Join the Gregg Museum of Art & Design and the NC State University Libraries for a gallery walk featuring recently installed artworks created by Joe Cox, a foundational figure in the history of NC State’s College of Design. Selected items from the Special Collections Resource Center will also be on display.

Brief remarks will be given by:

• Sara Segerlin, the Gregg's director and chair of NC State’s Public Art Committee
•  Sandra Varry, head of the Special Collections Research Center at the Libraries
• Patrick Deaton, associate director of learning spaces and capital management at the Libraries

Their remarks will be followed by a self-guided gallery walk through the D. H. Hill Jr. Library’s ground-floor reading room, concluding at the Color Wall on the library's second floor.

Please RSVP by April 24.

Cox (1915–1997) was a nationally respected artist and educator. As a painter, muralist and longtime College of Design faculty member, Cox helped shape the college’s early interdisciplinary ethos— bridging fine art, architecture and design. His work is known for its modernist sensibility, strong compositional structure and engagement with regional and civic themes. Cox’s legacy lives on through artworks held by the Libraries and installed across campus, reflecting the university’s longstanding commitment to integrating art into academic and public spaces.

One of Cox’s most notable public artworks in Raleigh is Color Wall, a kinetic light sculpture installed in 1972 inside Hill Library. The work combines colored spotlights and metal vanes to create shifting patterns of light and color —visible from the street at night — and remains a landmark example of mid-century public art at NC State.