African American Cultural Center gallery

Feb 3, 2022

AACC Hosts Avery Bolden for First Winter Gallery

On Jan. 14, the African American Cultural Center (AACC) hosted the opening reception for their latest art gallery entitled Black Girl Maverick. The art gallery is the first solo exhibit of the work of Avery Bolden. Bolden has a bachelor’s degree in art history from Old Dominion University. She is a native of Roanoke, VA…

Sep 20, 2021

Sankofa: Learning From the Past To Build The Future

A small room covered with the history that inspires the future. The Sankofa exhibition opened Friday, Sept. 10 at the African American Cultural Center (AACC) and it was an experience like no other.  As the doors of the exhibition opened, the guests were greeted with music and photography of important moments of Black students at…

Jan 31, 2019

AACC Introduces New Fellowship Opportunity, Announces Faculty Fellows

Graphic by Keilah Davis/Nubian Message. Photos contributed by AACC Faculty Fellows. Kennysha Woods | Managing Editor The African American Cultural Center Faculty Fellowship Program (AACC FFP) is a new semester-long fellowship that supports NC State faculty members’ research endeavors into African-American and African diasporic cultures. In an email interview with Nubian Message, Sachelle Ford, the assistant…

Jan 17, 2019

“I Am A Man” Exhibit Opening

The "I Am A Man" exhibit opened in the African American Cultural Center Gallery on January 16. The exhibit offers a collection of artwork and virtual reality experience by NC State students of professors Dr. Derek Ham and Scott Townsend, and the exhibit explores the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike of 1968 and the events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death. The exhibit will be open until February 4.