| Creating a Vibrant Community Through the Arts |
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Teen Intensive Scholarships Still Available! |
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We still have scholarships available for our Summer Arts Teen Intensives! Scholarships are given based on financial need, and we are currently offering scholarships up to 75% off the cost of tuition for this program. Our scholarship fund is made possible by the generosity of the Fox Family Foundation, Sheetz, and the Durham Merchants Association Charitable Trust. Apply now: HERE!"
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Summer Creative Writing Class |
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Calling all writers! Now is the time to sign up for one of our Summer Creative Writing Classes for ages 16 and up. Two new instructors, Erim Akpan and Patricia Patterson bring an exciting mix of course offerings sure to inspire your inner literary genius. Click HERE to learn more about our Creative Writing classes and register today.
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Meet the instructors! Patricia Patterson is a Mexican American writer and editor. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and has served as an editor for several literary publications, including The Greensboro Review, Press Pause Press, and storySouth. Her short stories are featured in Baltimore Review, Porter House Review, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. Patricia is also the winner of Porter House Review's 2021 Editor's Prize in Fiction, selected by author Yiyun Li. You can read selected publications on her website
A staff writer for Chatham Life and Style Magazine, Erim Akpan specializes in helping writers share their stories with the world. She has published over 40 pieces of writing—starting at age 19—as well as ghostwritten and edited books. She has taught dozens of workshops in community and university settings for the past four years. |
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DAC Student |
DAC is looking for experienced models for figure drawing classes. Please contact Janet Bell, jbell@durhamarts.org, if interested. |
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International Call for Artists for Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (UK) |
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Application deadline Sunday, June 4th at 11:59pm (BST)
More information can be found here
Dedicated support for artists outside of the UK can be found here |
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Call for Artists for "Latitudes in Afro-Latinx Art" |
The Afro-Latinx diaspora spans latitudes. Latitude refers both to a place and a celestial object in relation to the equatorial mark we humans invented. It is an imaginary line around the globe. It occupies both north and south imaginations. In inviting Latitudes, we are inviting artists to submit artworks and practices that engage with the Afro-Latinx expressions in their diversities, expansions, and imaginations. Across the globe and across the skies, under and above the oceans.
The exhibition is a collaboration between Casa Azul of Greensboro and The African American Atelier and will take place in the African American Atelier gallery in the Greensboro Cultural Center in September/October of 2023 in North Carolina.
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Application Deadline: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 by 11:59 pm Application Cost: Free
Selection of artists: Selection of artists will be announced by the end of July 2023 |
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Now Playing in PSI Theatre |
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Dasan Ahanu Book Release Celebration |
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A unique live band and poetry experience in honor of the release of Dasan Ahanu’s new poetry chapbook, a brilliant and uncertain rebellion.
At the Durham Arts Council's PSI Theatre, on June 5th, 2023.
Buy tickets here |
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"Ain't Done Bad" from 35th Parallel Productions and Jakob Karr |
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We are so excited to announce 35th Parallel Productions , a female-led production company, will be presenting "Ain't Done Bad", a momentous, yet achingly vulnerable piece of Contemporary Dance Theatre created by “So You Think You Can Dance” star, Jakob Karr.
Performance will be held in our PSI Theatre June 6th and 7th at 7:30pm-8:30pm. |
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Ain’t Done Bad explores the experience of growing up, coming out, and finding love, using dance to celebrate the journey of leaving shame behind to embrace your authentic, vulnerable voice, all without speaking a word. You do NOT want to miss this! |
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The Durham Art Parade is happening soon– on Saturday, June 10th from 10a-12p starting and ending in the Scrap Exchange parking lot!
June 3rd is the last day to register to be IN the parade. Everyone is invited to bring art to carry or wear - or just to dress up and join the parade. |
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For more information visit here
Durham Arts Council is proud to sponsor the inaugural Durham Art Parade, celebrating Durham’s resilient and vibrant arts community. |
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The Durham Symphony Orchestra's Concert "Bringing It Home"
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At 3 PM on Sunday, June 4th, join the Durham Symphony at the Hayti Heritage Center as they close the season with a colorful program of light classics for small ensembles, hosted and directed by Maestro William Henry Curry.
Location: Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham, 27701 Purchase tickets here |
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ShaLeigh Dance Works Presents "Beyond Sight: The Making of enVISION and enVISION: Sensory Beyond Sight." |
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ShaLeigh Dance Works proudly presents the Audio Described Virtual Premieres of Beyond Sight: The Making of enVISION & enVISION: Sensory Beyond Sight, an immersive performance that does not require a viewer’s vision. Specifically conceived with and for individuals who are low-vision and blind, the work proposes a new sensorial experience of dance and theater. Premiere's Friday, June 9th at 5pm. |
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Learn more and find Tickets available here. |
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DAC School Instructor Bill Koeb Solo Show; "Vistas" |
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Come to Higgins and Myers, in Chapel Hill on June 9th, 6-8 pm for a reception of Bill Koeb's recent landscapes. |
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Now Showing at the Durham Art Guild
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Extra-Spectral
April 7 to June 4
Extra-spectral colors cannot be evoked with a single wavelength of light, but rather by a combination of wavelengths. From the technical challenge of re-creating color to the ultra-personal choice of which hues to include to the fact that, as Josef Albers noted, we can never even see color as it physically is, making it the “most relative medium in art,” the relationship of the Artist to color is as complex as possible.
This exhibit highlights several NC-based Artists that, on the surface, use colors that are “extra” (which is where their commonality ends) to evoke their intent through a combination of this color with forms and imagery as well as the concepts embedded in color’s many identities. Artists Jane Cheek, Jerstin Crosby, Zach Storm, Tonya Solley Thornton and Leif Zikade all require color to play a primary role in their work and their relationship to an audience.
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Please note the following update to the DAC Mask Policy: As of November 1, 2022 - Masks are Welcome in the DAC Building but not required. We encourage you to wear a mask if you will be in close proximity (less than 6 feet) to other visitors, students, or employees. Clay Students: Students and instructors in the DAC Clay Studio are strongly encouraged to wear a mask due to clay materials and clay dust. |
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Have you checked out the... Arts & Cultural Directory for Durham and the Triangle Region: Artists, Creatives & Cultural Workers? Check it out here! |
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| About the Durham Arts Council
The Durham Arts Council is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and local arts agency dedicated to supporting the arts in Durham and the entire Triangle Region in North Carolina and has served the community since 1954. Each year DAC serves over 400,000 visitors and program participants, over 2,000 artists, and more than 300 arts and cultural organizations through classes, artist residencies, exhibits, festivals, grants programs, technical support, creative economy initiatives, arts advocacy, and information services.
Durham Arts Council, Inc. is a catalyst in the cultural development of Durham - it leads, inspires, and promotes excellence in and access to the creation, experience, and active support of the arts for all the people of our community. For more information call 919.560.ARTS(2787) or visit our website at www.durhamarts.org. |
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