Orange Co. Arts Commission

Anything Goes Art Meet Up, Drop in Art Session
2026-10-26 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-11-09 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-09-14 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-09-28 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-10-12 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-11-23 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-12-14 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-12-28 10:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Margaret Lane Gallery Annex/F-Stop 2, 302 W Corbin Street, Hillsborough, 27278
An informal creative session – a time for artists, dabblers, and anyone seeking a creative outlet to share inspiration and camaraderie while creating their own art in their medium(s) of choice.
You are welcome to bring work in progress or start something new. You can use your own supplies or supplies we have here, or a combination – we have on hand materials ranging from substrates to paints, tools, and mixed media and art journalling materials, as well as reference materials.
All skill levels are welcome — while there is no instruction, you will find friendly people, suggestions, and reference materials.
Pay as you please, $15 suggested (we recognize everyone’s usage is different, so please pay what you think is fair and you can afford).
For adults and mature teens, all skill levels welcome; school age youth welcome if accompanied by a supervising adult. No registration required. Payment at time of the session, cash or check preferred.
Location: Margaret Lane Gallery ANNEX/F-Stop 2, 302 W Corbin Street, Hillsborough, NC

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2026-09-12 11:00 - 16:00, 2026-10-10 11:00 - 16:00, 2026-11-21 14:00 - 20:00, 2026-12-12 11:00 - 16:00 | Fenton, 201 fenton gateway drive, Cary, NC, 27511
Join us for live music and local shopping! Shop from your favorite Fenton Stores and an additional 35 local artists booths curated by Triangle Pop-Up, located in the square.
Dine at one of Fenton’s many local restaurants or pick up a coffee from Carriage House to sip on while you shop!

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Town of Denton -Sounds of Summer - Concert Series
2026-09-26 19:00 - 22:00 | Harrison Park, 52 W. Salisbury Street, Denton, NC, 27239
Get ready for summer evenings filled with great music and community spirit! The Town of Denton Parks & Recreation invites everyone to the Sounds of Summer Concert Series at Downtown Harrison Park. Bring your lawn chairs, blankets, and friends for a lineup of fantastic bands performing from 7–10 PM on select Saturday nights.
Concert Schedule:
June 27 – too MUCH SyLviA
July 25 – The Castaways
August 22 – The Holiday Band
September 26 – Pandora’s Jukebox
Each show promises lively entertainment and a fun atmosphere for all ages.
Concert admission is free—Food Trucks and Beer Garden Available for Your Convenience!
Enjoy the music and make summer memories in Denton!

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Unexpected: Toward the Abstract in Photography
2026-07-29 - 2026-09-20 | Margaret Lane Gallery, 121 W. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States
A quartet of local photographers departs from traditional representational photography, challenging the viewer with an unclear or distorted subject that is designed to evoke a response based primarily on light, texture, color, or movement.
Participating photographers are Anne C. Gardner, David Knox, Steve Murray, and Bernard Thomas.
Show runs July 29 through September 20. Opening reception during the Last Friday Art Walk, July 31, 6-9 pm.
Margaret Lane Gallery, 121 W Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC 27278 www.margaretlanegallery.com

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African Textiles at the Ackland I
2026-08-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
A guided look at African textiles on view in the current special exhibition “Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art” and the Ackland Art Museum’s African art collection gallery.
Led by Dr. Victoria Rovine, UNC-CH Department of Art and Art History and Carolina Public Humanities, Millie West, UNC-CH PhD student (Department of Art and Art History), and Nancy Andoh, UNC-CH PhD student (Department of History).
Free, but space is limited; registration required via the Ackland’s event webpage – https://events.ackland.org/event/aug-30-african-textiles-at-the-ackland-i/.
Visit the Ackland’s Events Calendar at https://events.ackland.org/events/ to view more upcoming public programs.
Image credit: Unidentified artist, Cameroonian, Bamileke culture, “Display Cloth (ndop)” (detail), n.d., cotton, 77 × 51 1/4 in. (195.6 × 130.2 cm). Ackland Fund, 2024.58.14.

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African Textiles at the Ackland II
2026-11-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Artist and conservator Stacey L. Kirby discusses her work with textiles and costume and the treatments she completed on textiles currently on view in the special exhibition “Continental Shift: Recent Acquisitions of African Art.”
Free, but space is limited; registration required via the Ackland Art Museum’s event webpage – https://events.ackland.org/event/nov1-african-textiles-at-the-ackland-ii/
Visit the Ackland’s Events Calendar at https://events.ackland.org/events/ to view more upcoming public programs.
Image credit: Unidentified artist, Cameroonian, Bamileke culture, “Display Cloth (ndop)” (detail), n.d., cotton, 77 × 51 1/4 in. (195.6 × 130.2 cm). Ackland Fund, 2024.58.14.

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Inclusive Business Holiday Market
2026-12-06 10:00 - 12:30 | Blue Hill Event Center, 200 S Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill, 27514
The holiday season is near! You can check gifts off your list while simultaneously making a positive impact at the Inclusive Business Holiday Gift Market, co-sponsored by Extraordinary Ventures and Work Together NC!
All featured vendors are disability-owned small businesses or disability-inclusive employers. Shop a wide range of unique and handcrafted gifts, including knitted items, wreaths, candles, wood & metal items, pottery, and more…

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Inclusive Business Spring Gift Market
2027-04-25 10:00 - 13:00 | Blue Hill Event Center, 200 S Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill, 27514
Find the perfect gifts for Spring holidays such as Mother’s Day, graduation, teacher thank yous, and birthdays while making a positive social impact. All featured vendors are disability-owned small businesses or disability-inclusive employers. Shop a wide range of unique and handcrafted gifts, including jewelry, soaps, artisanal chocolate, herbal teas, candles, wood & metal items, pottery, and more…

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2026-09-19 19:00 - 21:15 | Cary Arts Center, 101 Dry Ave, Cary, 27511
Experience an exceptional evening with SiriusXM acclaimed jazz–soul vocalist Kathy Kosins, whose four-decade career and expressive, dynamic performances have enchanted audiences worldwide. Kosins is an internationally acclaimed vocalist, songwriter, and artist known for blending jazz and soul, and has performed with Gregory Porter and Randy Brecker. She’s joined by award-winning soul singer-songwriter Teri Tobin, known for her smooth vocals, sincere storytelling, and the powerful themes of passion and endurance. Tobin is celebrated for her authentic vocal blend of gospel, soul, jazz, and R&B.
Together, they deliver a rare, genre-blending concert filled with soul, artistry, and emotional richness.
Experience Kathy’s music- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3zEvGM4Dos
Experience Teri’s music- https://youtu.be/OGFag8GlyBk?si=PysOecIm5wnXIXd9

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John and June Allcott Gallery: Under the Tent: Whirling and Flickering
2026-08-20 08:00 - 2026-10-15 17:00 | Hanes Art Center, 121 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill, 27514
Michelle Inez Hinojosa and Barbara Pearsall
Reception: August 20, 5-7 pm
Drawn together in graduate school by their mutual love of experimentation and play, Michelle Inez Hinojosa and Barbara Pearsall have built a collaborative practice around analogue animation and vibrant abstraction. Together, their work explores optical toys, immersive installations, and movement. Under the Tent: Whirling & Flickering features kaleidoscopic imagery, flickering abstractions, projection mapping, a hidden trapdoor, and hand-cranked wheels that transform what viewers see. After searching for the perfect venue, they are thrilled to bring their collaborative installation to UNC. Their first public artwork, Turnabout Folly, will debut in Lansing, Michigan in Fall 2026.
Michelle Hinojosa works at the intersection of painting, poetry, and fiber art, where she considers memory, intergenerational trauma, and migration. Born in central Texas, by way of the fields of California and Northern Mexico, Michelle uplifts traditions of making that have provided much-needed stability to a family displaced. Michelle Hinojosa is an Assistant Professor of Art at Pennsylvania State University.
Barbara Pearsall is an artist and educator based in Michigan. Her art practice is attentive to how deviation from material conventions can subvert or metamorphose the role of institutions, where her philosophical and political concerns manifest through material explorations of the built environment. Her pieces seek to create illusory and unusual architectural conditions as a form of resistance, interrupting real-world functionality to allow for alternative systems of order. She is an Assistant Professor of Foundations & Sculpture at Michigan State University.
Admission: Free
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 am-5 pm
A weeknight or daytime permit is now required after 5:00 pm on weekdays. No permit is required from 5:00 pm Friday through 7:30 am Monday. A $1.00 one-night pass is available in selected lots. More information can be found at UNC’s Weeknight Parking website.
For more information, please contact: Annette Lawrence, annettel@unc.edu

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Movies Under the Stars
2026-09-25 18:30 - 21:30 | Carolina Square, 133 W Franklin St. #100, Chapel Hill, 27514
Enjoy a fun outdoor movie night under the stars! Arrive early to meet adoptable dogs and connect with local animal shelters, then settle in with free popcorn and your favorite movie snacks as the film begins at sunset. This free, family-friendly event welcomes all ages.
Learn more: https://www.chapelhillarts.org/calendar/movies-under-the-stars-nightmare-before-christmas/

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Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Jes Fan
2026-09-03 17:30 - 19:00 | UNC Chapel Hill
100 Hamilton Hall
Jes Fan’s interdisciplinary practice explores the intersection of biology and identity, incorporating living matter, as well as invisible substances like melanin and hormones, that shape how we experience the world into their sculptures. Through this process, Fan looks at how these highly politicized materials form our understanding of the social constructs of race and gender, and the absurd pursuit of delimiting these as quantifiable amounts of material. Originally trained in glassmaking, Fan combines hand-blown cellular glass forms with casts made from sections of human bodies, in aqua resin and bearing uncanny flesh-like tones. Removed from the context of the figure, these forms take on abstract qualities, repeated and distorted across architectural armatures, suggesting an experience of the body increasingly intertwined with and mediated by technology
Jes Fan lives and works in Brooklyn and Hong Kong. Fan’s recent solo exhibition Unbounded was at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, in 2026. In 2024, Andrew Kreps Gallery presented Sites of Wounding: Interchapter, Fan’s first solo exhibition in New York. The same year, Fan was included in the 2024 Whitney Biennial and Greater Art Toronto. In 2023, Sites of Wounding: Chapter 2 was on view at the M+ Museum in Hong Kong for the 2023 Sigg Prize exhibition. In 2022, Fan participated in The Milk of Dreams, the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Cecilia Alemani, Venice. Fan’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions: including Scientia Sexualis, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2025; Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2022; Breaking Water, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2022; Soft Water Hard Stone, The Fifth New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, 2021; The Stomach and the Port, Liverpool Biennale, United Kingdom, 2021; NIRIN, Biennale of Sydney, Australia, 2020; The Socrates Annual 2019, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, 2019. Fan was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2022.
An endowment established in 1983 through the generosity of Nancy and Robin Hanes supports the Art Department’s Visiting Artist Series. This important program brings both established and emerging artists to campus to discuss their work in public lectures and to offer individual critiques to our M.F.A. students. The Hanes Visiting Artist series greatly enriches both our academic programs and our outreach to the wider community. All lectures are free and open to the public.
This event is eligible for CLE credit.
A weeknight or daytime permit is now required after 5:00 pm on weekdays. No permit is required from 5:00 pm Friday through 7:30 am Monday. A $1.00 one-night pass is available in selected lots. More information can be found at UNC’s Weeknight Parking website.
Image Credit: Jes Fan, Bivalve, 2023, polymer-modified gypsum, metal, glass, and pigment

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Outlandish Hillsborough Scottish Festival
2026-09-26 10:00 - 16:00 | Ayr Mount, 376 Saint Marys Road, Hillsborough, NC, 27278, United States
Attention Outlander fans, Scottish fanatics, and Hillsborough lovers! The wait is over and tickets are on sale now for the September 2026 Outlandish Hillsborough Scottish Festival. We’re excited to welcome you back for another full day of Scottish culture with live music, bagpipes, traditional dancing, and interactive activities for all ages. One major update, ALL activities will be on the grounds of Ayr Mount including Hillsborough’s own Craigh Na Dun, fairy dancers, broadsword lessons, and (of course) of whiskey tasting table.
We have a lot of returning fan favorites as well as new vendors, activites, and musicians who we know will make this year’s festival unforgettable. Be sure to check out our website for additional details about the festival, weekend events, and important logistics like parking and places to stay in town!
Purchase tickets here: zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/outlandish-hillsborough-scottish-festival
Learn more about the event on our website: historichillsborough.org/outlandish-hillsborough
Embrace the spirit of fun and festivity at this unique event—there’s something for everyone!

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Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Salvador Jiménez-Flores
2026-10-08 17:30 - 19:00 | UNC Chapel Hill
100 Hamilton Hall
Salvador Jiménez-Flores (b. 1985, Jalisco, México) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the politics of identity, double consciousness, colonization, migration, “the other,” and futurism through socially conscious installation, public, and studio-based art. His practice spans community-based work, drawing, ceramics, prints, and mixed media sculpture.
Jiménez-Flores holds an MFA in Drawing from Kendall College of Art & Design (2014). He has received prestigious awards, including the 2021 United States Artist Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Threewalls’ RaD Lab + Outside the Walls Fellowship. He has been commissioned for public sculptures, including The Richard Hunt Award, Artprize, and Grounds For Sculpture. His work has been exhibited in renowned institutions such as the National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, IL), Grand Rapids Art Museum (MI), Museum of Glass (Tacoma, WA), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE), Grounds For Sculpture (Hamilton, NJ), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA), and DePaul Art Museum (Chicago, IL), as well as The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA). Jiménez-Flores has served as Artist-In-Residence at institutions such as the City of Boston, Harvard Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard University, Kohler Arts/Industry, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Museum of Glass, Chasen Thajni: El límite de lo propio in Puebla, México, Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, and Corning Museum of Glass. His work has been featured in prominent publications such as Ceramics Monthly, Newcityart, American Craft Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, and others. His artwork is held in collections including the National Museum of Mexican Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Kohler Company, and Museum of Glass.
Jiménez-Flores is currently an Associate Professor in Ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a former organizer of The Color Network, which supports the advancement of people of color in ceramics, and is an organizing member of the Instituto Gráfico de Chicago, an activist art group inspired by Mexico’s Taller de Gráfica Popular.
An endowment established in 1983 through the generosity of Nancy and Robin Hanes supports the Art Department’s Visiting Artist Series. This important program brings both established and emerging artists to campus to discuss their work in public lectures and to offer individual critiques to our M.F.A. students. The Hanes Visiting Artist series greatly enriches both our academic programs and our outreach to the wider community. All lectures are free and open to the public.
A weeknight or daytime permit is now required after 5:00 pm on weekdays. No permit is required from 5:00 pm Friday through 7:30 am Monday. A $1.00 one-night pass is available in selected lots. More information can be found HERE.
Artist website: https://www.salvadorjimenezflores.com/
Contact: Martín Wannam, mwanna@unc.edu

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Paint it Orange 2026 Wet Paint Sale
2026-10-02 18:00 - 21:00 | Eno Arts Mill, 437 Dimmocks Mill Rd Suite 17, Hillsborough, NC, Hillsborough, North Carolina, 27278
Paint it Orange is celebrating 10 years, back home at the Eno Arts Mill!
Join us on Friday, October 2nd 6:00 – 9:00pm for the Paint it Orange Wet Paint Sale!
Exhibition runs Friday, October 2nd through Saturday, November 21st

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