SCREENINGS AND EVENTS
2026 South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers
We’re thrilled to be joining South Arts and nine Screening Partners to share MINNIE EVANS: DRAW OR DIE with audiences this Fall. For nearly fifty years, the Southern Circuit has worked with Screening Partners to present screenings and host touring filmmakers, using independent film as a conduit for community connection and conversation.
Southern Circuit is made possible through a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
September 18
Partner: UNC-WILMINGTON
JENGO’S PLAYHOUSE
Wilmington NC
Two Screenings: 4:30 and 7:30 PM
September 20
Partner & Venue: ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 South Pack Square, Asheville, NC
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Free for Members or Included with Museum Admission
September 24
Partner: Lancaster County Council of the Arts
Bundy Auditorium 476 Hubbard Drive, Lancaster, SC 29720
6:30 PM
September 26
Partner: CineOydssey Film Festival
Little Rock Cultural Center 401 N. Myers St. Charlotte NC 29202
1:00 - 4:00 PM
Event Highlights
Pre-Screening Reception: Kick off the afternoon with a local artist showcase and a pre-screening meet-and-greet.
Director Q&A: Stay for an insightful post-screening Q&A session moderated by award winning Charlotte visual artist Melvin D. Nix.
October 16
Partner: CITY OF HAPEVILLE
Historic Christ Church and Carriage House
680 S. Central Ave., Hapeville, GA
Reception 6:00 | Film 7:00 PM
October 21
Partner: Western Kentucky University & PCAL
The Capitol Theater
416 E Main Ave, Bowling Green KY
6:30 -8:30 PM
October 24
Partner & Venue: Global Education Center
4822 Charlotte Avenue, #3 Nashville, TN
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Other Screening Events
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SCAD Museum of Art
Sunday, August 30th, 2026 • 2 p.m.
Join The Walter and Linda Evans Center for African American Studies for a new film series Sundays at The Center, featuring notable cinematic works that lionize and champion Black history, arts, and culture.
This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, email Evans Center director Andreia Wardlaw at awardlaw@scad.edu.
SCAD Museum of Art
601 Turner Blvd.
Savannah, Georgia -
International Black Theater Festival • Winston-Salem NC a/perture cinema
Wednesday July 29, 2026 - 10:00 AM
Friday July 31, 2026 - 10:00 AM with filmmaker talkback
admission FREE and open to the public
DRAW OR DIE screenings at a/perture cinema
311 W 4th St., Winston Salem, NC 27101
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Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill NC
MONDAY JUNE 29th 2026 • 1:00 and 7:00 PM
Minnie Evans: Draw or Die at the Chelsea Theater, Monday, June 29, with showings at 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Post-screening discussion with director Linda Royal and Minnie Evans' great-grandchildren, who appear in the film.
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Carrboro Film Festival
CLOSING FILM
SUNDAY MARCH 1, 2026 | 4:00 PM
Drakeford Library Complex
203 South Greensboro St., Carrboro, NC, 27510
Post screening Q&A with Filmmakers
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FILM SCREENING Reynolda Museum of American Art
APRIL 25, 2026 - 2:00 PM
Reynolda House Museum of American Art Auditorium
2201 Reynolda Rd., Winston-Salem, NC 27106
Q&A with Filmmakers and Beverly Evans
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Film Screening HIGH Museum of Art
MARCH 7th 2026
Film Screenings—Minnie Evans: Draw or Die
12:30–1:30 and 3:30–4:30 p.m. | Hill Auditorium | HIGH Museum of Art, AtlantaFree with museum admission
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Thalian Cinema Premiere
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7th • 7:00 PM
Thalian Main Hall, Wilmington NC
The premiere of Royal's film was mentioned in an Oct. 19 New York Times article previewing "The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans," which opens Nov. 14 at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta before moving in 2026 to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where Evans' work was first exhibited in 1975.
MUSEUM SHOWS & EVENTS
THE LOST WORLD: THE ART OF MINNIE EVANS - WHITNEY MUSEUM of AMERICAN ART
AUGUST 22 through JANUARY 10, 2027
NEW YORK NY
By the 1960s, Evans's work had begun to garner national recognition. After small gallery exhibitions in Wilmington and New York, she was profiled in Newsweek in 1969. Group exhibitions at museums followed shortly thereafter, leading to a one-person exhibition at the Whitney in 1975. More than five decades later, this retrospective offers an opportunity to experience the visionary merging of the everyday and the divine that runs through Evans's work.
The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and curated by Katherine Jentleson, the High Museum’s Senior Curator of American Art and Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art. The presentation at the Whitney Museum of American Art is organized by Barbara Haskell, Curator, with Caroline Webb, Curatorial Assistant.
THE LOST WORLD: THE ART OF MINNIE EVANS - HIGH MUSEUM of ART
THROUGH APRIL 19th 2026
ATLANTA GA
The High’s presentation reprises that 1966 title, honoring Evans’s interest in biblical and ancient civilizations while foregrounding the spiritual and historical circumstances of her extraordinary life. More than one hundred of her artworks are presented in a range of contexts, from the extrasensory experiences of her visions to the double-edged realities of her life in the Jim Crow South. Her drawings, beautiful and complex, thus become portals into her “lost world.”
Thalian Hall
Join the filmmakers for a very special premiere celebration event in the city where Minnie Evans lived her life, and created her art. Listed on the National Register for Historic Places, Thalian Hall (built 1855-1858) is the only surviving theatre designed by John Montague Trimble, one of America's foremost 19th-century theatre architects. Special performances to be announced.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2025, 7:00 PM
THALIAN HALL, WILMINGTON NC, HISTORIC MAIN STAGE
$15.00 | ADULT / $12.00 | SENIOR (65+) · STUDENT (W/ VALID ID)
MFA Boston
MFA BOSTON: Art Docs
Friday, October 10, 2025, 7:00 pm–8:00 pm
Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161)
Ticket Required - Purchase here