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The Mint Museum

Charlotte, NC (http://www.themintmuseums.org/)

Provider: The Mint Museum of Art

The Mint Museum is comprised of two museums, the Mint Museum of Art and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design. The Art Museum's permanent collection includes American and European paintings, furniture, crafts, historic costumes, and decorative arts; African, pre-Columbian, and Spanish Colonial art; and an internationally acclaimed collection of pottery and porcelain. The Craft and Design museum's collection focuses on ceramics, fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, metalwork and wood pieces.

Through December 31, 2006, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design is exhibiting “Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection at the Philbrook Museum of Art” an exhibit featuring 125 baskets created by Native Americans of the 19th and 20th centuries. These baskets represent the diverse cultures of tribes from as far north as the Arctic to those of the southeastern United States. Check out the Museum Wiki for more information.

In addition to the exhibition, the Museum is offering demonstration programs each Sunday afternoon in November showing North Carolina Indian crafts.

  • Nov 05, 2006, Beckee Garris demonstrates Catawba Pottery
  • Nov 12, 2006, Lucille and Ramona Lossiah demonstrate Cherokee Basketry
  • Nov 19, 2006 Katrina Maney demonstrates Cherokee Basketry
  • Nov 26, 2006, Barbara Locklear demonstrates Lumbee Storytelling and Beadworking

The Mint Museum of Art is located at 2730 Randolph Road and the Museum of Craft and Design is located at 220 North Tryon Street in downtown Charlotte. To schedule a tour for either museum contact the Tour Coordinator at 704-337-2043 or lstrauss@mintmuseum.org.

This website provides access to digitized images and brief descriptions from archived and current exhibitions at the museum as well as from the permanent collection. Teachers and students may be most interested in the interactive Web pages available at Junior Mint: