2011 September- NC Arts Everyday

First Couple Honors NC Writers

Renowned North Carolina poets, fiction writers and historians were honored by Governor Bev Perdue and First Gentleman Bob Eaves during a gathering at the Executive Mansion in Raleigh on Friday, Sept. 23. A dozen writers who make N.C. their home — and often feature the state in their work — joined the...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News, Poet Laureate on 09 30th, 2011 | No Comments

Longtime Carolina Piedmont blues guitarists Boo Hanks and Lightnin’ Wells will perform a concert to benefit elderly musicians as part of Raleigh Charter High School’s Sustaining Roots Music (SOOTS) Community Project on Friday, Sept. 30, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Guests are encouraged to bring chairs,...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 09 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Notable North Carolina literary figures Georgann Eubanks, Randall Kenan and N.C. Arts Council Artist Fellowship recipients Michael Chitwood and Marjorie Hudson participate in an entertaining and informative discussion about our state’s rich literary heritage at the Durham County Main Library, 300 North...

Posted by ncarts in Miscellaneous on 09 28th, 2011 | No Comments

The N.C. Arts Council is pleased to share the following opportunities for artists that have recently been submitted to us. Please contact the organization listed if you have any questions. The Arts Council does not endorse or recommend any specific opportunities, but provides this list...

Posted by ncarts in Artist Opportunities on 09 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Latin American Film Festival Marks 25th Year

The N.C. Latin American Film Festival marks its 25th anniversary with a program of films, dance, music and other cultural events running from Monday, Oct. 3, through Saturday, Nov. 19, at venues in Chapel Hill, Durham, Greensboro and Raleigh. Entitled “Unfinished Visions,” the series includes the film...

Posted by ncarts in Art Matters, Miscellaneous on 09 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Early Registration for ArtsMarket Closes Friday

Register now for the ArtsMarket Performing Arts Showcase and Booking Conference scheduled in Durham November 7-9, 2011. Featuring 40 showcases, 150 booths in the exhibit hall, and lively professional development and networking opportunities, ArtsMarket is an amazing value – only $150 to register the...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 09 26th, 2011 | No Comments

NC Glass Artists Named “Living Treasures”

(L to R) Mark Peiser, Richard Ritter Longtime studio glass artists Mark Peiser and Richard Ritter will be honored as 2011 North Carolina Living Treasures in a ceremony at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington on Tuesday, Nov. 29, from 5 to 6 p.m. Penland School of Crafts also will receive special recognition...

Posted by ncarts in Art Matters, Arts News on 09 23rd, 2011 | No Comments

Hayesville students visit Cherokee exhibit April 2011 The Small Town Conversations Peer Learning program launches on November 1 in Hayesville. The HandMade in America Small Towns program supports transformational revitalization projects. Leaders in HandMade Small Towns will connect to and mentor communities...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News, Creative Economy on 09 21st, 2011 | 1 Comment

Proclaim your support for “The Creative State” with a colorful specialty license plate now available through ARTS North Carolina. The $30 specialty fee (added to the standard annual $33 car or private truck registration fee) will contribute $20 to ARTS North Carolina to promote the arts and $10 to the...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 09 20th, 2011 | 2 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Susan Lefler’s “September 8, 2011”

Susan Lefler lives and writes in Brevard surrounded by mountains and a garden. Her first collection of poetry, Rendering the Bones, was published by Wind Publications in the spring of 2011. Her photographic history Brevard was published in 2004 by Arcadia Publishing. Then and Now Brevard, also published by...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 20th, 2011 | No Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Mary Kratt’s “The Smoke, The Cough”

Charlotte’s Mary Kratt has published five books of poems including her most recent, Valley (Sow’s Ear Press). Small Potatoes (Briarpatch Press) won the Brockman-Campbell Poetry Book Prize, and Spirit Going Barefoot (Briarpatch Press) won the Oscar Arnold Young Award for the best book of poetry by a...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 19th, 2011 | No Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Two poems by Gilda Morina Syverson

Gilda Morina Syverson wrote these poems and others about the loss of her husband’s nephew in the war in Iraq that came about after 9/11. Syverson’s award-winning poems have been published in various literary journals and magazines in the U.S. and Canada. These poems will appear in her full-length poetry...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 18th, 2011 | 15 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Rebecca Pierre’s “September 16, 2001”

Rebecca Pierre lives, writes and plays in the clay on Oak Island, where the sea is her muse. An accomplished clay artist, she is addicted to pots, poetry and the poetry of pots. She has received numerous awards for her poetry (and pots) as well as a grant for a week-long workshop at Wildacres and for a...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Original poetry inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, was featured on UNC-TV’s NC Now in the days leading up to the 10th commemoration this year. North Carolina Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers (Tryon), award-winning poet and novelist Joseph Bathanti (Vilas), and poets Sally Buckner (Cary) and...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 16th, 2011 | 1 Comment

National Endowment of the Arts National Heritage Fellow Wade Mainer, a legendary banjo player born in 1907 on a farm outside Weaverville, passed away Monday, Sept. 12, at age 104. Mainer was noted for his two-finger banjo picking style which predated modern bluegrass and influenced the three-finger banjo...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 09 16th, 2011 | No Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Elizabeth W. Jackson’s “Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC”

Elizabeth W. Jackson is a clinical psychologist and writer. On 9/11/01 she was working with liver transplant patients at UNC Hospitals (formerly known as Memorial). Haunted by that time, she eventually wrote this poem. Still a practicing psychologist, she also writes prose and poetry. Her poems have...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 16th, 2011 | No Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Two poems from Allison Hedge Coke

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s authored books include American Book Award winner Dog Road Woman and Off-Season City Pipe (poetry); Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer, a memoir; and Blood Run, a verse-play. Hedge Coke has edited eight additional collections, including Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas and...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 15th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NC Poets on 9/11: Nancy Simpson’s “That Day”

Nancy Simpson, a N.C. Arts Council Fellowship recipient, is the author of three poetry collections: Across Water, Night Student and most recently Living Above the Frost Line: New and Selected Poems published in 2010 by Carolina Wren Press. She co-founded N.C. Writers’ Network West, a nonprofit,...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 14th, 2011 | 8 Comments

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The Baptism by Romare Bearden, 1978 Charlotte Celebrates Bearden, a citywide commemoration marking the centennial of internationally renowned Charlotte collage artist Romare Bearden (1911–1988) features collaborations among arts and cultural organizations throughout the city around music, dance,...

Posted by ncarts in Artful Traveler, Fall 2011 on 09 13th, 2011 | No Comments

From Traditional Artists to Modern Masters

Homage to the Square by Josef Albers In Winston-Salem, Reynolda House’s Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Friday, Oct. 7, through Saturday, Dec. 31) highlights mid-20th century artists including Romare Bearden, Sam Francis, Franz Kline and Ad Reinhardt. “For everyone going to...

Posted by ncarts in Fall 2011 on 09 13th, 2011 | No Comments

The arts abound both in and out of doors this fall. Greensboro’s music, visual art, theater and dance communities will be highlighted in 17 Days, a festival premiering Thursday, Sept. 22, and continuing through Saturday, Oct. 8. Organized by the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, the festival...

Posted by ncarts in Fall 2011 on 09 13th, 2011 | 2 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Rebecca McClanahan’s “There Are Days”

Rebecca McClanahan’s work, whether poetry or prose, usually centers on human relationships and communities, the myriad ways in which lives intersect. She has always written from a deep need to explore the mysteries of ordinary lives. Her works include Deep Light: New and Selected Poems (Iris Press, 2007)...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 13th, 2011 | No Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Debra Kaufman’s “Myopia, Fall, 2001”

Debra Kaufman’s newest collection of poetry is The Next Moment (Jacar Press 2010). She is also the author of Family of Strangers (Nightshade 1990), Still Life Burning (South Carolina Poetry Society 1996) — winner of the Kinloch Rivers Poetry Competition — Moon Mirror Whiskey Wind (Pudding House 2009)...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 12th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NC Poets on 9/11: Joseph Bathanti’s “Katy”

Joseph Bathanti is the author of six books of poetry: Communion Partners, Anson County, The Feast of All Saints, This Metal (nominated for the National Book Award), Land of Amnesia and Restoring Sacred Art (winner of the 2010 Roanoke Chowan Prize). His novel East Liberty won the 2001 Carolina Novel Award....

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 11th, 2011 | 9 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Cathy Smith Bowers’ “For Okra”

Cathy Smith Bowers currently serves as North Carolina’s poet laureate. A resident of Tryon, she teaches in UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program and in the M.F.A. program at Queens University of Charlotte where she received the 2002 J.B. Fuqua Distinguished Educator Award. She also received...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 11th, 2011 | 4 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Richard Allen Taylor’s “September 11”

Charlotte’s Richard Allen Taylor is a former co-editor of Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets. He is the author of Something to Read on the Plane (2004) and Punching Through the Egg of Space (2010), both from Main Street Rag. His poems have appeared in many publications including Rattle, Iodine Poetry...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 10th, 2011 | No Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Barbara Presnell’s “Gull, Fallen”

Barbara Presnell is the author of Piece Work, winner of the Cleveland State First Book Prize, which was staged by the Touring Theatre of North Carolina and toured community colleges in the state. Other books are Snake Dreams, Unravelings and Los Hijos. Lyric collaborations with composer Bonnie Duckworth...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 9th, 2011 | No Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Fred Chappell’s “The Attending”

Born in Canton, Fred Chappell was North Carolina’s poet laureate from 1977 to 2002. He wrote this poem in response to the events of September 11th. Chappell is retired from UNC Greensboro where he taught English, advanced composition, poetry and fiction. Author of a dozen books of verse, two volumes of...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 8th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Arts & Science Council Launches Innovative Fundraising Website

The Arts & Science Council launched power2give.org, an online fundraising platform that connects people to cultural projects, last week. The project will support fundraising to support arts, science, history and heritage in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. The project was funded with a significant investment from...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 09 7th, 2011 | No Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Janice Moore Fuller’s “This Whistling is For You There in the Dark”

Writer-in-residence and professor of English at Catawba College, Janice Moore Fuller has published three poetry books — Archeology Is a Destructive Science (Scots Plaid Press, 1998), Sex Education (Iris Press, 2004) and Séance (Iris Press, 2007), winner of the Poetry Council of North Carolina’s Oscar...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 7th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NC Poets on 9/11: Tom Heffernan’s “Soon It Will Be Ten Years”

Raised in Massachusetts, Tom Heffernan taught at NC State University in the early 1970s and later served in the Poetry in the Schools and the Visiting Artist programs sponsored by the N.C. Arts Council. He has taught writing aboard U.S. Navy ships and literature and writing courses at universities in England...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 6th, 2011 | 2 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Two Poems by Dede Wilson

Dede Wilson has lived in Charlotte since 1967. She has four books of poetry: Glass, finalist for the Persephone Press Award; Sea of Small Fears, winner of the Main Street Rag Chapbook Competition; One Nightstand and Eliza: The New Orleans Years, which will be performed as a one-woman show at Carolina Actors...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 5th, 2011 | 3 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Janice Townley Moore’s “8:46 AM”

Janice Townley Moore lives in Hayesville and is a member of the English faculty at Young Harris College in the North Georgia Mountains. In 2005 she published a chapbook, Teaching the Robins from Finishing Line Press. Her poems have also appeared in The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Southern...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 4th, 2011 | 1 Comment

NC Poets on 9/11: Diana Pinckney’s “Fallen Gardens”

Diana Pinckney has published poetry and prose in RHINO, Atlanta Review, Calyx, Iodine, Cream City Review, Cave Wall and other journals and anthologies. She has four collections of poetry: Fishing with Tall Women, White Linen, Alchemy and Green Daughters, released by Lorimer Press in April 2011. She lives...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 3rd, 2011 | 3 Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Two Poems by Julie Suk

Charlotte’s Julie Suk is the author of four volumes of poetry and co-editor of Bear Crossings: An Anthology of North American Poets. Lie Down With Me: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Autumn House Press in fall 2011. THE ARCHITECTURE OF RUIN At a distance: seemingly intact piers, dark recesses,...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 2nd, 2011 | 1 Comment

The Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington has appointed Anne Brennan as its new director. Brennan has served as acting director for the museum since February and has also served as the museum’s assistant director and curator. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from East Carolina University and has been a Fellow of...

Posted by ncarts in Arts News on 09 1st, 2011 | No Comments

NC Poets on 9/11: Two Poems by Ione O’Hara

Davidson writer and teacher Ione O’Hara was awarded an Arts and Science Council artist grant as well as a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has taught writing at UNC Charlotte, Central Piedmont Community College, and at Queens University’s Life Long Learning Center. Her...

Posted by ncarts in NC Poets on 9-11 on 09 1st, 2011 | 3 Comments

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