These population demographics may surprise you….
What will our region's population look like in 10 years?
Mitch Silver, City of Raleigh’s Planning Director (and husband of ArtWorks awesome Board member, Mary Silver!) is currently traveling the country, talking about what the results of the 2010 Census tell us. As President of the American Planning Association, Silver is mostly talking to city planners and economic development people around the Country. But the information is important for people in all business areas to know. … Read More
Tags: creative business, creative economy, economic impact of the arts, Mitch Silver, triangle arts organizations
Live in Chapel Hill? Your town needs your input!
Deep Dish Theater Manager and ArtWorks Working Group member, Devra Thomas, adds her thoughts.
A while back, in his blog, UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp took up the topic of the importance of a strong arts community for the future of Chapel Hill, stating
“Having a strong artistic presence also increases a town’s hipness. Some believe Durham is overtaking Chapel Hill and Carrboro as the cool corner of the Triangle. We can’t let that happen. We can’t let the Southern Part of Heaven and the Paris of the Piedmont outsource their cool to the Bull City.” … Read More
Tags: "creative placemaking", Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill 2020, economic impact of the arts
The Art of Cool Project -Where Jazz & Art Collaborate
The Art of Cool Project – Where Jazz & Art Collaborate
By Kim Alexander
Through its long history, jazz has thrived in a collaborative environment, one in which musicians spontaneously “jam” with one another during performances and where improvisation and free styling prevail. The Art of Cool Projectendeavors to expand collaboration between the aural and the visual, while advocating for the jazz and arts community in the Triangle, crossing economic and cultural boundaries, combining diverse artistic disciplines and bringing creative people together, giving rise to a community.
Al Strong sits in with Shana Tucker at Flanders Gallery. Photo by Sweet Life Photography.
Tags: Al Strong, Art of Cool, Cicely Mitchell, jazz, LabourLove
State’s SmART Initiative Provides Resources and Grants for Arts-Driven Economic Development.
In a press conference yesterday at American Tabacco in Durham, the North Carolina Arts Council’s SmART Initiative Task Force (previously called the SmaRT Cities/SmART Towns Task Force) announced its SmART Initiative. This Task Force, chaired by Jim Goodmon, was established in the fall of 2010 and, according to the Initiative’s Report, was made up of “civic and government leaders, legislators, tourism and chamber of commerce directors, private developers and arts leaders”. The group’s purpose was to “create a SmART Initiative designed to catalyze arts driven economic development in the communities of North Carolina. Based on its work, the Task Force developed recommendations, which it included in its Report. … Read More
Tags: arts driven economic development, Department of Cultural Resources, Linda Carlisle, SmART Cities/SmART Towns, SmART Initiative, SmART Initiative Pilot Grant Program, SmART Initiative Resource Center
Will Chapel Hill’s future be vibrant? Here’s how to have your say -
Do you live in Chapel HIll?
Does Chapel Hill need more businesses like FRANK Gallery?
Do you wish that the Town was more supportive of the arts? Is there more the Town could be doing to create an environment that is more supportive of arts-based and other creative businesses? Do you want more arts programming or educational opportunities?
Do you think that a more vibrant and diverse arts community is key to Chapel Hill’s economic growth and livability? Studies show that members of the “creative class” – that group of innovative thinkers that are creating and working in innovative businesses that many see as crucial to our region’s future – want to live in a place that has a vibrant and diverse arts community. What can be done to attract them to Chapel Hill? … Read More
Tags: "creative placemaking", Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill 2020, creative business, creative economy, economic impact of the arts
Happy Holidays to all!
We here at ArtWorks will be taking a bit of time off starting today, through January 6. It has been a busy, productive year and we look forward to more great things for 2012!
Committees will continue their work setting up our ArtWorks NetWork of community partners, adding resources on the site, and spreading the word about what we are doing here at ArtWorks. Although we are working on sustainable funding, we are still a volunteer run organization, but it has been amazing to see the number of volunteers signing on this year to take on huge tasks for ArtWorks. As always, if you want to help, let us know! By bringing together and supporting this community, as the strong and important economic group that it is, we can make our community stronger and the entire Triangle region a better place to live and work. … Read More
Tags: triangle artworks
New Legal Resources added to Site.
Do you have a business idea and don’t know where to start? Do you have a creative idea that you want to protect? Do you even know where to start to look into these issues?
L-R, UNC Law Students Eric Roehling, Amanda Gladin-Kramer, David Kirby.
Well, Triangle ArtWorks is here to help. A great team of law students from UNC Law School’s Pro Bono Program has scoured the internet for you and pulled together a list of the best resources and links they could find on the issues of business form and copyright. Although these resource pages are not a substitute for legal advice and CERTAINLY should not be used as such, they are a good place to start. We have done that first search for you, saving you the time of searching the internet and wasting time on irrelevant sites. … Read More
Tags: business form, copyright, creative business, creative economy, economic impact of the arts, for profit arts businesses, legal issues for artists, trademark, triangle artworks
Mystery Build – New Triangle company fosters creativity, by limiting it.
2011 Grand Prize winner - Puff the Magic Dragon by Amy Sawyer
Everyone knows it’s a tough time to make a living in the arts. Raleigh-based artists Jeremy Maronpot and Roger Flake have come up with a unique business model based on the idea that having limited resources does not limit possibilities. In fact, limited resources can be a source of inspiration.
Roger says they came up with the idea for Mystery Build while working on a stop motion animation project. “Stop motion animation is a very tedious process. You really have a lot of time to talk about what else you could be doing. We were listening to a story on NPR about American ingenuity and the ability to create something from nothing, and we had just received a kit in the mail for a puppet armature. It was just a box of hundreds of loose parts. We thought ‘You could make anything out of this.’” … Read More
Tags: artists, creative business, Mystery Build, visual arts
Cary gets serious in supporting the arts
The First in a Series – The Triangle’s Towns as Leaders in Supporting the Creative Community
The mental picture many have when thinking of the “creative community” is of urban hipsters hanging out at downtown galleries or events like SPARKcon and Third Friday Art Walks. While the first thought of towns such as Fuquay-Varina, Clayton or Cary are bland suburbia full of shopping malls and soccer moms. But the fact is, in the Triangle, some of the most direct support of the arts community is coming from these smaller towns. More importantly, this support is based on a understanding by the leaders of these towns of the importance of the arts to the quality of life of the town’s residents and to the towns future economic development. Triangle ArtWorks is working on a series of articles highlighting what these towns are doing. … Read More
Durham Storefront Project -Supporting artists and the community
People gather to view the installations at Bargain Furniture.
Three things are apparent when walking through downtown Durham – the architecture is beautiful, the people are friendly, yet the buildings often look empty. Beginning on November 19th, Durham residents will see an unusual change– dynamic storefront art installations filling some of these underutilized spaces.
Where many people saw window shades, the Durham Storefront Project saw opportunity. Organizers Jess Moore and Chris Chinchar, who worked together on the Community Portrait of Durham, have been working on the project since last August, when then first brought together interested artists and businesses for a meeting at Scrap Exchange. Fast forward to today and working with Durham Arts Council, and building owners, and downtown businesses, the group is launching 14 art installations throughout downtown Durham. The idea began with an emphasis on re-energizing and beautifying Durham using art and creativity as a driver for growth. Through these Pop-Up Art installations, artists receive public exhibition space, businesses see an increase in sidewalk traffic and the community gains free access to art. … Read More