Jessica Webb, who is in her eighties, almost gave up on art. Although she had been painting for 25 years, one summer day in 2024, she went to The ArtsCenter to donate her paintings, hoping that the canvases could be used by other artists.
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In the mid-nineties, Donovan Livingston, who is now Chapel Hill’s 2025-2026 Poet Laureate, heard a song that would change his life. Growing up with a grandmother who was a church choir director, Livingston was surrounded by music and fascinated by hip hop, but he wasn’t allowed to listen to rap music.
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Fiddler Joe Thompson has been gone for more than a decade, but his musical legacy remains very much alive and will be celebrated in Mebane.
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Redbud is a local creative writing organization, headquartered in Raleigh and serving the Triangle; they teach classes out of local bookstores and small businesses, including Flyleaf Books, McIntyres, Golden Fig Books, and My Muses Card Shop.
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It takes most people a long time to figure out what they want to do as their life’s work. But Rody J. Huertas was just seventeen when he found his calling.
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In 2021, Amanda Gorman—America’s first ever National Youth Poet Laureate —captured the public imagination in her canary yellow suit as she delivered an original poem at Joe Biden’s inauguration.
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Dexter Romweber died over a year ago, at the way-too-young age of 57. But traces of the late great roots-music giant remain around his old Orange County stomping grounds, like a mural in the alley behind Chapel Hill nightclub Local 506.
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Sometimes you have to be in the right place at the right time. That’s what happened to Diana Newton, a local Carrboro artist who specializes in sculptures. Before her retirement in 2019, Newton had spent a decades long career in psychotherapy and leadership development consulting
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Have you ever wondered how your life would be different if one element was slightly changed? For visual artist Chieko Murasugi, chance is everything
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Not too long ago, local music impresario Billy Maupin was walking into the Cat’s Cradle and took a moment to study the field behind the Carrboro nightclub. That gave him a thought.
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