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Thomas Sayre
A public art project undertaken by the Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir will soon rise, literally, from the ground up. The 26-foot diameter, 40,000-pound “earthcasting” by internationally-renowned Raleigh artist Thomas Sayre was created by pouring concrete into a mold in the earth. Entitled...
For the first time, Raleigh will host the annual International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Awards Show and Convention, starting in 2013 and continuing through 2015. “World of Bluegrass Week” events include a four-day IBMA Business Conference, the International Bluegrass Music Awards Show, and the...
Jessica Kariisa and NC Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers
Jessica Kariisa, a 12th-grade Raleigh Charter High School student representing North Carolina in the national Poetry Out Loud competition is one of nine high school students who will advance to the national finals taking place Tuesday, May 15 in...
Chief Ostenaco and Henry Timberlake
The Cherokee Voices Festival will highlight traditional Cherokee dance, music, storytelling, food, arts and crafts, weapons and living history in a day-long celebration at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Saturday, June 9, from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. The Eastern Band of...
Doug Elkins and Friends
The American Dance Festival (ADF) will dedicate its 79th season to former N.C. Arts Council executive director Mary Regan during a special ceremony held Thursday, June 14 at 7 p.m. at the Durham Performing Arts Center. The dedication will be followed by the season-opening performance...
Poet Morri Creech, a 2011–2012 N.C. Arts Council Fellowship recipient, will be one of three workshop leaders at the N.C. Writers Network’s annual Squire Summer Writing Residency held Thursday, July 19 through Sunday, July 22 at Queens University of Charlotte. A writer in residence at the university,...
Painting by Sue Henry
The Pamlico County Arts Council in Oriental is sponsoring two special arts events in May. The ninth annual Art on the Neuse Outdoor Arts Festival features original fine arts and crafts as well as live music by saxophonist Kevin Davis, Ed Terry & the County Opry Band, Jazzomine,...
Waynesville resident Leah Hampton, an English instructor and associate director of the Writing and Learning Commons at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee is the winner of the 2012 Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition for her story, “The Saint.” Sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network, the...
Former N.C. Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer, poet and memoirist Maya Angelou and 18th-Century explorer and naturalist John Lawson will be inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame (NCLHOF) this fall. The induction ceremony will be held Sunday, Oct. 14 at the Weymouth Center for the Arts...
Visual artist Jody Servon, a 2006-2007 N.C. Arts Council fellowship recipient, appeared on WUNC-FM’s The State of Things today to discuss her conceptual artist residency in Clayton and the community’s efforts to create a vibrant public art scene there. Her short film “Clayton Patchwork,”...
Cherokee traditional elder Walker Calhoun, recipient of the North Carolina Folk Heritage Award in 1990 and the National Endowment for the Arts’ National Folk Heritage Award in 1992, passed away on March 28 at age 93.
Born in Big Cove, Calhoun grew up speaking the Cherokee language and learned about...
Jessica Kariisa and Cathy Smith Bowers
Jessica Kariisa, a 12th-grade Raleigh Charter School student will represent North Carolina in the national Poetry Out Loud competition in Washington, D.C. starting Monday, May 14. Kariisa was one of 31 students from as far away as Dare and Haywood counties who...
Hillsborough author Allan Gurganus will inaugurate a new “Blast from the Past” reading series at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham with a discussion of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby Wednesday, April 18 at 7pm. The reading series will take place every other month and will...
The 11th annual ClydeFEST, a day-long folk art festival for kids named for internationally-renowned chainsaw “critter” artist Clyde Jones will take place Saturday, April 14 from 11am-4pm at the Bynum Ballpark (also known as Earl Thompson Recreation Park), 173 Bynum Hill Road in Chatham County. Sponsored...
Flint Hill native Earl Scruggs, who rose from a rural farm to international acclaim as one of the twentieth century’s most innovative pioneers of banjo and bluegrass music, died of natural causes Wednesday, March 28 in Nashville. “Although Earl Scruggs belonged to the whole world, North Carolina is...
Music from the True Vine: A Tribute to Mike Seeger will celebrate the life of the late musician, documentarian and scholar with a lecture, panel discussion and tribute concert at the Wilson Special Collections Library on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus Friday, March 23.
Seeger, co-founder of the folk revival...
Mary and Mal Williams (photo by Cedric N. Chatterley)
The Williams Family, featuring Snow Hill gospel artist Dr. Mal Williams, will perform at the Victory and Dominion Church, 1438 Highway 258/13 North, Snow Hill, on Thursday, March 29, as part of the Greene County Performing Arts Series.
A Greene County...
Piedmont Opera is presenting composer Dr. Robert Ward’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Crucible at the Stevens Center at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, Friday, March 16, at 8 p.m., Sunday, March 18, at 2 p.m. and Tuesday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m. Based on Arthur...
Pittsboro author Marjorie Hudson’s Accidental Birds of the Carolinas (Press 53, 2011) is one of two books to earn an honorable mention in the 2012 PEN/ Hemingway & PEN/ Winship Award for First Fiction competition. The book has also been nominated by Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh for a...
Music professor Louise Toppin
The musical works of women, African Americans and other under-represented composers will be highlighted during “Videmus @ 25: Reflecting on the Past … Reaching Toward the Future,” at UNC-Chapel Hill Wednesday, March 21, through Sunday, March 25.
The music festival features...
L-R: Former State Archivist Dick Lankford, Cultural Resources Assistant Secretary Jennifer Woodward, Reba McEntire and State Archives staffers Chris Meekins, Doug Brown, Debbi Blake and Sarah Koonts.
The State Archives of North Carolina got a visit from actress and country music star Reba McEntire in...
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2012 North Carolina Awards, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the state. Past award recipients have included some of the country’s most distinguished artists, poets, writers, performers, journalists, scientists and public servants.
Members of the public...
Photo by Marshall Wyatt
Mebane old-time fiddler and folk musician Joe Thompson died Monday, Feb. 20, in Burlington at age 93. Among the last African American fiddle players of his generation, he received a North Carolina Folk Heritage Award from the N.C. Arts Council in 1991 and a National Heritage...
Kinston native Maceo Parker (Photo by Cedric N Chatterley)
Ten original documentaries highlighting notable African American musicians in eastern North Carolina will be shown at a free event featuring panel discussions and musical performances Saturday, June 2 in Goldsboro. The documentaries are being...
Studio glass pioneer Harvey K. Littleton and Penland sculptor Cristina Córdova, a 2004-2005 N.C. Arts Council Fellowship recipient are featured in the February/March 2012 issue of American Craft Magazine.
The article, “Glass’ Big Bang” tells the story of the American studio glass movement that began...
Philip Gerard, professor and chair of the department of creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, is the recipient of the 2012 Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award presented by St. Andrews University in Laurinburg. Created in 1981 to honor Samuel Talmadge Ragan (1915–1996), N.C.’s first...
President Clinton with A+ Schools Program Director Michelle Burrows
“Every American should know about the A+ Schools Program,” said President Bill Clinton, in a ringing endorsement of the whole school reform model that views the arts as fundamental to how teachers teach and students learn in all...
Pittsboro actor and playwright Mike Wiley’s stage production of Dar He: The Lynching of Emmett Till has been made into a feature film premiering at the 20th Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles Friday, Feb.17, at 2 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 18, at 2:30 p.m. As he did on stage, Wiley plays 36 characters...
Kannapolis native Jeffery Beam, who recently retired after 35 years of service at the UNC- Chapel Hill libraries, returns to campus Thursday, Feb. 9, to read his poetry and sign copies of two new special publications of his work: a reprint of his 1990 chapbook Midwinter Fires and a limited hand-printed...
South Arts has established a scholarship fund in the name of retiring Executive Director Gerri Combs in honor of her contributions to the arts and culture field. The Gerri Combs Scholarship Fund will allow arts professionals in the South to take advantage of professional development opportunities over the...
Writer, poet and dramatist Reynolds Price, the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University and a native of Macon who passed away last January, is being honored with special events organized by Triad Stage, the Greensboro Public Library and the N.C. Arts Council.
New Music, Price’s family trilogy...
North Carolina Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers and former Poet Laureate Fred Chappell will host workshops at the second annual Gathering of Poets, sponsored by Press 53 and Jacar Press, Saturday, April 7, from 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. in Winston-Salem. The day-long series of workshops also features Richard...
UNC Charlotte’s College of Arts + Architecture will bring 18 rare violins recovered from the Holocaust to the United States for the first time as part of a series of exhibitions and performances called Violins of Hope, Thursday, April 12 through Tuesday, April 24. Israeli master violin maker Amnon...
Edith Pearlman’s Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories has been named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The collection, published by UNC Wilmington’s Lookout Books imprint is now the first book to be nominated for the National Book Award, the Story Prize and the National Book...
The arts and cuisine of Saxapahaw, the small former mill town located between Chapel Hill and Burlington were spotlighted by the New York Times in an article entitled, “Saxapahaw, N.C., Middle of Somewhere, Becomes a Draw.” The article features the Haw River Ballroom, a music venue on the site of the...
North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro is sponsoring recitations by district Poetry Out Loud winners from Guilford County high schools on Saturday, Jan. 21, at 10 a.m. The competition will take place in the university’s general classroom building at Benbow and Sullivan Roads, auditorium...
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...
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 Dare County Arts Council is sponsoring recitations by district Poetry Out Loud winners from Manteo and First Flight High School at the Front Porch Café, MP12 Bypass, Nag’s Head, Thursday, Jan. 12 at 6 p.m. Students will be competing for the opportunity to participate in statewide semifinals and finals...
Lenoir Public Art Project Goes Live Friday
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Raleigh to Host Major IBMA Awards Show and Convention
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Raleigh’s Kariisa Advances in National Poetry Out Loud Finals
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Cherokee Voices Festival Celebrates Traditional Arts and Living History
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ADF Dedicates 79th Season to Mary Regan
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Creech Brings Poetry to Charlotte Writing Residency
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Outdoor Arts in Oriental
WCU’s Hampton Awarded 2012 Doris Betts Fiction Prize
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Byer, Angelou and Lawson to Join Literary Hall of Fame
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Servon’s “Clayton Patchwork” Spotlights Public Art
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Honoring Cherokee Elder Walker Calhoun
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Raleigh’s Kariisa to Represent N.C. in National Poetry Competition
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Gurganus Inaugurates “Blast from the Past” Reading Series
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ClydeFEST Celebrates Bynum “Critter” Artist
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Celebrating North Carolina’s Banjo Innovator Earl Scruggs
Mike Seeger Remembered in Music
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Williams Family Appears in Snow Hill
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Piedmont Opera Presents Ward’s “The Crucible”
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Hudson’s “Accidental Birds” Earns Honors
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Music Festival Highlights Under-represented Composers
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McEntire Makes Family Connections at State Archives
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NC Award Nominations Now Being Accepted
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Remembering Old-Time Fiddler Joe Thompson
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Documentaries Highlight African American Musicians in Eastern N.C.
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“American Craft” Highlights Celebrated NC Artists
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Gerard Receives 2012 Sam Ragan Award
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President Clinton Lauds A+ Schools
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Wiley’s Emmitt Till Play Now a Feature Film
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Beam Delivers “Carolina Valentine”
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Scholarship Established in Honor of South Arts Executive Director
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Reynolds Price Remembered
Poets Gather in Winston-Salem
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“Violins of Hope” Makes First U.S. Appearance in Charlotte
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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....“Binocular Vision” is National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
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New York Times Nod to Saxapahaw
NC A&T Hosts Guilford County Poetry Out Loud Winners
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Carlisle Joins U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board
Arts Council Executive Director Position Recruitment Underway
Front Porch Café Hosts Dare County Poetry Out Loud Winners
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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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