Promoting and strengthening the artistic and cultural development of Orange County, North Carolina
The owners and artists of Mike’s Art Truck are happy to return to the Orange County Main Public Library in Hillsborough with a new collection of self-taught art featuring work by three popular folk artists: Ruby C. Williams, Michael Banks, and Sam Ezell. Roadside paintings by Ruby C. Williams like those in the exhibit once... Read More →
Pam Baggett will create a safe space in which to write about childhood abuse and/or intimate partner violence. Writers who have not experienced abuse are welcome to explore their thoughts on the violence ingrained in our society. Pam is a former volunteer at the Compass Center in Chapel Hill, where she co-wrote and facilitated a... Read More →
The Orange County Main Library honors Domestic Violence Awareness Month with a reading by four poets who write with courage and candor about experiences with family and/or intimate partner violence and the journey through pain to empowerment. Featured readers: Pam Baggett, Terri Greco, Janis Harrington, and Priscilla Webster-Williams. The event is free and open to... Read More →
Where is home? What do you love about it? What if you had to leave your home and move to another country? In this generative workshop, we’ll write about homes we love, past or present, then turn our attention to the theme of immigration, exploring the work of poets who write about what it’s like... Read More →
Celebrate Black History Month with a poetry reading featuring Ashley Harris, Fred Joiner, Caleb Torain, and Gideon Young. Ashley Harris is a former youth-slam competitor and the author of If the Hero of Time Was Black. Fred Joiner is a two-time winner of the Larry Neal Award for Poetry and a 2014 Artist Fellowship Winner... Read More →
In 1993 Nancy Peacock (Life Without Water, A Broom of One’s Own, The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson) was struggling to write her first novel. She was not enrolled in a university or a writing class, and with the exception of a smattering of friends who were also trying to figure out how to... Read More →
!!PLEASE NOTE!! THIS YEAR WE ARE DOING A SEPARATE TRAINING SESSION FOR OUR ARTIST PROJECT GRANTS. THE GRASSROOTS PROGRAM GRANTS ARE FOR GROUPS ONLY. THE ARTIST PROJECT GRANT TRAINING WILL BE HELD MAY 8 AT THE ARTCENTER AT 6:30PM. Come learn more about the Orange County Arts Commission's Grassroot Arts Program Grant Program! These grants... Read More →
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