By Emilie Menzel Sean T. Bailey’s photography exhibit Belonging opened at The ArtsCenter’s Nicholson Gallery on March 1st. On March 10th, Governor Roy Cooper declared a state of emergency in North Carolina due to COVID-19, and on March 27th, The ArtsCenter joined businesses across the country in closing its doors until further notice as a safety… Read More →
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Creative Orange Works: The Writers
It takes work to be a creative. Work to develop a creative skill, yes. But often, it also means work to financially support a passion, the thing we do outside of the work week that refuels our spirit and stretches other parts of our brain. There are of course those rare few artists whose livelihoods… Read More →
April Featured Artists: The Quarantined Arts Community Rises
By Emilie Menzel On March 30th, 2020, it was Vincent Van Gogh’s 167th birthday. On the morning of March 30th, 2020, his painting The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884 was stolen from the Singer Laren museum near Amsterdam where it was on display. My first thought—how apt a birthday present in this COVID-19… Read More →
Down on Copperline: Libba Cotten/Cat’s Cradle
Featured photo by Daniel Coston By David Menconi It’s been well over a century since the late great Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten was born in what is now Carrboro, but you can still find traces of the Piedmont blues legend’s wonder years in her old hometown. A bike trail bears her name, and there’s a historical… Read More →
