LEAP: Artists Imagine Outer Space

LEAP: Artists Imagine Outer Space

GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art is thrilled to announce LEAP: Artists Imagine Outer Space, its 2024 headline exhibition running from March 16 to June 29. This ambitious exhibition features exceptional artists who create projected light and sound installations, fiber art, and animation as well as photography, sculpture, painting and printmaking. The theme of the exhibition embraces both science and new media and will highlight the state’s dynamic design community. Futuristic outposts, fictional persona, and narratives of time travel speak to the role ingenuity and innovation play in the arts and inspire audiences to contemplate our place in the universe.

Educational components including STEAM-based curriculum during school tours, anime workshops for teens, and pop-up exhibitions by student artists from area colleges and universities will enhance the learning experience for audiences.

SIGHTINGS: CALLING ALL SKYGAZERS

In accompaniment with LEAP: Artist Imagine Outer Space GreenHill Center for NC Art is calling on skygazers of all ages and to submit real time photographs or images of artworks relating to sightings of extraterrestrial life forms. Artworks submitted will be on display in GreenHill's community art gallery during the 2024 exhibition LEAP: Artist Imagine Outer Space. Based on public vote, a $100 First Prize will be awarded on June 7th, 2024 at GreenHill's multi-generational First Friday art party. Submit your work to SIGHTINGS, here.

LEAP Exhibition Programming:

PUBLIC OPENING | Saturday, March 16, 2024 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM

GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art is thrilled to present, LEAP: Artists Imagine Outer Space, its 2024 headline exhibition running from March 16 to June 29, 2024. This ambitious exhibition features over 20 exceptional artists who create projected light and sound installations, fashion design, animation and comics as well as photography, sculpture, and painting. Free and open to the public.

FIRST FRIDAYS LIVE PERFORMANCES | 6:00 – 9:00 PM

March 1st | Pete Turner

April 5th | TBD

May 3rd | Glenwood Choppers

Cash bar. Free and Open to the Public.

ARTQUEST FAMILY NIGHTS | Wednesdays | 5:00 - 7:00 PM

On Wednesdays from 5:00 – 7:00 PM GreenHill ArtQuest studios are free to the public and invite visitors to come and engage in space based activities and art projects.

SIGHTINGS: COMMUNITY ART EXHIBITION | April 30 – June 7, 2024

In accompaniment with LEAP, GreenHill Center for NC Art is calling on sky gazers of all ages and to submit real time photographs or images of artworks relating to sightings of extraterrestrial life forms. Artworks submitted will be on display in GreenHill's community art gallery during the 2024 LEAP exhibition. Based on public vote on GreenHill’s Instagram, a $100 First Prize will be awarded on June 7th at GreenHill's multi-generational First Friday art party. Submit your work to SIGHTINGS, here.

INTERGALACTIC SOUL PERFORMANCE | Saturday, March 23, 2024 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM

Join GreenHill and artists Marcus Kiser, Jason Woodberry, Quentin Talley, and The Soul Providers at the Jan Van Dyke theater for Intergalactic Soul, a Hip-Hop and spoken-word performance inspired by cosmic science fiction and Afro-Futurism. Engage in multidisciplinary dialogue driven by social, political and cultural messages designed to engage, enliven and educate new audiences while expanding individual and collective knowledge and abilities. Free and open to the public.