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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...
North Carolina Symphony music director Grant Llewellyn will be guest conductor of the Charlotte Symphony in two performances of Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Rhapsody, Friday, Jan. 13, and Saturday, Jan. 14, at 8 p.m. at the Belk Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. Pianist Joyce Yang, silver medalist...
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman, the debut title from literary imprint Lookout Books of the Department of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington, is one of three finalists for the Story Prize, an annual award for books of short fiction. The collections and authors were chosen from...
Asheville poet Katherine Soniat is the recipient of the 2012 Oscar Arnold Young Award for the best book of poetry from North Carolina for her collection entitled The Swing Girl, published by Louisiana State University Press. She teaches in the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC Asheville.
In conjunction...
Gaston College in Dallas has been awarded a literary arts touring grant from South Arts to present performance poet Doris Davenport for a poetry workshop for high school and college students, along with an evening public reading. The school was one of four organizations to receive grants, and the only one...
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...
Dramatist Ian Finley, director of education for Burning Coal Theatre Company in Raleigh, has been named 2012 Piedmont Laureate. Over the course of his one-year appointment, he will present public readings and workshops, participate in select public functions and create at least one original activity to...
The Touring Theatre of North Carolina in Greensboro has received a $9,540 grant from the N.C. Humanities Council to support Look Back the Maytime Days: From the Pages of Fred Chappell, a stage production of author Fred Chappell’s family stories in western N.C. Chappell is a former N.C. Poet Laureate and...
Opera Carolina’s kabuki-tinged staging of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly will feature a set and costumes designed by internationally renowned Japanese ceramic artist Jun Kaneko. Based in Omaha, Nebraska, the artist first created the colorful, stylized designs for an Opera Omaha production in...
Members of the Winston-Salem Symphony “flash-mobbed” the local Hanes Mall with an impromptu performance of works from Handel’s Messiah. The symphony has added two additional performances of the classic, Thursday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. at Winston-Salem First Church, 3730 University Parkway (visit...
The 12th annual Cabin Fever Reliever, a four-day, three-night creative arts retreat, will be held from Thursday, Feb. 16, through Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, in Columbia. The retreat is hosted by Pocosin Arts Folk School, in partnership with the Maria V. Howard Arts Center at the Eastern 4-H Environmental...
The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum in Sedalia will be presented with a portrait of its namesake during its annual Christmas open house on Sunday, Dec. 11. Originally commissioned by the Charlotte Observer for use in an African American history supplement, the color portrait by Charlotte artist Jason...
President Obama has appointed Durham architect Phil Freelon to a four-year term on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. The commission includes seven experts charged with giving advice to the President, Congress and the heads of departments and agencies of the federal and District of Columbia governments on...
Raleigh’s Burning Coal Theatre Company is featured in the December issue of American Theatre Magazine for its imaginative production of Henry V (on Trapeze). The collaboration with New York City-based Fight or Flight Aerial Theater Company adapts the Shakespeare play for actors on both the stage and on...
A profile of Marion chair maker Max Woody launched the CBS Early Show’s “Local Legends” series today. Woody is a sixth generation chair maker as well as a fiddler who performs at Woody’s Original Mountain Music across the street from his shop in McDowell County. He comes from a notable family of...
(L to R) Mark Peiser, Richard Ritter
Longtime studio glass artists Mark Peiser and Richard Ritter were honored as 2011 North Carolina Living Treasures in a ceremony at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington on Nov. 29. Penland School of Crafts also received special recognition for its contribution to...
The annual Post-Turkey Day Jam at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro brings together a host of local artists to benefit the Interfaith Council of Chapel Hill’s hunger relief programs. A songwriters-in-the-round program featuring Lizzy Ross, Greg Humphreys, Mark Simonsen, SONiA and Stu Cole will be followed by...
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...
Blues guitarist and Durham street singer Rev. Gary Davis will be honored in a symposium and concert featuring Jorma Kaukonen, Stefan Grossman and Ernie Hawkins Thursday, Nov. 17, on the UNC- Chapel Hill campus. A free public reception will be held at Wilson Special Collections Library at 5 p.m., followed...
Edith Pearlman’s Binocular Vision, the first book published by Lookout Books, the literary imprint of UNC Wilmington’s The Publishing Laboratory, is one of five finalists for the National Book Award in fiction. The finalists were selected from 315 fiction entries. For the first time, the ceremony...
Described as a cross between Saturday Night Live, A Prairie Home Companion and the Grand Old Opry, the Murphey School Radio Show, hosted by Georgann Eubanks will present a host of homegrown talent including novelist Lee Smith, poet Alan Shapiro, singers Callie Warner and Jennifer Evans, blues master Harvey...
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 fourth annual Six Days in November festival, “A Feast for the Senses” will feature 165 events from 40 arts and technology organizations throughout Winston-Salem Tuesday, Nov. 15 , through Sunday, Nov. 20. Hosted by the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County and the city’s arts and...
Writer Belle Boggs, a 2011–2012 N.C. Arts Council Literature Fellowship recipient, has been awarded the Library of Virginia’s Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award for Fiction for her debut short story collection, Mattaponi Queen: Stories. In making the award, judges noted her “strongly imagined...
Asheville mixed media artist Nava Lubelski, a 2010–2011 N.C. Arts Council Fellowship recipient, will host a solo show entitled Roomful at LMAKprojects in New York City opening Friday, Oct. 28, and continuing through Sunday, Dec. 11. The canvases on display will feature Lubelski’s signature “stain...
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...
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...
Members of the public can mingle with artists on the streets of downtown Sylva during the third annual ColorFest! Art of the Blue Ridge, Saturday, Oct. 22, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Throughout fall foliage season in October, participating visual artists will have their works on display inside Sylva businesses,...
Beam Delivers “Carolina Valentine”
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Scholarship Established in Honor of South Arts Executive Director
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Reynolds Price Remembered
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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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NC Symphony’s Llewellyn Conducts in Charlotte
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Lookout Books Title is Finalist for the Story Prize
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Soniat Receives Poetry Award
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Gaston College Awarded South Arts Grant
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Asheville’s Arts For Life Gets National PR
Finley Named 2012 Piedmont Laureate
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Touring Theatre’s “Maytime Days” Receives Humanities Funding
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Kaneko Adds Color to Madama Butterfly
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Winston-Salem Symphony Flash Mobs Messiah
Pocosin Arts Hosts Cabin Fever Reliever
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Portrait Honors Charlotte Hawkins Brown
President Appoints Freelon to US Commission of Fine Arts
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Burning Coal’s Henry V Gets Lift
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Marion’s Max Woody Profiled on CBS
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Peiser, Ritter Named “NC Living Treasures”
Artists Jam for Hunger Relief
Boggs Awarded NEA Fellowship
Tribute Honors Blues Legend Rev. Gary Davis
Binocular Vision Vies for National Book Award Tonight
Murphey School Radio Show Presents “Wit, Lit and Music”
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Gaston Library Honored with Humanities Award
“A Feast for the Senses” in Winston-Salem
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Boggs Receives Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award
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Lubelski’s “Roomful” Opens in New York
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Weatherspoon’s de Kooning Travels to New York
Reynolda House Welcomes Modern Masters
Poetry Out Loud Champion Narrates NASA Film
“ColorFest” Brings Art to the Streets of Sylva
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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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