At the upcoming LEAD Conference (Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disabilities), two Arts Council staff members—Jamie Katz Court, the music and dance director and access
At the confluence of the Toe River and Cane Creek stands a 98-year-old brick building with spacious windows that was once a dry-goods store.
In 1995, the Kenan Institute for the Arts, in Winston-Salem, launched a program to integrate the arts in every aspect of instruction in 25 urban, suburban, and rural pre-kindergarten through twelfth-grade schools. Immediately, the results were profoundly positive.
Header image: Sarah Jones Decker. Photo credit: Lauren Rutton, courtesy of Sarah Jones Decker.
Header image: North Carolina Arts Council staff at the 2025 ARTS Day conference. Photo by Andie Freeman.
Header image: Anna Bryant working in her studio. Photo credit: John DuPre, courtesy of Anna Bryant.
Header image: Dare Coulter. Photo by Lauren Lindley Photography, courtesy of Dare Coulter.
To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting some of the extraordinary female artists we have featured in the past. This list represents a small sample of the women who have shaped and continue to shape the arts in our state.
Header photo credit: Atlantic Dance Theatre and Black Box Dance Theatre.
A revolutionary way of approaching education started in North Carolina nearly 30 years ago, and it has been transforming the lives of students and teachers ever since. A+ Schools of North Carolina is a whole-school transformation model that views the arts as fundamental to teaching and learning.