North Carolina Arts Council

N.C. Arts Council - Artful Living

Collecting

Collecting Craft
Whether you’re collecting or just curious about craft, many of North Carolina’s well-known galleries and museums are host to museum stores and galleries featuring the craftspeople of the state.

Out & About

Story of the Stage
The most captivating element of outdoor dramas in North Carolina isn’t the plot. For the youth that flock from all regions of the state and the southeastern United States, it’s the family they find that fires up production and produces life long interest in theater.

Leisure Reading

Blue Ridge Music Trail
Documenting more than 160 sites in towns and communities spread over Western North Carolina and Western Virginia’s five mountain ranges, Blue Ridge Music Trails: Finding a Place in the Circle, is the insider’s track to discovering traditional music authentic to the area—whether it’s being played in a Dairy Queen or a barbershop.

Telling North Carolina's Story in a Digital Age

In a digital age when accessing information is instantaneous and measured in Gbps, billions of bits per second, there's little time for pause. Most young professionals are equipped with blackberries in belt holsters that rival old West revolvers in quick draw speed. Personal blogs sport RSS technology in order to make even the most private of thoughts accessible to anyone. But some twenty-and thirty-somethings are changing the cultural mindset of North Carolina with their use of technology.

Teaching Traditions

In communities across the state, students give life to North Carolina traditions through after school programs geared at learning old time music, pottery, and the age-old trades and crafts of our ancestors.