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April 12, 2017

Go See This: Day of the Books / El Día de los Libros

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”― Albert Einstein The annual Day of the Books/ El Día de los Libros is coming up on Saturday, April 29th, ready to bring books to life and delight in both… Read More →

By Danielle DuClos | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, Events, Go See This, Grassroots Grants, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, Advocacy, Arts education, Arts in Education, Chatham County, Chatham County Partnership for Children, Collaboration, Community, Creative Culture, Creative Process, Cultural Events, dance, Day of the Books, el Dia de los Libros, Go See This, Literary Arts, live music, Music, painting, performance, Recipients - Grassroots Arts Grants, Siler City, Visual Arts & Crafts

March 23, 2017

Go See This: Once Upon A Mattress

image with princess gowns, harp, crown, and two pictures of couples in cast

When Pittsboro’s Northwood High School Arts students take the stage at the end of March to present the annual spring musical, they are not only continuing a long NHS tradition, but joining thousands of peers across the country for whom the term “spring musical” is, if not redundant, at least, synonymous. “Opening for A Princess”… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Arts in Education, County Happenings, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: #ArtsEd, #CCNC, Art Show, Arts Ed, Arts education, CCSArts, Chatham County, Collaboration, Creative Culture, Cultural Events, Music, Musical Theatre, Northwood High School, NorthwoodArts, theater

October 18, 2016

Go See This: Celebrate the Bluegrass Experience

With 45 years of shows, recordings, beloved fans, and international accolades, where does one start with The Bluegrass Experience? Just as he does on stage with the Bluegrass Experience, the band’s lead guitarist Tommy Edwards serves as our guide through a bit of bluegrass history, Chatham County, and a few song titles popular in the band’s repertoire. [All videos of live performances are thanks to Carol… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Events, Go See This | Tagged With: Artist, Bluegrass, Bynum, Chatham County, Creative Economy, Cultural Events, Music, Recipients - Grassroots Arts Grants

May 2, 2016

Go See This: Shakori Hills Stimulates the Senses

For four days in the fall and spring, the bucolic Chatham County community of Silk Hope is enhanced with an event that awakens all the senses. Celebrating its fourteenth year, the Shakori Festival of Music and Dance is a world of sights, sounds, smells, and feelings that helps make Chatham an especially amazing place. Bands from across the state and around… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: ChathamArts News, County Happenings, Events, Go See This, Resources for Artists, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Community, Creative Culture, Creative Economy, Cultural Events, dance, Go See This, Music, Silk Hope, Tourism

March 29, 2016

Meet this Artist: Liz Bliss is a Cirque Performer with a Flare

Chatham County artist Elizabeth Robertson (aka Liz Bliss) is a cirque performer, aerial artist, acrobat, stilt dancer, fire dancer and instructor. “I tend to think of myself more as a professional smile maker.  My goal is to inspire others to move, express and be,” she said. Though she pursued a career in public health and… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: acrobatics, aerial, arts, circus, cirque, costumes, Creative Culture, Cultural Events, dance, face painting, fire dancing, hooping, make-up, stilt walking, stilts, theater, theatre

March 2, 2016

Arts Education Spotlight: March is Students’ Month to Shine

Arts Education Banner

It’s March! —That special month in the school year when we celebrate all things Arts. Youth Art Month (YAM), Theatre in Our Schools Month(TIOS), Music in Our Schools Month (MIOSM), and Dance in our schools. In the fall, communities show support for arts education during National Arts in Education Week. March is the time for students… Read More →

By Gina Harrison | Filed Under: Arts in Education, County Happenings, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Art Show, Arts education, Arts in Education, Arts Residencies, Bonlee, Chatham Middle, Community, Cultural Events, dance, Horton, Jordan-Matthews, Music, North Chatham Elementary, Northwood High School, Siler City Elementary, Virginia Cross, Visual Arts & Crafts

February 1, 2016

Go See This: 4th Annual Mardi Gras Party

A recent six-alarm fire on Canal Street has worried Crescent City revelers that Mardi Gras might be curtailed this year. But Chathamites need not be concerned. The 4th Annual Mardi Gras Party, hosted by the North Carolina Arts Incubator, will bring the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of New Orleans to Siler City. “The annual… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: County Happenings, Events, Go See This, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Creative Culture, Creative Economy, Cultural Events, Go See This, Music, performance, Siler City, Visual Arts & Crafts

November 26, 2015

Meet This Artist: Joey Howell Creates in Paints & Notes

In the deep woods of Chatham County, Joey Howell has found synchronicity between his two art forms. He plays music to create “visual imagery that transports the listener” and he paints visual images that “convey the rhythm, harmony and emotion of music.” There is a bold yen and yang flow between them – rather like… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, County Happenings, Events, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Art Show, Artist, Chatham Artists Guild, Chatham County Studio Tour, Cultural Events, Joyful Jewell, Meet This Artist, musician, painter, Siler City, teaching artist

September 22, 2015

Go See This: Find Your Sparkle at Art in the Park

** Postponed to Sunday, October 4, 2015 due to a forecast of rain ** The original advertisement was not much bigger than a postage stamp. But in the back of the The New Yorker magazine, the ad captured the eyes of a unique bunch of people. Many residents of Fearrington Village were lured here from jobs in prestigious educational institutions, international outposts,… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: County Happenings, Events, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Art Show, Creative Culture, Cultural Events, Fearrington Village, painting, Pittsboro, Visual Arts & Crafts

August 25, 2015

Go See This: Come Out & Play

80 Artists on 17 Acres

While attending high school, Debbie Meyer remembers, “walking around campus and discovering art in unexpected places in nature. I decided that when I graduated, I would make my home like that.” Come Out & Play is her realization of that dream.  But it didn’t start out that way. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001 a group… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: County Happenings, Events, Go See This, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: Art Show, Creative Culture, Cultural Events, Go See This, sculpture

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