The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art is among the organizations that receives funding from ASC.
The city of Charlotte is considering shutting off its annual $3.2 million allocations to the Arts & Science Council.
Instead, the city would distribute the money in another way, possibly on its own.
Under the proposal, the city would increase its allocation to the arts from $3.2 million to $4 million. The money would be targeted to art institutions that operate in city-owned buildings like the Mint Museum, the Blumenthal Performing Arts and the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+ Culture.
At-large council member Julie Eiselt, who chairs an ad hoc committee on the arts, said she wants to make sure those city buildings are being most effectively used.
ArtBreak with Levine Center for the Arts ArtBreak is the monthly discussion between the three museums of the Levine Center for the Arts. For February, we discuss Social Harmony.
About this Event
Join professional museum educators and docents from The Mint Museum, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, and Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture to look closely and discuss one work of art from each museum. Each month, a specific theme is chosen to connect the works of art, and this month we will focus on “Social Harmony.”
The image that we have chosen to discuss is “Memorial March after assassination of MLK, Main St Memphis, April 8, 1968” by Ernest C. Withers.
The Mint Museum will reopen Friday after being closed for three weeks.
Some Charlotte museums are reopening this week, even though Mecklenburg County’s health directive encouraging people to stay at home to lessen the spread of COVID-19 was extended through February.
After Mecklenburg County Public Health Director Gibbie Harris issued the directive on Jan. 12, several museums including both branches of the Mint closed for three weeks.
Harris last week announced she was extending her directive until the end of February. The directive calls on people to “stay home” and “only leave your home for essential activities such as going to work (only if your work is essential) or childcare, for health care purposes, to care for family members or to buy food or other essential items.”
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A surprise directive from Mecklenburg County Public Health Director Gibbie Harris on Tuesday afternoon said that for the next three weeks, county residents should utilize full-virtual options for work, school and other activity where in-person activity is not required.” COVID-19 community spread is at its highest level of the pandemic.
That led to Charlotte museums to announce closures on Wednesday for the duration of the directive. The Mint Museum, Levine Museum of the New South, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Discovery Place and McColl Center all said they would close until at least Feb. 2