From our friends at the North Carolina Arts Council: November 29, 2021 Dear friends, I am writing to share good news for the arts. The state budget approved by the legislature and signed by Governor Cooper includes an additional $15 million in American Rescue Plan funding for the North Carolina Arts Council. An increase of […]
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CALL TO ACTION: $0 from Senate- $1M from House- ACT NOW
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Oh, for Kerr Scott’s sake . . . $0? Seriously? The ghost of Terry Sanford is going to come back and haunt this state, we don’t start acting right. Y’all know what to do. Sad to say, we’ve gotten a lot of practice at it, these last several years. Call and write your state senators […]
Don’t Miss NC Poet Laureate in 2019!
Friday, February 22, 2019
Jaki Shelton Green, a 2014 inductee to the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, was installed as North Carolina’s ninth Poet Laureate in a ceremony on Raleigh on Monday, February 18. Jaki is the first African American and the third woman to serve as the state’s “ambassador for poetry and the spoken word.” If you’ve […]
Jaki Shelton Green Named NC Poet Laureate
Thursday, June 21, 2018
From our friends at the North Carolina Arts Council: Governor Roy Cooper today announced that poet, teacher, and community arts advocate Jaki Shelton Green will serve as North Carolina’s ninth poet laureate. “Jaki Shelton Green brings a deep appreciation of our state’s diverse communities to her role as an ambassador of North Carolina literature,†Governor […]