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August 23, 2017

Go See This: Sunday Afternoon Poetry at the Joyful Jewel

This month’s “Go See This” is written by guest blogger Selbe Bartlett. Sunday, September 17th will mark the first in a regular monthly series of Sunday afternoon poetry readings at Pittsboro’s Joyful… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham County, Community, Creative Culture, Go See This, Literary Arts, Pittsboro, Poetry

January 31, 2017

Meet This Artist: Ruth Moose is serving up words, ideas, memories

Ruth Moose was only three years-old when she first tried her hand at writing. “My grandfather was a Baptist preacher – tall, very charismatic. He baptized a lot of people,… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Uncategorized | Tagged With: author, collection, fiction, novel, poet, teacher, writer

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

August 24, 2016

Resources for Poetry in North Carolina

When I first moved to North Carolina in 2007 I was preoccupied with a new job, closing on my first house, and learning where all the good restaurants were. Writing… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Events, Resources for Artists, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Bynum, Collaboration, Creative Culture, Creative Process, Literary Arts, Pittsboro, Poetry, Readings, writers, Writing

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

April 27, 2016

Meet This Artist: Young Authors, Bright Lights

When Chatham County’s media coordinators put out a call for original stories, more than 500 elementary and middle school students delivered. Autobiographies, works of fiction, pop-ups books, poetry – they… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: artists, Arts education, authors, books, Chatham County Schools, Literary Arts, Margaret Pollard Middle School, North Chatham Elementary, Siler City Elementary, students, writers

March 8, 2016

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October 16, 2015

Meet This Artist: Serena Ebhardt Entertains, Educates & Enlightens

It’s not so much that you wouldn’t recognize Serena. It’s just that when you ask people if they know Serena Ebhardt, you’re likely to get so many different descriptions, you’d think… Read More →

By Gina Harrison | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Arts in Education, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Arts in Education, Arts Residencies, Collaboration, Creative Process, Music, performance, theater

September 25, 2015

Meet This Artist: Diali Cissokho Blazes a New Chapter

Musician and songwriter Diali Cissokho was born into a long line of West African griots, who have been passing down history through song for seven centuries. From a small fishing… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: kora, Music, Senegal, West Africa, world music

September 15, 2015

Chatham Joins State in National Celebration

2015 National Arts in Education logo

In 2010, US House Resolution #275 designated the second week of September as “Arts in Education Week,” a time to focus a national spotlight on arts education and publically recognize… Read More →

By Gina Harrison | Filed Under: Arts in Education, ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Uncategorized | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, #ArtsEdWeek, #CCNC, Arts in Education, Chatham County Schools, Pittsboro, Siler City

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