Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
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28909
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The North Carolina Arts Council’s Folk Heritage Award acknowledges the importance of traditional culture by honoring individuals who grew up within deep family traditions. This year the award was given to six members of one family, the Watsons of Deep Gap in Watauga County. Through their artistry and range of creative gifts, the Watsons have brought national and international attention to North Carolina’s traditional culture.
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28910
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The North Carolina Arts Council developed a plan framework of key issues to consider in 1995-1997. The identified priorities include support for artists and organizations, racial and cultural equity, arts in communities and education.
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28911
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Every July the selection committee for the North Carolina Arts Council’s Community Arts Administration Intern Program interviews applicants who want to work at a local arts agency. The committee looks for applicants who can help to reshape and redesign what arts administration is in North Carolina, how it serves artists and how it relates to its community.
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1033
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Two theater companies took a state-funded, two-year touring project to rural and culturally isolated areas of northeastern North Carolina.
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2695
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As part of the North Carolina Art Works for State Buildings Program, artist Judy Byron is creating a work using faces of North Carolinians that will hang in the new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work.
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2696
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Organized in Winston-Salem in 1989 by Larry Leon Hawkins, the National Black Theater Festival is a showcase for Afro-American theater artists, including playwrights, actors, producers, and directors.
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28903
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This article is a chronicle of the first fifteen years of North Carolina’s Grassroots Arts program. The program brings state funds that can be used only for the arts. Overall, the program has strengthened the state arts council’s relationship with local arts agencies.
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28905
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An increased appreciation of American and North Carolinian Indian art has spurred questions of authenticity. Old art pieces can be traced clearly to traditional tribal origins, but contemporary art incorporates new materials or expresses ideology at odds with typical notions of what is real.
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28906
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There are currently 149 community theaters in North Carolina on record with the state arts council. Presented is a distillation of interviews conducted with representatives of community theaters around the state.
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10.A North Carolina Storyteller in California by Parker, Michael NC Arts Vol. 7 Issue 2, Winter 1991
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2694
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A residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts near San Francisco afforded Jacksonville storyteller Louise Anderson the opportunity to explore different places, voices, arts, and cultures.
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28900
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North Carolina touring companies and artists are dedicated to serving communities and creating new relationships across the state. Some of the new priorities in touring are promoting cultural diversity among school children, defining the long term residency, and outreach in rural communities.
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28901
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The North Carolina Arts Council has faced a number of risks and challenges to support artists across the state. This article covers the history, politics, and direction of public funding of artists in North Carolina.
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28902
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Etta Baker was a Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from Morganton, North Carolina. Wayne Martin and the North Carolina Arts Council initiated the production of Etta Baker: One Dime Blues in 1988. Martin recorded hours of tape of Baker’s music in her home, documentation that will be available for researchers and scholars of traditional music.
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28904
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The Design Assembly was the first interdisciplinary gathering of North Carolina designers. The assembly brought eighty-eight designers, artists, scholars, historians, teachers, and administrators together last May in Asheville. The diversity offered a broad perspective of issues in developing a checklist for social responsibility.
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2639
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Before hydraulic net-pullers came into use in the 1950s, menhaden fishermen working the state's coasts synchronized their net work by chanty singing.
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