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June 29, 2023

Meet This Artist: Steve Fagan, working with metal, wood, stained glass, and anything else that interests him

Smiling white man in gray henley shirt looking down at his drafting in his metal and woodworking shop.

Ever since he was a kid, Fagan has been a doer. Want to play punk guitar? He figured it out. Want to switch to old-time guitar? He figured it out. Want to build a cabin? He figured it out. Want to build a hydroelectric generator in a stream? Want to work with wood? Glass? Want to work with metal and wood and glass? Want to build high-dollar decks and mixed-media garden gates and trellises? Want to live as you wish without compromising your ideals? He figured it out.

By Corbie Hill | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham County, Hoppin Johnnies, Meet This Artist, metal, Steve Fagan, woodworker

June 26, 2023

Go See This: Bynum Front Porch Summer Music Series

When Howie and his country band The Rosewood Bluff returned to the General Store on May 26 for his latest Bynum Front Porch Friday Night Music Series performance, the Hillsborough-based songwriter found the vibe alive and well. “It still very much feels like the country, and honestly in a way that where I grew up kind of doesn’t anymore,” he says.

By Corbie Hill | Filed Under: Creative Placemaking, Events, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Bynum, Bynum Front Porch, Durham Ukulele Orchestra, Go See This, John Howie, Music, Summer, The Rosewood Bluff

June 14, 2023

Meet This Artist: Maria Troiani Howard, Inclusive Dance Artist

The Chatham Arts Council is investing in artists through our Meet This Artist series, introducing you to 12 Chatham County artists each year in a big way. The fine folks at… Read More →

By Heather O'Shaughnessy | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham County, dance, inclusive dance, Joy of Movement, Maria Troiani Howard, Meet This Artist

June 6, 2023

Black Box Dance Theatre and Virtual Academy Zoom!

Triptych of photos L to R: screenshot of Zoom classroom; professional dancers in costume; screenshot of Zoom classroom

When Virtual Academy students in grades four through six shared one word to describe the first day of virtual dance workshops with Black Box Dance Theatre this May, their responses… Read More →

By Andrea Akin | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, Arts for Resilient Kids, Arts in Education, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: AIS, artists-in-schools, Arts for Resilient Kids, Chatham County Schools, dance, virtual academy, virtual school

June 6, 2023

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Spices Things Up at Siler City Elementary and Bennett School

Triptych of Black Box Dance residency; L to R smiling boy; woman raising hand in the air;Man playing guitar in front of a group of seated students

Can you hear the click, click, click of the castanets? ¡Ole!  In February, dancers with the Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Dance Company, one of America’s premier flamenco companies with home… Read More →

By Jessica Rigsbee | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, Arts for Resilient Kids, Arts in Education, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: AIS, artists-in-schools, Arts for Resilient Kids, Bennett, flamenco, Jazz, John Brown Quartet, Siler City

June 6, 2023

Diali Cissokho Brings Smiles and Beats to Chatham Charter

Triptych of Diali Cissokho residency; L to R students playing drums; Diali, a black man playing drums in front of seated students; male and female students dancing

“One student … told me that he had been sharing what he learned at home with his family and practicing on the dinner table. That brought me a lot of joy,” shared Diali.

By Jessica Rigsbee | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, Arts for Resilient Kids, Arts in Education, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: AIS, artists-in-schools, Arts for Resilient Kids, Chatham Charter, Diali Cissokho, drums

June 6, 2023

The John Brown Quartet Jazzes Things Up at Moncure School

Photo triptych of John Brown Quartet playing for Moncure School

The performance time was up for the John Brown Quartet, but at the end of their original set, a Bennett teacher asked if the band had time to play just… Read More →

By Jessica Rigsbee | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, Arts for Resilient Kids, Arts in Education, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: AIS, artists-in-schools, Arts for Resilient Kids, Jazz, John Brown Quartet, moncure

April 26, 2023

Meet This Artist: Sanaiya Cheek

Triptych of photos of Sanaiya

The Chatham Arts Council is investing in artists through our Meet This Artist series, introducing you to 12 Chatham County artists each year in a big way. The fine folks at… Read More →

By Andrea Akin | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham County, JM Arts, Meet This Artist

March 7, 2023

Meet This Artist: Chatham Rabbits – Pioneering New Music from Traditional Roots

Photo triptych of the Chatham Rabbits, Sarah and Austin McCombie.

The Chatham Arts Council is investing in artists through our Meet This Artist series, introducing you to 12 Chatham County artists each year in a big way. The fine folks at… Read More →

By Andrea Akin | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Big Night In for the Arts, Chatham County, Chatham Rabbits, Meet This Artist, Roots music

December 9, 2022

Larger-Than-Life Art, Larger-Than-Life Bubbles, Larger-Than-Life Fun!

The sun streamed across Love’s Creek a few weeks ago, as performers and volunteers gathered for our season’s first Truck-and-Trailer Roving Performance. Cars stopped. People waved and called out, excited… Read More →

By Andrea Akin | Filed Under: Arts for Resilient Kids, Arts in Education, Events, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: arts parade, geoffrey the bubble guy, joe troop, larry & joe, larry bellorin, Love's Creek, Paperhand Puppet Intervention, Siler City, truck-and-trailer, Truck-and-trailer roving performance

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