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Melting into the New Year The twenty one artists of the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, will begin 2023 with a group show entitled MELTING, a title that suggests many different things to the individual artists. For the gallery’s newest member, Catharine Carter, it evoked images of flooded homes and rising water which are frequently in... Read More →
Join us for the second screening in the Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2023 series “Do Something: Responding to Climate Change” presented by UNC Film Studies Program and the Ackland Art Museum. Join the artist collective known as Ghost of a Dream – Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom – as they present an evening of their... Read More →
In 2013 the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts began an annual show highlighting the work of a local writer by responding visually to his or her work. In the past, this show has been inspired by the work of writers with local ties: Michael Malone, Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Jill McCorkle, Nancy Peacock, John Bemis, Elizabeth... Read More →
The first of the Cedar Ridge High School IB Senior Art Student Shows, featuring work by Lee Lyons and Ariel Blanchard. From Lee: Inspired by the viewer-centric philosophy of the Neo-Dadaists, my body of work was created as an opportunity for self-exploration on the part of the viewer. Using papier collé as my medium to... Read More →
The first of the Cedar Ridge High School International Baccalaureate Senior Art Student Shows, featuring work by Lee Lyons and Ariel Blanchard. From Lee: Inspired by the viewer-centric philosophy of the Neo-Dadaists, my body of work was created as an opportunity for self-exploration on the part of the viewer. Using papier collé as my medium... Read More →
Ever wonder about the difference between cold wax and encaustic wax mediums? How do they work? Is it really “cold”? Is it really “hot'“? Well, come join us in the gallery for “Getting Waxy” as we answer all your questions in a fun and informational class led by two expert artists, Carol Retsch-Bogart and Shelly... Read More →
Poems Come Alive Performance workshops: a series of workshops that help poets to enhance their stage presence and delivery of their poems. Poets will be required to memorize one poem (of any length) to participate. One workshop a quarter starting the weekend of March 3rd. For more info, email dasan@dasanahanu.com
On Sunday, March 12, the Chapel Hill Philharmonia will present a classical concert with soprano soloist Andrea Edith Moore. A versatile artist, she has appeared here and abroad in operas and on the concert stage. She will sing Mozart’s joyful “Exsultate Jubliate”. Conductor Donald Oehler will then lead the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony #4, known... Read More →
As the capstone of the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts' current show "It's All About the Story," Jaki Shelton Green will read her poetry in the gallery on Sunday, March 12th, 4-6pm. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing. The event is free and open to the public. Jaki Shelton Green is... Read More →
Program 7pm – 8 pm, followed by Q & A Whitted Building, 300 W Tryon St, Hillsborough, NC Envision an inspiring, 45-foot-tall, illuminated sculpture reaching towards the sky from the center of downtown Raleigh – a “Beacon of Freedom,” the centerpiece of North Carolina Freedom Park – a one-acre park that honors the African American... Read More →
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