Afternoon at the Art Museum sponsored by the Friends of NCLBPH

On Thursday, April 14 at 1:00 PM the Friends of the North Carolina Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (FNCLBPH) invite you to join them for an afternoon at the newly renovated North Carolina Museum of Art.

An afternoon at the North Carolina Museum of Art includes:

• Transportation to and from the museum. 
• A box lunch at Keystone's offices with speaker Gary Ray, President, National Federation of the Blind of North Carolina.
• A group tour of the museum at 2:00 PM.

 From the North Carolina Museum of Art website:

Since the initial acquisition in 1947 of 139 works of European and American art, purchased with a $1 million appropriation of state funds, the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art has grown to include major holdings in European painting from the Renaissance to the 19th century (enhanced in 1960 by an extraordinary gift from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation of 75 works dating primarily from the Italian Renaissance and baroque periods), Egyptian funerary art, sculpture and vase painting from ancient Greece and Rome, American art of the 18th through 20th centuries, and international contemporary art. Other strengths include African, ancient American, pre-Columbian, and Oceanic art, and Jewish ceremonial objects. (The NCMA houses one of only two permanent displays of Jewish art in an American art museum.)

The 164-acre Museum Park is home to more than a dozen monumental works of art, with artists actively involved in the restoration of the Park’s landscape and the integration of art into its natural systems.