lecture with an Egyptologist: “Sex, Art, and Death in Greco-Roman Egypt” - Saturday, February 13 | 12 PM
- Creative Processing for Families; Grief - Sunday, February 21 | 2 PM
- Virtual Studio Workshop: Laura Moriarty: Encaustic Arts Past and Future - Saturday, March 6 | 1:30 PM
- Virtual Weinberg Lecture of Egyptology: Learning from Egyptian Mummies - Sunday, March 7 | 2 PM
- Mindful Museum: Virtual Art and Mortality Workshop - Tuesday, March 9 | 7 PM
- Teacher Tuesdays: Special Exhibition Access for Educators - Tuesday, March 23 | 4 PM
- Virtual Lecture with an Egyptologist: Flinders Petrie on Golden Mummies, Race, and Faces - Saturday, April 17 | 12 PM
- Virtual Lunchtime Lecture: Golden Mummies: Adapting Funerary Beliefs and Traditions - Thursday, May 13 | 12 PM
- NCMA in Dialogue: Art, Death, and Rebirth - Wednesday, May 19 | 7 PM
