16. Lee Hansley Gallery
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 828-7557
Address: 225 Glenwood Ave.
Description: Lee Hansley’s experience as a former curator at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem has informed his gallery’s artistic sensibilities since its creation in 1993. It is housed in a restored bungalow on Glenwood South, a revitalized section of the city a few blocks from downtown. The gallery represents 35 artists, with a concentration on contemporary regional and North Carolina artists, living and historical. Mediums include painting, sculpture, mixed-media, ceramics, works on paper, and photography. Frequent exhibitions feature the work of gallery artists as well as others by invitation. Hansley recently opened a second gallery space nearby at 126 Glenwood Ave.
17. Little Art Gallery
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 890-4111
Address: 432 Daniels St., Cameron Village
Description: One of Raleigh’s oldest galleries, the Little Art Gallery opened in 1968 and is in Cameron Village, the city’s oldest shopping center. Today it carries the works of more than 100 artists, mostly from the Southeast. The gallery also carries sculpture and crafts, including Brian Andreas’s Story People.
18. Local Color Gallery
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 754-3887
Address: 22 S. Glenwood
Description: A co-operative of women artists created Local Color in the early 2000s as a place to show their art. Today, the co-op includes 14 members who operate store-front gallery space in the Glenwood South arts and entertainment district. In addition to monthly exhibitions of work by members and others, Local Color sponsors an annual event called Plein Air Paint Out in April. On one day, entrants paint a designated section of the city, then submit the paintings to a jury for judging.
19. Lump
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 889-2927
Address: 505 S. Blount St.
Description: Lump is the Triangle’s most provocative artist collective and the best known in national and international contemporary art circles. Housed in a small former garage a few blocks from Shaw University in downtown Raleigh, the gallery presents mostly installation works. Lump features artists from around the country and world. The emphasis is on emerging artists and those who fly beneath the radar. Members of Team Lump, the collective, exhibit nationally and internationally. Members work in a range of mixed media, addressing a range of political and social themes. This is no place to look for your grandmother’s Christmas present.
20. The Mahler
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 896-7503
Address: 228 Fayetteville St.
Description: One of the newer additions to Raleigh’s arts scene, the Mahler opened in 2009 in a sleekly renovated Fayetteville Street storefront that once housed a silversmith shop. Golden wood floors and natural light give the long, narrow space a warm glow and exposed plaster recalls its history. The Mahler specializes in modern art, in genres including abstract, architectural, figurative, landscape, and still life painting as well as glassworks, photography, and sculpture. Artists are regional and national, emerging and established.
21. Nicole’S Studio And Art Gallery
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 838-8580
Address: 715 N. Person St.
Description: Nicole Kennedy features her paintings and the work of about 35 other artists in her gallery, in a shopping center a block from Peace College. Pastoral North Carolina and European landscape paintings dominate, but the gallery also deals in glass art, jewelry, and ceramics. Nicole’s Studio stages monthly exhibits of artists’ works in the studio and on occasion in the Capital Bank Plaza Lobby on Fayetteville Street. The studio offers workshops in painting and drawing.
22. Points Of View Photography Gallery
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 819-1000
Address: 20 Glenwood Ave.
Description: Points of View is home to more than 20 photographers who concentrate on fine art and documentary photography using a variety of processes and approaches. Most are regional artists who have achieved national distinction. Images on display could range from abstract studies of light and line to historical black-and-white street scenes.
23. Rebus Works
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 754-8452
Description: Rebus Works’ gallery sits at the Boylan Heights end of the Boylan Street Bridge, overlooking downtown Raleigh in what used to be the neighborhood’s family-owned grocery store. The gallery represents more than 35 artists and crafters from the Southeast and beyond. Among them are local surrealist painters, digital portraitists, visionary and folk artists, mixed-media sculptors, ceramicists, and glass blowers. Rebus Works presents frequent exhibits and an annual show called “Via Penland” of works inspired by their creators’ relationships with the renowned Penland School of Crafts near Asheville. Rebus Works also hosts Rebus Fest, an annual arts fair in the studio parking lot, on the same May weekend as Artsplosure downtown, and other community art events during the year.
24. 311 West Martin Street Galleries And Studios
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 821 2262
Address: 311 W. Martin St.
Description: A slate of half a dozen rotating artists specializing in mainly printmaking, photography, and painting occupies this space in the warehouse district. The 311 West gallery has evolved from owner Judy Jones’s original The Print Studio into a multi-genre arts center that stages collaborative efforts with painters from within and without. Abstract expressionist paintings and photos, mezzotints, intaglio, and lithography prints are among the offerings. Classes are offered through The Print Studio.
25. Tyndall Galleries Chapel Hill
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 942-2290
Description: Tyndall Gallery represents contemporary painters, sculptors, ceramicists, and textile artists whose work has achieved national acclaim. Most live and work in the Southeast. Works range from bas relief wooden sculptures of regional flora to Rothko-inspired watercolors. Exhibitions of gallery artists’ work change every month to two months. In University Mall, the gallery is a white-walled, wooden-floor respite from its surroundings.
26. Visual Art Exchange
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 828-7834
Address: 325 Blake St.
Description: VAE is a private non-profit whose mission is to provide opportunities for emerging artists to exhibit their work and hone their skills. Membership in the exchange is not juried, but exhibits at VAE’s gallery space are. In addition to regular exhibitions of member and non-member work, the gallery offers lessons in technique and networking opportunities for artists and art supporters, holds an annual exhibition of student art, and presents the annual Raleigh Street Painting Festival in September in conjunction with the Sparkcon festival. The gallery is a longtime resident of City Market, a renovated historic commercial district in the heart of downtown.
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 728 W. Hargett St.
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
29. North Carolina Museum Of History
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 807-7900
Address: 5 E. Edenton St.
Description: Any child who attended elementary school in North Carolina no doubt spent a field-trip day at the North Carolina Museum of History. The three-story museum occupies a city block between the State Capitol and the Legislative Building and shares a plaza with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 220 Fayetteville St.