Chatham County Arts Council

Chatham County Arts Council celebrates our county's heritage and identity through cultural activities that make Chatham a vibrant and desirable place to live and visit.

Mission Fulfillment:

ChathamArts provides exceptional programs in visual, performing, and media arts.

ChathamArts augments core curricula in Chatham County schools through student scholarships, exhibits, after school outlets and classroom residencies.

Recognizing our local cultural legacy, ChathamArts inspires thoughtful dialog across community boundaries and encourages new ways of thinking.

ChathamArts rewards the artistic and creative efforts of other Chatham agencies through our Grassroots Subgrants.

Recent Opportunities

ChathamArts Arts Integration and Core Curricula Residencies (0 Comments)

February 8, 2012

ChathamArts provides youth with classroom residencies proven to narrow the achievement gap, reduce drop-out rates, and to increase academic performance and student leadership. Each residency costs $5,000. For example, in October 2011, ChathamArts sponsored and facilitated an 8th grade residency... Read more >

ChathamArts "Shooting4Change" Afterschool Documentary Filmmaking Program with Chatham Together Mentoring Agency (0 Comments)

February 8, 2012

ChathamArts partners with Chatham Together Mentoring Agency and SAGE Academy Alternative School on teaching "at-risk" youth how to make their own documentary films start-to-finish. At they end of project completion, they present their film publicly in Siler City and in... Read more >

ChathamArts Sustainable Cinema Series (0 Comments)

February 8, 2012

ChathamArts Sustainable Cinema is a film series featuring documentaries, narrative and independent films involving producers, directors, subjects and/or locations in North Carolina. Screenings take place Feb-June and Sept-Nov at the Fearrington Barn in Fearrington Village, Pittsboro. Admission at the door... Read more >

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