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March 19, 2025

Clyde Jones Folk Artist

Clyde Jones on a Critter

Tell Us About Chatham County’s Clyde Jones More than anything, Bynum folk art legend Clyde Jones likes to make children smile. For decades, he had an unconventional way of going… Read More →

By Andrea Akin | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, ClydeFEST | Tagged With: Clyde, Clyde Jones, clydeFEST, Critter, Critterville

February 10, 2025

Meet This Artist: Sculptor Carol Brainard

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

By Heather O'Shaughnessy | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured |

June 5, 2024

Juneteenth Black Arts Festival

Art, culture, and community combine at the 7th Annual Juneteenth Black Arts Festival. Community-led and community-driven, CORE hosts an annual Juneteenth Festival through the intentional stewardship of our planning team…. Read More →

By Andrea Akin | |

March 21, 2024

Go See This: JMArts presents Frozen: The Broadway Musical

Connie Fenner is a local business owner, community connector, and proud breast cancer survivor. She’s committed to supporting orgs that bring people together to create healthier communities, including powering our… Read More →

By Heather O'Shaughnessy | Filed Under: County Happenings, Go See This | Tagged With: ceramics, Fearrington Barn, Fearrington Folk Art Show, Fearrington Village, Folk Art, found objects, local artists, painting, sculpture, textiles

February 21, 2024

Meet This Artist: Josh and Addie Rudy of Rudy Duo Studios

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: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: addie rudy, art therapy, ceramics, josh rudy, Pittsboro, pottery, rudy duo studios

February 14, 2024

Go See This: The Fearrington Folk Art Show

Connie Fenner is a local business owner, community connector, and proud breast cancer survivor. She’s committed to supporting orgs that bring people together to create healthier communities, including powering our… Read More →

By Heather O'Shaughnessy | Filed Under: County Happenings, Go See This | Tagged With: ceramics, Fearrington Barn, Fearrington Folk Art Show, Fearrington Village, Folk Art, found objects, local artists, painting, sculpture, textiles

January 17, 2024

Dome Alone! Home Tour & Art Exhibit

NCModernist invites architecture enthusiasts to a unique, nonprofit tour of a stunning geodesic dome home. The 2004 Molitor Dome is open for the first time in 20 years! Set on… Read More →

By Aimee Henderson | | Tagged With: Architecture, art, painting, sculpture, visual art

August 23, 2023

Meet This Artist: Bronwyn Watson, Ceramics Artist

There’s always an element of whimsy in my work. There’s always a little bit of a fairytale whimsy to it, and it just comes out, and there it is. It’s almost unintentional. It’s just there.

By Heather O'Shaughnessy | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Bronwyn Watson, ceramics, Chatham County, Come Out and Play, sculpture, visual art

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 20, 2023

Meet This Artist: Lisa Fedele, Fostering Creativity, Collaboration, and Innovation

Smiling woman in glasses and a black jacket. Standing with collection of folk art.

There’s a direct line for me between entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity. So I think it’s a really important thing to evangelize.Look at my father, who had a third grade education. My father was a diesel mechanic, but at his core he was an artist and a maker. I think about how many kids, very much like my father, don’t know that creativity is a path out of poverty, a path to the world. I want to help people realize that your choice isn’t between working in retail or working at a plant. Entrepreneurship is a choice. Creativity is a driver.

By Barbara Hengstenberg | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Chatham County, Lisa Fedele, Meet This Artist, nc arts incubator, Siler City, Small Museum of Folk Art, the alliance

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