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October 18, 2016

Go See This: Celebrate the Bluegrass Experience

With 45 years of shows, recordings, beloved fans, and international accolades, where does one start with The Bluegrass Experience? Just as he does on stage with the Bluegrass Experience, the band’s lead guitarist Tommy Edwards serves as… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Events, Go See This | Tagged With: Artist, Bluegrass, Bynum, Chatham County, Creative Economy, Cultural Events, Music, Recipients - Grassroots Arts Grants

October 3, 2016

Meet This Artist: Pain fueled creativity & spirit for Onicas Gaddis

Onicas Gaddis has only one photograph from his childhood. “This is me and my two brothers, Bart and Phillip, and my sister Josephine – before I was taken away,” he said…. Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Uncategorized | Tagged With: abstract, Artist, Chatham County, Chatham Mills, Collaboration, Community, Creativity, expressionism, Folk Art, hip hop, memoir, musician, North Carolina, painter, Pittsboro, rap, spirituality, writer

July 21, 2016

Breadfoot

By Stephan Meyers | |

July 19, 2016

New Home, New Board Members, New Year

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In the last two years, the Chatham Arts Council introduced a new logo, new brand, new mission focus, and new website. As we enter the new fiscal year, there’s even… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Arts in Education, ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Events | Tagged With: Arts Residencies, clydeFEST, Community, Pittsboro, Siler City

June 2, 2016

Meet This Artist: Leandra Strope is empowering girls to find their voices

While other toddlers were smearing yogurt in their hair and coloring on the walls with crayons, Leandra Strope at age two was learning to play the violin. “My mother was… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist | Tagged With: auditions, choir, Chorus, Community, concert, ensemble, girls, Music, performance, Recipients - Grassroots Arts Grants, Sisters' Voices, summer camp

May 2, 2016

Go See This: Shakori Hills Stimulates the Senses

For four days in the fall and spring, the bucolic Chatham County community of Silk Hope is enhanced with an event that awakens all the senses. Celebrating its fourteenth year, the Shakori Festival of… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Events, Go See This, Resources for Artists, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Community, Creative Culture, Creative Economy, Cultural Events, dance, Go See This, Music, Silk Hope, Tourism

March 29, 2016

Meet this Artist: Liz Bliss is a Cirque Performer with a Flare

Chatham County artist Elizabeth Robertson (aka Liz Bliss) is a cirque performer, aerial artist, acrobat, stilt dancer, fire dancer and instructor. “I tend to think of myself more as a… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: acrobatics, aerial, arts, circus, cirque, costumes, Creative Culture, Cultural Events, dance, face painting, fire dancing, hooping, make-up, stilt walking, stilts, theater, theatre

March 2, 2016

Arts Education Spotlight: March is Students’ Month to Shine

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It’s March! —That special month in the school year when we celebrate all things Arts. Youth Art Month (YAM), Theatre in Our Schools Month(TIOS), Music in Our Schools Month (MIOSM), and… Read More →

By Gina Harrison | Filed Under: Arts in Education, County Happenings, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Art Show, Arts education, Arts in Education, Arts Residencies, Bonlee, Chatham Middle, Community, Cultural Events, dance, Horton, Jordan-Matthews, Music, North Chatham Elementary, Northwood High School, Siler City Elementary, Virginia Cross, Visual Arts & Crafts

February 1, 2016

Go See This: 4th Annual Mardi Gras Party

A recent six-alarm fire on Canal Street has worried Crescent City revelers that Mardi Gras might be curtailed this year. But Chathamites need not be concerned. The 4th Annual Mardi… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: County Happenings, Events, Go See This, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Creative Culture, Creative Economy, Cultural Events, Go See This, Music, performance, Siler City, Visual Arts & Crafts

January 7, 2016

Music In Me

By Shelley Buisson | |

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