Mint Museum

Five fashion designers from Charlotte and around the region will headline the Mint Museum's QC GarMINT District, with their works featured on models in a runway show. It's part of the Wednesday Night Live series, and designers include Gordon Holliday, Megan Lagueruela, Tara Davis, Gege J. Gilzene and Brehon Williams.

Martin Lawrence is at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte along with DeRay Davis, Bruce Bruce, Adele Givens and Benji Brown. Plus the Festival in the Park in Freedom Park is back, and we’ve got the scoop on theater, art and music events for the weekend.

American impressionist John Leslie Breck was well-known in his time, but the artist's works have largely faded from public memory since his death in 1899. But now he's getting a comeback in Charlotte. Mint Museum Uptown is featuring a retrospective of Breck's work — including paintings that haven't been displayed publicly in over a century.

Charlotte's Mint Museum will be one of three U.S. museums to host a traveling exhibit of paintings by Picasso in two years. Museum officials plan to seek $500,000 from the Charlotte and Mecklenburg County governments to help pay for it.

A new exhibition at Mint Museum Randolph showcases the works of 25 different artists representing three different Charlotte art collectives, BLKMRKT, Brand the Moth and Goodyear Arts.

It’s time to take a look at events on tap for the weekend in the Queen City. The Charlotte Museum of History is hosting its annual African American Heritage Festival, an outdoor jazz series kicks off, the Davidson Players have a comedy production this weekend only, and the Bechtler Ensemble will be at the Duke Mansion.

In March 2020, museums and art galleries started shutting down. But that didn't mean artists themselves stopped creating. A new exhibition at Charlotte’s Mint Museum shows just how artists were able to adapt to isolation and find inspiration during a whirlwind year of pandemic, uprising, racial reckoning and political furor.

Mint Museum Uptown’s new exhibition, “W|ALLS: Defend, Divide and the Divine,” shows how the physical structures that we build to protect and defend and often divide can many times turn into invisible barriers.

Some Charlotte museums are reopening, even though Mecklenburg Health Director Gibbie Harris has extended her health directive through the end of the month.

For six months, the arts world in Charlotte and beyond has placed everything on hold and waited. Waited for coronavirus infection numbers to decline,…