Fellowship winner Christopher Holmes and Arts Council Executive Director Mary B. Regan at 2010-11 grant announcement in Durham.
Greensboro filmmaker Christopher Holmes is featured in goTriad.com talking about his upcoming film project and winning a 2010–11 N.C. Arts Council Fellowship. Holmes makes films...
Welcome to Artful Holidays, your guide to experiencing and celebrating authentic North Carolina this holiday season. From books by North Carolina authors, to tickets to classic holiday performances, to open studio tours, holiday craft shows and other places to buy one-of-a-kind handmade gifts, it’s easy...
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The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte features more than 1,400 works of art created by major figures of 20th-century modernism including Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miro, Edward Degas, Pablo Picasso, Jean Tinguely, Max...
Raleigh poet Richard Krawiec unveils a new cookbook called The Sound Of Poets Cooking ($15.95). The poetry anthology/cookbook features a wide range of poems and recipes including ones from former state poet laureates Fred Chappell and Kathryn Stripling Byer. The book is a fundraiser and the proceeds will...
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, a guidebook authored by Georgann Eubanks, and a Web site, Literary Trails of North Carolina (www.ncliterarytrails.org), are the latest cultural tourism projects of the North Carolina Arts Council.
Resources are now available for local arts councils to use...
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Sauvion
Carol Sauvion, executive producer of the acclaimed PBS series Craft in America, came to western North Carolina in October to view the exhibition Hand + Craft: A Jackson County Celebration.
Fifteen Jackson County craftsmen participated in the month-long exhibition sponsored by the Jackson County...
John Salmon’s new CD Salmon Is A Jumpin’ was recently released from Albany Records. The recording features original compositions by Salmon, who is best known as a classical and jazz pianist.
The style of his work can be described as “third stream” since it combines jazz and classical languages,...
(Vollis Simpson's Whirligigs)
Attend the 5th annual Whirligig Festival in downtown Wilson this weekend. Known as the arts festival with hometown flare, the festival features more than 200 vendors, live bands on three stages, plenty of good eats and arts and crafts on Wilson’s main drag, Nash Street...
(David Lee)
Shelby songwriter and musician David Lee, the subject of a new compilation album, was featured in a recent article in The Charlotte Observer.
Lee was also a record producer in the 1960s and the owner of a record shop in one of Shelby’s African-American neighborhoods.
Known more regionally...
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman, North Carolina Council on the Arts Chair Bobby Kadis, North Carolina Arts Council Executive Director Mary B. Regan, and National Assembly of State Arts Agencies CEO Jonathan Katz. (Photo courtesy of Barton Wilder Custom Images)
The National Endowment...