2010 February- NC Arts Everyday

Durham County Novelist is 2010 Piedmont Laureate

Durham County novelist Zelda Lockhart has been selected as the 2010 Piedmont Laureate. She is the author of two novels, Fifth Born, a 2002 Barnes & Noble Discovery selection and Cold Running Creek, which won a 2008 Honor Fiction Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In June...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 02 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Cathy Smith Bowers, a Tryon resident who teaches creative writing at Queens University in Charlotte, has been named North Carolina Poet Laureate by Governor Beverly E. Perdue. The state poet laureate serves as ambassador of N.C. literature, past and present and for all N.C. writers, especially living...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 02 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Divergent Threads Now Open at Gantt Center

A native of Apex, David Wilson has created public art in North Carolina and studio works on display across the United States, Germany, Spain and Japan. His Divergent Threads, Lucent Memories consists of 14 glass panels now on display at the recently-opened Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts +...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 26th, 2010 | No Comments

N.C. Native Evans’ Work on Display in Fayetteville

African-American folk artist Minnie Evans, a native of Long Creek (near Wilmington), rose from humble beginnings to international recognition as a result of the crayon drawings she created in her forties. She drew the inspiration for her colorful, intricate works from dreams. Through Sunday, March 7, the...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Wilson’s Monuments of Humanity at North Carolina A&T

The University Galleries at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro is featuring Monuments of Humanity: The Art of John Wilson through Friday, March 5. This retrospective of the African-American sculptor’s work covers 60 years and also includes several drawings and prints. Wilson was...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Gantt Center Showcases African-American Artists

Last fall’s opening of the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, part of the new Wells Fargo Cultural Campus in Charlotte, provided a permanent home for the renowned John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African-American Art. It includes works by celebrated artists including Romare...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Today the Carolina Chocolate Drops release a new album, Genuine Negro Jig, their first on Nonesuch Records. The Chocolate Drops formed in 2005 after members Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson met during the Black Banjo Gathering at Appalachian State University in Boone. They continue Piedmont...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Ackland Presents Lawrence’s John Brown Paintings

In 1941 African-American artist Jacob Lawrence created a 22-painting series The Legend of John Brown to illustrate the life of the 19th century abolitionist. Because the paintings became too fragile to display, Lawrence was commissioned by the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1977 to recreate them as limited...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

National Exhibition Stops in Fayetteville

The only Southeast stop of a national touring exhibition entitled Art of the Masters: A Survey of African-American Images, 1980-2000 is being hosted by the Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County through Saturday, March 6. Included are more than 60 works of art from 36 national and international...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Bright Explores Identity in Young Americans

Atlanta-based photographer Sheila Pree Bright explored the identities of young people and their relationship to the United States by posing each participant, aged 18 to 25, with an American flag. The resulting photography exhibit, Young Americans, is on display at the Diggs Gallery in Winston-Salem through...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 18th, 2010 | No Comments

African-American Read-In at the State Capitol

The 21st annual National African-American Read-In brings local authors, community leaders and students to the State Capitol in Raleigh Saturday, Feb. 27, to read from works by their favorite African-American writers. The event runs from noon to 4 p.m. and will include fiction and nonfiction works for...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Memorial Hall Will Feature Jazz Trumpeter

Four-time Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard has played with a host of jazz luminaries including Branford Marsalis and Art Blakey while composing soundtracks for films including Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, Inside Man and When the Levees Broke, a documentary about the tragic flooding of...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Enjoy Gospel with Legendary Musicians

Durham Musicians Reunited’s Wings of Angels Gospel Event Saturday, Feb. 20, features legendary musicians The Famous Jordanaires, UBC Hearts of Praise Mime Ministry, the Singing Angels Featuring William Rigsbee and Company, and the Majestic Kingdom Music Ministry. This is the first fundraiser for Musicians...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 15th, 2010 | No Comments

George Higgs was born on a farm near Tarboro in 1930 and learned to play the harmonica from his father, who enjoyed spirituals and folk songs. Today Higgs plays blues guitar as well as harmonica and tours and records though his association with Hillsborough’s Music Maker Relief Foundation (MMRF). He’ll...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Southern Voices Features Poetry and Blues

Southern Voices: Black, White & Blues pairs Asheville performance poet Glenis Redmond and Brattleboro, Vermont, blues guitarist and historian Scott Ainslie for an evening of music, stories and poetry. Together they celebrate the strength and spirit of Muddy Waters, Zora Neale Hurston, Robert Johnson and...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Jazz Up Your Valentine’s Day

The Fifth Annual Valentine’s Jazz Festival at the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham features the talented jazz ensembles of Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University. The festival takes place Sunday, Feb. 14 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. For more information or to order tickets visit...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Barn Dinner Theatre Presents Dreams of a King

Dreams of a King, a musical drama starring Shirley Jean Glover Mitchell Johnson, tells the story of her time spent with civil rights legend Martin Luther King, Jr. See it at the Barn Dinner Theatre in Greensboro through Friday, Feb. 12. Established in 1962, the Barn is the oldest continually operating dinner...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 10th, 2010 | No Comments

The Charlotte Folk Society presents blues guitarist, storyteller and buckdancer John Dee Holeman in a free public concert Friday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m. An Orange County native, Holeman received a 1988 NEA Folk Heritage Award, a 1994 North Carolina Folk Heritage Award and still tours at age 80. The concert...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Carolina Performing Arts Gets the Shipment

Described by The New York Times as “a subversive, seriously funny new theater piece,” The Shipment will be presented by Carolina Performing Arts at UNC-Chapel Hill Friday, Feb. 12, and Saturday, Feb.13. Korean-American playwright and director Young Jean Lee uses the play to explore the challenges...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 9th, 2010 | No Comments

N.C. Black Repertory Company Holds the Cards

The “bodacious, brazen and bawdy” conversations of four women who meet every week to play cards provide the humor in the North Carolina Black Repertory Company’s Four Queens – No Trump, Friday, Feb. 19, through Sunday, Feb. 21, and Friday, Feb. 26, through Sunday, Feb. 28, in Greensboro. As they...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 9th, 2010 | No Comments

While the main stage of the historic 150-year-old Thalian Hall in Wilmington undergoes renovations, a lively program of entertainment continues in its intimate, club-like Rainbow Room. It is an ideal place to hear jazz vocalist Kellylee Evans, whose musical stylings have led to recent invitations to open for...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 8th, 2010 | No Comments

The historic Paramount Theatre in Goldsboro presents Mike Wiley and David zum Brunnen in Life is So Good, the true story of a slave’s grandson who goes to school and learns to read at age 98. The performance takes place Friday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m. The play is adapted from Richard Glaubman’s bestseller...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Justice Theatre Project Presents Story of Social Change

Playwright August Wilson’s Fences tells the story of Troy Maxon, an illiterate garbage collector whose chance at stardom in the Negro baseball leagues hits the ceiling of racial prejudice. The play explores justice, fair treatment and social change affecting four generations of African-Americans during the...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Alvin Ailey Dance to Grace Blumenthal Stage

The acclaimed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater brings a diverse program of classics, recent favorites and premieres to the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center Tuesday, Feb. 9, through Sunday, Feb.14. There will be different dance programs on different evenings including Ailey’s signature...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 4th, 2010 | No Comments

The Harlem Gospel Choir, featuring the finest singers and musicians from Harlem’s black churches and throughout the New York region, comes to the Dunn Center for the Performing Arts Saturday, Feb. 6, at 8 p.m. The choir has performed for Nelson Mandela at Yankee Stadium, for the Pope in Central Park, and...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte presents Black Pearl Sings!, the Depression-era story of a song collector from the Library of Congress who discovers a “living library of folk songs” in the form of the jailed Pearl, a descendant of slaves. The give-and-take between the two women, each with agendas, makes...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Durham’s Common Ground Theatre presents Mama Juggs, a four-part monologue about female body image written and performed by ‘rie Shontel Friday, Feb. 5, with additional performances Friday, March 19, and Saturday, March 20, at 8 p.m. Shontel portrays characters aged 17, 27, 47 and 100 and explores how...

Posted by ncarts in Black History Month on 02 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Durham County Novelist is 2010 Piedmont Laureate

Meet the New Poet Laureate

Divergent Threads Now Open at Gantt Center

N.C. Native Evans’ Work on Display in Fayetteville

Wilson’s Monuments of Humanity at North Carolina A&T

Gantt Center Showcases African-American Artists

Chocolate Drops’ New Album Drops

Ackland Presents Lawrence’s John Brown Paintings

National Exhibition Stops in Fayetteville

Bright Explores Identity in Young Americans

African-American Read-In at the State Capitol

Memorial Hall Will Feature Jazz Trumpeter

Enjoy Gospel with Legendary Musicians

Music Makers to Perform in Raleigh

Southern Voices Features Poetry and Blues

Jazz Up Your Valentine’s Day

Barn Dinner Theatre Presents Dreams of a King

Free Blues Concert in Charlotte

Carolina Performing Arts Gets the Shipment

N.C. Black Repertory Company Holds the Cards

Rainbow Room to welcome Kellylee Evans

Life is So Good in Goldsboro

Justice Theatre Project Presents Story of Social Change

Alvin Ailey Dance to Grace Blumenthal Stage

Sounds of Harlem come to Rocky Mount

Pearl Sings in Charlotte

One Woman Show Examines Body Image

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