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Past Exhibitions

2020

New Days, New Works

Airing out the “Dirty” Laundry

Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries

2019

Coined in the South

Never Abandon Imagination: The Fantastical Art of Tony DiTerlizzi

Jan-Ru Wan: The Noise We Make

The Intertwined Designs of Virginia James Stellmacher

Undulating pipes forming repetitive geometric figures.

Immersed In Light: Studio Drift at the Mint

2018

Up-close of a woman with vertical lines spanning the canvas

Robert Lazzarini: the flowering

porcelain Yucca plant with long stem coming out of the middle.

Michael Sherrill Retrospective

abstract drawing of a woman surrounded by bunnies and an octopus

Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum

The Glamour and Romance of Oscar de la Renta

Drawing of recovered inscriptions on artifacts. Pictured are several people holding a ceremony

El Tajín: Photographs and Drawings by Michael Kampen

Playbill depicting elizabet the queen in her royal attire

It’s Magic Time: The Mint Museum Drama Guild 1954–1979

Dress made with traditional wax print for African-Print Fashion Now!

African-Print Fashion Now! A Story Of Taste, Globalization, And Style

2017

William Ivey Long in his studio with inspiration boards for The Rocky Horror Picture Show

William Ivey Long: Constume designs 2007 -2016

The Wyeths: Three Generations,Works from the Bank of America Collection

Collage of a abstract figure swirling through the canvas.

Kidnapped Pagans: A Charlotte Arts Project

Gendered: An Inclusive Art Show

Star Gallery: Storytelling Gourds

Reveal and Detonate (Develar y Detonar): Contemporary Mexican Photography

Star Gallery: Deconstructing Contemporary Art

Charlotte Collects: Contemporary Couture and Fabulous Fashion

Art in the Book: Artists as Illustrators

State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now

Star Gallery: Voyages

The Year of Fashion at the Mint Museum

2016

Thin ceramic bowls filled with small coffee-bean items.

80 X 80: An Art Show

up close of a dress with birds and flowers on it

Outdoor Is In

Marek Ranis: Like Shishmaref

Leo Twiggs: Requiem for Mother Emanuel

Women of Abstract Expressionism

Fired up: Women in Glass

Her Place was Making History: Mary Myers Dwelle

David Stuempfle Selects: North Carolina Pottery in a Global Context

John Biggers:Wheels in Wheels

West Meets East

Romare Bearden: Odysseus Series

Pumped: The Art & Craft of Shoemaking

Here & Now: 80 Years of Photography at The Mint

Contemporary British Studio Ceramics: The Grainer Collection

2015

A man kneels infant of artwork teaching a group of children what it is

Coveted Colors | Year of the Collection

Modern Musings: European Works on Paper

New York to Nebo: The Artistic Journey of Eugene Thomason

Viva Moschino!

American Quilt Classics: The Bresler Collection

Ramesses The Great: Building Community

Ramesses The Great: Building Community

America The Beautiful: Works on Paper from The Mint Museum

International Sculpture Day

Star Gallery: The Museum as Muse

Body Embellishment

Connecting the World: The Panama Canal at 100

Halston and Warhol: Silver and Suede

2014

A boombox with a cassette player in the front

The Boombox Project

A circular framed photograph of the 5th floor of Mint Museum Uptown. it is a part of the Music Factories moment mile project

The Light Factory’s Moment Mile

Photography equipment set up in the exhibition area to photograph garments.

Behind The Seams

Mint Library & Archives Spotlight: Oriental Ceramic Art: Excellent Extravagance

Kristina Rogers: Into the Labyrinth

Kristina Rogers: Into The Labyrinth

Star Gallery: Memes for Peace: Art, Advocay, & Academic Achievement

Beyond Craft: Decorative Arts from the Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection

Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment

Allure of Flowers: Botanical Motifs in Craft, Design, & Fashion

Star Gallery: Witness Davidson

2012

A classic horse drawn carriage that has been covered in an ink-like substance

Vote for Art

Carved mask from Mexico that resembles a man with long hair and a mustache

The Transformed Self: Performance Masks of Mexico

American Ceramics, 1825 – 1875

A porcelain statue of an angle and a woman standing next to a pedestal

Classically Inspired: European Ceramics Circa 1800

2013

Artist Motoi Yamamoto shaping salt into a circle

Artist in Residence Motoi Yamamoto

Bearing Witness: The New York Photo League and Sonia Handelman Meyer

Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939

Jennifer Steinkamp: Orbit 12

North Carolina Pottery, Then and Now

Still Lives: Early Works by Sharon Core

Dior, Balmain, Saint Laurent: Elegance and Ease

American Glass

2011

Fashionable Silhouettes

2010

A large maze like structure constructed on the lawn of Mint Museum Randolph

Project Ten Ten Ten

decorative striped pancho with wide neck and embellished collar

Threads of Identity: Contemporary Maya Textiles

For information regarding exhibitions prior to 2010, please contact our Library and Archives for supporting material.