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NEA Awards Grants to Eight North Carolina Communities For Arts Projects

April 26, 2013 – 10:00 am

RALEIGH — Eight North Carolina organizations received grants totally $297,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts this week for a variety of programs, including funds to train Gates County schools in arts integration, making the system the first school district in the state to have all of its schools in the nationally recognized A+ [...]

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Ruth Turner Camp Joins Cultural Resources

April 5, 2013 – 1:00 pm

RALEIGH, N.C. — Department of Cultural Resources Secretary Susan Kluttz today announced the appointment of Ruth Turner Camp as Business Development and Special Projects Manager for Cultural Resources, effective April 1. Camp has more than 20 years of experience working with non-profit and community organizations, corporate and educational institutions and small to medium-sized companies. “We [...]

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Grant Applications Deadline For Arts Organizations March 1, 2013

January 11, 2013 – 9:36 am

RALEIGH – The 2013-2014 grant guidelines for organizations are now available on the North Carolina Arts Council’s website at www.ncarts.org, and the deadline is Friday, March 1 at 5 p.m. The grants are designed to support arts organizations and artists who contribute to the economic, educational and cultural vitality of local communities throughout the state and are [...]

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Cultural Resource Receives Grant for Disaster Preparedness Training

September 21, 2012 – 12:33 pm

RALEIGH–The N.C. Department of Cultural Resources has been awarded a matching grant of $202,715 by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to expand its statewide disaster preparedness program. “We appreciate this grant which will allow us to continue to train museums and libraries on how to prepare for and recover from many kinds of disasters, [...]

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Eighteen Artists Receive Fellowships from the N.C. Arts Council

August 23, 2012 – 3:00 pm

Eighteen artists living and working in North Carolina are recipients of the 2012–2013 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award in the categories of visual art, craft, film/video and choreography. Artists receive a $10,000 fellowship to support creative development and the creation of new work. Recipients were selected by panels comprised of artists and arts [...]

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North Carolina Communities Receive NEA Our Town Grant Awards

July 27, 2012 – 9:05 am

RALEIGH — The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded 80 Our Town grants totaling $4.9 million across the country including projects in Charlotte, Kinston and Star, North Carolina. The Our Town program supports creative placemaking projects that help transform communities into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at the core. Projects [...]

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Tryon Palace Receives Grant from Wells Fargo

July 20, 2012 – 5:00 pm

Wells Fargo has made a grant in support of Tryon Palace‘s “History is My Story”, a program of Education and Interpretation that brings history to life through a variety of mediums for visitors of all ages.  The grant, in the amount of $5,000, will be used to fund frontline historic interpreters whose one-on-one encounters with visitors educate [...]

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State Library Announces $1.4 Million for Books, Outreach, Technology

June 12, 2012 – 12:39 pm

HENDERSON – N.C. Department of Cultural Resources Secretary Linda A. Carlisle announced today that the State Library Division of the Department of Cultural Resources is awarding $1.4 million in federally funded grants for 71 local and statewide library projects for community outreach, library book collections, technology improvements and digitization of materials. “As North Carolinians turn [...]

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