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Nov 05 2019

WXYC celebrates 25 years of broadcasting online


It was a random Tuesday night in the summer of 1994. Bill Burton, a member of the WXYC Student Educational Broadcasting Board of Directors, was filing music in. The campus… Read More →

Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Blog Posts, Creative Orange, Featured Blogs, Monthly Features, News · Tagged: 25 years, chapel hill, college radio, online broadcast, radio, wxyc

Oct 04 2019

47th Annual Festifall Focuses on the Arts


For the last 47 years, Chapel Hill’s Festifall has seen many iterations, but this year’s changes just might be the most exciting to date. After a series of community conversations,… Read More →

Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Blog Posts · Tagged: chapel hill, Festifall

Aug 12 2019

Hint of Mint Designs: How Two Sisters Combined Art Skills to Start Their Own Business


Hint of Mint Design founders holding various lettering graphics

When two sisters with different art skills realized they could combine their talents to start their own business, they did exactly that – and never looked back.

Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Artist Profiles, Blog Posts · Tagged: chapel hill, graphic design, lettering, watercolor

Aug 02 2019

An Ode to Hillsborough


Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Blog Posts, News · Tagged: Arts Matter, Handmade Parade, hillsborough, hillsborough arts council, hillsborough visitors center, Last Fridays Hillsborough, Stephanie Trueblood, tom stevens, Town of Hillsborough

Jun 05 2019

Arts Matter: When it comes to the arts, it’s about more than UNC


Prior to serving as director of the Orange County Arts Commission, I was the director of an arts center near the Outer Banks. Northeast NC is the “forgotten child” of… Read More →

Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Blog Posts · Tagged: Ackland Art Museum, arts economy, arts ecosystem, Arts Matter, Carolina Performing Arts, carrboro, chapel hill, creative economy, setting the stage, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill

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