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More fun stuff happening here at Bel Air!! Local Playwright, artist and one of Bel Air’s finest, Marilyn Anselmi, has conducted an evening of short plays to be preformed Saturday, June 8th starting at 7pm. Stop by @moeandds beforehand, for a yummy sit-down dinner then head on over, doors at Bel Air open at 6:30. Marilynn’s plays have been read and preformed up in the Big Apple all the way to Hollywood, California! If you’ve ever had the privilege to see or hear one of Marilynn’s plays, you already know how intriguing and sometimes gut wrenching they can be! Stage readings will be preformed by local and out of town theater stars. You won’t want to miss these! To RSVP check out the “Evening of Short Plays” event on Facebook and tap ‘going’! $5 recommended donation at the door See y’all soon! • • • #playwright #hollywood #plays #stagereadings #actor #actress #shortplays #datenight #drama #theater #theatrical #artist #allthingsart #artthemount #belairart #visitnc #ourstatemag #southernliving #supportlocal #ladyboss #ladysnight #mensnight #ncartscouncil

Truth + Tamales is an art and social practice that strives to be a change agent for a more inclusive culture in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County created by Mary Carter Taub, a recipient of our Mary B. Regan Award. Through traditional tamale making and contemporary art making, Truth + Tamales is on a mission to strengthen relationships, build community and bridge cultural gaps by practicing a “stranger to neighbor model.” Over one year during monthly meet-ups, community members socialized, learned to cook tamales with local tamaleras, shared truths, and collectively built the public artwork on exhibit at The ArtsCenter. The project culminates this Friday with special celebration at The ArtsCenter from 6pm-8pm. Stop by to celebrate the large-scale, collaborative, temporary public artwork comprised of safety orange plastic construction fence and brightly colored vinyl ribbon. The piece is on exhibit in the Nicholson Gallery until June 28, 2019. ⁣ ⁣ Photo by Alex Morelli. Learn about Mary Carter Taub and Truth+Tamales at the link in our bio. ⁣ ⁣ #NCarts #NCartscouncil #NC #NorthCarolina #PublicArt #Carrboro #ChapelHill

Some artists try to draw a bright line between their life and their work, keeping them separate as possible to avoid letting the disorder in one infringe upon the control they aspire to in the other. Barbara Campbell Thomas creates work that embraces the unity of her life and her art, drawing on one to feed the other. As she says, “My life as a painter intertwines with my life as a mother; obligations to care my children condition every hour of the day, handing me a studio schedule that dances between home and workspace, necessitating a fluid focus that ‘makes do’ with what I am given – both in time and visual inspiration.”⁣ ⁣ Campbell Thomas’s current work combines painting with quilting, overlaying their visual vocabularies to create complex formal dialogues within each piece that resonate with the details of the artist’s own life and history with the media. She came relatively late to quilting, which she learned from her own mother, but quickly realized its power as a domestic art form practiced traditionally by women to inform and expand the range of her painting. She compares the result to medieval Mappae Mundi, which charted an interior geography as much or more than an objective, literal one. This imaginative synthesis carries viewers into new spatial realms that provide fresh rewards with each turn and line taken.⁣ ⁣ Barbara Campbell Thomas is a 2018-2019 N.C. Arts Council Artist Fellowship winner. Learn more about her work at the link in bio. #ncarts #ncartscouncil #nc #nc #northcarolina

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Great news for dance in North Carolina! Helen Simoneau Danse of Winston-Salem has been selected for South Arts' Momentum program. Over the course of the program, each company will receive professional development, residency opportunities, and touring grants to fund their work. Participants will also receive showcase opportunities at the Performing Arts Exchange booking conference to share their work with arts presenters and programmers. Helen is also a N.C. Arts Council fellowship recipient! Congratulations! | Photo by Kate Enman for @helensimoneaudanse

Little cherry pinched bowl. 8-1/4” x 7” x 4”. Ready for a new home. . . #2hands #woodcraft #woodenbowls #wood #furniture #process #craft #celebratingnc #onlyinnorthcarolina #woodcarving #countrycrafts #countryside #countrydecor #boonenc #folkart #folkways #blueridgemountains #winstonsalem #charlottenc #klingsporwoodworkingshop #wilkesboro #wilkescounty #iredellcounty #ireadell#ncartscouncil #piedmontcraftsmen #madeinabarn #povertyholler

Have you seen the newest addition to our walls? Our first week open @wandering_witness sat in the shop and created these beautiful pieces of the people she observed. . These works of art are important to us because they represent what this shop is— it’s your space, your office, your catch-up spot. You all make up what this space occupies, and that’s connection and community.

Our function is to present old Masterpieces in Modern frames, like Museums | Awilda & Irma by Jaume Plensa @ncartmuseum #ncartmuseum #northcarolinamuseumofart #ncma #ncmagram #ncart #sculpture #museum #visitor #visitraleigh #visitnc #artography #enjoyjob #plensa #awildaandirma #ncmapark #nc #raleighart #raleighwhatsup #spanishartist #photography #feelingblessed #photoshoot #postcard #matronsofthearts #nature #artinnature #faces #ncartscouncil #ncartlives

“The whole songwriting process is the best therapy in the world,” says David Wiseman. “It’s a different way to express. A lot of frustration can come through melody, through chords, and through the words.”⁣⁣ ⁣ Wiseman is one of eight students who attended the first-ever Veterans Songwriting Workshop programmed by the Veterans Writing Project in early May in Kill Devil Hills, N.C.⁣⁣ ⁣ A combat veteran of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Wiseman traveled to the Outer Banks from “the west coast of North Carolina” – just outside of Asheville – where he lives and works as a traveling performer. With a voice like Johnny Cash and a strong hold on the guitar, he effectively communicated feelings of frustration and sorrow through a song he played for the workshop that touched on the difficulties of navigating the V.A. Hospital System and lingering traumas of war that left his fellow students in tears. Learn more about the workshop - and our Military and Veterans Healing Arts Initiative - at the link in our bio.