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October 16, 2025

Farm to Story: Vibrant Communities Project Celebrates Chatham Farmers

Whether you enjoy a floral honey or a juicy steak, your taste buds zing thanks to local farmers. Often there’s a disconnect in where our food actually comes from and the Chatham Arts Council and EbzB Productions are here to explore that! Commissioned by the CAC, EbzB Productions—led by the artistic duo of Serena Ebhardt and… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Creative Placemaking, Events, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: artists, Chatham County, Collaboration, Community, Creative Culture, Creative Economy, Creative Process, Creativity, Cultural Events, performance, theater, Visual Arts, Writing

September 17, 2025

Check Out the 2025-26 Artists-in-Schools Season Lineup!

Do you remember the first time something a teacher said to you “clicked?” That moment when you finally understood the difference between a metaphor and a simile? That’s what the CAC’s Artists-in-Schools Initiative is all about. By bringing professional artists into Chatham County schools, artists leverage the arts through interactive workshops that support teachers’ learning… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, Arts in Education, ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Events, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, AIS, artists, artists-in-schools, arts, Arts education, Arts in Education, Chatham County, Children, Collaboration, Community, Creative Culture, Creative Process, Creativity, dance, live music, Music, Musical Theater, Musical Theatre, performance, Poetry, Visual Arts & Crafts, Workshop, Writing

March 18, 2024

Meet This Artist: Musician Dawn Landes

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 Hobbs Architects in downtown Pittsboro are powering our Meet This Artist series this year. Architecture is art, and the Hobbs crew values art in our… Read More →

By Heather O'Shaughnessy | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham Mills, clydeFEST, dawn landes, folk music, JumpstART, musician, Roots music, singer/songwriter, storytelling, vocal music

May 9, 2019

Go See This: Storytelling at Bynum

As new members of our Chatham County community, Chatham Park is powering our Go See This series this year because art is an integral part of Chatham County’s identity. They join us in inviting you to Go See This . . . As I prepare my digital voice recorder to interview Cindy Raxter, organizer of the Bynum… Read More →

By Luis Melodelgado | Filed Under: County Happenings, Events, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Bynum, Bynum Front Porch, Chatham County, Children, Community, Creative Culture, fiction, Go See This, non-fiction, performance

April 17, 2018

Meet This Artist: Mike Wiley—The Busiest Man in Show Business

This month’s “Meet This Artist” is written by guest blogger Elisabeth Lewis Corley.  Multiple hyphenate Mike Wiley, an actor-playwright- director-arts educator, came to Pittsboro because he and his wife, Jodi Neely Wiley, were living in Apex and expecting a second child when their first was almost four and they needed more room. And Jodi Neely… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: actor, Arts education, books, Chatham County, Community, memoir, Music, non-fiction, performance, Pittsboro, theater

March 26, 2016

Ken Corsbie

By Ken Corsbie | |

January 7, 2016

Music In Me

By Shelley Buisson | |

September 16, 2015

Bringing Theatre Residencies to Chatham Elementary School Students

Distinguished Teaching Artists EbzB and Mike Wiley Bring Theatre Residencies to Chatham County Schools This Year

Imagine if Jackie Robinson, the all-star African-American baseball player, were still alive and able to share his first-hand account of how he pushed the color barrier in America. Would we see the courage in his gait? Hear the lilt of frustration in his voice? Some Chatham County students will have the opportunity to experience what… Read More →

By Gina Harrison | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, Arts in Education, ChathamArts News, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEdWeek, #EncourageCreativity, Arts in Education, theater

June 27, 2015

Cynthia Raxter

By Cynthia Raxter | |

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