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.
Decorating Time: Music and The Time Is Always Now
May 27, 2025
Kiahana Toomer, the NCMA's Exhibition Lighting Designer, discusses how her playlist for The Time is Always Now embodies the exhibition's ...
The Time Is Always Now at the NCMA
May 5, 2025
This exhibition, on view through June 29, 2025, celebrates the breathtaking figurative work of contemporary Black artists.
What an Egyptologist Learned by Curating a Samurai Exhibition
January 30, 2025
Hear from Caroline Rocheleau, the NCMA's Curator of Ancient Collections, on what inspired her research of Japan's warrior class. ...