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Meet the 2023 Heritage Award recipients: Neal Thomas, Rhonda Gouge, Cornelio Campos, Butch &Louise Goings, and Richard Bowman

2023 North Carolina Heritage Awards

Since 1989, the North Carolina Heritage Awards have honored artists across the state for their contributions to the cultural life of their communities. Six artists will receive a Heritage Award on May 31, 2023 at a public ceremony in Raleigh.

Meet the Recipients

2023 NC Youth Art Month Flag winner, Cecilia Dahl

March is Youth Art Month

Youth Art Month is an annual celebration that recognizes the value of visual art education in a student's overall success. The 2022-2023 theme is "Your Art, Your Voice," and the winning art banner presenting the theme is by Cecelia Dahl of Topsail High School in Burgaw, NC.

Art Matters - News from the North Carolina Arts Council. Depicted in a bundle of clipped letters sticking out of an envelope

Check out the March 2023 edition of our Art Matters newsletter!

In this issue: Celebrating arts in our schools, congratulations to our state’s Poetry Out Loud winners, LEAD scholarship grants are back, and new A+ schools recruitment is under way.

The arts are back in NC and you are the reason why Spark and the arts

Arts Across NC Blog

Discover inspiring stories about North Carolina artists and arts organizations on the Arts Across NC blog.

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North Carolina Arts Council Grants

The N.C. Arts Council’s grants are one of the many ways we invest in sustaining and advancing our diverse and widespread network of arts organizations and artists.

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Local Arts Council Directory

More than 75 local arts councils support the 100 counties across our state to provide programs, services and funding to local organizations to strengthen the arts in their own communities.

What We Do: The Arts Council

The North Carolina Arts Council delivers resources to arts organizations and artists to support projects and programs of public value that revitalize downtowns, educate and empower North Carolina youths, and fuel a thriving non-profit creative sector that generates over $2 billion annually.