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Feb 24 2017

Weekend Culture Fix for February 24-26


Here’s your #weekendculturefix from OCAC! VISUAL ART Hillsborough • It’s Last Friday ArtWalk tonight in Hillsborough! 6-9pm in Downtown Hillsborough. • Opening reception for “It’s all about the story” at… Read More →

Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Weekend Culture Fix · Tagged: art, carrboro, chapel hill, chapelhill, classes, comedy, concerts, dance, events, exhibits, families, happenings, hillsborough, Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, kids, Last Fridays Hillsborough, live music, music, NC Comedy Arts Festival, orange county, performing arts, shows, theater, UNC, visual arts, weekend culture fix

Feb 17 2017

Weekend Culture Fix for February 17-19


Here’s your weekend menu of artsy happenings around #OCNC! The biggie this weekend (through the 26th) is the NC Comedy Arts Festival, including headliner Aparna Nancherla (pictured) with Hannah Strom… Read More →

Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Weekend Culture Fix · Tagged: 2nd Wind, Ackland, art, carrboro, Cat's Cradle, chapel hill, chapelhill, classes, comedy, concerts, dance, DSI, events, exhibits, families, frank, happenings, hillsborough, kids, live music, music, NC Comedy Arts Festival, orange county, performing arts, shows, The ArtsCenter, theater, visual arts, weekend culture fix

Feb 15 2017

OCAC is seeking board applicants


Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Uncategorized · Tagged: board

Feb 15 2017

Attend Arts Day 2017


Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Uncategorized · Tagged: arts advocacy, arts day, artsnc

Feb 10 2017

Weekend Culture Fix for February 10-12


Here’s your #weekendculturefix from #OCAC. Don’t miss #2ndFridayArtWalk / #SHIMMER tonight in Chapel Hill/Carrboro, and #LivingHistoryDay tomorrow in Hillsborough! Scroll through the list for all the details. LIVE MUSIC Hillsborough •… Read More →

Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Weekend Culture Fix · Tagged: 2nd Friday ArtWalk, alexander dickson house, carrboro, chapel hill, chapelhill, classes, comedy, concerts, dance, events, exhibits, families, happenings, hillsborough, kids, live music, living history day, music, orange county, performing arts, SHIMMER, shows, theater, visual arts, weekend culture fix

Feb 09 2017

“Animal Spirits: Visionary Folk Art” at Alexander Dixon House


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“Animal Spirits: Visionary Folk Art” showing at the Alexander Dickson House February 3, 2017 through April 6, 2017 Hillsborough, N.C. – The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough and Mike’s Art Truck are now… Read More →

Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Exhibits · Tagged: alexander dickson house, Bailey Jack, Brian Dowdall, Buddy Snipe, exhibits, Floria Yancey, hillsborough, James Dean, Kurt Zimmermann, mike's art truck, Pete the Cat, R.A. Miller, Ruby Williams

Feb 02 2017

Arts Matter: Meg McGurk Gets the Arts


A recent blog post explained how Orange County is an under-cover arts mecca.  How, in almost every category in which you can gauge the significance of the arts in a… Read More →

Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Blog Posts, Featured Blogs, Monthly Features · Tagged: 2nd Friday ArtWalk, art, Arts Matter, chapel hill, Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership, chapelhill, events, happenings, Meg McGurk, orange county, SHIMMER, visual arts

Feb 02 2017

Gain National Exposure for your Art


As an artist, have you ever dreamed of seeing your story in the New York Times or Washington Post? Your artwork in National Geographic? Your studio featured by Lonely Planet or… Read More →

Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Calls for Art · Tagged: art, call for art, chapel hill, chapelhill, NATJA

Feb 01 2017

Vitamin O: Jimmy Carter


By Alicia Stemper for Vitamin O James “Jimmy Carter” runs a jewelry school in Carr Mill Mall, but he warns, “I don’t teach the easy stuff. I teach old traditional… Read More →

Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Featured Blogs, Monthly Features, Vitamin O · Tagged: alicia stemper, art, carr mill mall, carrboro, jeweler, jimmy carter, metalsmith, teachers, vitamin o

Feb 01 2017

Through Women’s Eyes, By Women’s Hands


In 1984, Michael Jordan played his last basketball game for UNC. Ronald Reagan was president, gas was $1.19, and no one had a cell phone. Locally, 1984 was Compass Center’s… Read More →

Posted by Katie Murray · Categorized: Featured Blogs, Monthly Features · Tagged: art, chapelhill, compass center, events, fundraisers, happenings, nonprofit, orange county, visual arts

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