My part in this story begins in January 2019. That is when I first met the folks from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Wake County. Hugh McLean, vice president of operations, and Pepe Caudillo, Brentwood Club director, met with our team here at the Museum. They told us about their annual art competitions around the nation that culminate in their National Fine Arts Exhibit and ImageMakers National Photography Contest. During our conversation, we knew a great partnership was in the works, and we committed to installing the Southeast Regional winning artworks at the Museum. There was going to be the exhibition, events were planned around the exhibition, and we were all excited. Then came March 2020 and the coronavirus. Everything stopped … everything except our excitement about a partnership.






Kathryn Briggs is an exhibition designer at the NCMA.
Fault Lines: Art and the Environment
April 13, 2022
Through video, photography, sculpture, and mixed-media works, the 14 contemporary artists in Fault Lines focus on current environmental concerns and offer new perspectives that make us think.
What’s Blooming This Spring in the NCMA’s Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park
March 25, 2022
Now’s the perfect time to spend an afternoon in the Museum Park, where nature’s works of art are showing off.
Black and: A Conversation about the Arts and Black@Intersection
March 15, 2022
The NCMA’s Moses T. Alexander Greene sits down with SECCA’s guest curator Duane Cyrus to talk about the diversity of Blackness, diversity in the arts, and how museums should foster both to create a sense of belonging and joy for all.