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November 16, 2022

Marjorie Hudson

By Marjorie Hudson | |

March 2, 2020

Meet This Artist: Writer Marjorie Hudson

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… Read More →

By Rachel Flanagan | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: author, authors, books, Chatham County, Chatham writer, Creative Process, literature, published author, Writing

December 20, 2019

Stephen Elder

By Stephen Elder | |

November 26, 2019

Artists-in-Schools: A Deep Dive into Civil Rights History and Literature with Mike Wiley

If you know Mike Wiley, you know that he is full of expression, captures an audience almost instantly, and finds a way to pull out the inner theater artist in… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: Artists-in-Schools, Arts in Education, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, acting, Arts education, author, Chatham County, Children, Community, Creative Culture, performance, theater, Writing

June 4, 2018

Meet This Artist: Gary Phillips, Poet Laureate & Multiple Hyphenate

Written by guest blogger, Elisabeth Lewis Corley. Gary Phillips, a life-long North Carolinian born in Appalachia and long-term resident of Chatham County, is the 2016-2018 poet laureate of Carrboro, North… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Appalachia, fiction, full moon, memoir, Morehead-Cain, non-fiction, poem, poet, Poetry, Silk Hope, writer

March 17, 2018

Meet This Artist: Writer Michele Tracy Berger Celebrates Community in Speculative Fiction

This month’s “Meet This Artist” is written by guest blogger Elisabeth Lewis Corley.  Michele Tracy Berger describes herself as a writer, professor, and pug-lover. Reenu-You, Michele’s sci-fi novella, was published… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: authors, books, Chatham County, Community, feminism, gender studies, Literary Arts, Meet This Artist, non-fiction, Pittsboro, Poetry, speculative fiction, Writing

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

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

November 18, 2014

Louise Hawes

By Louise Hawes | |

November 16, 2014

Kitchen Table Writers Workshops

By Marjorie Hudson | |

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Meet This Artist

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

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

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 … Read More →

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