The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture, at 551 South Tryon Street at Levine Center for the Arts, celebrates the contributions to our art and culture by African and African-American people. It features changing exhibits, and frequently hosts low-priced arts events for the community, giving them a chance to meet working African-American artists and to create their own art.
Read on to learn about current exhibits, the museum’s schedule and ticket prices, and upcoming events, including two Juneteenth events. Or jump right to the upcoming events.
Hours:
- Sunday: 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
- Monday: Closed
- Tuesday: 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
- Wednesday 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- Thursday: 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
- Friday: 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
- Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission
- Adults: $9
- College/educator/military/senior: $7
- Youth age 6-17: $7
- Youth 5 and under: Free
- Members: Free
Discounts and Free Days at the Gantt Center
The Gantt Center is part of Wednesday Night Live, during which there is free admission to several Uptown museums, including the Gantt Center, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, and Mint Museum Uptown. There is also a free performance or activity at one of the museums, or at Knight Theater. Wednesday Night Live takes place every Wednesday evening, from 5 to 9 p.m.
In addition, the first full weekend of the month, customer of Bank of America are admitted, free of charge, to the Gantt Center as well as many other museums across the country, as part of their Museum on Us program. You just need to bring your Bank of America or Merrill credit or debit card.
In addition, there is often a discount offered through Groupon.
Parking at the Gantt Center
The Levine Center for the Arts parking garage is located across Tryon Street from the Gantt Center. Enter at 101 W. Stonewall Street. Park on levels P1 and P2. Once at the Gantt, ask for a discounted parking pass. With the parking pass the maximum charge for parking will be $5.
There are also other parking garage and surface lots a short walk from the Gantt Center.
Accessibility at the Gantt Center
The Gantt Center has wheelchairs available. If you have other needs, please let the staff know so that accommodations can be made. In addition, the Gantt Center has installed iBeacons to help patrons who have vision loss navigate around the facility.
Upcoming Events
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Give Her Flowers: Honoring Women in Community & Art
Friday, March 8, 2024
6 to 9 p.m.
Free with RSVP
All ages
Epoch Tribe and the Gantt Center have once again come together to create a special honoring of the pillars in our community through creative writing, performance, and fellowship. This 3-hour program features drop-in experiences dedicated to highlighting and exploring the beauty of Black women in Charlotte and beyond.
In honor of International Women’s Day and Queen Charlotte Week, we gather to celebrate and honor the women who make our lives more rich and beautiful each day. In addition to performances of true stories of women who shape our community, the mic will be open for performances of poetry, music, and stories that celebrate sisterhood. Other creative/arts-based offerings will happen throughout the night.
Classic Black Cinema: Thomasine & Bushrod
Sunday, March 10, 2024
2 p.m.
Free with museum admission
Age 18+
Come out for a special screening of the 1974 film, Thomasine & Bushrod, starring the 1970s film legends, Max Julien and Vonetta McGee. All Classic Black Cinema films this season were released in 1974 — the year of our founding – – to celebrate the Gantt Golden Year, Gantt Center’s 50th anniversary!
This film takes place in the 1910s and explores the exploits of bounty hunter (Thomasine) and bandit (Bushrod) who, after rekindling their old romance, start robbing banks to survive — stealing from the rich and sharing their loot with the poor on the harsh frontier.
Exploring Our Human Museum
Saturday, March 16, 2024
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Free with RSVP
Ages 21+
Join us for a special Big Read in Charlotte writing workshop that also honors Women’s History Month. North Carolina Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green, facilitates a creativity salon focused on What We Keep Keeps Us: Exploring Our Human Museums. This creativity salon weaves through the layers of identity, historical memory, traditions, and artifacts that provide the eloquence of the many landscapes in Yaa Gyasi’s book, Homegoing. Participants are invited to bring artifacts, photos, heirlooms, or stories that hold special meaning for them. This session includes writing and discussion that examines the many narratives, memoirs, stories, poems, novels, and legacies that are hidden in plain sight… just waiting to be written.
All workshop participants should have read Homegoing, the book selected for the Big Read program. Registered participants may receive a free copy of the book by contacting the Gantt’s Museum Store.
Wednesday Night Live: Ghana – Photographic & Poetic Reflections
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
6:30 to 8 p.m.
Free
All ages
Experience Ghana during an evening of poetry, music, art, and photography reflecting playwright Ruth Sloane’s recent sojourn to the Motherland. This Big Read in Charlotte event showcases Ghana’s vibrancy as a result of Ruth’s Arts and Science Council Creative Renewal Fellowship to explore ancestry. Participants will have a front-row seat to the beautiful cultural aspects of Ghana seen through the eyes of the playwright via a choreopoem, artifacts, and beautiful photography captured during her December trip to Africa.
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Upcoming Events in the Charlotte area
Check out our full events calendar, where you can enter any date, or look at the events for the next few days here:Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture
551 South Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
704-547-3700