Art museum

North Carolina Central University
Art Museum
The North Carolina Central University Art Museum's collection features the works of various African-American artists from both the 19th and 20th centuries as well as a selection of objects from the African continent. NCCU Art Museum has been called "the most important publicly assembled collection of African-American art in North Carolina" and boasts the works of artists such as Henry O. Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, and Minnie Evans.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Visitors can relive the Jazz Era in the restored 1917 mansion of Katharine and R.J. Reynolds with period furniture and decor, vintage clothing and family memorabilia. An orientation video, oral history kiosk and audio tours provide a unique window into the family and the life they lived. Visitors can also enjoy masterpieces of American art dating from 1755 to the present displayed in the historic home and exhibition wing.

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University fosters the understanding and appreciation of the visual arts by providing direct experiences with original works of art supported by a range of exhibitions, programs and publications for the university and the broader community. The museum draws on the intellectual resources of a great research university and serves as a laboratory of the arts dedicated to multidisciplinary approaches to learning. These strategies make the Nasher at Duke a unique cornerstone of the arts for Duke University, Durham and the Triangle community, the State of North Carolina and the greater Southeast region.

Wake Forest University
Scales Fine Arts Center

Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina
Rosenzweig Museum

Winston-Salem State University
Diggs Gallery
The Diggs Gallery maintains a permanent collection of works of art. It also houses temporary and rotating exhibits, conducts educational programs, and encourages the study and appreciation of African and African American art forms.

Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council
Blount-Bridgers House
On the point of the highest elevation in the town of Tarboro sits a magnificent Federal style home. Originally called The Grove by its first owner, Thomas Blount, and now known as the Blount-Bridgers House, it serves the Tarboro community as museum, arts center, private reception hall, and public gathering place. Under the shared roof of this historic house are the Town of Tarboro, the Hobson Pittman Gallery Foundation, the Blount-Bridgers House Foundation, and the Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council.

Gaston County Museum of Art and History
The Gaston County Museum of Art and History is located in the former Hoffman Hotel, circa 1852, on the old Court Square, part of a National Register of Historic Places District, in Dallas, North Carolina. This museum offers elegantly furnished period rooms; a "hands-on" reception parlor, furnished historic hotel rooms on the third floor; and changing exhibits which explore art, history, and historic preservation. North Carolina's largest public collection of horse-drawn vehicles is located in the Daniel Stowe Carriage House, also on the museum grounds. The museum holds over 5,000 objects in its collections, as well as over 20,000 historic documents and photographs.

Greensboro College
Art Department
Greensboro College owns and periodically displays three permanent collections of art, the Ruth Abbott Clarke Collection, the Callie Braswell Collection, and the original Print Collection, as well as other miscellaneous pieces of two- and three-dimensional art.

Guilford College
Art Gallery
The Guilford College Art Gallery houses and exhibits a wide variety of two- and three-dimensional works of art. Significant collections include the Rachel and Allen Weller Collection, the Ruth and Ira Julian Collection, and the A. Kelly Maness, Jr., Collection of West & Central African Art. Although 20th century American art is emphasized, the collection also features internationally renowned artists such as Rembrandt, Picasso and Dali, works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, an impressive selection of contemporary Polish etchings and engravings, and a small collection of Josef and Anni Albers art and archival material. The Art Gallery seeks to enrich the educational and cultural environment of the campus and greater Greensboro area through exhibitions and programming, and to preserve the college's permanent collection of art.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
North Carolina A & T State University Galleries
The collections of the University Galleries are the stories of the African Diaspora told on canvas, textiles, in sculpture, music and with personal possessions. The University Galleries has two focal collections which constitute its permanent collection: the Mattye Reed African Heritage Collection, dedicated to the ancestral and contemporary arts of Africa and the Caribbean and the Henry Clinton Taylor Collection which centers around the work of both emerging and established African American artists. Both collections and three magnificent gallery spaces are housed in the historic Dudley Building, originally built in 1931.

Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum
The Cameron Art Museum provides a cultural gathering place for all ages, featuring changing exhibitions of art; dynamic public programs in all media (lectures, music, films, literature, dance); monthly family and children's programs; a unique program of tours for Alzheimers patients; workshops and classes in ceramics at the Clay Studio, as well as weekly classes in Tai Chi and Yoga. Located on a Civil War historic site, the museum is surrounded by woodlands, nature trails, and a growing public art park. The museum gift shop includes unique, artist-made items in ceramic, glass, textiles, wood, and metal.

UNC-Greensboro
Weatherspoon Art Museum
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro collects, preserves and exhibits American artists from the turn of the century onward. Special collections include Henri Matisse prints and bronzes from the Cone Collection and the Dillard collection of works on paper. The museum also maintains an outdoor sculpture garden to compliment the gallery spaces.

Cedar Creek Pottery and Gallery
Museum of American Pottery
The Museum of American Pottery came into being as a result of an exhibit called "Old Pots" at Cedar Creek Gallery in the 1970's. This exhibit of pots was initially scheduled to run for 30 days, but the public response was so great that the exhibit became a permanent feature. The Museum of American Pottery seeks to honor family and studio potters who, through their work, have made a significant contribution to the arts; to establish a permanent collection, open to the public, of historic and contemporary pottery by family and studio potters; to establish a library of books, magazines, articles, videos, and photos of pottery and potters from 1700 to the present; to provide funds for research and opportunities for pottery students to further their studies; and to make sure that examples of work by these potters are preserved for future generations.

Mint Museums
The Mint Museum of Art features a rich collection of American fine and decorative arts with particular strengths in pre-Columbian art and traditional European ceramics; while the Mint Museum of Craft + Design presents the ever-evolving field of international studio craft and design.

Davidson College
Van Every/Smith Galleries
On either side of the front entrance of the Belk Visual Arts Center are the William H. Van Every, Jr. and Edward M. Smith Galleries, providing over 2,000 square feet for exhibitions. The College's 2,700-piece permanent collection is housed in climate-controlled quarters in the basement with adjoining rooms for preparation and materials storage. These areas are managed by the Gallery Director. Gallery exhibitions by student, faculty, regional, national, and international artists change about every six weeks.

Maimy Etta Black Fine Arts Museum and Historical Society
The Maimy Etta Black Fine Arts Museum and Historical Society seeks to show the connected passages of Black people; to collect, document, preserve, and interpret African American and Global Black art and artifacts; to collect, document and preserve records of the Thompson family of Forest City, NC, and other black families; and to share this vision and these materials with researchers and the public in a comfortable, safe environment conducive to conversation and enlightenment.

UNC-Wilmington, Randall Library
UNCW Museum of World Cultures, W.M. Randall Library
The Museum of World Cultures facilitates teaching, research and to preservation of the physical artifacts of those societies in the world which have contributed to the heritage of the United States of America, in order that students, faculty, staff and administrators, as well as citizens at large, may discover who they are and whence they came by learning and understanding their historical and cultural roots.

North Carolina State University
Gregg Museum of Art & Design
The Gregg Museum of Art & Design is a collecting museum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. The Gregg Museum operates under the Division of Student Affairs and is located in the Talley Student Center in the middle of the NCSU campus. The Gregg’s collecting focus reflects the mission of North Carolina State University and supports its academic programs by providing research opportunities for NCSU students and the citizens of North Carolina and beyond. The collection includes, but is not limited to, textiles, ceramics, outsider/folk art, photography, architectural drawings & modern furniture. The Gregg Museum of Art & Design also puts on 6-8 exhibitions per year in its two galleries, in addition to exhibiting work at various places in the Talley Student Center and around campus.

North Carolina Museum of Art

The North Carolina Museum of Art houses the art collections of the State of North Carolina. The paintings and sculpture in the state's art collection represent more than 5,000 years of artistic heritage, from ancient Egypt to the present. The collection of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, with works by Van Dyck, Jan Brueghel and Raphael, is internationally recognized. Significant American paintings include works by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Also represented are collections of African, Oceanic, New World art, Egyptian, Greek and Roman art, 20th-century art, and Jewish ceremonial art.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
H. Clinton Taylor Art Gallery
The H. C. Taylor Art Gallery provides a space for promoting increased awareness of the African American's contribution to the visual arts and American culture, and fosters a forum for the presentation, preservation, and exhibition of visual arts media. Named for Henry Clinton Taylor, founder of the Art Department, the gallery opened in the basement of the Dudley Building in 1956 to exhibit works by American artists. In the nearly five decades since, the gallery has emerged as a showcase for world and African American art. The collection of African American works now includes pieces by Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Lois Mailou Jones, Sam Gilliam and Varnett P. Honeywood.

Durham Arts Council
The Durham Arts Council creates community through the active involvement of artists, teachers, students, business partners, friends, and donors. In addition to their changing exhibition spaces, the Arts Council has a small permanent collection of artwork by local artists on display as well as a sculpture by Vernon Pratt outside the building.

UNC-Chapel Hill
Ackland Art Museum
The Ackland Art Museum exists to bring people and works of art together. The museum acquires, preserves, exhibits and interprets works of art as an academic unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to fulfill the University's mission to provide teaching, research and public service for the citizens of North Carolina. As part of UNC-Chapel Hill the Ackland advances the University's global research through artistic and scholarly collaborations with national and international partners.

Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts in the Shelton House
The Shelton House was built in 1875 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Housed in and around the Shelton House, the Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts features comprehensive exhibits of 19th Century crafts including hand-woven coverlets, quilts, sculptured porcelain, dulcimers, masterpieces of pottery work and furniture and a fine collection of southeastern and southwestern Native American artifacts. Artists who have participated in the North Carolina State Fair's Village of Yesterday also have a selection of their crafts displayed.

East Carolina University
Wellington B. Gray Gallery
The mission of the Wellington B. Gray Gallery is to promote the understanding and appreciation of the visual arts and artists addressing the greater context of the visual arts in the communities of North Carolina and the southeast region. Toward this goal, the gallery annually sponsors 10 exhibitions of contemporary and historical based art in the various media. The Gallery's educational programs engage the local and regional communities striving to expand the understanding of the visual arts within contemporary culture and events. The Gray Gallery's educational programs are multi-disciplined and include exhibitions, lectures, teleconferencing, distance learning, workshops, symposia, and interaction with public schools and community. All gallery programs are offered free to the public on a year-round schedule with the Gallery available six days a week.

Greenville Museum of Art
The Greenville Museum of Art exists to foster, stimulate, and promote the appreciation and development of visual art for the citizens of Greenville, Pitt County, and northeastern North Carolina. The museum presents a regular schedule of exhibitions of local and regional interest including aspects of the permanent collection as well as those on temporary loan. The museum offers a variety of lectures, tours, classes, and school outreach programs designed to enrich the lives of its constituents. The museum's collection focuses primarily on quality works by North Carolina artists and works by noted American landscape artists from 1860-1930.

St. James Place
St. James Place is a private folk art museum housed in the restored old Robersonville Primitive Baptist Church. It features pieces from the personal collection of Dr. Everette James, Jr., a native of Robersonville and former chair of Radiology at Vanderbilt University.

Carteret County Historical Society and Museum
The History Place
The History Place fosters and promotes public knowledge of and interest in the history and culture of the people of Carteret County. They accomplish this through the collection, preservation, interpretation, documentation, and exhibition of written and tangible materials. A spacious exhibit hall features displays on the culture and history of Carteret County. The museum maintains a library with over 8,000 volumes of American and North Carolina History, covering American and North Carolina history as well as other subjects. The library also collects and maintains a large collection of local history and genealogy material.

North Carolina Pottery Center
The North Carolina Pottery Center opened to the public in 1998 to promote public awareness and appreciation of the history, heritage, and ongoing tradition of pottery-making in North Carolina through educational programs, public services, collection and preservation. The 6000 sq. ft museum is home to a permanent colleciton of historical and contemporary North Carolina pottery dating from the early 18th Century to present, temporary exhibitions, and examples of Seagrove area potters. Guided tours, demonstrations, special programs, classes, and workshops are available in addition to self-guided visits.

Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center
The Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center preserves and continues the unique legacy of educational and artistic innovation of Black Mountain College for public study and enjoyment. They achieve their mission through collection, conservation, and educational activities including exhibitions, publications, and public programs. The museum's permanent collection contains artifacts from Black Mountain College including the original sign and benches from the Quiet House, as well as photographs, oral histories, artwork, and papers.

Pocosin Arts
Pocosin Arts is a private educational organization whose mission is to connect culture to environment through art. Pocosin Arts serves the northeast region of North Carolina with a gallery, studios, classes and workshops, permanent and rotating exhibits, a gift shop, and special events focusing on but not limited to folk arts including dance, music, pottery, weaving, and carving, as well as drawing, painting, and sculpting.

Hickory Museum of Art
The Hickory Museum of Art collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets historic and contemporary American art of the highest quality. It serves the interests and goals of the community and the region as an educational and cultural resource. The Hickory Museum of Art is known for its impressive collection of paintings of National Academy of Design artists. The museum seeks to make its entire collection accessible and known to people of all ages, interests, and backgrounds through display, publication, and other educational means.

Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center
The Core Sound Watefowl Museum & Heritage Center brings together the historical, cultural, artistic, environmental, and educational elements of eastern North Carolina to preserve the rich waterfowl heritage associated with the Core Sound area. The museum showcases the history, culture, crafts, lifestyles, and the surrounding environment/wildlife of the Core Sound region through community and artistic displays, a freshwater pond and self-guided nature trail and public/private programs.

Asheville Art Museum
The Asheville Art Museum engages, enlightens and inspires individuals and enriches community through dynamic experiences in American Art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Southern Highland Craft Guild
The Southern Highland Craft Guild is a non-profit 501(c)(3), educational organization of over 700 craftspeople living and working in the mountainous regions of nine southern states: AL, GA, KY, MD, TN, VA, WV, SC and NC. Since its inception in 1930, the Guild has worked to instill and maintain standards of excellence in the design and workmanship of crafts taught, produced and marketed in the southern Appalachian region. The history of the Guild dates back to the turn of the century during what is known as the Southern Arts and Crafts Revival. The Guild's headquarters, the Blue Ridge Parkway's Folk Art Center, is located just five miles east of downtown Asheville, North Carolina.

Fayetteville Museum of Art
The Fayetteville Museum of Art was founded in 1971. Originally housed in downtown Fayetteville's historic Market House, the Museum moved in 1978 to its present facility that was the first building in the State of North Carolina designed and built as an Art Museum. In addition to the modern facility that includes two galleries, classrooms, studio space, an Art Reference & Slide Lending Library, and a Museum Store, the Museum's 5.8 acre grounds and pond give the Fayetteville community a place to gather for relaxation. The park-like setting is an oasis in the midst of a heavily trafficked area; it is also utilized for large-scale sculpture displays, art festivals and public concerts. The Museum has recently begun a campaign to build a new MoA in Fayetteville's Festival Park. The designer of the project is world reknowned architect Enrique Norten. Please visit our website to see our visionary design and to find out how to be a part of our campaign!

Beaufort County Arts Council
The Beaufort County Arts Council supports artistic programs throughout the county. The diverse offering of cultural programs includes an annual juried art show and crafts show, year-round exhibitions in the adjacent Washington Civic Center gallery, a series of free public concerts for all ages, an annual art camp for young people, workshops, lectures, and organized trips to attend outstanding cultural events. The renovated Atlantic Coastline Railroad Station houses the Arts Council Offices, meeting room and Lane Gift Shop where hand-crafted artwork by area artists and craftspeople is available.

Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc.
Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc., is primarily responsible for keeping alive the arts and crafts of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians - woodcarving, basketry, finger weaving, beadwork, and pottery. This cooperative, founded in the 1930's and chartered in 1946, houses and exhibits a large permanent collection of pieces made by its members through the years.

Bascom-Louise Gallery
The Bascom-Louise Gallery, or Highlands' Center for the Visual Arts, promotes public awareness, appreciation, and collection of the visual arts; acquires, curates, and maintains a permanent art collection; inspires and advances creative expression in the visual arts; and provides challenging experiences in the visual arts in order to educate and provide to the community a dynamic visual arts center.

Louisburg College
Elizabeth Tiel Faulkner Gallery
The Elizabeth Tiel Faulkner Gallery exhibits Louisburg College's permanent collection of art. Works include paintings, pottery, sculpture, and other three-dimensional and multimedia works.

Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council
Hobson Pittman Memorial Gallery
The Hobson Pittman Memorial Gallery is maintained by the Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council to exhibit the works of regionalist artist and Edgecombe County native Hobson Pittman (1899-1972) and other American artists. Located in the Blount-Bridgers House, the permanent collection features Pittman but includes Nineteenth and Twentieth decorative arts and paintings.

Rocky Mount Arts Center
The Rocky Mount Art Center, a Division of the City of Rocky Mount Parks and Recreation Department, provides the community a place to study, create, perform and exhibit. The Center houses a permanent collection of visual art, part of which is displayed most of the year, and also hosts a number of juried and competitive art shows, a community theater, and a variety of educational programs for children and adults in the visual and performing arts.

North Carolina Wesleyan College
Four Sisters Gallery: Celebrating the Art of the Coastal Plain
The Four Sisters Gallery is dedicated to the collection, conservation, and interpretation of regional Coastal Plain culture of contemporary visionary and self-taught art as well as historical North and South American artifacts. The Gallery serves the College, the Coastal Plain community, and the American international art community through exhibitions, loans, publications, and educational outreach in an effort to increase the awareness of the significance of such art as creative expression and the potential it has as a cultural record of our region. The Gallery was established in 1994 to preserve the Robert Lynch Collection of Outsider Art and the College's collection of pre-Columbian and historic Native American objects. In addition to these collections, the Gallery owns a significant collection of self-taught art from 1951 to the present.

Chowan College
Visual Art Collection
The Department of Visual Arts provides a broad academic and professional preparation leading to the BS degree in Graphic Design and BA or BS degree in Studio Art. It also offers opportunities for members of the college community to enrich their aesthetic experience and enhance their cultural literacy through participation in art appreciation classes and exposure to year-round changing exhibitions in Green Hall Gallery. The department collects student and faculty works of art and maintains the collection in McDowell Columns Building.

St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Art Gallery
A small gallery of contemporary art on display in the college's Vardell building.

Iredell Museums, Inc.
The Children's Museum of Iredell County/The Iredell Museum of Arts and Heritage
The Children's Museum of Iredell County and the Iredell Museum of Arts and Heritage merged into Iredell Museums, Inc. in 2004. The Children's Museum of Iredell County provides the youth of the region with hands-on learning experiences in the arts, in the sciences and about cultures. Programming reflects the museum's mission: "I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand." A permanent rock collection featuring geological formations of the Southeastern United States is also on display. The Iredell Museum of Arts and Heritage is a window into the rich heritage of Iredell County, and is a showplace for the art and artisans who continue to develop their talents in North Carolina. It is home to many interactive events, art shows, living history demonstrations, and educational programs. Located in the 1899 Water Pump Station, the Iredell Museum of Arts and Heritage has been concerned with preserving the past of the Piedmont Region while celebrating the present.

Barton College
Art Museum
The Barton College Art Museum, housed in the Case Art Building, provides four exhibition spaces including the Virginia Thompson Graves Gallery, which is endowed, the Lula E. Rackley Gallery, and the North and South Exhibition Corridors that are often used for student exhibitions. The Barton Museum has seven exhibitions per year and shows a variety of original art. Receptions, gallery talks, and other events include the students and the community in the regular exhibition schedule. The Barton Museum also owns a Permanent Collection, which is periodically exhibited.

Wilson County Arts Council
The Wilson County Arts Council provides leadership and opportunities in the visual and performing arts for the citizens of Wilson County and the general public. Towards this end, they maintain and periodically exhibit a permanent collection of two- and three-dimensional works; house temporary and local exhibits of visual art, and sponsor a variety of programs in the performing arts. The Wilson County Arts Council maintains two facilities - the Arts Center, their main office and gallery spaces, and the Edna Boykin Center, their venue for the performing arts.

Sam Bass Gallery
The Sam Bass Gallery displays original works and prints by Sam Bass, the first officially licensed artist of NASCAR. Exhibited items include early original paintings, NASCAR paintings depicting drivers such as Bobby Allison, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhart, Jeff Gordon, and Tony Stewart, limited edition prints, and a collection of the artist's own rare personal racing mementos such as historical sheet metal, driver helmets, uniforms, and other memorabilia and artifacts.

Guilford Native American Art Gallery
The Guilford Native American Art Gallery is a fine art gallery concerned with promoting, exhibiting and selling premier traditional and contemporary Native art. Four annual exhibitions showcase local, state, regional and international artists. Through multi-disciplinary art and education programs, the gallery provides interaction for audiences.

High Point University
Sechrest Gallery
The Sechrest Gallery houses a renowned permenant collection of 18th and 19th century American and European art as well as rotating exhibitions of various contemporary artists.

Community Council for the Arts
The Arts Center
The Community Council for the Arts (CCA) strives to enrich the lives of Kinston and Lenoir County residents by providing services and educational opportunities in support of artists, art agencies, and audiences. The CCA oversees twelve local organizations engaged in the arts in areas including but not limited to woodturning, bluegrass music, model railroading, choral music and voice, theater, film, visual art, and quilting. The CCA owns and operates The Arts Center, a visual art gallery housed in and preserving a downtown Kinston historic building, the former Midyette's Hardware Store, built in 1910 by G. W. Sumrell and H. H. McCoy and once home to the bottling operation that produced Orange Crush and Pepsi Cola in Kinston. The Art Center's permanent collection of local art is exhibited here in the CCA's offices. The Arts Center showcases the work of approximately 500 artists each year in temporary rotating exhibits.

Greene County Arts and Historical Society
Greene County Museum of Art and History
The Greene County Museum of Art and History collects, preserves, and exhibits local and regional art and local history and genealogical resources. Permanent collections include art works by Dinah Sharpe Sylivant and other local talent, original documents and photographs of local historical significance, issues of the local newspaper The Standard Laconic from the 1950's, '60's, and '70's, limited publication family histories and abstracts, county and regional microfilm, and a variety of other materials useful in studying genealogy and local history. The museum, an adjoining research room, and a visitor center gift shop are open daily to the public.

Wilkes Art Gallery, Inc.
The Wilkes Art Gallery strives to promote art as a necessary and enriching component of a well-rounded life. The Wilkes Art Gallery provides unique educational opportunities by sponsoring monthly exhibits open to the public, art classes, workshops, and field trips for all ages. The Gallery maintains a permanent collection of two- and three-dimensional works of visual art, parts of which are displayed in the gallery's offices and in public buildings throughout Wilkes County.

Randolph Arts Guild
W. H. Moring, Jr., Center
Randolph Arts Guild is a multi-action, multicultural nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the citizens of Randolph County with the means to express themselves through the visual, literary, and performing arts.

Foothills Arts Council
The mission of the Foothills Arts Council is to enrich the lives of Yadkin Valley Residents and visitors with enjoyment of the visual and performing arts, and to support the work of local artists, artisans, writers, musicians, and performers. Paintings, photographs, and other art objects from rotating exhibitions and their permanent collection are on display at the Art Council's headquarters in downtown Elkin.

Yadkin Arts Council
The Yadkin Arts Council's mission is to enrich the lives of Yadkin County citizens through the arts. In addition to housing and periodically displaying a small permanent collection of visual art, this organization operates the Holton-Prim Gallery in downtown Yadkinville where rotating and traveling exhibits are shown throughout the year, sponsors an arts in the schools program, several performing arts programs including a Children's Theater and a Community Theater, and oversees a summer concert series and two annual festivals-the Bluegrass Contest and Fiddlers Convention and the Yadkin Valley Harvest Festival.

Duke University
Eye Center Touchable Art Gallery
Located at Duke University Eye Center, the Touchable Art Gallery is designed to allow everyone, including those with visual impairments, to enjoy art in a unique way. The Gallery, located adjacent to the reception area, is open weekdays. Patients, family members, and friends are encouraged to visit the gallery while they wait for appointments or surgical procedures. The Gallery also accommodates community groups for special tours. The Touchable Art Gallery features art that has been selected to be touched and handled; works created by artists who are visually impaired; sculpture from all over the world; works created from a variety of materials; pieces on loan from the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and from Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh; and artwork donated by North Carolina artists and collectors. Gallery volunteers are available to explain the artwork to visitors one piece at a time.

St. James Episcopal Church
Oertel Art Collection
St. James Episcopal Church, once used as a Confederate prison in 1865, houses an extensive art collection of Johannes A. Oertel, a renowned Christian artist and former rector of the Church. Twenty-three of Oertel's paintings are displayd in the Church and Parish House as well as the alter painting and the hand-carved reredos. The collection is open for viewing by appointment.

Fifth Avenue Mask Museum
The Fifth Avenue Mask Museum is the private collection of Ellen Hobbs who in her travels to third world countires has collected over 500 native masks, dolls dressed in native garb and locally produced textiles. The collection covers several cultures including North, South and Central American, African and Asian people groups.

The Original Owens Pottery
Owens Pottery Museum
The Pottery Museum houses a small collection which exhibits Owen's family pottery and artifacts of the local pottery tradition.

Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts, Inc.
Delta Fine Arts Center
Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts promotes community interest and pride in American arts and humanities, with emphasis on the contributions of African Americans. Founded in 1972 by the Winston-Salem Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the organization houses a permanant collection of Haitian paintings from the Hewitt Collection and offers programs for people of all ages in the areas of visual arts, music, literature, drama, history and folk arts.