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Click items to jump to stories or scroll down ========================= Chatham County organizations & events: ChathamArts (Chatham County Arts Council) Third Fridays in downtown Siler City featuring Friday Art Walk ========================= sister groups: Orange County Studio Tour ========================= Area galleries: New Gallery in Sanford ========================= Events & activities: ========================= North Carolina organizations & events: Ackland Art Museum - Chapel Hill Durham Arts Council Greenhill Center - Greensboro Creative Wilmington This month at ChathamArts ChathamArts Gallery features Chatham Artists Guild members and other local artists at monthly exhibits ChathamArts Gallery has had an Extreme Makeover! Check it out when you visit the current show! Third Fridays in downtown Siler City featuring Friday Art Walk events on West Raleigh Street & North Chatham Avenue from 6 to 9 pm Eight galleries offer shows & receptions featuring local artists on Third Fridays. These galleries include The NC Arts Incubator Public Space at 223 North Chatham Avenue & the Arts Incubator Gallery The CCCC Sculpture Gallery at 138 North Chatham Avenue and the Other Person Gallery. Many other businesses like The Farmer’s Alliance are open. Food vendors include Parlez-Vous Crepe and H&V. The new restaurant Mina Beana is now open along with SideWalk Café and PC’s Cool Place. Also featured are local bands on the Siler City Rotary Club stage. All events take place on West Raleigh Street and North Chatham Avenue in downtown Siler City from 6-9pm. Maps are available at the Arts Incubator and many of the other retail establishments downtown. Call 663-2072 for more information. Orange County Studio Tour First two weekends in November This year, 2008, 70 artists will open their studios to the public, Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5. Concurrent exhibits of artists work can be seen at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro and the Burwell School in Hillsborough or on line. www.orangecountyartistsguild.com New Gallery in Sanford The Artists' Loft featuring Artists Guild artists Vidabeth Bensen & Rita Spina On the Mezzanine at 102 S. Steele Street Sanford, NC 919-774-3742 presented by the Lee County Arts Council What's happening at the Ackland, the Art Museum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art 200 North Davie Street Greensboro, North Carolina 27401 - 336.333.7460 Durham Arts Council • 120 Morris Street • Durham, NC 27701 Ph: (919) 560-2787 • www.durhamarts.org • Contact us! a Wilmington based Arts non-profit organization Past events - FYI:

a play by Miriam Angress October 3 - 12th, 2008 • Meymandi Theatre at Burning Coals Murphey School Auditorium, 224 Polk Street in Raleigh You're invited to attend the... World premiere for local playwright's award-winning HOW WATER SPEAKS TO ROCK by Miriam Angress October 3rd – October 12th, 2008 directed by Marc Williams www.howwaterspeaks.com A festival like no other. September 19 &20. Join us for the 10th annual groundSPARK Raleigh Street Painting Festival in Moore Square on September 19-20, 2008. Watch the excitement as 400 artists chalk for an intense 27 hours and transform Martin Street in Moore Square into a work of art. It's like that park scene in Mary Poppins with fewer chimney sweeps, four times the art, and a distinctly Carolina flair! In addition to the street painting visitors can participate in the many creative components of the festival including People's Choice voting, The Scrap Exchange, and KidsCHALK which will have a weaving wall, free face painting, and even pipe cleaner moustaches! groundSPARK and all its activities are FREE. The 35th Annual CenterFest - The Art Lover's Festival! Each fall for 35 years, juried fine artists, craftsmen and performers from across the country gather together in downtown Durham to dazzle, inspire, delight and entertain you. Find your perfect match at North Carolina's longest-running outdoor arts festival, where it's easy to find the art you love. We look forward to welcoming you to CenterFest on September 20 and 21, 2008! Admission is free, with a suggested donation of $4.00 at the gate ($12 suggested donation for families of 4 or more). Proceeds go towards the DAC Annual Arts Fund, which supports arts programs, artists, and arts organizations in the community. apex arts council CULTIVATING CREATIVITY Art Along the Trail A Celebration of Art in the Outdoors Saturday, 7 June 2008 – 9:00AM to 1:00PM (RAIN DATE: SUNDAY, 8 JUNE 2008 – 11:00AM TO 3:00PM) Apex Arts Council P.O. Box 1381 Apex, NC 27502 7th Annual Clyde Fest April 26 ChathamArts and the Village of Bynum will celebrate local legendary folk artist Clyde Jones at the seventh annual ClydeFest set for April 26. The festival, featuring hands-on children's arts activities with Jones and others, will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Bynum Ball Park located off of U.S. 15-501 in Bynum, between Chapel Hill and Pittsboro. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for ChathamArts members, $2 for children ages 2-12, and free for infants under 2. This year the kids will be invited to tour Jones' nearby yard, where they can enjoy dozens of the fanciful cedar "Clyde Critters" he has crafted with a chain saw, found objects, a little paint and a lot of imagination. Other festival entertainment includes puppetry with Paperhand Puppets, games, storytelling, dancing, face painting, and refreshments for sale. As always, Clyde will create a Clyde Critter on the spot to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, with proceeds to benefit ChathamArts, the county's nonprofits arts council. 19th Annual Haw River Festival May 10 at the old Bynum Bridge on the Haw River, in Bynum, Chatham County, North Carolina Music, art, chalk drawing on the bridge, hiking along the river, catching river critters that live in the Haw, free short canoe rides for kids 12 and under, environmental awareness displays and activities, canoe raffle, good food--you'll find it all at the Haw River Festival in Bynum on May 10! Enjoy the silent art auction, including Clyde Jones art; kids' art and nature activities; "paint-your-own" Clyde critter; crafts for sale; and a great lineup of music and entertainment. Suggested donation: $5 adults, $3 under 14 (babies free). See you there! For more info: Public Art 360: A Symposium from Seven Perspectives Attention Artists! Public Art 360: A Symposium from Seven Perspectives is a multi-state convening that will be held April 11-12, 2008 at Hanes Auditorium on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. The Symposium will address the functional and aesthetic interaction among public art, professional design disciplines, private development, and government. Nationally and internationally recognized speakers will explore the inherent complexities in public art from the perspectives of artist, architect, landscape designer, government, private developer, community, and critic. Sessions will frame critical issues associated with how public art projects are initiated, approved, funded, and implemented; how to reinforce shared objectives through public review; and, implications for public policy. Each of seven keynote sessions will represent an affiliated field; sessions are designed to be between 90 minutes and 120 minutes. Throughout the Symposium we will encourage dialogue among participants and speakers. Public Art 360 is being organized by the Percent for Art Collaborative, North Carolina Arts Council, South Carolina Arts Commission, and the Orange County Arts Commission; its sponsors to date also include Americans for the Arts Public Art Network, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Forecast Public Artworks, Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission, City of Raleigh Arts Commission, Town of Chapel Hill, and Cary Visual Art. For registration ($60 postmarked by Feb. 27, 2008, $70 after that date), please visit www.publicartcollaborative.org Martha Shannon Director Orange County Arts Commission P.O. Box 1177 Hillsborough, NC 27278 phone: 919/245-2335 FAX: 919/644-3008 www.artsorange.org mshannon@co.orange.nc.us Located at 110 East King Street, Hillsborough, NC