Two reasons to go to Raleigh.
woven stick bust by Patrick Dougherty
Artist Patrick Dougherty is creating a giant woven bust on the grounds of the NC Art Museum. The News and Observer did a good write up on the project, but it’s nowhere to be found on the Museum’s own site. Dougherty’s work is original and delightful. I recall his woven cacoons relaxing on the front porch of the house he rented near campus. Then the flowing forms that seems to appear around town and even, as I recall, at the NC Art Museum some years back. Patrick Dougherty has since created over 100 stick weavings all over the world. He’s just back from Wisconsin where his work was documented on a daily basis as he created a piece called “Putting Two and Two Together” for the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum.

From the Museum of Natural Sciences:

WHAT: Joint News Conference between N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences & N.C. State University

WHEN: Thursday, March 24, 2005, 2:30 p.m.

WHERE: N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences Auditorium, 11 W. Jones St., Raleigh

WHY: A remarkable dinosaur discovery in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana has exposed a never before seen specimen. This discovery
could change the way modern scientists view fossilization. This is part of an embargoed story that will appear in Science Magazine this week.

WHO:? Leading author, Mary Schweitzer, Ph.D, Dept. of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at N.C. State University, and Jack Horner, Curator of Paleontology, Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana will be available to answer questions.

Note: News Release will be available at 2 p.m. on Thursday when the embargo is lifted.