Amazing Grace, Confronting the Enduring Legacy
- Dates: February 6, 2025 - August 2, 2025
- Recurrence: Recurring daily
- Venue: Gregg Museum of Art & Design
- Location: West Raleigh
- Address: 1903 Hillsborough St., Raleigh, NC 27607
- Phone: 919.515.3503
- Times: Tues.-Sat. 10am-5pm
- Admission: Free
About
Amazing Grace, Confronting the Enduring Legacy is an immersive installation by Carl Joe Williams combining painting, video, and found objects to guide viewers through exploring humanity’s complexities and challenging the notion of race as a social construct. Amazing Grace, Confronting the Enduring Legacy emerges as a visionary art installation that seeks to bridge divides through collaborative creation. This transformative project, conceived as a partnership between students and faculty, aims to illuminate our shared humanity while catalyzing vital conversations about our collective future. Born and raised in New Orleans, Williams’ cultural heritage is reflected in his pieces, and his installations are celebrated for their dynamic blend of color, texture, and form.
Williams marks the relaunch of the Gregg Museum’s artist residency program designed to engage NC State’s campus communities in discussion community dialogue around social impact through arts by elevating meaningful dialogue, creative arts-based solutions to real-world challenges, and ethical practice. Students and faculty can attend an artist talk, visit Carl in class, participate in an artist-led workshop, and there is an open call for students to contribute a video monologue to be woven into the installation