Calendar - Charlotte, NC

Dates	Description	Category
Mar 1, 2012 - May 31, 2012	Light Factory eARTh Exchange: Building Awareness, Community, and Powerful Art (through May 13) promotes environmental awareness through photographic art and poetry by local high school students. The Calm Before the Storm: Human Interaction with the Natural Landscape (through May 6) examines humans ... View event details...	Museums
Dec 1, 2011 - Jul 28, 2012	McColl Center for Visual Art SQUARED (April 27-July 28) showcases art by Injoo Whang and Caitlin Masley. Whang’s work examines the interconnectedness between the individual and the collective. He accumulates single patterns, cut-out paper, and fabric to create drawings and installations that form a powerful whole. ... View event details...	Museums
Jan 2, 2012 - Jul 31, 2012	Bechtler Museum of Art Mid-century Modernism: 1957 and the Bechtler Collection runs March 2–Aug 27. Select Prints and Ceramics (April 20-July 23) features a series of lithographs, etchings, and ceramics. $4-$8. Closed Tuesday. Mon-Sat, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; first and third Fri of each month, ... View event details...	Museums
Mar 1, 2012 - Sep 9, 2012	Levine Museum of the New South The museum’s permanent exhibit, Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers, leads visitors through Charlotte’s history, from a churning textile mill to civil-rights-era sit-ins to the banking boom that ultimately put the city on the map. Courage & Compassion (through June 3) tells ... View event details...	Museums
Dec 1, 2011 - Jun 30, 2012	Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture Stephen Hayes: Cash Crop (through June 30) invites viewers to walk into an emotional, physical, and psychic space to confront the barbaric history of slavery. Contemporary African Photography: Malick Sidibé & Zwelethu Mthetwa and a gallery filled with abstract images, ... View event details...	Museums
Dec 1, 2011 - Jul 7, 2012	Mint Museum Uptown Jun Kaneko: In the Round (through April 28) spotlights a selection of Kaneko’s sculptures, artwork, and framed drawings of costume designs for Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Surrealism and Beyond (through May 13) is the largest surrealist exhibit ever shown in the Southeast. ... View event details...	Museums
Jan 28, 2012 - Jun 30, 2012	Charlotte Museum of History Liberty on the Border, a traveling exhibit organized by the Cincinnati Museum Center, provides new insight into the Civil War. Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections (through September 16) pairs artifacts and stories with portraits taken by award-winning photographer ... View event details...	Museums
May 21, 2012 - May 25, 2012	Women's Southern Amateur Championship Myers Park Country Club, the site of the WSGA 2012 Amateur, continues the WGSA's tradition of finding historic and challenging courses for our Amateur play. View event details...	Special Events
Mar 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2012	Mint Museum Randolph Sophisticated Surfaces: The Pottery of Herb Cohen (April 7-Jan 6, 2013) was organized as part of the Mint’s seventy-fifth-anniversary celebration and focuses on the ceramic creations of master potter Herb Cohen. It includes about sixty works that feature Cohen’s hallmarks: ... View event details...	Museums
May 23, 2012	Walter Trout Trout’s latest album—his twentieth—is Common Ground, and that title speaks to the subject matter. He’s a hard-core blues rocker, but his songs plead for a little understanding among us. He’s known for deeply personal songs such as “Recovery” (about his ... View event details...	Concerts