By Alicia Stemper/Vitamin O for the Orange County Arts Commission Chapel Hill’s Community Clay Studio is an incredible asset serving over 100 people a week. The facility is immediately behind… Read More →
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Click here to subscribe and receive news items delivered to your inbox.This Week in the Arts: Jan. 26 – Feb. 1
#OCNCARTS IN THE NEWS January 26-February 1, 2018 Audiences flock to see Alvin Ailey’s dance company, thanks to their tribute to the African-American experience: News & Observer Orange County Celebrates… Read More →
This Week in the Arts: Jan. 19-25
#OCNCARTS IN THE NEWS January 19-25, 2018 Chapel Hill, NC: A Top Destination in the 2018 Travel to College Towns Trend (Business Insider) Sick of Facebook Invites? UNC-Chapel Hill Just Launched… Read More →
Hillsborough’s Nancy Peacock Selected as 2018 Piedmont Laureate
Nancy Peacock, a Hillsborough-based novelist, has been selected as the region’s 2018 Piedmont Laureate. During 2018, Peacock will appear at workshops, reading programs and speaking engagements throughout Wake, Durham and… Read More →
Vitamin O: Hillsborough’s Solstice Lantern Walk
By Alicia Stemper/Vitamin O for the Orange County Arts Commission When the third phase of Hillsborough’s Riverwalk was completed in 2014, Tinka Jordy thought it “seemed the perfect place to… Read More →
Vitamin O: Poet Jaki Shelton Green
By Alicia Stemper/Vitamin O for the Orange County Arts Commission Jaki Shelton Green, named the inaugural Piedmont Laureate in 2009 and inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame… Read More →
Vitamin O: Builder and Woodworker David Hinkle
By Alicia Stemper/Vitamin O for the Orange County Arts Commission David Hinkle designed and built the new bee hotel, a habitat for solitary bees, in Gold Park on Hillsborough’s Riverwalk…. Read More →
2017 Holiday Gift Guide
Everyone wants to give thoughtful, unique gifts for the holidays, but who has the time to do the searching and running? The OCAC is making it easy for you this year. Whether… Read More →
Vitamin O: Sand Sculptor Damian Hoffman
By Alicia Stemper/Vitamin O for the Orange County Arts Commission For Damian Hoffman, it all started with being “bored out of my mind.” He was sitting on Sunset Beach, waiting… Read More →
Vitamin O: Kit FitzSimons
By Alicia Stemper/Vitamin O for the Orange County Arts Commission Kit is the ninth generation of men named Christopher (no middle name) FitzSimons although “I don’t have a number. My… Read More →
