ARTS Wake Forest is a Non-profit Supporting Artists & Art Programs in Our Community
ARTS Wake Forest was founded in 1990 as the Wake Forest Cultural Arts Association and is currently run by a team of dedicated volunteers. We receive support from The Town of Wake Forest, United Arts of Wake County, and the North Carolina Arts Council, business and individual contributions, and event sponsorships.
Our Wake Forest Guild of Artists promotes the visual arts and artists in our area. It offers educational programs for artists at member meetings and provides exhibit opportunities. The Guild also organizes a Spring Artisans Market… read more
NEWS & EVENTS
The North Wake Artists’ Collective meetup needs your support!
The NWAC is a group of area artists working in diverse disciplines, including theater, dance, comedy, poetry/spoken word/storytelling and visual art. They meet to support each other as artists and also to share a mutual goal of nurturing the arts in Wake Forest and...
NC Arts: Artist Opportunities
The N.C. Arts Council website is a great resource for artists and art lovers alike, with lots of information on what's going on arts-wise in North Carolina. They regularly post a list of opportunities for artists on their website; the most recent of these lists is...
National Endowment for the Arts Funding
Once again, the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is facing cuts. Earlier this week, a U.S. House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee began the funding cycle for Fiscal Year 2012 by approving legislation to cut the NEA's funding by 13%, to...
Artists Night at VAE: Sales, use and property tax
July 19, 2011 at 7 pm at the Visual Art Exchange in Raleigh expert Alex Lehman will be speaking about tax issues for artists, specifically: sales tax, use tax and business tangible personal property tax. This session will be a look into some important tax information...
Call for Artists: Festifall in Chapel Hill (deadline July 30, 2011)
Chapel Hill's Festifall Arts Festival will take place this year on Sunday October 2, 2011 from 1-6pm in downtown Chapel Hill (W. Franklin Street), with live entertainment for all ages, hands-on activities, and local food. The festival typically hosts over 15,000...
Free concert by Marcus Anderson
Marcus Anderson performed during our Six Sundays concert series this year, and was much appreciated by the audience. If you'd like to hear more of his music, he will be giving a free concert for the release of his latest CD on June 28. See poster for details!
A Neck of the Woods evening this Saturday, June 11
This Saturday, June 11, from 7 to about 10 pm at The Twisted Vine - 156 South White Street, Wake Forest, the Neck of the Woods performance series will continue with performances by Cora Hemphill, Nick Driver, The Carolina Chords, and the Marvin Hoffert Jazz Trio!...
Six Sundays/Arts Survey
Our Spring Six Sundays concerts series ended last Sunday in the cool shade of the pecan grove at E. Carroll Joyner Park, with another great evening concert. Now Wake Forest ARTS is looking ahead to next year's Six Sundays concerts, and we'd like to have the input of...
This Sunday: Al Batten and the Bluegrass Reunion
This Sunday, June 5, Al Batten and the Bluegrass Reunion will perform in Joyner park, 5-7 pm, with some authentic, uplifting, toe-tapping bluegrass to wind up our 2011 Six Sundays concert series. Come on out and enjoy the sunshine, fresh air and fine music! This...
Memorial Day Weekend Concert: Ironing Board Sam
Come out to Joyner Park this Sunday, May 29, 5-7 pm, for another concert in Wake Forest ARTS' Six Sundays in Spring series! This weekend we have Ironing Board Sam playing piano-based blues, soul, boogie-woogie and New Orleans rhythm & blues. Come out early (4 pm)...
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