Nasher Museum of Art

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Duke Campus Farm

Nasher – Duke Campus Farm Tour

April 12, 2025

Join us for collaborative program between Duke Campus Farm and the Nasher Museum. We will start with a tour at the museum considering art that helps us explore how humans ...

Duke student football players participate in the "Back to Back Drawing" activity

Gallery Guide Tour with a Twist

November 21, 2024

Join our experienced Gallery Guides for a quirky tour of the museum! After learning more about our exhibitions, we will sketch back-to-back, go on a scavenger hunt and more. You ...

still from Amazonia; an indigenous woman with face tattoos gazes into the camera

NCLAFF: Amazônia, a nova minamata?

October 24, 2024

Introduced by Gustavo Furtado, Romance Studies at Duke. With the presence of the director, Jorge Bodansky Free and open to the public. Dir. by Jorge Bodansky. Brazil. 2022. 75 min. ...

Duke Student football players describe art to one another during our "Back to Back Drawing" activity

Gallery Guide Tour with a Twist

October 17, 2024

Join our experienced Gallery Guides for a quirky tour of the museum! After learning more about our exhibitions, we will sketch back-to-back, go on a scavenger hunt and more. You ...

Special Exhibition Tour: Second Nature

Special Exhibition Tour: Second Nature

September 27, 2024

Join this tour led by a gallery guide of the new exhibition Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene. Learn more about this traveling exhibition organized by Chief ...

Chris Yon & Taryn Griggs. Photo by Zoe Litaker

Chris Yon & Taryn Griggs

September 12, 2024

“Dance, for our family, is a parenthesis for life experience. Periods of our lives that we spent working on choreography coincide with periods of major things happening in our lives ...

A black and white photo of 2 dancers with their silhouettes behind them.

Chris Yon & Taryn Griggs

September 12, 2024

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! YOGGS FAMILY NEWSLETTER, 2014-present, is an immersive experience where the audience is led through the lobby of the Nasher Museum of Art ...

The artist Odili Donald Odita looks at this mural in the museum's Great Hall, "Shadow and Light (for Julian Francis Abele)."

Family Day: Odita: A Wonderous Mural

September 8, 2024

Collaborate with the community and create a floor mural inspired by Odili Donald Odita’s “Shadow and Light (for Julian Francis Abele)” prominently displayed in our Great Hall. Have fun with ...

Gohar Dashti, Untitled #2 from the series Home, 2017

Second Nature Exhibition Public Opening

August 29, 2024

Join us to celebrate the opening of Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene with special tours of this original, traveling exhibition. Enjoy a drink from the cash ...

Young visitors learn drumming by hand

Family Day: The Beat of Life

August 11, 2024

Celebrate the Beat of Life with readings and activities provided by our friends at Durham County Library and drumming sessions with Raleigh Drum Circle that will energize your spirits! Parking ...

Gallery Guide Veronika Payne leads a discussion within the exhibition Love & Anarchy. Photo by Wilson.

Gallery Guide Public Tour with a Twist

June 27, 2024

Join our experienced Gallery Guides for a quirky tour of the museum! After learning more about our exhibitions, we will sketch back-to-back, go on a scavenger hunt and more. You ...

Juneteenth at the Nasher

Juneteenth at the Nasher

June 20, 2024

June 19, 1865, widely known as Juneteenth, marks the day that enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom. In commemoration of the long-held fight for freedom, ...

Family day creations

Family Day: A Point in Time

June 16, 2024

Take a trip through time and explore works of art with defining characteristics that give us a clue into when they were made. Enjoy looking at and learning about real-life ...

María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Beba (Director Rebeca Huntt, 2022, 79 minutes, Rated R)

Free Film: Beba

May 30, 2024

With a filming style akin to the artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Beba (Director Rebeca Huntt, 2022, 79 minutes, Rated R) is a self-portrait of the star, producer and director Rebeca ...

Nasher Community Celebration

Nasher Community Celebration

May 5, 2024

Join us for an outdoor party featuring Afro-Caribbean dance performances and Afro drumming lessons. We’ll celebrate Behold with fun art activities: Camera obscura making and mobiles with modeling clay and ...

María Magdalena Campos-Pons, "De Las Dos Aguas" (Of the Two Waters), 2007.

Polaroid Workshop

April 25, 2024

We welcome UNC professor and photographer Lindsay Metivier for a one-of-a-kind workshop! After reviewing photography composition techniques, learn how to transfer images from a Polaroid picture onto a new surface. ...