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Floral Fantasies

Margaret Lane Gallery 121 W. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC, United States

Our gold and green gallery rooms are turned into wondrous flower gardens, showcasing the artistry of both nature and our artists' imaginations. Participating local artists include Ashley Armstrong, Lisa Burke, Courtney Clements, Amy Elmore, Anne C. Gardner, Jeannette Johnson, Ray LaMantia, Pippa Merrick, Pat Merriman, Rebecca Neigher, Jennifer Niemiroski, Michael Pohlman, Sudie Rakusin, Jacqueline Rimmler,... Read More →

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Last Fridays & the Art Walk

Downtown Hillsborough Hillsborough, NC, United States

Last Fridays & the Art Walk are FREE monthly celebrations of art & community in downtown Hillsborough, March-November 2023. With 20+ participating venues, each events includes a new monthly variety of gallery openings, live music, roaming poets, Living Arts Collective drum circles & dancewaves in River Park, Makers Markets (May-Oct), family activities/crafts, and so much... Read More →

Artist Talk with Caroline Kern

Attic 506 506A 2nd floor, W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

LEVEL's next artist-in-residence, Caroline Kern, presents a free artist talk on the rooftop at Attic 506! Caroline is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working most recently in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after over a decade in Brooklyn, New York. Her work currently revolves around Risograph printing, illustration, experimental video, and machine tufting. She is the sole proprietress... Read More →

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Art-making Workshops with Caroline Kern

LEVEL

Join visiting artist Caroline Kern and LEVEL for some collaborative art-making! Come with projects to work on, whether that is a drawing, a website, a half knitted sweater, or whatever else you might be working on that you need a little push to finish, or get new ideas about. Think of this time as an... Read More →

CONNECTING VISIONS

Hillsborough Gallery of Arts 121 North Churton Street, Hillsborough, NC, United States

Opening on April 25th at the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Connecting Visions presents the work of three artists. Painter Eduardo Lapetina, photographer and digital artist Eric Saunders, and metal sculptor Jason Smith, come together to create a show that pushes boundaries. Eduardo Lapetina’s desire is to connect with the outside world through his paintings. “I... Read More →

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Last Fridays & the Art Walk

Downtown Hillsborough Hillsborough, NC, United States

Last Fridays & the Art Walk are FREE monthly celebrations of art & community in downtown Hillsborough, March-November 2023. With 20+ participating venues, each events includes a new monthly variety of gallery openings, live music, roaming poets, Living Arts Collective drum circles & dancewaves in River Park, Makers Markets (May-Oct), family activities/crafts, and so much... Read More →

Earth Month Last Friday & the Art Walk!

Downtown Hillsborough Hillsborough, NC, United States

Join us in the evening on Friday, April 28 to celebrate the symbiosis between nature, art, and science at an Earth Month-themed Last Friday & the Art Walk in Hillsborough, NC! Along with Last Friday's monthly variety of visual art; special exhibitions; live music; Roaming Poets; and a Living Arts Collective drum circle, Dancewave, and... Read More →

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Soil Collection Ceremony

Historic Orange County Courthouse 106 E. King St., Hillsborough, United States

Battle Courtroom, Orange County Courthouse,106 Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC Join us in commemorating Cyrus Guy, Daniel Morrow, Jefferson Morrow, Washington Morrow and Wright Malone – all victims of racial terror lynching in Orange County in 1869. Our time together will include proclamations, a libation ceremony and a presentation to families of the victims. The event... Read More →

Orange-Chatham African American Cultural Festival

Hargraves Community Center 216 N Roberson Street, Chapel Hill

PERFORMANCES, FOOD, VENDORS, ART Hargraves Community Center: 216 N Roberson Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516 Come out to celebrate African American Culture through expressions of ART, MUSIC, DANCE, AND POETRY. For more information, please contact: artsandletters@chcaa-dst.org

Chapel Hill Philharmonia Concert: “Happily Free”

Moeser Auditorium 145 East Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

On Sunday, April 30, the Chapel Hill Philharmonia will present its 2023 spring concert. Conducted by Donald L. Oehler, the 2023 Young Artist Concerto Competition winner, Benjamin Luo, will perform the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #2. Berlioz’s “Rakoczy March” from “The Damnation of Faust” leads off the program. Brahms’s joyful Symphony 3 concludes... Read More →

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