Shemika Robinson was driving home from work one day when all of a sudden her vision went dark. Terrified, she stopped her Jeep Cherokee in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant and called her older brother, screaming, “I can’t see! I can’t see!”
When Brian Sullivan was in grad school, he became enamored with community music and folk music. He still is. ASC recently awarded the musician a $2,000 Artist Support Grant to help fund what he calls “group ukulele experiences.” The grant allows him to “explore a side of music-teaching and -making in a way (he) hadn’t been able to before.”
When Covid-19 first began to impact our community in early 2020, the Charlotte Journalism Collaborative (CJC), a diverse group of six area media and three community partners, invested in an innovative approach to reach an audience of untypical news consumers with credible and actionable messaging.
Don’t put limits on Kenya Templeton. She doesn’t believe in them and will do her best to defy them anyway.
July 1 is a New Year for ASC and many nonprofits in the creative sector. For ASC, it is an exciting time as we are investing in people, programs and ideas that move us toward a more equitable, sustainable and innovative creative ecosystem.
A year after Covid cut short Charlotte Ballet’s 50th anniversary season, the company reboots to showcase decades of achievement, community engagement and exciting positioning for the future.
A concert series highlighting talented, local Black and brown singer/songwriters got Charlotte Symphony violinist Kari Giles out of her “classical bubble.”
Will Keible, WDAV’s director of marketing and corporate support, said he’s heard the same thing from listeners about NoteWorthy, the innovative series presented by WDAV Classical Public Radio and FAIR PLAY Music Equity Initiative that’s been introducing Charlotteans to musical talent that’s been right in front of us.
Murals have been popping up on walls all across the Queen City in the past few years, but certain neighborhoods—especially those further away from the Center City area with larger minority and immigrant populations—seem to get less attention than others.
Inspired to make a change in this inequality, Davidson-based artist and 2020 ASC Emerging Creators Fellowship recipient Irisol Gonzalez is creating community murals in three different areas of Charlotte with content that reflects the diverse, vibrant and often under-represented Latinx cultures of the people who live in each location.
All organizations, especially historic sites and history museums, have a fundamental responsibility to tell the full truth about the history they are sharing with the community with careful intention and action.
After 25 years teaching theater arts – the past 20 at Charlotte’s Northwest School of the Arts – Corey Mitchell asked himself a question that changed the trajectory of his career.
Is there more I can do to help build and support the next generation of theatre professionals?