March 30 (Virtual) 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Join us in conversation with Aliyah Bonnette @sweetpeachlee, Jasmine Best @jasminebestart, Steven Johnson II @s_a_johnson, and Gwendolyn Wallace @g.m.wallace, to learn a little about the practices that lead them to this opportunity!
You can register for the event and learn more about the exhibition via the link in bio!
https://vaeraleigh.org/upcoming-events
Our newest exhibition, CREATING A HOME, NOT AN EMPIRE opens in just one week on February 11th! Come hang out with us that Friday from 6-8pm to see the show.
Curated by our Collaborative Curatorial Fellow, Alyssa Cuffie (@alwhyssa), this exhibition is a group show that explores the co-creation of the black family home and process of remembering.
Until then, be sure to check our stories for updates on the show!
#vaeraleigh #raleigharts
Erica Porter, President of VAE’s Board of Directors, inviting you to celebrate Juneteenth with the Southeast Raleigh YMCA tomorrow! We will be there to support free street painting!
Exciting announcement from our friends at NCSITE!
We are so excited to have NC Section ITE - NCSite support for our Collective Works project! They are matching every dollar raised up to $8,160 between now and June 12th! We are so humbled by the support from this professional group in memory of our mutual friend Todd Delk. Todd was a dedicated member of NCSITE and a longtime friend of VAE. Todd would currently be a member of VAE's board of directors if he had not taken his own life last year. He is greatly missed and with this partnership, VAE and NCSITE are doing our part to make sure our friends and family know they can always reach out to us when they need help.
Collective Works is a project to help fight the stigma of mental health and raise funds to help Nami Walks of North Carolina meet the increased needs of our community members living with mental illness. Throw in a few dollars, add some pixels, and walk by VAE’s windows to see the full image! Make your contribution here: https://vaeraleigh.org/collective
An exciting update on the NC Artist Relief Fund!
An exciting update on the NC Artist Relief Fund that VAE launched in partnership with Artspace, PineCone - Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, Theatre Raleigh, and United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County on March 14th.
The need is huge, but we continue to chip away at it week by week! So grateful to our partners Artspace, PineCone - Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, Theatre Raleigh, and United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County! Donate or apply: https://vaeraleigh.org/artist-relief-fund
So many fun pieces to bid on in our Toilet Paper Art Benefit Auction! All proceeds benefit the NC Artist Relief Fund (https://vaeraleigh.org/artist-relief-fund). Plus you get a little piece of artistic history for your collection!
Amazing installation by Nate Sheaffer in our front gallery! Come by and see it tomorrow during First Friday!
Today is June 30, which is basically New Year’s Eve for nonprofits everywhere! 🥳 You can wish VAE a happy New Years and help us get a jump on next year’s programming by donating, becoming a member, or becoming a monthly sustainer! A few dollars goes a long way! Remember, small organizations like VAE exist 100% through the support of our community and FOR our community!
And before they let you go, gotta dance it out! That’s a wrap. Opulence Ball 2019 was a fabulous success! Thanks to @trey_sux and @zensofly #raleighpride
VAE board member Trey Roberts walking in the Rich Dead Husband Funeral category! #raleighpride
Opulence Ball 2019! Early 2000’s Pop Queen category!
See you tonight for WeClaim Raleigh’s kickoff event! Want to have a more proactive hand in shaping our city? Then be there!
LAST CHANCE to enter to win two tickets to our 🍬80s Candyland PROM 🍬this Saturday! Here’s the final clue, and this time we are giving you three video clues to work with! (Yesterday’s slow jam clearly took y’all’s breath away because there were ZERO correct guesses!)
Email us 1) the name and artist of song and 2) which prom royalty couples named it their ultimate prom jam. (Hint: www.vaeraleigh.org/prom-court-2019 !) Send your guess to [email protected] no later than 11 am Friday morning!
Good luck everyone! 🍀
Here’s a second clue for today’s PROM SLOW JAM ticket giveaway! Email us (don’t comment!) what the song is AND which of our prom royal couples chose it as their ultimate prom song to be entered in a drawing for two free tickets to Saturday’s totally tubular PROM at Legends Nightclub Complex
Email your guesses to [email protected]!
Day three of 🍭PROM SLOW JAM 🍭ticket giveaway! Yesterday’s clue was a real stumper, so today we’ll post two videos from the same song. (HINT: there are only six possible songs it can be and they are all listed somewhere on the PROM pages on our website!)
If you can sleuth out 1) what this song is (artist and title) and 2) which of our prom royal court couples named it as their ultimate prom jam, you will be entered in a drawing for two free prom tickets for this Saturday’s totally bodacious party! Email your guess to [email protected]!
And while you are on our website don’t forget to vote for your pick up for the prom royal couple! Every dollar equals a vote and all proceeds go directly toward VAE‘s exhibitions and community events! (Voting is not necessary for prize eligibility.)
We’ll be doing four song clues this week, so you get four chances to win! On Friday we’ll draw a winner from all of the correct answers! Good luck!🍀
Day two of 🍭PROM SLOW JAM 🍭ticket giveaway! The clues are getting trickier! If you can figure out 1) what this song is (artist and title) and 2) which of our prom royal court couples named it as their ultimate prom jam (hint: link in bio!) you will be entered in a drawing for two free prom tickets for this Saturday’s totally bodacious party! Email your guess to [email protected]!
And while you are on our website don’t forget to vote for your pick up for the prom royal couple! Every dollar equals a vote and all proceeds go directly toward VAE‘s exhibitions and community events! (Voting is not necessary for prize eligibility.)
We’ll be doing four song clues this week, so you get four chances to win! On Friday we’ll draw a winner from all of the correct answers! Good luck!🍀
🍬🍭PROM slow jams ticket giveaway! 🍭🍬If you can figure out 1) what this song is (artist and title) and 2) which of our prom royal court couples named it as their ultimate prom jam (hint: www.vaeraleigh.org/vae-prom) you will be entered in a drawing for two free prom tickets for this Saturday! Email your guess to [email protected]!
We’ll be doing four songs this week, so you get four chances to win! On Thursday we’ll draw a winner from all of the correct answers!
It’s getting real! The couples vying to be our 2019 PROM Royalty are gearing up their marketing! Brandon Cordrey has officially accepted Danielle Shuirman's invite to be her co-reigning queen! Vote for your couples here: https://vaeraleigh.org/prom-court-2019. $1 = 1 vote and all donations are tax deductible. Join us for PROM at Legends Nightclub Complex on June 8!
Imagine Circus and Rayland Baxter are giving us fire before the rain!
@imaginecircus repping VAE at @midtownevents Midtown Music Fest!
Eric Kniss has begun work on his cube installation. He has purposefully closed the cube gallery off to the public while he works and installed two monitors for the public to view. The monitor on the left is a live feed of the cube while the monitor on the right shows a sped up loop of his process from the beginning to present. His artwork considers labor and how we tie labor to the physical results. Asking us how we determine if labor actually took place if the only way we can see the result is through a digital experience. So from a wider perspective, how do you know an artist’s work, their process, and their results if you only ever experience it through online platforms?
Come by tonight for @firstfridayral for the closing of Carrie Fonder’s “Sometimes you eat the goat...” in our Cube gallery!
An homage to Samuel Oliver-Bruno. “I feel alright, we got no worries here... because I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing.”
Toshi Reagon is here and you should hear her voice reverberate in this beautiful space!
We are headed back to the Kmart this morning for cleanup duty after a WONDERFUL GALA last night! Thank you to everyone who came and celebrated the Triangle’s creative community!
ZenSoFly on #QueerHome
Today is the last day to hang in our #QueerHome. Here is ZenSoFly, one of the dope performers that graced our living room last weekend. Here's what she has to say about #QueerHome.
What do you have to say about it? Did you see it? How did it make you feel? What did you learn?
We are so thankful to LGBT Center of Raleigh for being an amazing project partner, our generous sponsors, all of the artists that were part of this project and every single person that entered our home.
You still have until 4pm to see our house. And our 35th Annual VAE Gala is tonight!
