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June 17, 2015

Go See This: The Hispanic Liaison’s Community Photo Project / Vaya Ver Esto: El Vinculo Hispano

Este es un artículo en inglés y español. Por favor busque abajo para la versión en español. This is a dual-language article.  For the Spanish version, please scroll down.  … Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This, Grassroots Grants, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: dual language, El Vinculo Hispano, Hispanic Liaison, Lee Moody, Photography, Rachel Cone, Siler City

May 19, 2015

Meet This Artist: JR Butler Makes an Impression

JR Butler laughing in his studio.

As a kid in rural New York, JR Butler wasn’t interested in becoming a fireman or a cowboy when he grew up. His dream was to become an artist. And… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: JR, JR Butler, nc arts incubator, pottery, Siler City

April 28, 2015

Meet This Artist: Lisbeth Hickey Dances with a New Generation

For Lisbeth Hickey as a child, summer time meant a four-hour sojourn to the small Colombian town of Natagaima, where her maternal grandparents lived and farmed. There she watched her cousins… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: clydeFEST, dance, Folkloric Dance, Latin Dance, lisbeth hickey, Spanish, takiri, takiri academy

March 24, 2015

Go See This: The Day of the Book Festival / Vaya Ver Esto: El Día de los Libros Festival

Este es un artículo en inglés y español. Por favor busque abajo para la versión en español. This is a dual-language article.  For the Spanish version, please scroll down.  … Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This, Grassroots Grants, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Child Care Networks, Day of the Book, el Dia de los Libros, Festival, Grassroots Arts Grant, Recipients - Grassroots Arts Grants, Siler City

March 10, 2015

Meet This Artist: Cuttin’ Up with Clyde Jones

Clyde Jones on a Critter

More than anything, Bynum folk art legend Clyde Jones likes to make children smile. He has an unconventional way of going about it – by revving up his chainsaw. It… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Clyde, Clyde Jones, clydeFEST, Critter, Critterville

February 24, 2015

One Challenge Met, One to Go!

You may remember that recently an extraordinary anonymous donor stepped forward with a matching challenge gift for the Chatham Arts Council.  A $5,000 gift.  One that challenged folks to join… Read More →

By Cheryl Chamblee | Filed Under: Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: challenge, donate, gift, matching challenge

February 17, 2015

Go See This: Pop on over to Pop! Siler City

Like Alice’s visit to Wonderland, Siler City residents of a hundred years ago would find quite a different place were they to show up downtown today. But for three spring… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This, Grassroots Grants, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Grassroots Arts Grants, J.R. Butler, nc arts incubator, open art society, Pop Siler City, Pop!, Recipients - Grassroots Arts Grants, Roger Person, Siler City

February 10, 2015

Meet This Artist: Jonathan Davis Plays with Fire

With a 5,000 degree sabre of flame made of liquid oxygen and propane, Jonathan Davis spins, shapes, and blows molten glass into elaborate works of art at his studio in… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: glass blowing, Jonathan Davis, Locally Grown Art

January 27, 2015

ClydeFEST: Calling All Food Trucks and Nonprofit Superheroes!

So, we’ve got our beloved ClydeFEST coming up on Saturday, May 2, and we are already getting deep into the planning to celebrate creativity with the kiddos!  If you don’t… Read More →

By Cheryl Chamblee | Filed Under: Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Clyde Jones, clydeFEST, food vendor, group participant, nonprofit booth

January 20, 2015

Go See This: Visions to Behold at the Fearrington Folk Art Show

This is the Chatham Arts Council’s third in a monthly series focusing on arts events in Chatham County that are not to be missed. In 1974, R. B. Fitch and his… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Fearrington Folk Art Show, Fearrington Village, Folk Art, Go See This, Outsider Art, Visionary Art

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Meet This Artist

Triptych of photos of Sanaiya

Meet This Artist: Sanaiya Cheek

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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