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December 5, 2018

One More Year of Reveling in the Fiddle: Pickin’ 2018 Sure Was Fun!

Well, it’s come and gone – Pickin’: A Music Celebration, that is. It’s so hard to believe Chatham Arts Council’s Annual Benefit for Artists-in-Schools is over. All who gathered in… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: Arts in Education, ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, Arts education, Chatham County, Community, live music, performance

June 19, 2018

Go See This: Summer Fest 2018

What does a historic downtown do in the summer to bring neighbors together to celebrate their town? The Pittsboro Business Association hosts Summer Fest! At Summer Fest, Pittsboro’s main north/south… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This, Uncategorized | Tagged With: circus arts, Community, crafts, Creative Culture, Go See This, live music, Pittsboro

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

May 17, 2018

Meet This Artist: Andrew Wilson is creating electrified wall and wearable art

In the deep woods of Chatham County, sparked by his keen sense of the natural world, Andrew Wilson is exploring multiple pathways to creating art, among them photography, painting, wood-working,… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Artist, Chatham County, ear rings, earrings, electricity, gardener, massage therapist, nature, NC, painter, photographer, piedmont forest, Pittsboro, potter, pyrographer, stay-at-home dad, wall art, wood burning, woodburning, woodlands, woodworker

May 14, 2018

Go See This: David Sedaris Reads from “Calypso”

Written by guest blogger, Gilda McDaniel. McIntyre’s Books in Fearrington Village will host world-renowned author and Raleigh native David Sedaris when he makes a rare live appearance at the Fearrington… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Author reading, authors, Chatham County, Community, Fearrington Village, non-fiction, Writing

March 27, 2018

Meet This Artist: Gilda McDaniel – Genius Behind the Scenes

This month’s “Meet This Artist” is written by guest blogger Elisabeth Lewis Corley.  Something about this sylph who is also a fierce arts community fixture begins to make sense when… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Art Show, artists, Bynum, Chatham County, Clyde Jones, clydeFEST, Community, Crooks Corner, Mark Hewitt, Pittsboro, Rusty Sieck, theater, Tomy Edwards, Visual Arts & Crafts, yoga

March 27, 2018

Meet This Artist: Antonio Lynn is Drumming to the Sound of Success

Antonio Lynn, it seems, was born with a drumbeat in his soul. He remembers playing drums at the early age of two. When he was three, his grandparents, Albert and… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Chatham Charter, Chatham County, church, concert band, drumline, drumming, drums, First Missionary Baptist Church, marching band, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Siller City

March 9, 2018

Go See This: Saturdays in Siler City

March 17th is a time for celebration all over downtown Siler City and the NC Arts Incubator is at the hub of all the fun! What’s the ruckus all about?… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Go See This, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Collaboration, Creative Culture, Creative Economy, live music, Music, Siler City, Visual Arts & Crafts

April 18, 2017

Meet This Artist: Dorrie Casey is giving art to support art for children

Since she was a child, Dorrie Casey was all about theater  – writing, performing, designing, and making music. Then, quite by chance, a new art form grabbed hold of her… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Artist, bones, collage, installation, lichen, metal, moss, recycle, repurposed, sculpture. texture, wool

March 21, 2017

Go See This: Premiere of “The Courthouse”

“The courthouse is on fire!” Many local folks know where they were on the afternoon of March 25, 2010. That was the day the iconic, historic 1881 Chatham County Courthouse on the circle… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: County Happenings, Go See This, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Architecture, Chatham County, Community, Documentary Film, historic renovation, Pittsboro

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