Gallery Walk: Joe Cox’s artwork at the D. H. Hill Jr. Library

Join the Gregg Museum and the NC State University Libraries for a gallery walk featuring recently installed artworks created by Joe Cox.

Brief remarks will be given by:

› Sara Segerlin, Gregg Museum Director and Chair of NC State’s Public Art Committee
› Sandra Varry, Head, Special Collections Research Center, NC State University Libraries
› Patrick Deaton, Associate Director, Learning Spaces and Capital Management, NC State University Libraries

Remarks will be followed by a self-guided gallery walk through the Hill Library’s Ground Floor reading room, concluding at the Color Wall, located on the second floor of the Hill Library.

Selected items from the Special Collections Resource Center will also be on display.

Joe Cox (1915–1997) was a foundational figure in the history of NC State’s College of Design and a nationally respected artist and educator. As a painter, muralist, and longtime 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 NC State University 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 the D.H. Hill Jr. 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.

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