Arts Across NC

In preparation for this year’s Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disabilities (LEAD) Conference, we spoke with Jamie Katz Court, the Arts Council’s accessibility coordinator, and Eileen Bagnall, the executive director of Arts Access Inc, about what this year’s LEAD cohort can expect from the conference, what accessibility in the arts means, and why it’s so important in achieving our agency’s goal of arts for all. The Kennedy Center will make some of the LEAD sessions on August 27–29 available online. All sessions will take place on Zoom and will have ASL interpretation and human captioners. Get more information and register at the following link: https://web.cvent.com/event/b9934ccc-de45-4f41-9e34-b96eade5bd06/websitePage:cd7c9ef1-8949-4eb8-a621-8ded00ca6828. Be sure to like and subscribe to Arts Across NC wherever you get your podcasts!

**This episode is presented in both Spanish and English, as spoken directly by Cornelio Campos** In our final episode before the North Carolina Heritage Award ceremony, we speak with painter and muralist Cornelio Campos. Born in Cheran, in the highlands of Michoacan, Mexico, Cornelio grew up surrounded by the traditions of his indigenous Purépecha heritage. After years of migrant labor in the United States, Cornelio settled in Durham and gained recognition as a visual storyteller for North Carolinians with immigration experiences of their own. Get more information about the May 31 award ceremony here: https://pinecone.org/event/2023-north-carolina-heritage-awards/ Be sure to like and subscribe to Arts Across NC wherever you get your podcasts!

**This episode is presented with translated voiceovers** In our final episode before the North Carolina Heritage Award ceremony, we speak with painter and muralist Cornelio Campos. Born in Cheran, in the highlands of Michoacan, Mexico, Cornelio grew up surrounded by the traditions of his indigenous Purépecha heritage. After years of migrant labor in the United States, Cornelio settled in Durham and gained recognition as a visual storyteller for North Carolinians with immigration experiences of their own. Get more information about the May 31 award ceremony here: https://pinecone.org/event/2023-north-carolina-heritage-awards/ Be sure to like and subscribe to Arts Across NC wherever you get your podcasts!

Born in Ararat, Virginia, and residing in Mount Airy, North Carolina, Richard Bowman has lived his life on both sides of the state line. Richard was inspired to teach himself the fiddle the first time he heard Tommy Jarrell playing on the Merry Go Round, a long-running old-time music program on Mount Airy’s famed radio station, WPAQ. Fifty years later, he is one of the region’s most beloved fiddlers at dances and conventions, carrying on the tunes he learned from just beyond his front door. Get more information about the May 31 award ceremony here: https://pinecone.org/event/2023-north-carolina-heritage-awards/ Be sure to like and subscribe to Arts Across NC wherever you get your podcasts!

In this episode, we head West to the Qualla Boundary, the land of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, where Luther “Butch” Goings and Lydia Louise Goings share a life of dedication to craft and culture. Butch was a student of the renowned carver Amanda Crowe, who received the North Carolina Heritage Award in the year 2000. Louise was taught by her mother, the white oak basketmaker Emma Taylor, who was among the first to receive the award in 1989. Today the couple are known for their mastery and teaching of Cherokee carving and basket making traditions, and for their steady, humble, commitment to service in their community. Get more information about the May 31 award ceremony here: https://pinecone.org/event/2023-north-carolina-heritage-awards/ Be sure to like and subscribe to Arts Across NC wherever you get your podcasts!