The Culture & Heritage Museums partnered with The Light Factory to sponsor a year-long documentation project inspired by the Catawba River. Through fine art photography, fabric installation, interactive digital media and community interviews, River Docs challenges citizens, communities and industries to conserve and protect this vital natural resource. Curated by June Lambla, the exhibit features works by artists Raymond Grubb, Nancy Pierce, Byron Baldwin, Mike Wirth, Marek Ranis and Maja Godlewska.Members of the public are invited to submit stories and photos to the exhibition website at: www.catawbariverdocs.com
Throughout Vernon Grant's career, his talent for making people smile brought him nationwide acclaim. Exhibit will feature a broad selection of original and published artworks.
Reinterpretation, consisting of new graphics, objects and text, emphasize the integral relationships between the native peoples and wildlife and landscapes of Africa – and further communicate themes of people and place through global perspectives.
The Landscapes and Lifeways exhibit compares our contemporary Piedmont landscape with the Piedmont of 600 years ago. Two new dioramas show Carolina Piedmont landscapes and wildlife in the 1400s, before European exploration and settlement. View animals that once lived in the Piedmont (bison, cougar, elk and wolves) alongside species seen here today (deer, vultures, quail and heron). Discover how native peoples relied on the natural resources of the Carolina Piedmont – the river, trees, land, plants and wildlife – for their survival, and how they changed the landscape to support their ways of life.
Sponsored in part by Kathy & Larry Wilson, Rock Hill Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Williams & Fudge, Inc., Founders Federal Credit Union, Becca & Harry Dalton and Ell Close.
A comprehensive look at the CHM - its mission, sites, capital projects, resources and programming – in a visually dynamic, contemporary design intended to communicate who we are and our vision for the future.
Underwritten in part by PRO CAL Professional Decals
View the stunning nature photography taken by Bill Stokes while kayaking the Catawba, along with displays of the sundry and unexpected objects found on his forays down the river. The avid paddler and conservationist explores the Catawba weekly, capturing powerfully vivid and serene images of the river and its wildlife throughout all seasons of the year.