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Meet the Artist with Mavis Gragg
Meet artist Jim Lee. Image by Jim Lee. Free and open to the public.
Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett For upstART Gallery: A Jim Lee Project
Slow Art Tour: A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Facilitated by Gail Belvett. Free and open to the public.
Art Supply Giveaway by DurmPAC
Art supply giveaway by DurmPac. Free and open to the public.
Opening Reception for upstART Gallery: A Jim Lee Project
Image by Jim Lee. Free and open to the public.
upstART Gallery: a Jim Lee project
upstART Gallery is a 1:12 scale miniature space. The gallery provides a real opportunity for artists to make work especially scaled for this space. Image by Jim Lee. Free and open to the public.
Meet the Artist with Mavis Gragg
Meet photographer and exhibit curator Kennedi Carter. Free and open to the public.
Closing Reception for In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter
Closing reception for In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter. Free and open to the public.
Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett For In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter
Slow Art Tour: A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Facilitated by Gail Belvett.
Free and open to the public.
Screening of La Principessa Nuda (1978)
Screening of La Principessa Nuda (1978): Ajita Wilson plays an African diplomat who comes to Milan to head a trade delegation. At the delegation she feels haunted by her past in which she appeared in a pornographic magazine. In a series of psychedelic scenes, we learn the sordid secrets of her racy past.
Free and open to the public.
Screening of Shakedown (2018)
Screening of Shakedown (2018): From 2002 to 2015, filmmaker Leilah Weinraub documents explicit performances in an underground lesbian club in Los Angeles. Free and open to the public.
Opening Reception for In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter
Opening reception for In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter. Free and open to the public.
Screening of Girl 6 (1996)
Screening of Girl 6 (1996): A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator. Free and open to the public.
In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget by Kennedi Carter
In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget is an archival exhibition curated by Kennedi Carter that examines the legacy of Black women in pin-up.
On view eight days only!
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Slow Art Tour For We [don’t] Care
Join us for a Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett of We [don't] Care: reclaiming our environment.
A slow art tour presents a philosophical and literal alternative to the way visitors have traditionally consumed art. The tour challenges the notion that one needs to ‘know’ about art to appreciate it. A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Free and open to the public.
Meet the Artists with Mavis Gragg
“Meet the Artist” is a conversation series hosted by Pop Box Gallery cofounder, Mavis Gragg. Mavis sits down with an artist or arts professional to discuss their work, providing practical tips for collecting art.
In this special edition of the series, Mavis will lead a panel discussion with some of the featured artists in our current exhibit, We don't Care: reclaiming our environment. Free and open to the public. Image: Jessica Clark, Dark Water 6, 20.5” x 26.5”, 2021
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Opening Reception for We [don’t] Care
Celebrate the opening of We [don't] Care: reclaiming our environment, curated by Gail Belvett on Earth Day. Free and open to the public. Image: Honeyed Gardens Open by Saba Taj, 66” x 78”, 2021
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We [don’t] Care: reclaiming our environment
We [don't] Care: reclaiming our environment affirms the ancestral, spiritual, and physical connection to nature while rewriting false narratives about environmental apathy among BIPOC communities. Featuring works by Saba Taj, Derrick Beasley, Claire Alexandre, Jim Lee, Renzo Ortega, Jessica Clark, We [don’t] Care is an open call show that invites artists in the community to share their work in solidarity with those committed to the protection and preservation of our environment. Curated by Gail Belvett. Image: Renzo Ortega, Camino Nocturno, Acrylic on canvas, 64” x 48”, 2020
Slow Art Tour
Join us on Saturday, November 19 at 1pm for a Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett. Gail will facilitate a one-hour conversation about a work of art in Zaire McPhearson’s exhibit, For Colored Girls, at Bright Black. Free and open to the public.
Third Friday Durham Opening Reception
Join us for an opening celebration of Zaire’s exhibit at Bright Black’s new Creators Studio during Third Friday Durham on November 18.
Colonies Closing Reception & Live Music
During November’s Third Friday Durham event, join us at perfect lovers for a final look at Colonies by Catherine Edgerton and enjoy live experimental and improvised string music performed by Emma Dunlap-Grube and Zach Aliotta. Performance begins at 7pm. Free and open to the public.
Contour:: Deep Listening // Deep Seeing
Come connect with your oceanself at this intimate multisensory art experience. Open to the public, $10-$20 suggested donation to support the artists.
Artists Talk & Multi-logue
Artist Catherine Edgerton will share more about Colonies, their artistic practice, and meaningful collaborations in conversation with Lewis Wallace and five of Catherine’s creative co-conspirators. Free and open to the public.
For Colored Girls by Zaire McPhearson
In For Colored Girls, Zaire McPhearson reconstructs the perception of race, color, and subject through a complex study of the wide range of African American skin tones. Through her work, McPhearson invites the viewer to reflect on what it means to be considered a person of color in America.
Slow Art Tour
Join us for a Slow Art Tour of Catherine Edgerton’s exhibit, Colonies, at perfect lovers. Free and open to the public.
Third Friday Opening Reception
Celebrate the opening of Colonies by Catherine Edgerton during Third Friday Durham at perfect lovers. Free and open to the public.
Colonies by Catherine Edgerton
In Colonies, Durham-based mixed-media artist Catherine Edgerton shares five new large oil-painted self portraits and a series of prints from handmade collage books. Colonies is presented by Pop Box Gallery at perfect lovers in Durham.
PROTOTYPE: Collector's Preview
Join us for an innovative and fun art collecting event in which you get to invest in a new art concept involving over 30 Triangle area artists.
PROTOTYPE is the final show at Pop Box Gallery during our residency at Boxyard RTP. The exhibit features over 30 artworks by Triangle area artists and achieves two things: it challenges participating artists to use a pentaprism as their medium and it offers art collectors of various preferences and means to collect works that celebrate and reflect the incredible creativity, innovation, and artistic talent of the Triangle.
Perhaps you’re an experienced collector or new to collecting. Maybe you are motivated to collect art because of the beauty you see in it or you are an enterprising individual seeking to invest in art for growth. Regardless of your motivation to collect art, there is a piece of artwork in PROTOTYPE for all interests and the prices are accessible to many.
But…the competition to collect these rare works will be stiff.
Click here for full event information and to purchase tickets.
Slow Art Tour: PROTOTYPE
Gail Belvett leading a Slow Art Tour during our first exhibit, Portrait Mode
Join us for an evening with Gail Belvett of The Art Chose Me for a deep look at on work of art in our PROTOTYPE exhibit. Free and open to the public.
“A slow art tour presents a philosophical and literal alternative to the way visitors have traditionally consumed art. The tour challenges the notion that one needs to ‘know’ about art to appreciate it. A group of people gather to slowly savor a single object, looking closely while engaging multiple senses. Deliberate facilitation–grounded in the pedagogy of evidence-based Visual Thinking Strategies—encourages an inclusive community where observations are heard and valued. This inclusive process allows the group to co-create an interpretation of the work that culminates in an experience that is as unique as the people who are gathered around that specific object, on that day, at that time.” - Gail Belvett
PROTOTYPE
Why do we prototype? To validate and/or communicate an idea. To advocate. But also to unlock creativity.
With the PROTOTYPE exhibition, Pop Box Gallery challenged Triangle area artists to do all those things with each of the artists beginning with the same form - a pentaprism.
Exhibition Zine.
Life-Size Coloring Book & PROTOTYPE Make & Take
Join us on Friday, April 15, 3-8pm and Saturday, April 16, 12-6pm for The Life-size Coloring Book and a FREE Make & Take session to create your own PROTOTYPE pentaprism! We’ll provide the supplies and local artists will be on hand to provide ideas, tips, and techniques.
These are free events and materials are included. You can drop in anytime between 3 and 8pm on Friday and 12 and 6pm on Saturday to color or create your very own prism art to take home with you. This event is for artists of ALL ages. And don’t forget to check out the final exhibition PROTOTYPE which will feature prisms created by Triangle area artists. PROTOTYPE is on view April 22 - May 7, 2022.
Participants in our “Make & Take” events are invited to submit an image of their completed pentaprism artwork to be considered for our PROTOTYPE Exhibition Zine. Featured works will be included in a digitally and physically-printed zine available to visitors to Pop Box Gallery during the PROTOTYPE exhibition. Submit your work here.