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SUMMARY:UNCW’s CAB Art Gallery Presents:  “Sarah Peoples: Through the Oyster Speculum”
DESCRIPTION:“Through the Oyster Speculum” is an exhibition of artworks by Philadelphia based\nartist\, Sarah Peoples\, opening in the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Cultural\nArts Building (CAB) Art Gallery on Monday\, June 22\, 2026.\nThe exhibition will run through Wednesday\, September 9\, 2026. A public reception will\nbe held on Thursday\, August 27\, 2026 from 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.\nSummer gallery hours are Monday\, Tuesday\, Wednesday\, and Thursday\, 10 a.m. to 4\np.m. and closed on Friday\, beginning May 22 – August 10\, 2026.\nRegular gallery hours are Monday\, Tuesday\, Wednesday\, and Friday\, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.\nwith extended hours on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.\nThe CAB Art Gallery is located on UNCW’s campus on the ground floor of the Cultural\nArts Building\, near the building’s main entrance. Visitors can access the gallery from\nSouth College Road or Racine Drive\, and parking is available in front of the box office\nentrance to the building.\nFor more information visit https://uncw.edu/seahawk-life/arts/venues/cultural-artsbuilding/\nand https://linktr.ee/cabartgallery\nSarah Peoples: Through the Oyster Speculum\n“Such a predetermination to eat this big universe as her oyster or her egg\, and to be\nabsolute empress of all height and glory in it that her heart could conceive\, I have not\nbefore seen in any human soul\,” Thomas Carlyle on American Transcendentalist\nMargaret Fuller’s hunger for experience.\nIn a multimedia exhibition of sculptural installation\, light\, and sound\, Sarah Peoples:\nThrough the Oyster Speculum reveals the stories\, legends\, myths\, and expressions\ndeployed as shorthand to make sense of American identity and culture. At the\nexhibition’s center\, a large diorama recreates the grand American wilderness as a\ntheatrical tableau. This immersive environment invites close inspection\, revealing\ninstability and distortion beneath familiar narratives. Using humor and wit\, Peoples\ndemonstrates how the very ideas meant to define a place can simultaneously obscure\nother truths\, creating parallel realities or mirror worlds that coexist rather than resolving\ninto singular meaning.\nThe world\, and specifically American ideals\, are Sarah Peoples’ oyster\, and she cracks\nthem open through a multivalent speculum. Derived from the Latin specere\, “to look\,” a\nspeculum refers to three distinct items: a mirror\, the iridescent beauty mark on a bird’s\nwing\, and a medical tool for inspection. In these capacities\, a speculum reflects\, signals\,\nand reveals. The installation of artworks encapsulates all meanings of the word. By\nforegrounding these disparate functions\, the exhibition spotlights the unstable ground\non which perception rests. To look through the oyster speculum is to see through the\nlenses of culture\, history\, and desire.
URL:https://www.artswilmington.org/event/uncws-cab-art-gallery-presents-sarah-peoples-through-the-oyster-speculum/
LOCATION:CAB ART Gallery\, 5270 Randall Dr\, Wilmington\, NC\, 28403\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="CAB Art Gallery":MAILTO:cabartgallery@uncw.edu
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SUMMARY:A Closer Look: America 250 & Historic Foodways Art Exhibition by Ricardo Perez
DESCRIPTION:Bellamy Mansion Museum is hosting an art exhibition\, “A Closer Look: America 			250 & Historic Foodways” by local artist Ricardo Perez. This exhibit combines 			striking portraits that commemorate our 250 years as a nation with evocative still life paintings that share stories of America’s rich culinary heritage.  \nVisitors can view the exhibit free of charge any time the museum is open (Mon-Sun\, 10 am-4 pm). The gallery space is on the second floor of the main house. Please stop by the Carriage House Visitor Center to gain admission. An artist’s reception will be held on Friday\, August 28th from 6-8 PM.
URL:https://www.artswilmington.org/event/a-closer-look-america-250-historic-foodways-art-exhibition-by-ricardo-perez/
LOCATION:The Bellamy Mansion Museum\, 503 Market Street\, Wilmington\, NC\, 28401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bellamy Mansion Museum of History &amp%3B Design Arts":MAILTO:berrios@bellamymansion.org
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SUMMARY:I WAS HERE: The Wrightsville Beach Museum Mailbox at Shell Island
DESCRIPTION:An interactive installation inspired by letters\, notes\, artifacts collected from the Wrightsville Beach Mailbox at Shell Island. Located at the north end of Wrightsville Beach island\, The Wrightsville Beach Museum Mailbox at Shell Island is a hidden gem where visitors can leave personal messages. Originally placed in 2003\, the mailbox has become a place for heartfelt notes and reflections. Over time\, the journals are collected and moved to the Wrightsville Beach Museum of History\, where they are displayed and archived. The mailbox creates a unique way for people to participate in a conversation through time and space. The letters and notes provide insight into the full scope of humanity. Many are letters to lost loved ones or the universe\, some are very sad\, some are deeply funny. Many are a mixture of emotions. Confessions\, goals\, dreams\, affirmations\, statements of gratitude. For over 100 years\, generations have come to Wrightsville Beach to make lasting memories. Wrightsville Beach Museum is so lucky to be the forever home of so many of our community’s photos and stories\, ensuring those memories are preserved and shared. Every day the museum plays host to a mixture of residents\, visitors\, and people who don’t neatly fit into either category. The mailbox is in many ways a monument to those memories and people.\nUNCW MA Public History Practica: Shell Island Legacy\, Connecting Past to Present Shell Island Beach is an important piece of the history of black leisure sites in Coastal Carolina and the realities of segregation in a tourism driven economy. Between 1917 – 1926\, efforts were made to develop what envisioned as a “mirror of Wrightsville Beach” or “National Negro Playground” on what was then a separate island. The resort was only open for three summers between 1923 and 1926\, but is a key historical touchpoint for the history of Black tourism in the area. In many ways\, the mailbox has become a form of ‘sacred space’ for complex emotion that has never fully been connected to the site’s history. A primary feature of this exhibition will be a project highlighting the emotional experience of archiving and connecting past to present. Artists and Community Curators Deidre Carney is an interdisciplinary contemporary artist and curator of the Wrightsville Beach Museum. Deidre’s work is mostly influenced by dynamic engagement\, utilizing archival and digital arts methods to explore the relationship between the ephemeral and the preserved\, the curated and the collaborative.\nRebekah Burroughs is a student in the UNCW Public History Program\, curating for the Wrightsville Beach Museum as part of her program requirements. Rebekah has worked in curation and museum collections at The Country Doctor Museum in Bailey\, NC\, and the Wilmington Railroad Museum and Burgwin-Wright House and Gardens.\nWrightsville Beach Museum Junior Docents: A Tar Heel Association Club is a free club for students in grades 4-12 where students learn by doing. Students in the program gain curatorial and creative arts skills through participation in every stage of the process.
URL:https://www.artswilmington.org/event/i-was-here-the-wrightsville-beach-museum-mailbox-at-shell-island/
LOCATION:Seapath Marina and Yacht Club Clubhouse\, Dock Dr & Causeway Dr\, Wrightsville Beach\, NC\, 28480\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Wrightsville Beach Museum":MAILTO:info@wbmuseumofhistory.com
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