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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.
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black’s 8, a documentary play about the federal case for marriage equality will get a staged reading at two venues in the Triangle this spring: PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill and Raleigh Ensemble Players.
The title refers to California’s...
“Mary Semans was an arts activist in the fullest sense of the word. A true pioneer, she generously shared her valuable time, intellect, and her warm ebullient personality,” said Mary B. Regan, Executive Director of the North Carolina Arts Council.
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, philanthropist and heiress...
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources Secretary Linda A. Carlisle was sworn in today as a member of the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board. Appointed by the U. S. Commerce Secretary, the 32-member board advises on government policies and programs that affect the U.S. travel and tourism...
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.
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Recruitment for the position of Executive Director of the North Carolina Arts Council is underway. The application deadline is February 3, 2012.
The mission of the Arts Council is to make North Carolina a better state through the arts. The work of the agency is guided by its strategic plan comprised of...
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...
The Asheville Arts For Life program, featured Tuesday, Dec. 13, in the Asheville Citizen-Times, was spotlighted by Americans for the Arts the next day in its national cultural policy publication, Arts Watch.
The Culture and Communities excerpt noted, “The Asheville Arts for Life program couples...
The American Dance Festival (ADF) will kick off its annual scholarship audition tour on Tuesday, Jan. 3, visiting 16 cities to discover the country’s most talented dancers for the 2012 ADF Six Week School tuition scholarships.
Each summer, the ADF School provides the world’s leading professional training...
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.
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The Folklife program of the North Carolina Arts Council and its project partner, the N C. Folklife Institute, have received a grant from the N.C. Humanities Council for the 2011–2012 Community Folklife Documentation Institute (CFDI).
The documentation institute provides a teaching and learning experience...
GREENSBORO, NC (November 22, 2011) – The North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is pleased to announce the selection of Margaret S. (Tog) Newman as a gubernatorial trustee appointee, to serve a three-year term starting October...
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.
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Work began this month on the interim expansion of the Asheville Art Museum. “Art WORKS Primed” includes the expansion and renovation of the Museum Shop, new exhibition galleries, a hands-on, interactive art space for children and families, and an artist project space for site-specific installations....
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.
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Pittsboro author Belle Boggs is the recipient of a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship in creative writing (prose). The $25,000 award is one of 40 made nationally in that category. A 2011–2012 N.C. Arts Council Literature Fellowship recipient, Boggs was recently awarded the Library...
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The Story of North Carolina, a permanent exhibit highlighting more than 14,000 years of the state’s history including significant examples of North Carolina craft, celebrates its grand opening this weekend at the N.C. Museum of History in downtown Raleigh. A festival featuring award-winning musicians,...
Invisible, an experimental multimedia performance group featuring Mark Dixon and Bart Trotman, performs Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. as part of the “Looking Aloud” gallery experiences taking place at Reynolda House in Winston-Salem. Entitled The New Obsolete, the performance features the Selectric Piano,...
The Gaston County Public Library in Greensboro is the 2011 recipient of the Harlan Joel Gradin Award for Excellence in the Public Humanities for Standing on a Box: Lewis Hine’s National Child Labor Committee Photography in Gaston County, 1908. The project featured photographs taken in 1908 by sociologist,...
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.
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The Community Music School in Manteo, devastated by Hurricane Irene in August, is benefitting from a series of local music showcases presented by the Dare County Arts Council and radio station 99.1 The Sound. The series, called OBX Sounds, kicks off Thursday, Oct. 20, with local musicians including...
Greensboro’s Weatherspoon Art Museum is playing a role in the first major museum exhibition devoted to Dutch American artist Willem de Kooning. It loaned his 1949–1950 painting Woman from its collection to the Museum of Modern Art in New York for de Kooning: A Retrospective, occupying the entire sixth...
Mary B. Regan, executive director of the North Carolina Arts Council, announced today that she will retire on March 1, 2012. The following is an excerpt from a letter she sent to the arts industry.
“I will retire from what I’ve always believed to be the greatest job in the world,” Regan said. She...
Groundbreaking mid-20th century artists including Romare Bearden, Sam Francis, Franz Kline, Louise Nevelson, Anne Truitt and Ad Reinhardt are featured in Reynolda House’s Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum through Saturday, Dec. 31, in Winston-Salem. These 31 celebrated artists came to...
Seventeen-year-old Claude Mumbere, 2011 Vermont Poetry Out Loud champion, was hired to narrate a new NASA film after coming to the attention of producers as a result of his participation in the nationwide poetry recital competition. Released this week, the science film Loop highlights the oceanic circulation...
The Hinge Literary Center has initiated a monthly series of online discussions about a single poem by a distinguished local author, each concluding with a live online chat allowing participants to communicate directly with the poet. “The Hinge Poem” begins this week with Alan Shapiro’s Wherever My Dead...
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(Left to Right) Marsalis, Rash and Simpson
Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis of Durham, author Ron Rash of Cullowhee and artist Vollis Simpson of Lucama are among six recipients of the 2011 North Carolina Award, the state’s highest civilian honor. They will receive the award, administered by the N.C....
Arts organizations across North Carolina are participating in National Arts and Humanities Month, a coast-to-coast collective recognition of the importance of culture in America throughout October. Events include a concert featuring Latin jazz flutist Dave Valentin and the Heart of Carolina Jazz Orchestra at...
High School teachers across North Carolina have until Friday, Oct. 14, to register for a national poetry recitation competition, Poetry Out Loud, sponsored by the North Carolina Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society and the Greensboro Public Library.
Poetry Out Loud,...
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...
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,...
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.
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(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...
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...
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...
Artist Opportunities 2/1/12
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Marriage Equality Play Gets Triangle Readings
Mary Semans Leaves Legacy for the Arts
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Important Message: Today’s SmART Announcement Canceled
The announcement scheduled today at 2 p.m. about the SmART Initiative at the American Tobacco Campus with Linda Carlisle, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, and Jim Goodmon and has been postponed. The SmART Initiative announcement will be rescheduled in the coming weeks....Arts Driven Economic Program Announcement Scheduled Thursday
A new arts driven economic development program will be jointly announced by Jim Goodmon, chair of The SmART Initiative Task Force and Linda Carlisle, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 2 p.m. at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham. The announcement is...Posted by
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Carlisle Joins U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board
Artist Opportunities 1/18/12
Arts Council Executive Director Position Recruitment Underway
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Asheville’s Arts For Life Gets National PR
American Dance Festival Kicks off Scholarship Audition Tour for 2012
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Artist Opportunities 12/21/11
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Community Folklife Documentation Institute Receives Humanities Grant
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Margaret S. (Tog) Newman Selected as North Carolina Humanities Council Trustee
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Artist Opportunities 12/07/11
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Asheville Art Museum is Expanding
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Artist Opportunities 11/22/11
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Boggs Awarded NEA Fellowship
Artist Opportunities 11/9/11
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Historic Crafts Highlight “The Story of North Carolina”
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Invisible Appears at Reynolda House
Gaston Library Honored with Humanities Award
Artist Opportunities 10/26/11
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Music Series Benefits Community Music School
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Weatherspoon’s de Kooning Travels to New York
State Arts Council Director Announces Retirement
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Reynolda House Welcomes Modern Masters
Poetry Out Loud Champion Narrates NASA Film
“Hinge Poem” Connects Readers, Writers
Artist Opportunities 10/12/11
Marsalis, Rash and Simpson Receive NC Awards
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NC Marks National Arts and Humanities Month
Poetry Out Loud Competition Registration Deadline Oct. 14
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First Couple Honors NC Writers
Concert Benefits Elderly Bluesmakers
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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
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NC Glass Artists Named “Living Treasures”
Small Town Conversations Launch
Speak for the Arts with “The Creative State” License Plate
The North Carolina Arts Council is a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, a state agency.
Linda A. Carlisle, Secretary; Beverly Eaves Perdue, Governor
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