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For more than 25 years the Transylvania Community Arts Council has provided arts programming in public schools to teach visual arts and critical thinking skills to first, second and fifth grade students in addition to providing students the chance to experience professional performances of opera, theatre,...
Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price, one of the South’s and the nation’s most illustrious writers, died Thursday, Jan. 20. The Durham resident was 77.
Price was the author of more than 40 published works — novels, essays, memoirs, criticism, poetry and plays. In 1962, Price earned the William...
Chapel Hill photographer Susan Harbage Page’s exhibition Walking the Border is now on display at the FedEx Global Education Center located on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. Harbage Page, a 2010-2011 N.C. Arts Council Artist Fellowship winner, teaches photography at UNC-Chapel Hill. Walking the Border runs...
R. Philip Hanes Jr.
R. Philip Hanes Jr. died Sunday, Jan. 16, in Winston-Salem. He was 84. Hanes was recognized nationally and internationally for his contributions to the arts, entrepreneurship and conservation.
Hanes was the founding chairman of the North Carolina Arts Council and a founding member of the...
2011 NEA Jazz Masters Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Delfeayo Marsalis. Photo by Frank Stewart for Jazz at Lincoln Center and the NEA
The National Endowment for the Arts has bestowed the title of Jazz Master to Durham saxophonist, composer and bandleader Branford Marsalis along with other members of the...
Temple of the Cool Beauty, Michael Sherrill, 2006. Photo by Tim Barnwell
Three North Carolina artists received $50,000 grants from the national grant-making and advocacy organization United States Artists. The USA Fellows for 2010 represent a diverse spectrum of artistic practice, from cutting-edge video...
Huler
Raleigh writer Scott Huler has been selected as the 2011 Piedmont Laureate. He is the author of six books including On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make our World Work that explores the infrastructures that sustain our way of life. Huler starts from his own...
Bobby Hicks. Photo by David Roye
The authentic musical heritage of Marshall, North Carolina, got a warm appreciation in a ChicagoTribune.com article published over the holidays. The writer, Chicago attorney William Choslovsky, compared two of his recent trips: one to the big city of Las Vegas and the other...
Dancer and choreographer Michelle Pearson, founding member and currently one of four artistic directors of Even Exchange Dance Theater in Raleigh, will be in Freetown, Sierra Leone, for two weeks this month as a cultural envoy, hosted by the U.S. Embassy in Sierra Leone.
Michelle was invited by the U.S....
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont (UNC Press, $19.95) by Georgann Eubanks is ranked at number four on the Sunday, Dec. 5, Southern Independent Booksellers’ Trade Paperback Nonfiction List.
The informative guidebook features 28 counties and 18...
Salisbury native David zum Brunnen stars in Dr. Elliot Engel’s The Night Before Christmas Carol on UNC-TV, Wednesday, Dec. 22 at 10 p.m. The program, filmed on location in the State Library Room of the State Capitol Building in Raleigh brings viewers into Charles Dickens’ study on Friday, Oct. 13, 1843...
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...
(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...
Award-winning Hillsborough author Lee Smith will receive the 2010 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the free annual Thomas Wolfe Lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 7, at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carroll Hall auditorium.
Smith grew up in Grundy in the mountains of southwest Virginia in a family of storytellers....
Triad Stage, one of North Carolina’s fastest growing professional theaters, has been awarded a National Theatre Company Grant by the organization that founded the Tony Awards®, the American Theatre Wing.
The $10,000 grant honors the top 10 most promising theaters to have emerged in the last 15 years...
The life of playwright Tennessee Williams will be the subject of a lecture by UNC-Chapel Hill literature professor Dr. Joseph Flora at the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, Thursday, Oct. 7, at 6:30 p.m. A Smithfield native, Gardner starred alongside Richard Burton in the movie version of Williams’ The...
Author Ron Rash has captured the world’s richest prize for the short story literary form, the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, for his collection Burning Bright.
Rash, a Boiling Springs, N.C., native, received the award — equivalent to $45,300 — during a ceremony held Monday, Sept. 20, in Cork,...
An iconic portrait of George Washington painted circa 1798 by artist Gilbert Stuart is one of approximately 100 original objects associated with our first president now on view at the North Carolina Museum of History in downtown Raleigh. A version of the painting appears on the U.S. one dollar bill. It’s...
SPARKcon returns to Raleigh Thursday, Sept. 16, through Sunday, Sept.19, to energize the Triangle’s creativity.
For four days, Raleigh’s Fayetteville Street, public spaces, clubs and stages will be filled with art, music, dance, film, fashion, design and more. SPARKcon showcases local cultural richness...
Rocco Landesman (Photo by Lloyd Aaron)
National Endowment of the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced that the North Carolina Arts Council is the recipient of the 2010 National Accessibility Leadership Award for its outstanding accessibility work during stops in Winston-Salem and Greensboro over the...
Duke University’s Ciompi Quartet will headline a gala celebration at The Chapel of Rest on Sunday, Oct. 17, at 4 p.m. The festivities mark the 25th anniversary of the chapel’s annual concert series as well as the Chapel of Rest Preservation Society’s purchase of the building and adjoining...
Chapel Hill sculptor Patrick Dougherty uses tree saplings as construction material to create woven installations of architectural fantasy that rise playfully and provocatively from the landscape. Since 1980, he’s gone from small works in his backyard to monumental site-specific installations that require...
Our North Carolina legislature continues its proud policy of funding the arts. Unlike other states making cuts in the economic downturn, our leaders recognize that arts grants create jobs supporting the state’s creative industry. The N.C. General Assembly affirmed the arts as a good public investment by...
North Carolina Theatre will present Little Shop of Horrors, Saturday, Sept. 18, through Sunday, Sept. 26, at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. Other productions include A Christmas Story in December and their new 2011 season which includes The Producers,...
Registration for the Public Art 360 conference in Asheville ends on Wednesday, Sept. 15. The three-day conference focuses on public art, from theory to case studies and logistical details, concentrating on specific examples in the Southeast. It’s geared toward public art administrators, visual artists,...
Rising to the challenges of the recession that has cut the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools arts programming budget, Charlotte organizations led by the Arts & Science Council (ASC) are stepping up to raise new funds. In this current school year there will be $1 million less to expose students to the arts...
Helen Simoneau, of Winston-Salem, is dancing across the globe this summer, sharing the work that won her a recent North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Award for Choreography. Until September 3 she will be in residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts to choreograph two new works to be...
Arts Access Inc. is sponsoring a film Sunday, Aug. 8, at 4:30 p.m. at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. The event will feature the film A New Kind of Listening and a community discussion afterwards on promoting inclusive arts opportunities for people of all abilities.
Chris Mueller-Medlicott...
Transylvania Arts Council Celebrates County’s Sesquicentennial with Artist Residencies
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Bestselling Author Reynolds Price Remembered
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Fellowship Winner Presents Photography Exhibition
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Major Arts Leader Philip Hanes Remembered
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Artist Opportunities 1/19/11
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 for information only....Posted by
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Durham’s Branford Marsalis Named NEA Jazz Master
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Three NC Artists Receive USA Fellowship
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Scott Huler Selected Piedmont Laureate
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Spotlight Shines on Authentic Marshall
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US Department of State Invites NC Dancer to Sierra Leone, Africa
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Literary Trails Book a Top Seller
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A Different Christmas Carol
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Triad Filmmaker Begins New Project
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Two Fun-Filled Events: Whirligig Festival and Start of Whirligig Conservation
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David Lee’s Oldies but Goodies Making a Comeback
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N.C. Arts Council Wins 2010 Accessibility Leadership Award
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Author Lee Smith Receives 2010 Thomas Wolfe Prize
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Register now for a celebration of the work of poet A.R. Ammons. This symposium, scheduled for Monday, Nov. 15, and Tuesday, Nov.16, will mark a homecoming for all things related to A.R. Ammons. In honor of one of its most famous and talented alumni, Wake Forest University will host a symposium examining his...Fred Chappell Wins Caldwell Award for the Humanities
The trustees of the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, have chosen N.C. author, former state poet laureate and educator Fred Chappell as the recipient of the 2010 John Tyler Caldwell Award. The award ceremony is scheduled for...Triad Stage Receives National American Theatre Wing Grant
North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame to Welcome Five New Inductees
The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame will induct five of the state’s finest writers during a ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 17. Journalist W. J. Cash; novelist Allan Gurganus; poet, novelist and biographer Robert Morgan; journalist, publisher, and diplomat Walter Hines Page; and playwright and screenwriter...N.C.’s Literary Trails of the Piedmont
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont is the second guidebook in a three-part series that directs curious travelers to the places that inspired more than 200 writers. This guidebook offers some of the back stories of these writers as they captured their environs. Literary Trails of the North...Environmental Sculptor in The New York Times
Chapel Hill sculptor Patrick Dougherty is featured in The New York Times in the Home and Garden section (Oct. 6). The 65-year-old environmental sculptor uses tree saplings to construct monumental woven cocoons that flow through trees, over walls and up the sides of buildings, assuming fantastic shapes that...Posted by
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Tennessee Williams Lecture Kicks Off 2010 Ava Gardner Festival
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Author Ron Rash Wins Big Prize for His Short Story Collection
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Founding Father Celebrated With Exhibition in Raleigh
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SPARKcon Sparks Creativity
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NC Arts Council Wins 2010 Accessibility Leadership Award
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25th Anniversary Concert with Ciompi Quartet
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Triad Cities Win Creative Cash
Winston-Salem and Greensboro are among 21 winners of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts Mayors’ Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative (MICD 25). Recognized for art as the focus of downtown development, both cities are including public art in their infrastructure projects. The...Posted by
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Environmental Sculptor in the News
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NC Invests in the Arts
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Feed Your Spirit at North Carolina Theatre
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Public Art Conference in Asheville
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Charlotte arts groups plan Arts for Education efforts
Meet Helen Simoneau, choreographer
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Historic Happy Valley Old-time Fiddlers’ Convention
Now in its sixth year, the along the scenic Yadkin River presents music competition, dance, children’s activities and instrument-making demonstrations along with the music of the Kruger Brothers, Bobby Hicks and the Harris Brothers Friday, Sept. 3 through Sunday, Sept. 5. Situated on the Jones Farm...Posted by
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National Endowment for the Arts Chair to Visit North Carolina
Rocco Landesman. Photo by Chicago Tribune Milton Rhodes, the president of The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, has a national reputation as a savvy arts leader, and is one of America’s most distinguished nonprofit advocates and administrators. A new arts center in Winston-Salem will be...Posted by
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Film and Discussion on Arts and Accessibility
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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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