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Ferns and Fancy

By Trudy Thomson
Community: Chapel Hill

I work in two mediums -- Fiber and Fused glass. I weave and work with handprinted and marbled silks -- to display or wear. I also make patterned fused glass pieces. I have a gallery on my property.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Jeff Hackney Design

By Jeff Hackney
Community: Hillsborough

Jeff is an award-winning sculptor working in steel, concrete, wood. His work can be found in private and public municipal and corporate collections across the United States.

Phone: 9194174864
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

FlambeauxArts Designs

By Pringle Teetor
Community: Chapel Hill

Blown glass including bowls, tumblers, vases, pendant lights, solar garden lights, jewelry, paperweights and more! Find her work at Hillsborough Gallery of Arts.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Amy Gelber Pottery

By Amy Gelber
Community: Efland

Our pots are all handmade, wheel thrown and altered. We use an iron bearing clay body that is reduction-fired to Cone 10 in a gas kiln. Our sculpture and functional work is mindfully hand-crafted.

Phone: 919-619-3252
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Jeffery Beam

Community: Hillsborough

Poet, photographer, editor, and critic, Beam's work has appeared in over 20 award winning books, numerous CDs and recordings. He has given almost 1000 readings since 1979. Nature, spirituality, gay.

Phone: 919-967-2470
Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts, Music, Visual Arts

Clay Carmichael, Author-Artist

By Clay Carmichael
Community: Carrboro

Books, original art, prints & cards by appointment & during the annual November Orange County Open Studio Tour. School, library, other appearances may be arranged.

Phone: 9199428058
Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts, Visual Arts

Nancy Fontaine

Community: Chapel Hill

Love using brushes and palette knives on canvas for creating. Acrylics are my my favorite medium. My creations range anywhere from realistic stills to abstract color explosions.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Maria de Bruyn Photography

By Maria de Bruyn
Community: Chapel Hill

Photography featuring wildlife (fauna and flora) around the world, as well as nature and travel photography, celebrating the beauty and wonder found in all countries and cultures (prints, cards, etc.)

Phone: 919-619-5673
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Grow’in Oaks Studio

By David Stickel
Community: Chapel Hill

I LOVE creating vibrant images in watercolor that speak to the heart. Known for my realistic paintings of reflections--I love how each, especially window reflections, depicts its own story.

Phone: 9199423900
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Clay Carmichael, Author-Artist

By Clay Carmichael
Community: Carrboro

Books, original art, prints & cards by appointment & during the annual November Orange County Open Studio Tour. School, library, other appearances may be arranged.

Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts, Visual Arts

Max Puhala

Community: Chapel Hill

Max Puhala is an Orange County musician that leads participatory recorded music workshops for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Type(s) of Art: Music

Amy Fletcher

Community: Hillsborough

Recipient of the Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant 2014-15, Amy's paintings are bold, colorful pieces inspired by music. She also works in oil, acrylic, encaustic, mixed media, 3-D and poetry.

Phone: 9193684951
Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts, Visual Arts

Maggi Ann Grace

By Maggi Grace
Community: Durham

Artist, writer and editor. My paintings often use acrylics, inks, mixed media and are figurative, abstract and/or whimsical. I write and critique poetry & fiction, and have two NF books out.

Phone: 9198861394
Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts, Visual Arts

Callahan

By Lorie Callahan
Community: Hillsborough

Contemporary realistic pastel paintings of special dogs.

Phone: 919-732-6348
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Bronwyn Merritt Studio & Gallery

By Bronwyn Merritt
Community: Carrboro

Mixed media prints and paintings with figures in dreamlike settings, full of color, light and pattern.

Phone: 919-923-1058
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Mappamundi

By Jane Peppler
Community: Chapel Hill

World music ensemble: Swing, Eastern and Western European, Celtic/British Isles music, and Cabaret Warsaw (songs from between the world wars in Yiddish and Polish, with subtitles)

Phone: 9196062122
Type(s) of Art: Music

Janae Lehto Fine Art

By Janae Lehto
Community: Hillsborough

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Carol Retsch-Bogart

Community: Chapel Hill

My colorful paintings involve layering and collage in several mediums including cold wax, encaustic, oils and acrylics.

Phone: 919-619-1793
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

franckearts

By Louise Francke
Community: Efland

Since 2012, my work now relates to nature through light, color, and rhythms. The familiar world is seen differently. Abstracts based on earth and sky.

Phone: 919-563-0330
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Art of Henryk Fantazos

By Henryk Fantazos
Community: Hillsborough

Representational paintings and engravings

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Five Fork Studio

By Will Stanley
Community: Chapel Hill

Michael Everhart (woodworker) and Will Stanley (metalworker) collaborate to create functional and beautiful pieces of custom furniture.

Phone: (919) 808-2524
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Luna Lee Ray

Community: Carrboro

Unique, beautiful, and evocative original mixed media paintings, giclee reproductions, and greeting cards.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Earth Water & Fire Studio

By Heather Delisle
Community: Hillsborough

Decorative ceramic tiles and sculptures reflecting patterns of the natural world.

Phone: 919-732-8324
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

JRO Furnituremaker

By Jim Oleson
Community: Chapel Hill

I design and make fine furniture in a contemporary style that features graceful lines, curves, and beautiful wood.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Elaine O’Neil-Textile Collage Artist

By Elaine O'Neil
Community: Hillsborough

Colorful,Textile Collage Art. Instead of using paint, Elaine O'Neil creates each piece using a myriad of fabric colors and textures, all painstakingly sewn together, to evoke a sense of place .

Phone: 919-624-1871
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Mary Rocap

Community: Cedar Grove

I am a songwriter and singer, quilter, baker, and writer . I have been doing all these things most of my life. Each one adds joy certainly to my life and hopefully to others as well.

Phone: 919-644-0061
Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts, Music, Visual Arts

Anita Wolfenden

Community: Chapel Hill

Paper collage and cut paper sculptural forms; shaped handmade paper and mulberry paper

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Amy Fletcher

Community: Hillsborough

Recipient of the Ella Pratt Emerging Artist Grant 2014-15, Amy's paintings are bold, colorful pieces inspired by music. Works in oil, acrylic, encaustic, mixed media, 3-D, giclée prints, and poetry.

Phone: 9193684951
Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts, Visual Arts

Elia Bizzarri – Hand Tool Woodworking

By Elia Bizzarri
Community: Hillsborough

The finest traditional and contemporary Windsor chairs

Phone: 919-732-3321
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Stained Glass Works

By Cher Tuskey
Community: Chapel Hill

Let me share my passion. I create and build originally designed stained glass products. If you are interested in a new entryway, window, or a special piece call for a free consultation.

Phone: 919-434-5604
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Patricia Saling Pottery

By Patricia Saling
Community: Chapel Hill

Ceramics for the table & home in porcelain and stoneware

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Nancy L. Smith Fine Art

By Nancy Smith
Community: Carrboro

Nancy is a water media artist inspired by internal experience and the external world. In recent works, she uses line, texture and color in transparent layers to capture the essence of human form.

Phone: 919-423-5153
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Thomas Stevens

Community: Hillsborough

Landscape and figure paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints - gallery at Studio HSBO in downtown Hillsborough, open by appointment, special events, serendipity, and Last Fridays.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Robbie Link

Community: Chapel Hill

Performer and instructor on double bass, cello, viola da gamba, violone.

Phone: 919-442-8051
Type(s) of Art: Music

VeraPottery

By Vera Shanley
Community: Hillsborough

Wheel thrown, sometimes altered, porcelain pottery. Gas fired.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

The Clay Centre

By Barbara Higgins
Community: Carrboro

Porcelain and stoneware textured with unique stamps and carving. "The rhythms of the natural world, captured in clay." Tea bowls, teapots, plates, platters, bowls, candle holders and serving pieces.

Phone: 919-967-0314
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Blue Nandina Studio

By Jamie Hagenberger
Community: Hillsborough

Camera-less Experimental Photography. Color Photograms made one at a time, by feel, in the total darkness of a darkroom. No cameras, negatives, or digital manipulation used. Each piece is unique.

Phone: 919.414.1786
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Carrboro Artist

By Jacques Menache
Community: Carrboro

Large Micro-Biological landscapes, in mixed media,

Phone: 9193062749
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Tinka Jordy

Community: Hillsborough

High fired figurative stoneware clay sculpture that is suitable for the garden or the home.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Marcy Lansman

Community: Chapel Hill

Watercolor and acrylic painting

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Barbara Tyroler

Community: Chapel Hill

I work in photographic portraiture, bodies in and of the water. Each portrait is a figurative study, of form and design, a multil-layered story, reflected back in the burst of a moment.

Phone: 919-360-8791
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Susie Wilde

By Wilde Susie
Community: Chapel Hill

Literary Specialist Susie Wilde unites reading, writing, thought and wonder in residencies, workshops, and classes. Nothing excites her more than sparking writers and readers of every age and stage.

Phone: 9199323300
Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts

Helen Wolfson

Community: Durham

Performer and therapeutic musician with hammered dulcimer and freenote chimes.

Phone: 919-419-4848
Type(s) of Art: Music

Joan Meade Studio Gallery

By Joan Meade
Community: Chapel Hill

My medium is sculptural acrylics whereby I convey the amazing textures and colors of nature, especially water, rocks and trees., My studio gallery is open year-round by appointment. Call.

Phone: 919-942-6613
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Simone Photography

By S Simone
Community: Chapel Hill

I work in a number of formats - creating photography collages printed on paper, fabric, and metal. My projects include documentary work (doc-u-art) and fine art collage.

Phone: 919-942-9773
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Ellen Hill Pottery

By Ellen Hill
Community: Chapel Hill

One of a kind textured slab built pieces and functional wheel thrown pottery. All work is food friendly, oven proof and dishwasher safe. Plates, bowls, mugs, trays, vases, ornaments and more.

Phone: 919-942-7578
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

DAN MURPHY

Community: Chapel Hill

Abstract metal sculpture, contemporary in the interior design sense, and jewelry resembling the sculpture. Created in Dan's studio w/adjoining gallery near the downtown post office, Chapel Hill, NC

Phone: 9199298950
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

The Flirty Dozen Troupe

By gwendolyn stephens
Community: Efland

We are a Sassy, Classy Dance & Comedy Theatrical Troupe. We are a combination of the Vintage Showgirl/ comedic vaudeville burlesque with a circus theme. Without the nudity and circus animals.

Type(s) of Art: Dance, Theater

Marcia McDade McMann

Community: Cedar Grove

I enjoy exploring a variety of techniques in drawing, painting and collage to maintain a unique style. My desire is to reconstruct my memories and create a sense of calm simplicity.

Phone: 919-732-2775
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Gesche Würfel

By Gesche Wuerfel
Community: - Select One -

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Max Puhala

Community: Chapel Hill

Max Puhala is an Orange County musician that leads participatory recorded music workshops for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Phone: 3367077356
Type(s) of Art: Music

Fox Creative Services

By Peter Fox
Community: Chapel Hill

Writer, producer.

Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts, Music

Jan Kelo’s Art

By Janet Kelo
Community: Carrboro

My watercolors mirror my interest in nature's beauty. I try to capture the complex textures and patterns in intimate landscapes, gardens and reflections.

Phone: (919)869-7205
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Creations by Tressa

By Tressa Wend
Community: Hurdle Mills

My art work ranges from abstract paintings to pencil drawings. I love to paint flowers, trees and landscapes but my favorite thing to do is pencil drawings. I mostly draw animals. I am starting to use

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Duck Print Press

By Betty Martinez
Community: Chapel Hill

I am a printmaker and book arts artist. I have my own etching press and have done intaglio, mono print and link cut prints. My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Merry Arts Studio

By Virginia Meldahl
Community: Chapel Hill

I am a puppeteer whose shows are geared primarily toward children ages 3-5. I also conduct art make and take workshops for the young and the young at heart. My focus is international and multicultura

Phone: 9194288506
Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts, Theater, Visual Arts

lordjorge.com

By Jorge Meza
Community: - Select One -

Digital + Analog

Phone: 6617556736
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

King Street Designs

By Christina Nova
Community: Hillsborough

Textiles dyed with natural plant made dyes with shibori designs. Also textiles dyed with ink using a marbling technique.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Mark Allen Soderstrom

By Mark Soderstrom
Community: Chapel Hill

Mark Allen Soderstrom works in many mediums, including sculpture, drawing, and painting. He teaches at UNC Chapel Hill.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Thomas Stevens

Community: Hillsborough

Landscape and figure paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints - visit the Thomas Stevens Gallery on King in downtown Hillsborough - call for appointment or to arrange gallery event.

Phone: 919-360-2249
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Joan VanderMeer Art

By Joan Vandermeer
Community: Carrboro

I paint in acrylic and mixed media with my own style of saturated color and joyful scenes of animals, people and landscapes.

Phone: 9192704562
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Sculpture Smith

By Jason Smith
Community: Hillsborough

One of a kind metal sculpture. Designed for indoor,outdoor,gardens and public display.

Phone: 9194235978
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

LynnRussellArt.com

By Leah Russell
Community: - Select One -

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Sparks Creative

By Lindsay Leach-Sparks
Community: Chapel Hill

Private flute lessons, free lance chamber performances (weddings, dinners, receptions, etc.)

Phone: 919-410-6595
Type(s) of Art: Music

Cheryl McCardle

Community: - Select One -

I tend to have an expressive and experimental style of painting. My abstract paintings are textured and made up of many layers. I like to create texture with multiple media and found objects.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Taino Arts

By Antonio Cruz
Community: Piney Grove

I am a plastic artist, graduated from the InterAmerican University of PR, I am recognized by the Istituto de Cultura Puertorican and I was Vice-president of the association of Artezanos and plastic ar

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Elsbeth van Tongeren

Community: Chapel Hill

Cellist/Teacher

Type(s) of Art: Music

Literary Author and Ghostwriter

By Laine Cunningham
Community: Hillsborough

Award-winning literature: The Family Made of Dust, Beloved, & Reparation. Nonfiction: The Zen of Dogs, The Wisdom of Weddings, travel photos, & Woman Alone: A Six-Month Journey Through the Outback.

Phone: 9199282245
Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts

Barbara Bell Photography

By Barbara Bell
Community: Chapel Hill

I am a portrait and event photographer who celebrates the details of people's lives. I create photographs to inspire others to share their memories.

Phone: 9195251293
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Ann Brownlee Hobgood

By Ann Hobgood
Community: Hillsborough

I create figurative assemblages using recycled materials - in all sizes from 8 inch guys made from spice tins to 8 feet tall "totems" for installation outside. I also make custom pieces.

Phone: 336-944-3006
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

PM Design/Rockers Print Shop

By phillip marsh
Community: - Select One -

My focus of art currently is mural/wide format and fine art/screen printing limited run prints. I utilize underserved communities to show publicly fine art in unusual settings to North Carolina.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Liberty Arts Collective

By Kelly Johnston
Community: - Select One -

I explore identity by utilizing natural materials, employing their forms and textures. My practice is intuitive and draws on significant autobiographical experiences.

Phone: (512)629-6962
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

#teamlukelee

By Krista & Luke Lee
Community: Chapel Hill

Luke Lee is 10 years old and has Autism. He expresses himself through art. His designs are typically acrylic on canvas, but he also create with pottery and has done some silk screen printing.

Phone: 9105546681
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

arcadia arte

By walter del freo
Community: - Select One -

Ritratti su commissione, dipinti a olio e quadri da foto. Ritratti a matita e diseegni su commissione

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Ben Hamburger Art

By Ben Hamburger
Community: Carrboro

I am a painter, community artist, muralist, and educator interested in how people and their environment impact and respond to one another to create a sense of place.

Phone: 3014378981
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Julie Berkowitz Ceramics

By Julie Berkowitz
Community: Chapel Hill

We offer small group and pottery classes at our studio located outside Chapel Hill, NC. We also create and sell functional pottery handmade with love in NC.

Phone: 9849990329
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Wade H. Williams Artist at Large

By Wade Williams
Community: Durham

In my work I use the technique of your masters I also have a heavy influence of the French impressionist. My first love is oil painting But of course I do charcoal,watercolor ,pen and ink and Acrylic

Phone: 919-381-2082
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Calvin Brett

Community: Durham
Phone: 3216145910
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Sculpture Smith

By Jason Smith
Community: Hillsborough

One of a kind metal sculpture. Designed for indoor,outdoor,gardens and public display.

Phone: 9194235978

Pierce Boshelly

Community: Chapel Hill

Painting,sculpture,Music

Type(s) of Art: Music, Visual Arts

Sallie Scharding

Community: Chapel Hill

A singer/songwriter who weaves storylines around luscious melodies and velvet vocals from Austin to North Carolina. Sallie also performs with her band PaperMoon playing vintage ragtime and swing jazz

Type(s) of Art: Music

UNC-Chapel Hill Hillel

By Emily Adcock
Community: Chapel Hill

UNC Hillel, the home for Jewish students on campus, is starting a rotating gallery in our building as of fall 2018. We are looking for any and all artists to submit their work!

Phone: (919) 942-4057
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Author James Maxey

By James Maxey
Community: Hillsborough

James is a novelist specializing in science fiction and fantasy, including the Bitterwood series and his new Lawless books. He describes his work as elevated pulp. He was the 2015 Piedmont Laureate.

Phone: 9196195003
Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts

Artagem Graphic Library

By Max Dowdle
Community: Hillsborough

Fine art paintings, graphic novels, short horror fiction. A little bit of everything. Trained in Florence Italy in the tradition of the Old Masters.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Wild Actions

By Ginger Wagg
Community: Carrboro

Wild Actions creates interactive, movement-based live performance installations. We collaborate with all kinds of artists to make intimate, small-scale shows, durational and evening length events.

Type(s) of Art: Dance, Music, Visual Arts

Kat Tomka

Community: Chapel Hill

Hybrid Painting/ Drawing in translucent Tape.

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

kHEARTdesign

By Krista Ashe
Community: Hillsborough

I create artisan jewelry using leather and mixed metals, specializing in custom hand-stamped bracelets. I also create jewelry pieces using recycled jewelry parts and watchbands

Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Dave Hart

Community: Chapel Hill

I paint in watercolor, primarily. Mostly birds, but I'm expanding into other outdoor subjects. Self-taught and always growing, I hope.

Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts, Visual Arts

Ashley Swindoll -conceptual art

By Ashley Swindoll
Community: Hillsborough

I work both in 3D and 2D. Painting, installation and sculpture. My favorite materials are metal, wax, and found objects. I like to manipulate public space with installation as a conceptual artist.

Phone: 9198175460
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Jackie Tiryakian

By Jackie Tiryakian
Community: Hillsborough

Acrylic/mixed media painting. Eastern mystical influence through my colorful Buddhas using glazing technique. Some collage and other texture. Abstract/semi-abstract.

Phone: 9194529419
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Emily Eve Weinstein Studio/Gallery

By Emily Eve Weinstein
Community: Chapel Hill

I've worked as a career artist doing portraiture and murals. For the past decade I've been drawn to the outdoors, painting lush landscapes in oils, from tiny to huge.

Phone: 919–942–2607
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Rise Above It Outreach

By Candace Q. Butler
Community: Dogwood Acres

Inspirational Spoken Word Poetry Art Sayings

Phone: 3109203400
Type(s) of Art: Literary Arts

https://www.puppetshowinc.org/

By Kathie Guild
Community: Chapel Hill

Puppet Show Incorporated is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization. Our mission is to preserve and promote puppetry arts. Performances are aligned with the NC Standards fostering Social Emotional Learning

Phone: 919-599-4604
Type(s) of Art: Theater

Janet Samiee

Community: Chapel Hill

Scenes around Hillsborough, acrylic

Phone: 919 632 4946
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Chris Russell

Community: Chapel Hill

Local visual artist always exploring ways to express the spaces I see in my mind's eye. Sometimes with a brush and canvas and sometimes with a 2x4 but always the same creative process.

Phone: 9192745481
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Thistle Glen Pottery

By Crawford Horne
Community: Hillsborough

Wood-fired stoneware; experiment with form & texture; mix my glazes from raw ingredients; use a variety of glaze application methods; it's the love of the "process" that has drawn me to wood-firing.

Phone: 9192458072
Type(s) of Art: Visual Arts

Michael Pestel

Community: - Select One -

I build installations and make music for birds all over the world. I’m a multi-instrumentalist and the inventor of several new acoustic musical instruments, notably the Pianotable and the Birdmachine.

Phone: 8605759339
Type(s) of Art: Music, Theater, Visual Arts