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In recent years, local choreographers have made a lot of work about the challenges of maintaining individuality in an artistic community and in society generally. In Echo, a collaboration between dancer-choreographer Justin Tornow and visual artist Heather Gordon, different levels of identity are explored. Tornow splits the same performance, presented differently, across several spaces within the 21c Museum Hotel in Durham.
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Victor Ekpuk's new mural at the North Carolina Museum of Art was commissioned to augment the museum’s expanded African art gallery. Rendered in white chalk on a black wall, Ekpuk's symbolic composition forms an abstracted figure wrapping long arms around the perimeter. The mural’s meaning reflects the current social-political climate in America, but can be interpreted several ways.
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Two Durham filmmakers are currently producing a documentary called Overland. The documentary explores the modern state of falconry and traces the spread of the 6,000- year-old tradition, with filming taking place all over the world.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 4, January 2016,
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Kelly McChesney anchored a burgeoning Raleigh art scene with her Flanders Gallery before merging it this month with Raleigh’s Lump. The new gallery expands into a project space with public art and residency programs, and will double the number of events and collaborations with organizations on a range of creative initiatives.
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'Approaching Ali,' a one-act opera composed by Richmond-based guitarist D.J. Sparr, opened in January in Raleigh and Durham.
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Rachel Herrick is an artist who uses pepper spray in her artwork to convey police violence and understand institutionalized racism in the U.S. Her work can be found at the Flanders Gallery.
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23970
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Bill Thelen, founder and director of Raleigh gallery and collective Lump, recently curated an exhibit consisting of art from more than 85 artists. CAM Raleigh hosts the exhibit titled The Nothing That Is.
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Raleigh's Lump Gallery first opened its doors in 1995 during a time when the city lacked a vibrant art scene. The gallery showcased local and nationally famous artists, focused on concept art, and provided a venue for art appreciators who wanted to see a variety of pieces without traveling far.
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In 2010, Greg Lowenhagen started the Hopscotch Music Festival, which takes place in downtown Raleigh annually. Cicely Mitchell wanted to implement a similar concept in Durham, and in 2014 held the first Art of Cool Fest. Both of these music festivals highlight North Carolina musicians, bring people together, and boost the economy in two of the Triangle’s urban spaces.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 46, November 2015,
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Vitiello discusses the work of nationally known Durham artist Stacy Lynn Waddell. Waddell from Franklin County studied at NC State's College of Design and earned an MFA in studio art at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2007. Among her tools are branding irons, watercolors, gold leaf, and other items.
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Painter Marvin Saltzman is a former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor known for rigorous critiques and pushing students hard. Influential in the careers of many Triangle area artists, Saltzman is a landscape painter who combines impressionist and expressionist styles. Fourteen of his landscapes are on display in Hillsborough’s Eno Gallery in a new retrospective.
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Every two years, the governor selects a poet to become the next NC Poet Laureate whose job is to teach, judge, counsel, and cheerlead, using poetry to connect people. Governor McCrory recently appointed an unqualified individual to the position causing a backlash from the literary community. Following the uproar, Valerie Macon resigned after only one week on the job. The past four Poet Laureates discuss the importance of the position and have offered to help McCrory select the next Poet Laureate.
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Sacrificial Poets founder Kane Smego is looking for inspiration to continue his work. Smego is an educator, writer, and performer who has taught and performed slam poetry at the local and national level. He also was a poet-correspondent during the Arab spring spending two months in Egypt and Tunisia collecting oral histories and writing poems that were later used to produce a WUNC radio documentary. Smego is looking to take a break from teaching and running his nonprofit to write and gather inspiration from other sources.
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Raleigh resident Joe Newberry is an award winning songwriter and will perform at this year’s Wide Open Bluegrass festival. Newberry serves as the director of communications for the North Carolina Symphony. Newberry’s songs have won several awards as performed by artists such as the Gibson Brothers and he has performed together with Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion several times.
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Durham’s Leah Wilks is a 2014 Indie Art Award winner. Wilks is a co-founder of the Durham Independent Dance Artists and co-directs Culture Mill in Saxapahaw. She also runs classes at five area schools and studios and tours with the North Carolina Dance Festival as a solo performer. Her choreography and her performances have been well received and she is a mainstay in the local dance community.
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