September 18, 2009 – 10:17 am
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources Secretary Linda A. Carlisle announced today a partnership with the North Carolina Department of Transportation that includes more than $250,000 in funding for the next phase of the African American Music Trail project.
The project is spearheaded by the N. C. Arts Council. The African American Music Trail will bring [...]
September 18, 2009 – 8:31 am
The North Carolina Arts Council will accept applications for the 2010–11 Artist Fellowship awards for visual arts, craft, film/video and choreography until November 2, 2009. The fellowship award is $10,000.
The program is funded by the North Carolina General Assembly and supports creative development and the creation of new work for artists in North Carolina. The [...]
September 9, 2009 – 4:11 pm
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources Secretary Linda A. Carlisle announced today $7.7 million in grants for arts programs and projects across North Carolina for the 2009–10 fiscal year during a press conference today at the Fayetteville/Cumberland County Arts Council.
The organizational grants and federal stimulus grants for the arts are designed to support arts organizations [...]
August 20, 2009 – 1:28 pm
Put on your bib overalls and head to Duke Homestead for the annual Tobacco Harvest and Hornworm Arts Festival on Saturday, Sept. 12.
Hear the sounds of the only tobacco auction left in the Bull City at Duke Homestead, the home and farm where Washington Duke first grew and processed tobacco. His sons later founded The [...]
The National Endowment for the Arts announced earlier this week that seven North Carolina organizations will receive grants totaling $325,000 through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). That translates into nine full-time jobs, two-part-time positions and contracts for 19 artists.
The NEA received $50 million to preserve jobs in the nonprofit arts sector threatened by [...]
Meeting Recap
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The Department of Cultural Resources hosted a public meeting May 27, 2009, 12:30 pm at the North Carolina Museum of History, to discuss North Carolina Arts Council proposals to develop four exciting Heritage trails.
Each trail is a creative economies project that builds upon North Carolina’s excellent reputation as [...]
The Department of Cultural Resources will host a public meeting to discuss North Carolina Arts Council proposals to develop four exciting Heritage trails.
When: May 27, 2009, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Where: The North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. Click here for map and directions.
We hope the 12:30 meeting time will allow people to attend [...]
Spring has definitely sprung in North Carolina. Pirates continue to be a big draw at the Museum of History, April’s poetry month just drew to a successful close, and… as hurricane season approaches, thoughts turn to how to keep your family’s precious documents high and dry.
The podcast starts with a look at the conservation efforts [...]
February 28, 2009 – 3:32 pm
National and state leaders will gather for an Arts in Education Conference March 5-7 in Raleigh at Meredith College. Linda Bamford, Arts in Education Director for the N.C. Arts Council, tells us more.
Next, Andrea Gabriel, head of the Resource Management Branch at the State Archives talks about the Outer Banks History Center, which just opened [...]
February 14, 2009 – 1:45 pm
Love is in the air, and on the NC Culture dot com podcast. First up is an exhibit that opens Valentine’s Day weekend at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Alesia DiCosola of the museum staff talks about “Highlights of the American Collection,” which opens Feb. 15.
Sequoyah Winston reads two poems from George Moses Horton. [...]