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April 18, 2022

Apply Today for the JumpstART Grant: Designed by Artists for Artists

The CAC’s JumpstART grant was born out of the pandemic as a way to help get Chatham County artists and arts-workers back to work. JumpstART pays artists to make art–and to put the arts in the public sphere as we reconnect with one another in our public spaces. 2021 JumpstART was deeply impactful, so we’re… Read More →

By Andrea Akin | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Resources for Artists, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Art Show, artists, author, Chatham County, Collaboration, Community, Creative Culture, Creative Process, Cultural Events, live music, Musical Theatre, NC literature, non-fiction, painting, performance, Poetry, theater, theatre, Visual Arts & Crafts, Writing

December 27, 2021

Meet This Artist: Woodworker Scott Meyer

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 series this year. Architecture is art, and the Hobbs crew values art in… Read More →

By Rachel Flanagan | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Art Show, Chatham Artists Guild, Chatham County, Meet This Artist, Sawtooth School, woodworker, woodworking

November 15, 2021

Chatham Experience 2021

  Chatham Experience 2021 was one of those “somedays” we were dreaming of this time last year–and it was glorious, friends. In 2020, when the pandemic hit, life as we know it changed for everyone–including artists. Galleries closed. Music venues canceled all performances. Artists were left to figure out where and how they were going… Read More →

By Andrea Akin | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Events, Resources for Artists, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Art Show, artists, Author reading, Chatham County, Community, literature, live music, performance, Pittsboro, Visual Arts & Crafts

April 21, 2021

New Jumpstart Grant Opp Designed by Artists for Artists

Last year, the pandemic shut down the arts economy in Chatham County. No one really thought that one year later, we’d still be wading through the pandemic, waiting for life to go back to “normal.” Because artists and arts-workers have been hugely impacted by the pandemic, we launched the Chatham Artists and Arts-workers Relief Effort… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: Resources for Artists, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Art Show, artists, author, Chatham County, Collaboration, Community, Creative Culture, Creative Process, Cultural Events, live music, Musical Theatre, NC literature, non-fiction, painting, performance, Poetry, theater, theatre, Visual Arts & Crafts, Writing

April 4, 2021

Meet This Artist: Painter Tiana Brooks

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 series this year. Architecture is art, and the Hobbs crew values art in… Read More →

By Rachel Flanagan | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, Art Show, Arts education, Arts in Education, Chatham County, JM Arts, JMArts, painter

March 10, 2021

Go See This: Big Night In For the Arts

As new members of our Chatham County community, Chatham Park is powering our Go See This series this year because art is an integral part of Chatham County’s identity. They join us in inviting you to Go See This . . . It has been, without question, a devastating year for artists. Between gallery closures, event… Read More →

By Rachel Flanagan | Filed Under: Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, Art Show, artists, Arts education, Arts in Education, Chatham County, Go See This

February 12, 2021

Go See This: Chatham County Schools’ Winter Arts Festival

As new members of our Chatham County community, Chatham Park is powering our Go See This series this year because art is an integral part of Chatham County’s identity. They join us in inviting you to Go See This . . . As the saying goes in the theater world, “the show must go on,” even… Read More →

By Rachel Flanagan | Filed Under: Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, Art Show, artists, Arts education, Arts in Education, Chatham County, Go See This

February 19, 2020

ClydeFEST 2020: Save the Date!

UPDATE: Like all of you, we are actively monitoring developments related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and its impact on our beloved ClydeFEST.  Due to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent recommendations to limit gatherings of more than 50 people, we will unfortunately not be holding ClydeFEST on April 25, 2020. With the recommendations… Read More →

By April Starling | Filed Under: Arts in Education, ClydeFEST, County Happenings, Events, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, Art Show, artists, Bynum, Chatham County, Children, Collaboration, Community, Creative Culture, live music, painting, performance, Visual Arts & Crafts

February 5, 2020

Meet This Artist: Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski

Meet This Artist: Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski The fine folks at Hobbs Architects in downtown Pittsboro are powering our Meet This Artist series this year. Architecture is art, and the Hobbs crew values art in our community. They join us in inviting you to take a look. Meet your very inspiring neighbors. Meet This Artist… To… Read More →

By Rachel Flanagan | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, Art Show, artists, Arts education, Arts in Education, Chatham County, Creative Process, ODDCO, painter, synesthesia

January 6, 2020

Meet This Artist: Josh Taylor, Our Next Folk Art Hero?

The fine folks at Hobbs Architects in downtown Pittsboro are powering our Meet This Artist series this year. Architecture is art, and the Hobbs crew values art in our community. They join us in inviting you to take a look. Meet your very inspiring neighbors. Meet This Artist… “I’m stuck with it [art]. I try… Read More →

By David Jester | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Art Show, author, book illustration, books, Chatham County, Children, Josh Taylor, literature, natural world, Visual Arts & Crafts

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