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NorthStar Church of the Arts presents gleamin’: And none is barren among them, a solo exhibition by Majesty Royale-Jackson. This multimedia installation combines sculpture, sound and video projection to explore transformation as a technology of survival and self-determination.
At the center of the exhibition, the artist alchemizes tobacco leaves into flamboyant mouth adornments known as grillz. The work places the sacred significance and history of colonial extraction of Carolina tobacco, nicknamed “gold leaf,” alongside the flamboyant adornment of grillz in Southern hip-hop. Through the creative repurposing of materials, gleamin’ considers how Black and Indigenous people transform the conditions of coloniality into expressions of autonomy, adornment and possibility.
Selected through an open call process, the exhibition is the third and final installment of NorthStar’s 2026 Spotlight Exhibition Series, which supports emerging local artists in producing their first solo exhibitions.
The exhibition features three free public programs:
- Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 13, 5-9 p.m.
- Artist Talk as Performance with guest artist Sia Moon: Thursday, Nov. 19, 6-8 p.m.
- Getting Free Workshop: Sunday, Nov. 22, 1-4 p.m.
Majesty Royale-Jackson (they/them) is a Black Seminole performance maker and installation artist working in dance, sound art and digital media. Based in Durham, North Carolina, they create interdisciplinary works for theaters, galleries and public spaces, drawing on Black Indigenous queer technologies that traverse archival sources through universes seen and unseen. Remixing, improvisation, call and response, and creative misuse emerge from dance floors and church basements as methods for transforming collective memory and imagining more fugitive ways of being.
Established in 2019, NorthStar Church of the Arts is a multidisciplinary arts organization in Durham, North Carolina, dedicated to art, community and care. The Spotlight Exhibition Series is made possible in part by the Triangle Community Foundation’s Cultural Arts Grant.
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NorthStar Church of the Arts presents gleamin’: And none is barren among them, a solo exhibition by Majesty Royale-Jackson. This multimedia installation combines sculpture, sound and video projection to explore transformation as a technology of survival and self-determination.
At the center of the exhibition, the artist alchemizes tobacco leaves into flamboyant mouth adornments known as grillz. The work places the sacred significance and history of colonial extraction of Carolina tobacco, nicknamed “gold leaf,” alongside the flamboyant adornment of grillz in Southern hip-hop. Through the creative repurposing of materials, gleamin’ considers how Black and Indigenous people transform the conditions of coloniality into expressions of autonomy, adornment and possibility.
Selected through an open call process, the exhibition is the third and final installment of NorthStar’s 2026 Spotlight Exhibition Series, which supports emerging local artists in producing their first solo exhibitions.
The exhibition features three free public programs:
- Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 13, 5-9 p.m.
- Artist Talk as Performance with guest artist Sia Moon: Thursday, Nov. 19, 6-8 p.m.
- Getting Free Workshop: Sunday, Nov. 22, 1-4 p.m.
Majesty Royale-Jackson (they/them) is a Black Seminole performance maker and installation artist working in dance, sound art and digital media. Based in Durham, North Carolina, they create interdisciplinary works for theaters, galleries and public spaces, drawing on Black Indigenous queer technologies that traverse archival sources through universes seen and unseen. Remixing, improvisation, call and response, and creative misuse emerge from dance floors and church basements as methods for transforming collective memory and imagining more fugitive ways of being.
Established in 2019, NorthStar Church of the Arts is a multidisciplinary arts organization in Durham, North Carolina, dedicated to art, community and care. The Spotlight Exhibition Series is made possible in part by the Triangle Community Foundation’s Cultural Arts Grant.
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