AOP is a vibrant hub of arts & cultural occasions and activities serving Eastern North Carolina. Recent group exhibitions embody The Legacy of Architectonic Futurism, BANK, Shanghai, 2018; Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, 2016; Beneath the Clouds, Serralves Museum, Porto, 2015 and Whitney Biennial 2014, Whitney Museum of American Artwork, New York, 2014.

For the reason that Sixties, many artists working in Latin America have incorporated a participatory ingredient into their work, not solely as a part of a theoretical stance in opposition to the dominance of the item as a manifestation of creative ideas, but additionally as a type of inventive opposition to the oppressive stance of military dictatorships.