JOIN US · Sat. Sept. 15, 2007!

Steamed Blue to Red-Hot, Lively! Hard Crab Dinner & Art Auction
Over 100 North Carolina fine art and craft artists are represented during our annual art auction, attended by 300 art lovers and supporters from the Outer Banks, Elizabeth City, Edenton, Windsor, Plymouth, Williamston, Washington, Engelhard and Ocracoke Island. Those who joined us for our hard crab dinner and art auction were witness to the wonder of community shared by Pocosin Artists, our donors, our bidders and buyers, and volunteers. Click here for tickets...     (photo at right: Ray & Walter Davenport)

(photos left to right: Feather Phillips, Laura Martier & Mick Vaughn, Joan Brumbach & Sharon Spencer)

COMMUNITY ARTS CONNECTION
Since 1997, the Community Arts Connection has sponsored artists-in-residence in the schools and community. The objectives of the CAC are:

• Improving cross-cultural respect and understanding among Tyrrell County students and residents of European-American, African-American, Hispanic and Vietnamese descent.
• Teaching local residents to interpret their culture for visitors, and Enlivening the North Carolina curriculum.
• Guest artists are selected on the basis of the cultural heritage and the cross-cultural traditions represented in our community and include:
  
  • African American Dance Ensemble - http://users.vnet.net/aade/main.html
  • The Healing Force - African American Stories and Music http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/2428
  • Madafo Lloyd Wilson - African American Story Teller and Musician
  • Hector & Graciela Gallegos, The Potters of Mata Ortiz, Mexico http://www.mexonline.com/gpm.htm
  • Native American North Carolina Potters: Karl Hunt, Lumbee Tribe & Senora Lynch, Haliwa-Saponi Tribe
  • Andes Manta - South American Music
  • Cucanandy - Celtic Music and Dance
  • Molasses Creek - Roots Music http://www.molassescreek.com
  • Down East Folklore Society - Contra and Round Dancing
  • Sheila Kay Adams - Story Teller, Songwriter and Balladeer http://www.ncarts.org/directory/skadm_st.html
  • Sons of Steel - Multi-Cultural Steel Drum Ensemble
  • Stephen Truluck - Drumming http://www.geocities.com/truluckdrum
  • Tarradiddle Players http://www.ncarts.org/directory/tarpl_th.html

  The Community Arts Connection is funded by Pocosin Arts in partnership with the North Carolina Arts Council, the North Carolina Rural Center, The Conservation Fund, The Ford Foundation, Tyrrell County Schools and proceeds from admissions to public concerts and special events like, the Folkways Jamboree. The North Carolina Rural Center for Economic Development recognized the Community Arts Connection in 1999 as a model of economic development. For a copy of our video, email info@pocosinarts.org.