Archive for June, 2008
Arts Funding Now Available!
Application forms are now available for the Grassroots Arts Program in Johnston County. Johnston County Arts Council encourages new applicants, emerging & established arts organizations and non-profit service organizations with arts programs to apply. Typical non-arts organizations allowed to apply are: libraries, historical societies, civic groups, recreation departments and downtown development associations. Funds may be [...]
Pizza Hut’s Art Contest
The odd art competitions you find…
Pizza Hut has a global design competition where you can design your own pizza box. For the next six months there will be a monthly prize of $1,000 and at the end of the competition the overall winner will have their design printed on a Pizza Hut box.
I struggled to find [...]
Friday Fun: Dark Side of the Rainbow
Ok, you’ve all heard the stories about how Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon eerily synchs up with Wizard of Oz. Yeah, I never tried it either. But now you don’t have to try to set up the DVD player and CD player; someone has already synched it up for us! (Thank you Internet!)
http://dirkworld.com/2008/05/dark-side-of-rainbow.html
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How you may lose all the rights to every piece of art you have ever created
From Kate’s Studio:
There is a bill going through congress that proposes to severely limit artists’ copyright rights. It will require the registration of EACH and EVERY image/work you have ever done to be registered with a private company for a fee. If you do not register, anyone will have the right to copy your work [...]
This Thursday…
The next performance scheduled for the Music for the Lunch Bunch series is Thursday, June 26 at 12:15pm at First Presbyterian Church in Smithfield. The students of Julie Stewart of Kindermusik of Clayton and Voice of Clayton will perform and Tom Howerton will read poetry. This is the fourteenth year that either Julie Stewart or [...]
Ten Simple Ways to Bring the ARTS into your home
From Americans for the Arts:
Ten Simple Ways Parents Can Get More Art in Their Kids’ Lives
Enjoy the arts together. Sing, play music, read a book, dance, or draw with your child at home.
Encourage your child to participate in the arts and celebrate their participation in or out of school.
Explore your community’s library (Public Library of [...]
North Carolina Museum of Art to Receive Large Modern Art Collection
From Philanthropy News Digest:
A gift of more than one hundred twentieth-century paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs will be donated by collectors Jim and Mary Patton to the North Carolina Museum of Art instead of the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Raleigh News and Observer reports.
The Pattons [...]
Clayton Youth Theater says “Hello” to Bye, Bye Birdie
The Clayton Youth Theater is pleased to announce auditions for its fall musical, Bye Bye Birdie. Debuting in 1960, Bye Bye Birdie became the first rock ‘n roll musical on Broadway. The show, which satirizes the Elvis Presley phenomenon, tells the story of Conrad Birdie, a rock ‘n roll singer who is about to be [...]
Art gets political
From Artblog:
You’ve always wanted to get your art on national television. (Maybe not? Then read no further.) Here’s one way to make it happen. Apply to the My Yard Our Message project, a juried contest for artist-designed yard signs–signs that will be placed around Minneapolis in September when that town hosts the Republican National [...]
Next up in the Town Square Concert Series in Downtown Clayton
From Downtown Clayton’s Blog
The southeast’s premier show and dance band, Liquid Pleasure, will perform at the Clayton Town Square Concert Series on Thursday, June 19 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Performing a fun variety of beach music, rock, the standards and even rap, Liquid Pleasure has appeared with such notable artists as Paula Abdul, [...]
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