Raleigh Arts is creating an Emerging Public Artist Registry and wants your feedback! This fall, the public arts team will launch a new way for local artists to be considered for public art projects under $30,000. Our Emerging Public Artist Registry will be open to NC-based artists working as muralists, mosaicists, sculptors, photographers, illustrators, and digital artists/designers. We’re working to develop an opportunity tailored to everyone from established studio artists looking for ways to break into public art to working public artists seeking projects that can help them reach the next level. We want to make sure that what we are building will work for artists! Please join us for a virtual information session on Friday, Sept. 4, at noon. Raleigh Arts will share our vision for the registry and listen to artist feedback. The meeting will be recorded for those who would like to participate but cannot attend. Learn more about the Emerging Public Artist Registry Join the Zoom meeting
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Join artists Lamar Whidbee and Delayna Robbins on Sept. 16, to help paint a large-scale mural at Roberts Park Community Center. Volunteers should register by Sept. 14. Learn more about volunteering and sign up to participate This project is a partnership between Raleigh Arts and the City of Raleigh and Southeast Raleigh Promise, Habitat For Humanity, Partners for Environmental Justice, and Wells Fargo as part of the 5th Annual Home Preservation and Parks Improvement Volunteer Day of Service. About the Artists Lamar Whidbee is an interdisciplinary artist and licensed clinical mental health counselor associate whose practice merges visual art with therapeutic inquiry. His work explores memory, fatherhood, Black identity, and mental health. Lamar’s early work involved teaching art alongside prison psychologists on death row and using practices such as life mapping to help individuals visually reconstruct their personal narratives—using art as a tool for accountability, reflection, and healing. Learn more about Lamar Delayna Robbins is a painter, illustrator, and creative mentor. Known online as "A Colorful Chaos," she creates vibrant, Afro-Surrealist artwork that explores themes of healing, identity, ancestry, and divine love. Raised in a military family and now deeply rooted in the Triangle art community, Delayna blends her lived experiences […] |
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Experience Rhythms and Whispers, a new public artwork by Nature Preserves Artist-in-Residence, Scott Hazard (@hazardscott), now on view at Annie Louise Wilkerson, MD Nature Preserve! Made of multiple layered panels of weathered steel, Rhythms and Whispers frames a view of the evolving Piedmont prairie landscape found at the preserve, encouraging visitors to pause and reflect on their surroundings. The sculpture includes text about the special landscape crafted by poets Chris Tonelli, Lauren Hunter, and Suzanne Beaumont, and conservationist, author, and historian David Rahahę·tih Webb. Meet the artist and collaborators on Thursday, Sept. 24, and learn more about the inspiration behind the work at a dedication event from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. An optional short interpretive talk and walk through the meadow where the sculpture is located will be led by Nature Preserve Manager Bryan England at 5 p.m. This project is presented by Raleigh Arts, with additional funding provided by South Arts. Learn more about the Nature Preserves Artist-In-Residence program Directions To view the artwork, park at the visitor center and walk to the picnic shelter. The work is at the edge of the meadow area near the picnic shelter. |
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Raleigh Parks’ Moore Square, in partnership with @Get2KnowRaleigh, welcomes back the First Friday Market & Movie Night series for the 2026 season. This free monthly event brings the community together for local vendors, food trucks, live music, and a featured outdoor movie in the heart of downtown Raleigh. Join us on the first Friday of each month from May through November, with the market and food trucks beginning at 5 p.m., live music at 5:30 p.m., and the movie starting around 7:15 p.m. 2026 First Friday Movie Lineup Oct. 2 - Ghostbusters (1984) Nov. 6 - Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)* (movie will begin at 6:30 p.m.) Details Market & Food Trucks: 5 - 9 p.m. Live Music: 5:30 p.m. Movie: 7:15 p.m.* Ages: All Cost: Free Presented in partnership with Get 2 Know Raleigh. Movie sponsored by the Downtown Raleigh Alliance. |
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