tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88859023741145802582012-01-05T20:05:13.263-05:00This blog is designed to offer a venue for nonprofits, arts organizations, artists, and local citizens to network about current community arts projects and brainstorm about projects in development.Triad Community Artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05172453450646421284noreply@blogger.comBlogger1001100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8885902374114580258.post-70421959364369093622010-10-12T11:04:00.001-04:002010-10-12T11:07:00.811-04:00

I sadly was unable to attend the !POWAR! reception at the last Gallery Hop on October 1st. Did anyone attend or hear how it went?!POWAR! (People of Winston-Salem Art Reclamation Program) is a program to use public art to fight graffiti and raise awareness of gang activity. A pilot program was held during the summer after East Ward Council Member Derwin L. Montgomery held meetings with local

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http://downtownwinstonsalem.blogspot.com/2010/09/upcoming-business-40-improvement.htmlLet's not forget as we share our thoughts on the Business 40 Redesign that our history and connection to each other are just as important as beautiful aesthetics. Bridges are for connecting, after all.

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Back in July, I posted about a Pittsburgh project called Conflict Kitchen that is serving the community cultural understanding via delicious food experiences. The folks at Conflict Kitchen have asked me to post an update on the second phase of their project, an Afghan cuisine restaurant called Bolani Pazi. They are looking for community support to get the restaurant up and running. Visit their

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Update... "Urban Ag" panel discussion, moderated by CFSA Executive Director Roland McReynolds... Sharon Morrison, PhD, will be one of the panelists at "World Food in the Piedmont", an exploration abut how new populations are changing our ideas and attitudes about food. Dr. Morrision is Associate Professor at the UNCG Dept of Health Education and Director of the Undergraduate Program.

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Beautiful and breathtaking- you must check out this post from inhabitat.com on Light Sanctuary, designed by Martina Decker and Peter Yeadon. Image from DeckerYeadon.com.

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So the British plan to slash arts funding by up to 40%, anticipating and expecting it to increase the philanthropic drive of the British people to save its own arts culture from faltering under such a large funding gap. While this fly-by-the-seat-of-your-knickers rationale…hmm…I’m left without much to say.Arts organizations, especially the small ones, are always on the brink of folding in the U.S

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Janelle recently helped me make a discovery--North Carolina has some booming activity going on in Photovoice. Janelle Summerville is a recent graduate of Wake Forest University and a current doctoral student at the University of Virginia. While attending WFU, she traveled to Kenya for a summer and asked female students there to document their identities using a digital camera. Janelle is a

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African American Atelier Presents: 25UNDER25Through August 6 - Greensboro Cultural Center - Greensboro25under25 highlights a diverse group of eclectic and vibrant young artists from the Triad Community. An extensive range of expression and media will be showcased, integrating the experiences and perspectives of the members of the millennial generation.333.6885 or info@

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Recently, the Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership blog has had several arts-related posts. Check 'em out:Winston-Salem Bus Shelter Competition!Charlotte Blog takes notice of efforts in the City of Arts and InnovationMICD 25 Spotlight on Winston-Salem, NC

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A reblog from Life in Forsyth: Local Acts of Creation.Don't miss the opening of Acts of Creation at the Enrichment Center this Friday!

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DESIGN, ART, TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM An Annual Piedmont Event About Important Ideas 2010: FOOD FOR THOUGHT Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem October 9, 10, 11 (This notice covers my contribution to DATS 2010. Click here for the official site.—Andrew Young) My paid role is to insure multicultural and alternative viewpoints through the creation of venues and other forums at this year’s event. Food is

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Today the Winston-Salem Journal published new information on the Business 40 bridges project. The Creative Corridors Coalition will administer a grant to the Arts Council and City of Winston-Salem to assemble a team of urban designers, artists, and planners to create a master plan for the two-year construction project.My hope is that the new bridges will allow for safer, more inviting pedestrian

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Just got word that a short documentary by Wake Forest University student, Courteney Morris, is now available on the university's YouTube page. Here it is below:

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While browsing the Community Arts Network website (pretty much the best resource there is on socially-minded and interactive art), I found a syllabus for a class called Citizen Artist. The collaboration between high school and college students reminded me so much of Transforming Race, a project I posted on earlier, I couldn't wait to get a link to the syllabus up on the blog.

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A delicious sandwich shop has sprung up in Pittsburgh called "Conflict Kitchen." Funded by the Sprout Fund, the Waffle Shop, and the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon, the restaurant is an experiment in public art. Conflict Kitchen only serves a yummy dish from a country with which the United States is in conflict. Currently, Conflict Kitchen is serving up an Iranian dish called

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There is a bit of information available on the Center for Design and Innovation's website regarding the food-focused Digital Arts & Technology Symposium (DATS) scheduled for this fall, and Greensboro artist and blogger, Andrew Young, has plenty of brainstorming available. Check out his blog to get psyched for DATS 2010.

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Learned of this cool community art partnership between Piedmont Craftsmen and SECCA via local blog, Life in Forsyth. Scheduled for Saturday, August 14 from 2 to 5 PM. Visit Life in Forsyth for more information!

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Art Can! Feed the HungrySaturday, July 3 - Mid-Morning to Early Afternoon - GreensboroArt Can! is a new Fun Fourth attraction, sponsored by the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, to create a temporary public art installation made of canned foods items. Architects Shermin Ata of Shermin Ata Architects with Micah Martin and Emily Hinton of Moser Mayer Phoenix Architects have joined forces

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Check out SECCA's blog for more information.

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While trying to decipher the meaning of a Lockheed Martin ad I read about in the Washington Post this morning, (It reads, "The shape of littoral dominance has a familiar look." Hmm...) I found a United Kingdom organization, Littoral, whose mission has very little to do with seashores and coasts but everything to do with community arts.Littoral is "a nonprofit arts trust which promotes new

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StoryLine recently had its first anniversary on June 4. The celebration featured several moving moments by local artists and storytellers, including an especially well-received performance by Cara and Mackenzie Hagan. The two sisters joined StoryLine conversations with dance for a short performance that can only be experienced and not described. Check out Cara's story at http://

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Temporary Public Art Project to Feed the Hungry at Fun FourthArt Can! is a new Fun Fourth attraction, sponsored by the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, to create a temporary public art installation made of canned foods items. Architects Shermin Ata of Shermin Ata Architects with Micah Martin and Emily Hinton of Moser Mayer Phoenix Architects have joined forces to design a U.S. Flag

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Here is the article from The Chronicle bit by bit. It was too large to scan in as one image. My apologies! Click each image to enlarge.

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• Supporting refugee and immigrant women to preserve traditional weaving • First organizational meeting held at the Greensboro Central Library on June 10 • Efforts to create viable model • Meeting attracts Nepali and Montagnard weavers; others welcome! Pastor Y Hin Nie hosted the meeting and invited Betsy Renfrew, a Greensboro artist who has been working with Montagnard weavers intensively

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About 2.5 hours west of the Piedmont, the EnergyXChange is a center that uses landfill gas (methane and other gases that escape from landfills) as an energy source for a clay studio and a glass studio. Artists can do residencies at the EnergyXChange. The complex includes four greenhouses, three cold frames, a retail craft gallery, a visitor center, along with the two aforementioned studios.And

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Last night, the Winston-Salem City Council held a public hearing on the possibility of making tighter restrictions to discourage graffiti artists. Graffiti has its obvious destructive qualities, but it's also a form of public art. Work by artist/photographer, JR.And in the instance below, discovered at inhabitat.org, graffiti can mobilize a community. Artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn work

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As part of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts’ ACCORD Initiative, the City of Winston-Salem Human Relations Department and the Wake Forest University (WFU) Art Department are collaborating on a visual art project entitled Transforming Race.The Transforming Race project will culminate in the presentation of visual art pieces by five public high school students and five WFU art students

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Via the highly informative green design blog, inhabitat.org, I learned of a call for artists for the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI). LAGI describes itself as a program that brings together... artists, architects, scientists, landscape architects, and engineers in afirst of its kind collaboration. The goal of the Land Art Generator Initiativeis to design and construct a series of land art

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Check out Jana Tasich's review of The Yes Man, an original play that is the result of a collaboration between The Enrichment Center, students at UNCSA, and Art Tasting.

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Here is an article from the May 6, 2010 edition of the Winston-Salem Chronicle on Wake Forest University theater students using teachers' curricula to further students' understanding of their lessons. Excuse the format- I didn't have a scanner big enough to get the full page in one file.

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The Creative Aging Symposium offers artists and healthcare professionals ways to embrace creativity and advance culture change in aging service environments. Because of the rapidly expanding older population and related lifestyle changes, we must find new ways to improve the quality of life for older adults of all ability levels. This highly interactive two-day Symposium will highlight important

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Troubles, Worries, WorkMoving day. It always scared me to death.Troubles, worries, work.It includes everything to make me crazy. Some peoplelike it, but not me. There is always somehope but what are hopes? Hopes bringtroubles, worries, work,and they include everything to make me crazy. Some peoplelike it, but not me. I would like not to move.I would like to stay, because actually daysare not

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A friend of mine named Bill Brown, who is a graduate of Wake Forest, spoke yesterday at a conference in New Orleans called Launch Fest, self-labeled a "fun conference for serious entrepreneurs." The project Bill discussed is called Pixels for Food. Bill has been working at a community center and food pantry for the last year called the Community Center of St. Bernard. Pixels for Food is an online

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As part of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts’ ACCORD Initiative, The Enrichment Center and students from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), who are also part of Art Tasting, an emerging performing arts organization in Winston-Salem, are presenting an original short play by Ian Antal and Suzy McCalley. The play, entitled “The Yesman,” will be performed Thursday,

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Although The Voice Project is by no means local organization (it's based in Uganda), it offers a truly inspiring example of social change through art. Ravaged by conflict and war, Ugandan women, victims of rape and widowhood themselves, are using songs to bring home boy soldiers who have fled to the bush in shame and fear of the violence they committed. These songs are played on the radio or sung

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Alternative ROOTS Annual Meeting Website: Click Above

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Groundbreaking performance artist, world renowned humorist, writer, social and political satirist, post-modern avant garde artist and gay rights activist, Tim Miller, will perform this week at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Co-founder of two of the most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan's Lower East Side and Highways

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Last spring, the Piedmont Triad Initiative for Community Arts enlisted the help of then Salem College senior, Kathy Ann Canafax, to serve as an intern, researching social media and seeking out the best tools for online communication in the Triad. Kathy Ann was an impressively thorough, driven intern, bound for an interesting future. I checked in on her last week to see what she is up to now...I

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Before March is through, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this March 17th Winston-Salem Journal article about Carolina Music Ways' elementary school program titled "The Carolina Music Ways Old Timey Radio Show."Local musicians visited elementary schools to share with students their musical heritage. Musical selections ranged from traditional Moravian tunes to Doc Watson to John Coltrane. Visit

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Wake Forest University students are busy erecting a tower made of 2,000 plus bottles for Earth Day. This project, which reuses old plastic bottles, will serve as a "pledge collector" at the Annual Piedmont Earth Day Fair on Wake Forest's campus. Visitors to the fair will be invited to write down an environmental pledge and insert the piece of paper into the tower. To get an idea of what such a

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I have always thought that North Carolina's guiding slogan, "Esse Quam Videri (To be, rather than to seem)," is about the best state motto for which one could ask, one from which North Carolinians should draw pride. Now an enthralling photodocumentary project, Esse Quam Videri: Muslim Self Portraits has taken on the motto and its connotations to present the personal and varied stories of those

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Every so often, green design blog Inhabitat features incredible examples of environmental art that I immediately can't help but repost here on the Piedmont Triad Initiative for Community Art's own blog. Visit Inhabitat for a short profile of artist Sayaka Ganz, who travels the world, absorbing different cultures and making art out of trash.From Ganz's website: Stream SparkleFlare Convergence I

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Even though the Interactive Resource Center is a new nonprofit in Greensboro, they seem to be old pros at utilizing local artists to contribute to its mission. Upon visiting the website for the IRC, one immediately realizes that two stories on its homepage involve artists. To give some background, the IRC is a day center for the homeless population in Greensboro. The center runs a number of

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Eat at selected restaurants next Thursday and benefit Arts for Life! Get more information at Life in Forsyth.

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Remember the ARRA and the promise of arts funding? A lot of funding from the ARRA has gone to sustaining existing arts education. However, there were also new opportunities in this act. Although this website from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies is a bit wordy, it may be worth an artist or arts organization's time to scan through this stuff. The page outlines different areas of

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Click image for link to Jefferson Pinder's video work titled "Juke."

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Here is a wonderful example of involving a neighborhood in the process of activating the spaces where we interact through art.Learn more about the installation by Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert at the Detroit Institute for the Arts.

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On March 11 at 7 PM, East Forsyth's dance group East Company Dance will perform a series of dances based on stories from people suffering with cancer. To prepare the pieces, dance teachers at East Forsyth invited staff members who had cancer to share their experience with students. The full story on the project collaboration between teachers, students, and survivors can be read in the

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SECCA AND KRANKIES PRESENTThursday, March 4 - 7 PM - Krankie's Coffee - Winston-SalemA documentary about unbridled creativity and accessibility, Christian faith in the context of popular culture and family relationships in the face of individuality. “Danielson, A Family Movie” is directed by JL Aronson; USA; 105 minutes; not rated.397-2107DANCE OF TRIUMPHThursday, March 11 - 7 PM - East Forsyth

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Graduates from a four-year college who have demonstrated a strong interest in community arts administration as a career are invited to apply for a three-month internship with the North Carolina Arts Council. A stipend of $5000 is provided for living expenses. Applications are due May 1, 2010. Visit the NC Arts Council website for more information.

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Ain'a That Good News!February 27 - 7:30 PM - Hanes Auditorium at Salem College - Winston-SalemPiedmont Chamber Singers joins with One Voice to explore the magnificent legacy of music by African Americans. From spirituals to jazz and modern Gospel, black musicians have been at the core of America’s musical culture. The concert includes works by such notable composers as Harry T. Burleigh, William

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Powerful video by storyteller Mallika Sarabhai who believes the best way to effect change of many kinds is through art (thanks to Doug Borwick for the link to the video!)

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From the Downtown Winston-Salem PartnershipFrom ARTStem

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I headed on over to the Anderson Center this weekend for Young Americans: The Performance. Andre Minkins has written a play, which he also directed over the weekend, inspired by the photographs of Sheila Pree Bright. The play was performed by WSSU and high school students as well as adult volunteers. It was so heartening to see members of our community working with local students to elaborate and

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For those interested in creating community arts projects, mark your calendars for the first ever Amnesty International Human Rights Arts Festival! Scheduled for April 23-25 in Silver Spring, Maryland (right outside D.C.), this is a rare opportunity to view work by over 90 artists and 50 arts organizations in theater, film, dance, visual arts, and music who all are presenting work related to human

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The Social Innovation Fund, a new public-private collaboration created by the 2009 Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, is designed to create new knowledge about how to solve social challenges in the areas of economic opportunity, youth development and school support, and healthy futures, and to improve our nation’s problem-solving infrastructure in low-income communities.Community organizations

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Piedmont Interfaith Council invites students to join the Children's Tapestry Chorus any time. Rehearsals just started January 5th. However, you can't miss out on "Loving God--Loving Neighbors," the once-a-year observance of World Religion Day, which will be held this Sunday at 3 PM. Check out the above links for more details. World Religion Day 2009 by Sharon Hodgson

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Artist Betsy Renfrew spent 2009 refocusing her skills towards community involvement and refugee issues. The link below is her YouTube report to the E4C group, a workshop for arts entrepreneurship sponsored by United Arts Council and Piedmont Triad Partnershiphttp://mdaexchange.blogspot.com/2010/01/betsy-renfrew-projects-2009.html

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In the last edition of The Chronicle, local artist Derrick Monk was profiled for his many socially entreprenerial activities across the Triad. Derrick has a number of programs to his name, including United Creations Support Services, the Come-Unity Mural program, Greensboro public art, etc.Coming up next: Derrick's GUMBO program (Group Unification Movement while Bridging Opportunities), which

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Having stumbled upon a motivating website today called Homegrown Handmade, I decided to make a New Year's resolution to better support and understand North Carolina culture. Homegrown Handmade is a collaboration of artists, farmers, and rural creative entrepreneurs. It promotes sustainable tourism in rural areas of North Carolina through self-guided driving tours. It's an economic and tourism

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Local blog Triad Watch recently made note of an artist from the Piedmont community who was featured on NBC Nightly News for using his skills to benefit local nonprofits. Click on the following link to view this story:Local Triad Artist William Mangum on the NBC Nightly News about His Holiday Honor Card Program

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Auditions: As Far As We Can RememberJanuary 6-9 - Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center - GreensboroCaldcleugh makes good on a community request for something "different" for Black History Month. We gathered stories from senior members of Greensboro's African American community and asked them to tell us what they remember about Greensboro to develop this original performance piece. Caldcleugh will

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Journalist Daniel J. Wakin recently reported in the New York Times on a violinist named Kelly Hall-Tompkins who, along with other well-accomplished musicians, offers performances to homeless men through a program she started called Music Kitchen.Read the article here.Violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins

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Back in the summer of 2007, I was lucky enough to get a little exposure to several former students of Auburn University's Rural Studio who were installing a public art piece in Arlington, Virginia titled CO2LED. Rural Studio is a sought-after undergraduate program of the Auburn University School of Architecture. What most drew my attention was their outreach program. Students focusing in outreach

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Chrome and Stone: Opening ReceptionDecember 4 - 6-8:30 PM - Gateway Gallery - Winston-Salem This exhibition will feature digitally enhanced photographs of hotrods and muscle cars by Walker Lewis, Jr. and infrared film photographs of England, Cornwall and South Wales by James C. Williams. The exhibition will contrast the vanishing media of infrared film photography with the burgeoning field of

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Couldn't resist reblogging this post from the Ashé Cultural Arts Center, which always has envy-worthy programs going on. Ashé will be hosting a book signing of Men We Love, Men We Hate, an anthology of writings by students from Students at the Center (SAC), a program that works with New Orleans public schools in teaching English and elective writing classes.Adrinda Kelly, an alumni who

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A new segment of the population will soon be selling art on Trade Street, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. So glad to hear that the new middle school downtown will feature a space to sell students' art work. What a message to send to kids that art can be a viable (and paying) career.Along with the Community Arts Cafe, Winston-Salem now has two new locations to explore local artists (of all

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Local artist Jan Detter was recently featured in The Chronicle for a project she leads at Kennedy Learning Center, a school which specializes in assisting immigrant and ESL students. Detter spent time at Kennedy leading a weaving project. She chose weaving because of its universal presence in many cultures. Click below for a full image of the article.

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Kicking off Kwanzaa festivities this year, the Urban League Young Professionals, Triad Cultural Arts, and the National Association of Black Veterans sponsored the celebration of the concept of Umoja, or unity.Read more in Todd Luck's Chronicle article.

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While websurfing I discovered three amazing girls aged 13-15 who have already entrenched themselves in community arts.Rae-Yao is a local student who, along with two other students, received a grant through DoSomething.org which has enabled her to perform classical music for many community groups. Inner-city children, elderly residents, and many other members of our local community have benefitted

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Monday, November 16, 3 pm.Diggs Gallery- WSSU - Winston-SalemPresented by the Center for New North Carolinians at UNC-GreensboroSponsored by The Office of International Programs and Club LatinoFocus on education and community outreach programs for youth and children, and opportunitiesfor internships and service learning. Young Americans by Sheila Pree BrightIn Conjunction with:YOUNG AMERICANS:

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Reblog from the DWSP Blog: Lighting Project on the Pepper BuildingDowntown Winston-Salem Blog: Lighting Project (Click on the Photo for a Link for more info)

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The Community Arts Cafe recently opened a space at 411 W. 4th Street in Winston-Salem called The Gallery of the Arts, which is part of a larger project to expand interest in local arts. Read up on their future plans at the Winston-Salem Journal. Community Arts Cafe is also an online newsletter with separate editions for Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and High Point. Image from Gallery of the Arts

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What is the ACCORD Initiative?ACCORD is an acronym for Artists Contributing to Civic-Oriented and Responsive Democracy. It is a project of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, which, according to Kenan Institute materials, "sparks dialogue about the essential role of the arts and civic-minded artists within a thriving democracy.It is an effort to encourage collaboration between nonprofits,

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A series of photographs from a book titled Gaze by Michael Meyersfeld accompanied the unveiling of a new local organization, Intersections of the Triad. Intersections is an organization devoted to social support for the local HIV/AIDS population. The organization plans to promote HIV awareness, encourage testing, and open a center where homeless men and women can use computers and consult with

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Simon Clark/Eyebox, NPR's "Emma and Elena, Exposing the Sex Trade," October 31, 2009.Actress Emma Thompson and sex trade victim, Elena, bring seven artists together in an exhibit called Journey. The exhibit will be available to the public November 10-16 in Washington Square Park in New York City.Read the NPR article for an explanation of the exhibit as well as a video tour of Journey with Emma

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Shoe Shrine: Call for EntriesThrough November 13 - 5IVE & 4ORTY - Winston-SalemShoe Shrine entries on display at 5ive & 4orty. Entries will be auctioned off on Friday, November 13th. Proceeds will benefit the Kelly Jo Petersen Scholarship at UNCSA School of Design and Production.Society for the Study of AfroAmerican HistoryNovember 13 - 5 PM - Delta Fine Arts Center - Winston-SalemCost: Free.

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As many symphony orchestras struggle to stay relevant in our constantly evolving society, the Winston-Salem Symphony has chosen to take the lead and institute an innovative educational program that will elicit social and cultural change on the local and global level. This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Mary Starling In-School Education Program and will be centered around the theme of

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Over the course of this year, Elsewhere Artist Collaborative--a living museum set within a former thrift store in downtown Greensboro--has been creating connections within its growing downtown urban neighborhood. With the new Mellow Mushroom and advancing economic development in our downtown "arts and antiques" district, Elsewhere wanted to ensure that neighbors who live, work, and use the South

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The North Carolina Museum of Art Museum Park is a 164 acre stretch of woodlands, trails, creeks, and outdoor art pieces. At the park, visitors experience both art and the environment together and gain an understanding of how the two can respond to each other. Some of the pieces even seem to have a moral message about where items of everyday use, such as newspapers in the following piece, come

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Activity in community arts does not have to be introduced by artists.Years ago, Bill McKibben, renown environmentalist and author, called for U.S. artists to focus on climate age and environmental issues in their work. Artists answered his call. Recently, McKibben discussed his favorite environmental artists in the U.S. in Grist, an online snarky-but-fun environmental newsletter.A personal (

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As humans effect on the environment becomes more and more apparent, environmental art has moved from landscape painting to socially engaging art with vivid messages on climate change.I've heard so much buzz about environmental art lately, I'd like to put forth a few things over the next couple days that I've come across, both near and far. We'll start with the farthest away and move closer. The

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A summer school music class which 10 Sheboygan students signed up for is coming to a close. Read in the Sheboygan Press about the students process of learning to channel their frustration and personal experiences into the composition of raps. The songs were then produced by local music artist J Rilla.If you know of any local programs that use an artistic medium, whether it be painting, acting,

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Dream Machines: The Impossible Happens ThursdayOpen Dream Ensemble World PremiereSeptember 3 - 6:30 PM - Stevens Center - Winston-SalemComprised of professional dancers, actors, and musicians trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Open Dream Ensemble combines these artists talents, performing original, multidisciplinary works for youth with live music, dance, and drama

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"...when we support the arts, we not only enhance our quality of life, but we also invest in Guilford County’s economic well-being."-from Arts and Economic Prosperity III, a study by Americans for the ArtsThe nonprofit/arts industry in Greensboro generates $30.73 million in local economic activity. Read more about this study at the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro's website.

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All-Arts, Sciences & Technology Camp 2009 July 26-31 - UNCG Division of Continual Learning - GreensboroA weeklong, residential summer camp for ages 7-15. Designed to give in-depth and experiential instruction in the arts and sciences, the camp also includes recreation, multi-cultural entertainment, and a wide variety of activities that suit individual tastes and preferences. Find

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Heard about this from Winston-Salem blogger: SueMo.Snap-Shot-City is a community development project of sorts that encourages us to explore our local communities and to share what we love about them globally (via the internet). On a preassigned day, people, usually in teams, all over the world snap photos around their community of a certain theme, which Snap-Shot-City chooses. The photos must be

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Piedmont Triad Initiative for Community Arts offers welcome to the WORD project, the newest addition to our registry of community and arts organizations (listed on right).the WORD project (TWP) "gives people the platform and tools to find their own voice and create their own poems. It is is designed to engage persons to tap into their creative spirit and find their authentic self. Whether it’s a

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ARTStem is a new year-long initiative bringing UNCSA faculty together with public school educators to explore teaching and learning at the intersection of the arts and STEM disciplines of science, math, engineering, and technology.Between the FoldsJuly 30 - 1-2 PM - Gold Theatre of the UNCSA film village.Free and open to the community.Vanessa Gould writes in the Director’s Statement: “At its

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Who else in the Triad is interested in community arts? If you would like to know, join the facebook group. Search "Piedmont Triad Initiative for Community Arts" on facebook and join up. It's a piece of cake.

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For those who are interested in going back to school and don't mind traveling far, here is a program recommended by the Community Arts Network.Rhode Island School of Design: MA in Arts and Design EducationCommunity Arts Education TrackThe MA Community Arts Education option is designed to provide a professional qualification for the "teaching artist" who sees a career in the expanding field of

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"Untitled" by Maurice Scott An event for the children of prisoners that I saw posted at Life in Forsyth reminded me of this artist's piece that really struck me the first time I saw it. It is featured on the website of the Prison Arts Creative, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based organization, which collaborates with incarcerated adults, incarcerated youth, and the formerly incarcerated to strengthen

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Culture of Color SaturdaysJuly 11 - 25 - Greensboro Children's Museum - GreensboroSaturdays, July 11, 18, 25, 2pm Join GCM each Saturday this summer as we celebrate the Eastern Indian culture in our new series called the Culture of Color! Activities may include learning new words, dressing in cultural costumes, sampling different foods, learn dance and doing art. Activities free with admission/

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"In the Face of Strange Fruit" by Derrick MonkTo expand on some information mentioned in the last post about artist Derrick Monk, here is a piece by Monk from a recently opened installation of eight bronze-cast coffee cups around Greensboro. These cups were sculpted by the "Coffee Cup Collaborative," a group of eight local artists.These mugs commemorate the moment in civil rights history when a

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Two public events happened this past weekend that deserve mentioning.1. Juneteenth Festival- There were a number of Juneteenth events around the Triad this past Saturday and Sunday. Juneteenth celebrates the nineteenth of June in 1865 when the last slaves in Galveston, Texas found out that they were free. Celebrations today usually focus on achievement, education, and the arts.Derrick Monk and

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Community Arts Supporters-Earlier this year, Obama signed the Serve America Act, which will expand service opportunities primarily through Americorps and focus on such targeted areas as veterans services, the environment, disaster relief, and education.The Education Corps includes programs that provide “skilled artists to promote greater community unity through the use of music and arts education

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Today I'm featuring a program from the culturally rich city of New Orleans that I found while surfing the blogosphere. "Voices Not Forgotten"is a program of the Ashé Cultural Arts Center, which is a neighborhood-focused nonprofit that combines local creative forces to contribute to the revitalization of their community."Voices Not Forgotten" is put on by seniors at the Central City Senior Center

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Here is a link back to a post from another local blog Ars urbi serviat on an art program that the Forsyth County Public Library is currently promoting.Ars urbi serviat - Public Art in Winston-Salem: If life is a blank book, shouldn't we put art in it?The Forsyth County Public Library is kicking off its Summer Reading Program with a public community arts project that encourages kids and teens to "

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ReCycle-ReUse-ReNew- Group Art ExhibitJune 7 – 29 – Marshall Art Gallery – GreensboroThis group art exhibit features unique way “ReCycle “discarded materials. Metal, glass, wood, paper, fabric and more are “ReUsed” to create “ReNewed” art. Participating artist include: Dawn Ashby, Jerry Cartwright, Dian Felder, Lawrence Fier, Ray Martin and Betty Trotter. Join us for the opening reception on

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"Sing me that tuneless hum you always sing."What a line between friends. It's full of comfort, nostalgia, and frank appreciation. This line between Dudley Shearburn and Emily Wilson is just one line from the many exchanges already collected by the StoryLine Project. StoryLine is a storytelling initiative that works to illuminate the rich diversity of voices in the Winston-Salem community and to

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